Mobile Governance Toolkit for Small Island Developing States

ELSA ESTEVEZ; FLORIAN HENNING; TOMASZ JANOWSKI

2003-11-12/2014-04-28

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Caja de Herramientas para desarrollar una estrategia de Gobernanza Móvil

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This report is the second of three main deliverables produced by the project "Developing M-Governance Strategy for Vanuatu and Commonwealth m-Governance Toolkit": 1) Mobile Governance for Small Island Developing States - Strategy Knowledge Base (Henning and Janowski, 2014); 2) Mobile Governance for Small Island Developing States - Toolkit (Estevez and Janowski, 2014); 3) Mobile Governance for Vanuatu - Strategy and Implementation Plan (Henning, Janowski, Zoughbi and Estevez, 2014). Based on the findings of research reviews related to Mobile Governance (MGOV) and a policy review of the national development versus MGOV/ICT development contexts for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) documented by Henning and Janowski (2014), and on the experience gained developing the MGOV4D policy instrument for Vanuatu documented by Henning, Janowski, Zoughbi and Estevez (2014), the report presents a systematic and rigorous process to guide other SIDS in developing their own national MGOV4D policy instruments. In particular, the report presents the nine-step process comprising: 1) Reviewing the national policy context for MGOV4D 2) Conducting field visits to capture MGOV4D conditions in the country. 3) Identifying country-specific elements for MGOV4D: 3.1. Aim - defining the overall objective for MGOV4D in the country; 3.2. Goals - defining the set of MGOV4D goals to fulfill the overall objective; 3.3. Strategies - extending the MGOV4D strategy knowledge base; 3.4. Approaches - constraining strategy implementation by addressing local conditions. 4) Defining the entire extended strategy knowledge base as a strategy matrix: 4.1. Strategies as rows; 4.2. Goals and approaches as columns; 4.3. Cells deciding for every strategy row which goals and approaches it fulfills. 5) Assigning weights to goals to represent their relative importance, and calculating the rank value for every strategy based on its contributions to individual goals. 6) Selecting the minimum rank value, and including all strategies with the rank above this value in the national MGOV4D strategy with a brief justification in relation to the goals. 7) Identifying priority projects for the highest-ranked strategies. 8) Organizing a workshop to present results and receive feedback from major stakeholders. 9) Writing up the final strategy document based on the agreed upon content. The report also presents some guidelines for implementing MGOV4D strategies, including possible implementation roadmap, short-term wins, initial activities, investment plan, key performance indicators and sustainability plan, to be localized to particular national contexts.