According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

Brian Thompson is a Senior Nutrition Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO is an intergovernmental organization, it has 191 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. As a knowledge organization, FAO creates and shares critical information about food, agriculture and natural resources in the form of global public goods. FAO plays a connector role, through identifying and working with different partners with established expertise, and facilitating a dialogue between those who have the knowledge and those who need it. By turning knowledge into action, FAO links the field to national, regional and global initiatives in a mutually reinforcing cycle. Its mandate is to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living. What is the size of the malnutrition problem and what regions are most affected? There are persistently high levels of undernutrition. Nearly 870 million people in the world go to bed hungry (1 in 8 people) according to the recently released report of The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 (SOFI) and 2 billion have some form of micronutrient malnutrition – this constitutes a crime against humanity and is a responsibility for all of us. Prevalence of undernourishment in developing countries has declined over the past two decades, from 23 to 15 percent. In terms of total numbers in 1990– 92, around 980 million individuals were estimated to be undernourished. The number dropped to 901 million in 1999– 2001, to 885 million in 2006–06 and to 852 million in 2007–09. The financial crisis, economic downturn, persistent food price volatility, drought and other repercussions of climate change since 2006–08 may have prevented any further significant improvements in the number of people who are undernourished in developing countries since then. Africa has by far the highest prevalence, at around 23 percent in 2010–12 but though it is down from what it was in 1990–92 (27 percent) the numbers have risen from 175 million to 239 million with nearly 20 million added in the past four years. In subSaharan Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed, with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then. In Asia, both prevalence and numbers dropped over the same period from 24 percent (739 million) to 14 percent (563 million). Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) boasts the lowest rate of undernourishment (8 percent) among developing country regions but the rate of progress has slowed recently. Countries considered as leastdeveloped countries and lowincome economies have the highest prevalence rates of all around 30 percent but down from the 40 percent levels of twenty years ago.

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THIS is a book of great length (444 pages of text), great learning (168 pages of notes), but not of commensurate understanding. It is a pity, because its defects may conceal its undoubted merits. When Dr. Popper is not caricaturing writers whose views he dislikes-and he dislikes a great many-he has a useful contribution to make to political thought, and his general moral theory (mainly to be found in the notes) is eminently sane and sensible. But for his passion for tilting at windmills he would have written a better and shorter book. The Open Society and its Enemies By K. R. Popper. Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato. Pp. vii + 268. Vol. 2: The High Tide of Prophecy—Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath. Pp. v + 352. (London: George Koutledge and Sons, Ltd., 1945.) 2 vols., 42s. net.

The Open Society and its Enemies

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing the myth of the paperless office as the reading material.

The Myth of the Paperless Office

Service Oriented Architecture Concepts Technology And Design

The paper explores the challenges that GovTech industry faces and analyses how existing skills frameworks correspond with these challenges. After this comparison authors seek to define the missing from the frameworks skills that can be recommended for GovTech specialists to possess. Given the variety of areas of expertise where GovTech faces challenges it is recommended to design a collective competence framework on a team and/or organisation level.

Capacity Building in GovTech for Measuring and Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals

This article develops functionalities for a digital collaborative platform, called the Digital Silver Hub, which aims to serve as an ecosystem for the quadruple helix actors (private sector, public sector, academic institutions, and senior citizens) to participate in knowledge exchange, collaboration, and co-creation of innovative technological solutions to facilitate the elderly population. In service of that, we have conducted 30 interviews from the partner heads of an EU-funded project as well as quadruple helix actors from each region in the Baltic Sea Region (Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Denmark, and St. Petersburg) to deeply understand the functionalities that are needed to be offered by the platform. A deductive thematic analysis has been conducted to analyse these functionalities in terms of collective intelligence (CI) components (namely staffing, processes, goals, and motivation) based on a most recent generic CI model. The functionalities were further evaluated by experts working in the field of science and technology in the silver economy. Overall, this article offers insights into the functionalities that are required for a digital collaborative platform to support the elderly population and facilitate co-creation among quadruple helix actors, as well as provides a foundation for future work on designing and implementing such a platform.

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A Digital Collaborative Platform for the Silver Economy: Functionalities Required by Stakeholders in a Multinational Baltic Sea Region Project

Populations are aging rapidly in the EU, creating significant challenges and opportunities in the Silver Economy. The OSIRIS Interreg Baltic Sea initiative is a response to this aging challenge and is composed of quadruple helix stakeholders in Denmark, Finland, and the Baltic states. An ICT-based outcome of the project was SilverHub.eu, a collective intelligence digital platform that provides users with Silver Economy market reports, partner contact search, and innovation-supporting digital tools. However, it does not contain cross-border data exchange or e-service provision capability, which requires digital interoperability architecture and transitioning to becoming a more digitally mature platform. The Digital Europe Programme’s cross-border data exchange building block, eDelivery, was identified as a potential integration solution to improve SilverHub’s platform maturity level. This study is an initial qualitative investigation of the interoperability dynamics and requirements for the SilverHub ecosystem to integrate with eDelivery. Document analysis and several workshops with SilverHub stakeholders were conducted. Based on these results, an eDelivery organizational-specific model was deemed most appropriate for the SilverHub ecosystem, along with a dynamic discovery model for cross-border data exchange. Future work includes a feasibility analysis of eDelivery integration and simulating eDelivery data exchange between SilverHub and its organizational members.

Exploring EU e-Delivery Integration for Enabling Interregional Innovation through the SilverHub Platform

The digitalization of governments is a tremendously growing trend. One effective approach to managing digital transformation for the greater public good is to have government personnel who understand the technology, social ramifications, and legal frameworks that should be applied for the best possible outcome for all stakeholders. To this end, a robust capacity-building strategy is essential in preparing the leaders of tomorrow who will play a significant role in shaping the implementation of citizen-centric digital services in governments worldwide. Thus, this paper aims to suggest a framework for a capacity-building strategy that will support countries in their digitalization journey. The outcome of the research emphasizes the necessity of fostering a common understanding of the capacity-building process, which includes implementing a Learning Management System (LMS) and developing a skills matrix that promotes the acquisition of relevant competencies and skills, to ensure the successful and sustainable implementation of digital transformation projects.

Capacity building as an important key aspect to support countries' digitalization endeavours

The objective of this paper is to conduct an interdisciplinary systematic literature review of the current state of the art related to the use of Artificial Intelligence in the field of e-Government services that includes technical applications. The study uses the systematic literature review methodology prescribed for software science. Of over 500 resulting articles, the final relevant number of articles is 29. The results include a large cross-section of disciplinary approaches. One surprise result is that even technical articles considered the ramifications of the use of AI in government services on underserved populations. The field of use of AI in government services for service provision is still a new area of investigation and more literature is being published constantly. Because of this, a recommendation for potential areas of future research include readiness assessment frameworks and security. 

Ingrid Pappel

Papers

Capacity Building in GovTech for Measuring and Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals

A Digital Collaborative Platform for the Silver Economy: Functionalities Required by Stakeholders in a Multinational Baltic Sea Region Project

Exploring EU e-Delivery Integration for Enabling Interregional Innovation through the SilverHub Platform

Capacity building as an important key aspect to support countries' digitalization endeavours

Artificial Intelligence Use in e-Government Services: A Systematic Interdisciplinary Literature Review