Awotwi, Johanna, Ojo, Adegboyega and Janowski, Tomasz (2011) Mobile governance for development: strategies for migrant head porters in Ghana. In: ICEGOV '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, September 2011.
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Abstract
A promising strategy to promote good governance is harnessing
the opportunities provided by the use of mobile phones, widely
accessible to most segments of the society, for delivering public
information and services and for decision-making by government.
This paper investigates the design and implementation of mobile
governance (MGOV) strategies for development (MGOV4D).
Specifically, it presents an MGOV4D strategy framework to
support mobile Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) for development (MICT4D) projects in meeting their
development objectives. The paper consists of four parts. First, it
presents a framework for determining the governance and related
MGOV requirements for MICT4D initiatives. Second, it applies
the framework to determine the MGOV4D requirements for a
concrete case study of migrant head porters – local micro-logistic
service providers from Ghana, involving the use of mobile phones
to meet the porters’ livelihood needs. Third, based on the
identified requirements, it presents a set of MICT4D initiatives
that could be developed into MGOV4D programs to address the
requirements. Fourth, it synthesizes the MGOV4D strategies that
can support the inclusion objectives for the head porters and
similar vulnerable groups. In the conclusions, the paper discusses
how these results can support policy efforts for achieving the
Millennium Development Goal 1 – Poverty Alleviation, and 3 –
Gender (specifically Women Empowerment)
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords: | Mobile phones; ICT4D; e-Governance; Development; Ghana; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Innovation Value Institute, IVI Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
Item ID: | 15876 |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/2072069.2072099 |
Depositing User: | Adegboyega Ojo |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2022 14:57 |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/15876 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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