[Sigiii-l] Fwd: November 2012 issue of Information Technology in Developing Countries (IFIP WG9.4 Newsletter)

[M.J. Menou]

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Warm Greetings

Dear Subscriber,

Warm Greetings! The November 2012 issue of '/Information Technology in 
Developing Countries/' is now available at: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/current.htm

The current issue of Information Technology in Developing Countries 
carries eight articles and a conference announcement.

The first article "Mitigating Socially Engineered Cyber Deception and 
Theft" by O.B. Longe and P. Danquah discusses cyber-deception and theft 
in the context of Ghana, where a peculiar and prominent feature of this 
type of cyber crime is the use of social engineering skills to 
successfully defraud unsuspecting victims. This research uses an 
ethnographic study of criminals and secondary published text that 
highlights cyber deception and theft to determine the typical behaviour 
of perpetrators of cyber deception and theft in Ghana. Based on the 
behaviours observed, measures to counteract the socially engineered 
approach to cyber deception and theft have been proposed.

"Linking Public Service Delivery and Technology in a Municipal 
Information Society in South Africa" by Udo Richard Averweg discusses 
the importance of harnessing appropriate ICT for enabling service 
delivery in municipal areas in South Africa. Further, the article posits 
that from deploying appropriate ICT in a municipal area such as 
broadband services in the eThekwini Municipal Area (EMA) in South 
Africa, a Municipal Information Society (MIS) can emerge with a 
framework that will serve to facilitate service delivery and forms of 
engagement (e.g. communication) with households, the private sector and 
civil society.

This is followed by an article on the "National Virtual Library of 
Nigeria (NVLN) in the Open Access Era" by K.N. Igwe. The article 
emphasizes the fact that open access to scholarly resources and 
knowledge assets of man is the language of the digital era. The article 
suggests that NVLN should embrace open access so as to contribute to the 
satisfaction of the information needs of many Nigerians. Access to 
information and knowledge would eventually enhance research and 
education, thereby contributing to the realization of Nigeria's Vision 
20:2020.

The next article by Valery S. Meskov, Irina V. Smirnova and Anna A. 
Mamchenko is titled "Education for the Knowledge-Based Information 
Society". The article discusses the gaps in addressing contemporary 
global challenges, particularly those in education (referred to as the 
cognitive gap in education), and suggests ways of overcoming them. The 
article also stresses on the importance of informational (cognitive, 
creative and spiritual) activities as the main source of development and 
prosperity of the Information Society. Based on the research undertaken, 
the paper concludes that the Subjects of educational activities should 
themselves formulate a problem, make a choice of alternatives, take 
decisions and implement them.

The note on "Government and Social Networking Sites" by A. Prabaharan 
seeks to understand issues related to national security and governance 
vis-à-vis Social Networking Sites (SNS) in India. It is based on a 
research study undertaken by Public Action, a think-tank. This study was 
conducted between August 2009 and January 2010 and is primarily based on 
observations of participants comprising SNS users who hold high profile 
government jobs and cyber criminals who masquerade in cyberspace using 
false names. Rohan Samarajiva's article on "Improving Municipal Service 
Delivery, Starting with a Call Center" proposes a simple telephone-based 
municipal information service operating in Sinhala, Tamil and English in 
Sri Lanka to improve the delivery of government services in Sri Lanka.

The next article on "agropedia: An ICT Application for Agricultural 
Knowledge Transfer and Extension" by Ankur Kukreja describes online an 
agricultural knowledge repository that makes agriculture information 
available to specialists, researchers, extension personnel and the 
agricultural community, and allows them to search and make contributions 
to the vast knowledge base. The last article by Chitra B.M. and 
Shankaraiah discusses "ICT Initiatives in Indian Agriculture" that have 
replaced traditional methods and enabled the dissemination of requisite 
information to farmers at the right time.

We hope you will find this issue interesting and we look forward to 
receiving your feedback on the same. We welcome your contributions for 
the forthcoming issue of the IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter. Interested 
contributors are requested to refer to the guidelines for authors 
available at: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/guidelines.htm  or 
may mail us at: ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in 
<mailto:ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in>

The November 2012 issue can be directly accessed at: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/nov2012/nov2012.htm. A downloadable 
PDF version of this issue is also available on our website (URL: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/nov2012/nov2012.pdf) to ease access 
and facilitate printing.

With Best Regards,

Editorial Team, IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter.

Centre for Electronic Governance,

Indian Institute of Management,

Ahmedabad - 380 015, India

Phone: +91 79 6632 4128

URL: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/wg.htm







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