Electronic governance and electronic advocacy

There are a number of features of new information technologies which have important political potentials and effects. New technology opens up the prospect of communication on the basis of oculacy rather than literacy with important consequences for the global enfranchisement of the grass roots and the poor. Similarly the asynchronicity of the new technologies reduce the negative impact of different time zones on the bargaining capabilities of those remote from the traditional centres of power and resources. The distributed character of the new technology - an infinite number of points of access - enables alterations in the information terrain both in terms of transmission and reception. The links below provide an entrance to this new and exciting discussion

E-governance for Africa: recent events

Telegovernance

The power of transparency: the Internet, e-mail, and the Malaysian political crisis.
with Len Holmes, The Business School, University of North London;
Paper presented to Asian Management in Crisis, Association of South East Asian Studies, UK, University of North London, 12th June, 1999

Electronic governance and commercial development in Africa: the grassroots perspective.
Paper presented at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, September 2nd, 1999

Unions on line.
with John Hogan, Royal Holloway College.
Paper presented to the workshop on Cyberontology, University of North London Business School, October, 20th, 1999

Water and sewage treatment in Karachi

Poverty mapping of Chicago