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Evaluating the public value of egovernment services

Governments all over the world are working on a broad array of e-government-services. As a result, there is need to evaluate e-government services objectively to identify areas of concerns. Recently, researchers have shown interest in IS evaluation and the public value perspective segment taking the lead. Arguably, the prime objective of e-government is to produce public value through effective use of ICT. Moreover, research in the field of public administration are advocating use of paradigm in two-fold; first, it will direct the effort of scholars away from the resolution of pressing administrative problems to the studies of arcane theoretical puzzles. Second, the paradigm dictates the connective taxonomies of the principal subjects of inquiry and forces the scholars, to work and think within the ambits of paradigm. The primary objective of this paper is to carry out a theoritical review and develop a framework of evaluating e-government services for developing countries.

Provisional findings on linking climate information to livelihood strategies through ICTs among rural women in Kitui County, Kenya

This paper presents provisional findings on how ICT may be used to link climate information to livelihood strategies among rural women in Kitui County, Kenya. The paper is based on the results of a scoping study undertaken in the same place for an on-going PhD research that focuses on climate change awareness among rural Kenyans, while employing empirical methods of data collection and analysis. While the sample size for the scoping study was small (20 respondents), the relevance of the subject matter and the consistency of the findings collectively point to a gap in the general research area and offers provisional findings that we offer for scrutiny in this article. Both the PhD project and the scoping study were motivated by the increasing challenges of climate variability and change that affect Sub-Sahara Africa, creating problems such as food insecurity.