TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring semantic interoperability in E-government interoperability frameworks for intra-African collaboration
T2 - 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
AU - Yousif Ahmed, Safa M.
AU - Twinomurinzi, Hossana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - While many African countries have called for ICT-based intra-African collaboration, services, and trade, it is not known whether this call is technically feasible. For such intra-African based collaboration, semantic interoperability would be required between the national e-government systems. This paper reviewed the e-government interoperability frameworks (e-GIFs) of English and Arabic speaking African countries to identify the evidence and conflict approaches to semantic interoperability. The results suggest that only seven African countries have e-GIFs, which have mainly been adopted from the UK's e-Government Metadata Standards (eGMS) and on Dublin's Core metadata (DC). However, many of the e-GIFs, with the exception of Nigeria, have not been contextualized to the local needs. The paper, therefore, concluded that more effort needs to be placed in developing e-GIFs in Africa, with particular emphasis on semantic interoperability, if the dream of intra-African collaboration is to be achieved.
AB - While many African countries have called for ICT-based intra-African collaboration, services, and trade, it is not known whether this call is technically feasible. For such intra-African based collaboration, semantic interoperability would be required between the national e-government systems. This paper reviewed the e-government interoperability frameworks (e-GIFs) of English and Arabic speaking African countries to identify the evidence and conflict approaches to semantic interoperability. The results suggest that only seven African countries have e-GIFs, which have mainly been adopted from the UK's e-Government Metadata Standards (eGMS) and on Dublin's Core metadata (DC). However, many of the e-GIFs, with the exception of Nigeria, have not been contextualized to the local needs. The paper, therefore, concluded that more effort needs to be placed in developing e-GIFs in Africa, with particular emphasis on semantic interoperability, if the dream of intra-African collaboration is to be achieved.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108289085
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3182
EP - 3189
BT - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 8 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
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