ISSUE 5

COMNET-IT Publications

The U.S. Federal Government's Department for General Services Administration (GSA) has entered into an agreement whereby its reports and comparative reviews will be made available to COMNET-IT's institutional members at no charge.

1. The Challenging Road to the Government of the Future
2. Innovative Funding Approaches
3. The Intergovernmental Solutions Series: an international review of key issues including:
• Smart Cards
• Electronic Commerce
• Outsourcing
• Web-enabled Systems
• Re-invention

The Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at Manchester University and COMNET-IT will jointly distribute, free of charge, on request to COMNET-IT's institutional members a series of Working Papers. Available on request are:

1. Information Systems and Public Sector Accountability
2. Planning and Creating a Government Web Site: Learning from the Experience of US States
3. Decision Support Systems and Strategic Public Sector Decision Making in Egypt
4. Information Technology and Public Sector Corruption
5. Public Sector Management Information Systems
6. Information Age Reform of the Public Sector: The Potential and Problems of Information Technology for India
7. Centralised vs Decentralised Management of Public Information Systems: A Core-Periphery Solution
8. Information Management, IT and Government Transformation: Innovative Approaches in the New South Africa
9. 'Why Health Care Information Systems Succeed or Fail'

Publications now available for purchase by members from COMNET-IT include:

• "IT and Globalisation: Implications for Developing Countries" (168 pages; Price GB£10)
• "Information Sharing Between and Within Governments" (72 pages; Price GB£10)
• "Government Secure Intranets" (40 pages; Price GB£10)
• "Reinventing Government in the Information Age: International Practice in IT-Enabled Public Sector Reform." (366 pages; Price GB£31.5 - non-members GB£45)

NOTE: In FORUM Issue 3, there was a small error in the Web site containing details of this. It should have read: idpm.man.ac.uk/rgia.htm.