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Title
Electronic Governance in Post-Conflict Countries
Date/Time
Monday 01 December 2008, 17:00 - 18:00
Moderator(s)
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Mr. Kim Young-Sik |
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Dr. Saleem Zougbi |
Panelists
Young-Sik Kim, Ministry of Communications and IT, Afghanistan (co-organizer)
Saleem Zoughbi, Bethlehem University, Palestine (co-organizer)
Mohammad Aimal Marjan, Ministry of Communications and IT, Afghanistan
Ganesh Prasad Adhiraki, NID, Government of Nepal, Nepal
Description
Countries which experience unstable security situations, or unstable political system, are not excluded by all means from the perspective of e-governance. No matter volatile the situation in any country electronic information and communication technology should not be viewed as a luxury, neither it implies a prerequisite of stability, progress and development. On the contrary, all ICT-related development would be even more pertinent when it comes to societies in turmoil, in war-torn areas, in countries that are experiencing hardships of existence such as war, civil unrest political strife and lack of democracy.
The electronic governance process would have common aspects to any country in any form. This is true because a country be definition implies governance, and the changeover (partially or totally if possible) to electronic governance, (e-gov) could be implemented in order to reflect the existing governance, without any change.
Some questions that rise can include the following:
- Does e-gov imply implementing electronic technology tools for practicing governance “as is”, or special specifications and requirements in governance have to exist before we can implement its electronic form?
- Are there ways where implementing e-gov may affect the format and method of governance, and hence e-gov becomes a tool also for improving governance such as enhancing democracy, freedom of expression, etc.
- The volatile situation of a country in war-torn areas, or post-conflict countries would imply higher chances for more frequent changes in the governance itself, such as new regulations, changing ways of doing government procedures and hence the citizen has to cope with these fast and sometimes sudden changes. These changes could be more that simple variation of a certain government process. How this affects the implementation and maintenance of e-gov systems?
- Technology transfer, so to speak, could be used here, hence if developed e-gov systems are applied in post-conflict countries, will they invite further conflicts in the actual governance process, or introduce changes (whether desired or undesired) to it?
- One of priority for post-conflict countries is state development from economy and society point of view. How can we leverage e-Governance to accelerate this development? Can we find best practices from those countries?
- Another phenomenon in post-conflict countries are corruption and inefficiency in public governance. How can we solve these issues through e-governance? Can we talk actual references and proven results?
In this panel, these questions and other similar ones are discussed and reference to case studies is highly invited. These case studies include countries that are experiencing conflicts in the political system involved in war, experience severe chronic political strife and so on.
Biography
Young-Sik Kim
Young-Sik Kim has over 25 years of ICT project management and e-Government consulting experiences in various companies and countries. Currently, he is engaged in several e-government initiatives such as strategic master plan, national identification card application, capacity planning as e-Government Advisor in Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Kabul, Afghanistan from April 2008. Prior to this, he was also e-Government Advisor in National Information Technology Center, Government of Nepal from Sept.2005 to July 2007. During this period, he has been engaged to develop e-government master plan(eGMP) and government integrated data center (GIDC) project sponsored by KIPA and KOICA, Korean government agencies. During these years, he has also been participated as guest speakers in e-India 2006/2007, e-Asia 2007 conferences in India and Malaysia. He has started his career from IBM Korea since 1982 until 2005. He have had various positions and roles during IBM period as Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Quality Assurance Program Manager and Client Service Executives in Korea and Asia Pacific HQ in Japan. He has a Bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Korea Aerospace University in 1979.
Saleem Zougbi
Dr. Saleem Zougbi is associate professor of computing and information systems at the department of information systems of Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine. In addition to his academic studies he conducted research as a H. Humphrey Fellow, in public policy, economic and social aspects of Information Technology and networks. In addition he also involved in fellowships in Japan, Germany, France and other countries. He also was a visiting fellow at the United Nations University Fellow, International Institute of Software Technology, Macao.
He participated ina task force formed by the European Union to study and dvelip information technology projects and planning for the Euro-Mediterranean region. In addition he headed the information technology technical committee of the Palestinian negotiating team in the Madrid negotiations, joined the Palestinian Authority government (Ministry of Planning and international cooperation as a senior adviser, and helped establishing the information technology department of the central Bureau of Statistics of Palestine. He also was the project leader of the first inerter network in Palestine, Dabkeh and Planet.
He authored few books in computing and information technology, and several other topics. Currently he is working on online distribute large databases, that are necessary of e-gov application for online civil processing.