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The impact of online services on rebuilding the trust in Government: The eFez Project experience …. Professor Driss Kettani, Alakhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco 7 th Global Forum on Reinventing Government … Building Trust in Government … Vienna 25-29 June 2007.
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The impact of online services on rebuilding the trust in Government: The eFez Project experience … Professor Driss Kettani, Alakhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government… Building Trust in Government… Vienna 25-29 June 2007
eFez Project in one slide!!! • Develop an experimental platform, in real world settings, that would allow us to capture the necessary knowledge and know-how, in order to: • Elaborate a Roadmap… • Design a formal framework to assess the impact of eGovernment systems on good governance… • Build a Model of ICT4D usage, production and dissemination in Morocco… And in similar developing countries • With these deliverables, we’ll have a better ability and more evidence to talk to our decision makers… And convince them… Dissipate the fears… Induce change management…
How ICT can help? • Some elements of focus: • Any time, Any where, Any language, • Transparently, equally and equitably, • Quickly, correctly and clearly… • Cost effectively and efficiently… • Legally… • Not enough/convincing to conclude this presentation… • What is Governance? What is good governance? • How ICT can enhance good governance? • We need a systemic, structured and formal model of impact assessment…
What is governance? • The UNDP defines Governance as: “the exercise of economic, political, and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs at all levels. It comprises mechanisms, processes, and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations, and mediate their differences” • There are many definitions… More or less different • Government vs. Governance…
Why shall we trust a government? • We trust a Government when it practices, promotes and sustains GOOD governance… • What is good governance? • We need a definition that is practical and that allows a quantitative evaluation model… • We need to be able to measure, to compare, to benchmark, to peer review and to… • Enhance the performance… • The Governance process as a set of attributes…
The eFez Impact Assessment Model… eFez was the first project in the world to have associated and measured the impact/outcomes of eGovernment systems (ex. online G2C transactions) on good governance, using a home made and recognized scientific and systemic model…
Partners and Collaborators… • The International Development Research Center of Canada (IDRC)… • The City of Fez and specially the Agdal County… Thank you www.portaildefes.ma
http://www.aui.ma/etech Gracias Thanks Grazie Brigado