This article examines the extent to which the implementation of Internet technology by Birmingham City Council (BCC) is facilitating new forms of engagement with the communities it serves. The case study presented reveals BCC to be an organisation in complex, conflict-ridden transition....

Bottom-up budgeting (BUB) is an adaptation of the participatory budgeting model in identifying and providing solutions to poverty at the municipal/city level. Leaders of civil society organizations engage with LGU officials in formulating a poverty alleviation plan to be considered in preparing...

This paper is a narrative account and assessment of the grassroots participatory budgeting (GPB) process in three municipalities of the Negros Province, namely, Sagay City, Hinigaran, and Cauayan. The GPB process was implemented with the objective of empowering civil society organizations (CSOs)...

The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the bottom-up budgeting (BUB) exercise in 2012. The strategy hopes to empower civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens` groups to...

The bottom-up budgeting (BUB) process is one of the major reform initiatives of the Aquino administration and has been tagged as such from several perspectives. First, it is seen as a component of its budget reform thrusts that are aimed at making the national government budgeting process more...

There is a consensus that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can play an important role in developing countries. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing agitation by sections of the society that softwares be freed from the control of the commercial developers. The...

The combination of strong labor productivity growth and accelerating investment in information and communications technology (ICT) equipment has led many to believe that the ICT revolution is driving the U.S. productivity revival. This paper reviews aggregate evidence for the U.S. economy in the...

Este trabajo es una exploración del impacto que tienen las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (TIC), especialmente Internet, no sólo como medio de transmisión de información, sino como fuente primaria de información estadística. A partir de ello, se propone la medición y...

Today’s corporate world is replete with competition and change; and only those organizations using knowledge-based human resources and more advanced information technologies will survive these turbulent waves of increasing changes. Application of ICT has created new challenges for large...