...THE INTER-SESSIONAL PANEL OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT 15-17 December 2010 Geneva UGANDA CONTRIBUTION " ICT POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES PUT IN PLACE IN UGANDA " The views presented here are the participants’ and do not necessarily reflect the views and the position of the United Nations or the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development i ICT POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES PUT IN PLACE IN UGANDA NITA‐U 11/2/2010 ii Table of Contents 1 2 Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….iii INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) STRATEGIES…………………………………………………………………….1 2.1 3 Creation of the Ministry of ICT……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 AGENCIES UNDER MINISTRY OF ICT………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....1 3.1 National Information Technology Authority‐Uganda……………………………………………………………………………………1 Functions of the Authority ........................................................................................................................ 1 Initiatives ................................................................................................................................................... 2 3.1.1 3.1.2 3.2 Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Initiatives ...............................................................................................................
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...Communication The criminal justice system most develops a strategy implementation plan to have an effective communication flow through the chain of commands. “Research has shown that enterprises[often] fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness- decision rights and information flow”( Hoover, 2010). Agency in the policy department process should have an underlying strategy that pushes communication through the government department. Most law enforcement and government agencies fall in the trap of not following information through out the departments. Strategic communication plan helps agency’s core message, strategy, values, purpose, and mission to persuade key stakeholders and enhance positioning. Depend how the agency group them together there are four components that helps provide a roadmap to get from strategy development to implementation. Rational statement analyzed and summarizes the strategic communication plan goals and objectives that will move the organization toward strategy implementation. Situational analyze determines where the organization is today and where is heading. Situational analyze also identify issues, challenges, and barriers to communication along the way. Vision key function is to eliminate gang activity in neighborhood, disrupt the flow of drug, and reduce crime. Core values are a method that asks leader and employees if the current organization culture...
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...| | If you are submitting the assignment on paper, please staple this sheet to the front of each assignment. If you are submitting the assignment online, please ensure this cover sheet is included at the start of your document. (This is preferable to a separate attachment.) Student ID | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | Email: kamry007@mymail.unisa.edu.au | Course code and title: Strategic Information Systems M (INFS 5058) | School: School of Computer and Information Science | Program Code: LMCB | Course Coordinator: Dr Don Falconer | Tutor: Dr Don Falconer | Assignment number: Two (2) | Due date: 08th Nov 2013, 10:00 PM | Assignment topic as stated in Course Information Booklet: Essay : Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on National Level | Further Information: (e.g. state if extension was granted and attach evidence of approval, Revised Submission Date) N.A. | I declare that the work contained in this assignment is my own, except where acknowledgement of sources is made. I authorise the University to test any work submitted by me, using text comparison software, for instances of plagiarism. I understand this will involve the University or its contractor copying my work and storing it on a database to be used in future to test work submitted by others. I understand that I can obtain further information on this matter at http://www.unisa.edu.au/learningadvice/integrity/default.asp Note: The attachment of...
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...Japan’s Reliance on Mahan’s Strategy during World War II Geographically, Japan is an island nation that is slightly smaller than the state of California, with an area of 377,915 square kilometers. However, Japan has a coastline that is almost 30,000 kilometers in length in comparison to the United States coastline, which is 19,924 kilometers in length. It is narrowly separated from modern-day Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and China by the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. On maps the largest cities in Japan are on the Eastern side of the island chain, looking toward the Atlantic Ocean, and it boasts few natural resources, besides fishing. The geography of Japan and its proximity to its neighbors has shaped the strategic policy of Japan for centuries, and has driven the necessity of a strong navel strategy. However, it did not always have naval aims. During World War II, while Japan strongly relied on the writings on Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) in developing their national and naval strategy. However, their strategy had some fatal flaws that would prevent a victory or a negotiated settlement with the United States. Mahan is often compared to the highly esteemed Jomini and Clausewitz, who were famous for their land-based military strategy. However, many of his ideas were not new; they were derived from historical sources from which he distilled and clarified some major concepts. Mahan’s huge contribution to Navel strategy was the organization and the...
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...UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CONSENSUS BUILDING: An Appraisal of the Public Communication Programmes for the Nigerian Downstream Petroleum Sector Reforms – 2000 to 2010 BY YUSUF MU’AZU I.D. NO. PGA/09/06230 Being a Non-Thesis Based Seminar presented to the Department of Mass Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) December, 2010. ABSTRACT This study seeks an understanding of the role of public relations in building consensus on reforms and engendering public acceptance of government policies. The study attempts to achieve this through an assessment of the public communication programmes for the Nigerian downstream petroleum sector reform being executed by the Federal Government. The study established that there is a nexus between public relations, consensus building and reform success, as demonstrated in a number of countries that have had successful reforms. In the case of Nigerian, the study revealed that absence of strategic communication in the design and implementation of reforms has occasioned poor understanding of some of the reforms leading to lack of consensus and eventual failure of the reforms. The study recommends an effective communication programming for the deregulation of the Nigerian downstream oil sector, which must be based on sound opinion research and analysis, coordinated across Ministries and relevant...
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...Brand Communication Strategy 1st Lecture: The Ceo promotes the brand to the stakeholders: part of the brand communication strategy. Corporate social responsibility: all about ethics. Principles of Marketing (Kotler, Amstrong). Assignments: Google turns to you, how to develop brand communication strategy into the Chinese market? Market research Situational analysis Recommendations Based the strategy under the conclusion of the market research * Operational marketing 1. Study and understand the market 2. Craft a marketing strategy and plan 3. Develop operational marketing 4. Evaluate returns Managerial project: What a company wants to do Market study project: What a company needs to know We have to follow market trends, evaluating the number of Chinese using google as a metasearch engine, google is a BtoB mood. Start with a PESTEL analysis How foreign policies influence the communication? Problems of national defence, posses so much information about people, it is valuable for any intelligence agencies. Could have some temptations to hack google to get some information from google. Porter’s model to analyse clients, competitors and partners (Micro-environment). GOOGLE: 2004, 40% of the market share, now less than one percent. Google is created in 1998 by Lawrence Page and Sergei Brin. They’re not prepared to assume the rapid growth, nothing to sell, really young and brilliant people but they need a third person Eric...
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...working on. The register identifies these risks and notes the responses that Aero should handle in order to lower the damage done to the company’s finances, relationships and employee wellbeing. This product and its release to US government agencies as well as international businesses is essential to Aero’s budget forecasts for the next year. The two developers who are working on the software live in the DC area and need constant communication as well as access to the internet to conduct coding of the software. Because they are both in the same location, it would be wise for Aero to establish a business contingency plan, or BCP. Should a natural disaster occur, Aero’s employees on the project as well as its US government based customers would be greatly affected. A BCP will address continuity of business and Aero growth in the event of a natural disaster. The areas of business continuity to be analyzed are • Pre-incident adjustments • Ethical use and protection of sensitive data • Ethical use and protection of customer data • Communication plan • Post-incident continuity Pre-Incident Adjustments The following functions are necessary for Aero to finish the coding of their software and release it on time, selling it to government entities. • Two developers with the coding skills necessary to create the IT security software • A functioning electrical system in which the developers can communicate and utilize the internet for research and coding • The ability...
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...strongly condition the entire strategic planning of marketing for healthcare. In order to continue to thrive, companies must acquire and keep customers. As a result, marketing and sales has become an area of increasing focus for companies of all sizes. Marketers create an effective marketing strategy is based on a five-step process: 1: Understanding the market climate and marketing strengths and weaknesses 2: Developing a marketing strategy 3: Building a marketing plan 4: Implementing the plan 5: Monitoring the success of the plan (Burgemeister, 2003). A solid marketing strategy provides a roadmap to creating and delivering true value to distinct groups of customers. All successful marketing strategies must begin and end with the customer, they cannot be an afterthought or taken as a given, so marketers must test their assumptions about their customers constantly. These are the thing that goes into a marketing strategy. A cohesive combination of: Targeting—to whom are you going to market your products and services? Positioning—how are you going to differentiate yourself from competitors? Product/Service Attributes—what attributes/features will the product/service have? Marketing Communications—how are you going to reach the target and with what message? Pricing—what price will you charge the target? Distribution—what channels will you use to sell the product or service? Customer Service—how will you manage additional customer needs? Of these components, targeting and positioning...
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...TOYOTA, INC. A Case Study in Communicating Bad News Written by: Alex Mezey Scott Hamilton Kevin Kuwahara Courtney Sandlin Dr. Robyn Walker Faculty Advisor Center for Management Communication Prepared for: Case Study Initiative Center for Management Communication 2013 Page 1 of 12 INTRODUCTION In 2005, Lupe Lee bought a new Toyota Camry from a local Sunnyvale, California, Toyota dealership, donating her immaculate Camry bought in 1990 to a local charity. Going from an older Camry model to a newer one, it was obvious that Lupe not only liked Camry cars, but she liked Toyota and its business model. However, this was all about to change on September 9, 2011. On this day, Lupe and her daughter were on their way to Berkeley for a niece’s wedding. They planned to stop in Burlingame to pick up Lupe’s sister, Rose. They arrived at the sister’s apartment early, so Lupe and her daughter went inside. After visiting in the apartment for a time, the three of them went out to get into the Camry to continue on to Berkeley. Lupe would have to make a U-turn to head back towards the freeway. Instead, she decided to maneuver into a nearby driveway to turn around. This is when things began to go horribly wrong; as they started up the driveway, the car began accelerating. Rose exclaimed “Lupe! What are you doing!? Why are you going so fast!? Push on the brake!” Lupe had no control of the car; she was terrified. She tried desperately to press the brake, but nothing happened. She quickly...
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...cover many things in his career and that would have a major impact on the terrorist attacks of September 11 and U.S. invasion of Iraq. There were many intelligence directors that sever before him, but none that were more establish or had a drive for controversy. During George Tenet career, he played a big role in many events, such as invasion of Iraq and reorganization of the nation’s intelligence. Tenet involvement with the White House decision making, intelligence priorities, and his own agency kept him occupied (DANIELSON). George Tenet dealt with many cross coded ethical dilemmas, which were in violation of national and international human rights. He was also faced with ethical dilemmas and his dishonest to the People within the government. Tent was a laissez for Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat was an ethical concern to the United States. His involvement with those ethical dilemmas left a bitter impression on his effectiveness in more ways than one. When the CIA administrator chooses to act as laissez faire among Israeli prime minister and Yasser Arafat, some of his affiliates inside of his administration did not see it in a positive way. Tent always acts as though he was the best man for his position. This imperils his authority since people begin to question his leadership (DANIELSON) . There were many ways in which Tent would speak out about prioritization of ethical concerns. One way he made sure that the policies were implemented and not...
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...CRISIS COMMUNICATION AND THE CASE STUDY OF MISSING MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370 I. Literature review In a ‘vulnerable’ society that has been easily affected by many different types of crises such as natural and man-made disasters, in disregard of where you live and what you do, no community or organization is immune from crisis. In order to provide clear definitions and deeper understanding crises of all types, scholars have developed theories to handle these events. A wide range of crisis fields are studied including psychology (Morgan et al., 2002), sociology (Clarke & Chess, 2008) or political perspective (Birkland, 2006). In addition, other research involved communicating in crisis (Reynolds, 2002). All of these disciplines, even different, combine to build a theoretical background on various approaches to crisis communication and contribute to establish crisis response guidelines for organizations. Among the prominent theories on crisis communication, the Situational Crisis Communication Theory generates a link between Attribution Theory firstly built by Fritz Heider in the early part of the 20th century which addresses the processes by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events and crisis response strategies which represent what an organization does and says after a crisis. To protect reputation, it is crucial for the organization to consist the responsibility acceptance of the crisis response with the stakeholder attributions. Coombs (2006)...
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...Name: Course: Professor: Date: Compare strategies between Air Canada vs. WestJet Introduction These report focuses on comparing the strategies between air Canada and WestJet. It does this by first discussing a brief background of the airlines together with their objectives. In addition, the paper goes a mile further to discuss how the two airlines carry out their market research and also the marketing tools they apply. Furthermore, it also gives an opinion on whether their strategies are in line with their objectives. Moreover, it also discusses the similarities and differences between the airlines’ strategies not forgetting the influence of the national or local government on their strategies. The conclusion gives a brief summary of the entire report. Air Canada Air Canada is a the largest full service airline in Canada and also the largest schedule provider of passenger services for fights within Canada, to U.S. and to all other major international destination to where it operates. Today the airline serves more than 32 million customers every year and its flies to more than 170 destinations in five continents. In a member of Star Airline which is the world’s number one air transport network. Nevertheless, it is the 15thlargest commercial airline in the globe and has approximately 23,200 full time employees. It has a market share of about 80% in Canada and its prime competitor is WestJet Airline (Air Canada 12) Major objectives ✓ To protect...
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...Organizations and their leadership teams need to start thinking systematically, proactively, and strategically about their reputational risk from crises concerning CSR (corporate social responsibility) and take actions to mitigate these risks before they become reality. The CSE’s allegations of pesticide-contaminated Coke and Coca-Cola India’s response provide an important example of the world’s most important brand under attack and the steps taken in the aftermath. This example highlights the importance of a strong reputation, a willingness to collaborate, and a strategic response to successfully weathering the crisis. Purpose of the Case Study 1. To give students the opportunity to apply a strategic framework to corporate communications, in a foreign context, with a global brand 2. To identify how, why, and where an organization is vulnerable to a...
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...Running head: COMMUNICATION BLUNDER The Pat Tillman Story Derek Cooper Communicating accurate information to unique sections of an audience is extremely important and can make the difference between how an organization is viewed by its stockholders, employees, business partners, customers, media, non-governmental organizations or the general public. Maintaining and bolstering an organization’s reputation is paramount in the world today more so than any other time in recent history, due to the economy and how competitive the market is for businesses. Reputation is the sum of how all constituents view the organization (Argenti, 55). In addition, with the proliferation of the internet and how easily information can be transmitted, a communication error can spiral out of control in very short amount of time. Throughout the course of an organization’s daily operations, errors will be made involving communication strategies, and how an organization reacts to those problems will determine its fate. The leadership within an organization can make the difference in survival and organizational failure. Corporations should focus on developing and implementing strategies in an integrated fashion across constituencies (Argenti, 55). In this paper, I will discuss a communication blunder, the consequences of the error, and some alternative strategies that may have changed the outcome for the organization and could have netted a more positive result. The communication error I will...
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...Globally, governments, organisations and higher institutions of learning have recognised the strategic importance of knowledge management (KM) and are gradually directing their efforts on practices to nurture the creation, sharing and integration of knowledge management and economic development as a solution to the world`s social problems. King (2009:p4), defines Knowledge management as the planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling of people, processes and systems in any organisation (private and public) to ensure that assets that are associated with knowledge are improved and effectively employed. King (2009; p4) further explains that an effective Knowledge management process must at least encompass knowledge acquisition, creation, refinement, storage, transfer, sharing, and application. Economic development strategy is defined as a cooperative effort of businesses, civic organisations and the public or government to map out economic projects and goals that will strengthen the economic growth of a country. Economic development strategy analyses the local and regional economy and serves as a guide for establishing local and regional plan of action and identifying investment priorities and funding sources. South Africa is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and a liberated judiciary. The national, provincial and local levels of government all requires legislative and executive authorities in their own spheres, and are defined in the Constitution...
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