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Adam, Julian B. "Voluntary Quits: Do Works Councils Matter? An Analysis of the Reform of the German Works Constitution Act 2001." Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 239, no. 1 (January 28, 2019): 67–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2017-0164.

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Abstract Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous variation in works council authority stemming from a 2001 reform of the German Works Constitution Act, I apply a regression difference-in-difference using establishment panel data. I find that increasing works council size and the introduction of one full-time councilor causally reduces the number of voluntary quits by about 30 %. This decline is driven entirely by collective voice effects and there is no evidence for monopoly effects in place. Similar to the findings of previous research, the effect is significant only in establishments which are subject to a collective agreement. The results suggest that the effectiveness of works councils either heavily relies on the support of unions, or that works councils mainly serve as a guardian of collective agreements.
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Yuan Lim, Lan. "Town council management in Singapore." Facilities 16, no. 5/6 (May 1998): 143–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02632779810211821.

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O'Brien, John. "McKinsey, Hilmer and the BCA: The 'New Management' Model of Labour Market Reform." Journal of Industrial Relations 36, no. 4 (December 1994): 468–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569403600402.

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This paper will discuss the origins and development of the labour market reform agenda pursued by the Business Council of Australia (the council). This agenda found its initial expression in the attempt to apply the McKinsey 'new manage ment' model of employment relations to the regulation of the labour market in Australia. The 'popular' management works of Fred Hilrner are discussed, as is their relationship to the various reports issued by the council from 1989 to 1993 on the development of enterprise-based employment relations. The paper will assess the extent to which the McKinsey-Hilmer-council discourse influenced the terms of the enterprise bargaining debate in the later 1980s and 1990s. In turn, there will be consideration of tlte extent to which the developments in the council's discourse were influenced by changes to the industrial relations system in the same period and the adoption of the enterprise discourse by other contributors to the labour market debate. The paper concludes that the council was able to take a leading role in establishing the hegemony of the enterprise discourse without necessarily achieving a regulatory regime that matched its 'new management' model of employment relations.
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Zhil'nikov, Andrei Maksimovich. "Legal acts of the authorities on industry and construction management in the USSR during 1950s – 1960s." Право и политика, no. 6 (June 2020): 84–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0706.2020.6.32739.

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The object of this research is the administrative-economic reform conducted in the Soviet Union in 1957. The subject of this research is the legal acts of the Councils of National Economy. The author meticulously examines the order of passing legal acts by the Councils of National Economy, as well as their policy-making activity. The article provides the analysis of law and draft bills of government authorities of USSR and RSFSR, as well as legal acts of the Councils of National Economy. Classification of the latter by the content and nature of the contained administrative requirements is conducted. In conclusion, it is established that the crucial questions of competency of the Council were usually resolved collectively; however, there was not clear demarcation between the rights of the chair of the Councils of National Economy and the Councils itself. Gaps in policy-making activity with regards to the order of issuance of acts led to unnatural increase in the already significant amount of such acts, which did not make any essential contributions to the work of institutions and enterprises subordinate to the Council of National Economy.
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Božič, Mari, Annmarie Gorenc Zoran, and Matej Jevšček. "Industry 4.0 and Proactive Works Council Members." Data 6, no. 5 (April 30, 2021): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/data6050047.

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Background: Integrating Industry 4.0 technologies in organizations affects employees’ workplaces and working conditions. Works Council members play an essential role in this because as intermediaries of information between employees and management, they increase mutual trust and help introduce changes in the work environment. This article discusses the Works Council members’ autopoietic endowments that are necessary for their proactive activity, which we discuss as building blocks for creating constructive relationships with management and quality energy in an organization. As such, we were interested in examining whether the autopoietic endowments of Works Council members influenced the type of relationship with the Works Council and management, and whether this relationship affected Works Council members’ organizational energy. Methods: A questionnaire was developed, piloted and distributed to Works Council Members, and 220 completed questionnaires were returned. Results: We found that the higher the level of self-awareness, the better the relationship between Works Council members and management. Moreover, poor energy represented poor relationships, and poor relationships signified a higher degree of resigned inertia and corrosive energy. Conclusions: Our research provides managements with insights into the relationship between employees and management, and the quality of their organizational energy.
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Kirk, Nicholas. "Collaborative Planning in Response to Policy Failure: The Case of Freshwater Management in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand." Case Studies in the Environment 1, no. 1 (2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2017.000513.

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ABSTRACT This article identifies the factors behind a shift to collaborative planning in regional freshwater management. The Canterbury Regional Council, a local government agency in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, was struggling to exercise authority and autonomy over freshwater management in the region during the 1990s and 2000s. The case study explores the regional council’s failure to create authoritative policy, which resulted in policy being rewritten and modified through litigation in the courts. In response, the regional council pursued collaborative planning mechanisms, which co-opted competing pro-development and pro-conservation interest groups, for freshwater management in the region.
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Sciulli, Nick. "Towards the development of a climate change risk index for local government: Some evidence from coastal councils in Australia." Corporate Ownership and Control 10, no. 4 (2013): 276–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv10i4c2art4.

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The objective of this investigation is to assess the views of coastal council managers regarding which infrastructure assets are vulnerable to climate change to develop a Climate Change Risk Index. There are several implications emanating from this study including that local council managers will require more reporting guidance from federal and state governments. Adequate and consistent reporting across local councils can be used as a means of protecting infrastructure at risk to climate change. This paper contributes to the topical area of the risk climate change could pose for local council infrastructure assets. There are important implications for the safeguarding and maintenance of infrastructure in the face of increasing climatic events.
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Conca, Ken, Joe Thwaites, and Goueun Lee. "Climate Change and the UN Security Council: Bully Pulpit or Bull in a China Shop?" Global Environmental Politics 17, no. 2 (May 2017): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00398.

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Although claims about climate/conflict links remain contested, concerns that climate change will affect peace and security have gained traction in academic, activist, and policy circles. One set of pressures for responsive action has centered on the UN Security Council, which has held several often-contentious debates on the topic. Whether the Council should address climate change is a highly politicized question, tied to controversies about the Council’s mandate, membership reform, and the appropriate division of labor in the UN system. Lost in this political debate has been a more fundamental question—what exactly could the Council do? We examine six specific proposals for Council action culled from the academic and policy literature and the public positions of member states. These include incorporating climate risks into peacekeeping operations, developing an early-warning system, managing the threat to small-island states, engaging in preventive diplomacy, addressing climate refugees, and embracing a climate-related analogy to the norm of a responsibility to protect. For each proposal, our analysis—which is based on interviews conducted at the UN, archival research, and case histories of past instances of adapting the Council’s focus to new challenges—examines what it would mean and require for the Council to act. We also identify a series of measures that constitute a “pragmatic transformative” agenda. These steps recognize the poor fit between the climate challenge and the Council as it is currently constituted, but also the potential to use climate as part of a larger transformation toward the better Council the world needs.
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Tillman, Fred A. "Commentary on Legal Liability: Organizing the Advisory Council." Family Business Review 1, no. 3 (September 1988): 287–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1988.00287.x.

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Although we cannot predict the outcome of uncertain legal issues, it is possible that advisory councils face less legal liability than boards of directors. The key to minimizing the risk is to keep the council separate from the board.
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Smedley, J. "RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES v WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL." European Law Reports 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5235/elr.v4n1.1.

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SAITO, Fumihiko. "Local Council Commons Management in Uganda : A Theoretical Reassessment." Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8641.

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Augustin, Marc [Verfasser]. "Influence of workers councils on employee engagement – An Action-Research approach to influence employee engagement through workers council initiatives / Marc Augustin." Beckingen : Marc Augustin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223485196/34.

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Hood, Malcolm. "Coastal management in the District Council of Willunga South Australia." Adelaide : University of Adelaide, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envh777.pdf.

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Aziz, Azmin Azliza. "Routing problems : theoretical analysis and case studies of Coventry City Council." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/53646/.

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The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a special case of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which concerns with finding a tour from one city to another in such a way that each city is visited exactly once and the total travel length is minimal. The literature has established that, thus far, studies that consider both practical and theoretical aspects of routing problems have received relatively little attention from the researchers and practitioners. This thesis aims to bridge a gap between the two aspects by exploring two case studies of Coventry City Council (CCC), namely the Meals Delivery and Incontinence Laundry services as well as investigating the robustness of the routing plan by exploiting relevant theoretical concepts of TSP. The Meals Delivery service was modelled as the multiple TSP with time windows (m-TSPTW) and optimized using Trapeze® PASS with regard to the objective of identifying possible improvement for the current practice. Several alternative optimization scenarios were proposed by varying the delivery time windows and number of vehicles in searching for the solutions that minimize the total distance travelled by the vehicles. Experimental results revealed that huge savings could be obtained by employing the commercial, off-the-shelf software package in the scheduling exercise. The Incontinence Laundry (IL) service was modelled as the Periodic TSP with Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery (PTSPSPD). The problem is unique in the sense that it involves clients with multiple visits. The study aims to improve the current routing scheme by rescheduling this service using alternative approaches, namely Trapeze® PASS, Microsoft® MapPoint 2009 and Decision Support System (DSS), with the objective of minimizing the total distance travelled. In each approach, the problem was solved in two stages, specifically without and with the insertion of a break event in the middle of the daily trip while considering the balancing of demands. Unlike Trapeze and MapPoint, the DSS approach scheduled the clients on a weekly basis, hence implying that the resulting DSS routes could correspond to any service days. Due to this reason, a further analysis was proposed to allocate the routes into relevant days by formulating the problem as the assignment and transportation problems and solving it using Microsoft® Excel Solver. Experimental results revealed that DSS offers significant mileage reductions for the IL routes by 52.4% and 41.6% for solutions without and with break insertion, respectively, as compared to manual implementation. This thesis also explores the TSP from the theoretical perspective. In particular, the robustness of the TSP routes is investigated by recognizing the special combinatorial structures of Kalmanson and Burkard matrices. A recognition algorithm encompassing four procedures, namely combinatorial-based Kalmanson, combinatorial-based Burkard and two approaches of LP-based Kalmanson was developed and executed on a number of randomly generated instances. These procedures produce four lower bounds which provide guarantees on the quality of the solutions. Computational experiments have shown that the proposed LP-based procedure performs consistently well across all problem dimensions and provides the best lower bounds to the TSP solutions. This is supported by an average deviation of less than 7% between the TSP tour lengths and the lower bounds. Furthermore, the study also recognizes the cases of permuted Kalmanson matrices in the distance matrices of TSP in order to suggest a reasonable characterization of robust tours. The algorithm was developed based on relaxed Kalmanson condition and executed on the TSP instances with data distributed across several regions as well as data clustered within a region. Our observation demonstrates that the within-region and cross-region cases are more likely to form a tree and convex structures, respectively. Also, the former is more likely to possess Kalmanson permutations which guarantee the existence of master tours as compared to the latter. In addition to the above, this study has successfully improved the time complexity of the Burkard algorithm from O(n5) to O(n4).
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Khoja, Layla. "Investigating corporate insolvency in the Gulf Cooperation Council : multiple-perspective studies." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377723/.

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This thesis focuses on the causes of corporate insolvency, and understanding the characteristics of insolvency risk in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Multiple studies are employed to address some of the gaps which have been identified in the literature. The first study analyses corporate insolvency in the GCC region between 2004 and 2011 using multiple methodologies: a Logit model, supplemented by a Probit model and a 3-way MDS model, which enables the visualisation of key differences between insolvent and solvent firms, supplemented by Hierarchical Cluster Analysis. The Logit regression with best-subset selection criteria suggests that profitability and leverage ratios, as well as cash flow-based ratios, can predict insolvency in GCC literature. MDS results indicate that insolvent firms attach most salience to the ‘Non-strategic sales activities', unlike solvent firms which attach more salience to the other dimensions: 'Profitability and financial stability balance’, ‘Sales activities against capital conversion’, and ‘Market value against cash generation’. Hence, the results suggest that firms’ managers should focus less on non-strategic sales activities to reduce susceptibility to insolvency. Taking a multilevel perspective, the second study attempts to contextualise the nature of corporate insolvency in the GCC, using samples of firms from the UK and the USA as comparators. MDS and cluster analysis reveal four dimensions of ratios across the samples: 'effectiveness of sales and cash-generating activities ', 'trade-off between debt management and cash generation/profitability', 'usage of debt versus usage of own assets', and 'trade-off between profitability and cash-generating activities'. Unlike solvent firms, insolvent GCC firms appear very specific in the third dimension, 'usage of debt versus usage of own assets’, which did not appear as associated with macroeconomic variables. The third study is to examine the dynamic causal relationships among macroeconomic indicators of the corporate failure rate in the GCC region by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) bound test, which use quarterly dataset. These results provide evidence that oil prices in the GCC region combined with other macroeconomic indicators have an impact on the failure rate in the long-run equilibrium. In terms of the short-run, the ARDL model confirmed that the corporate failure rate is mainly determined by the previous period’s failure rate.
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Van, Wyk Liret. "Project management : hit or miss in the Agricultural Research Council Infruitec-Nietvoorbij." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51889.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A study was conducted within the Argicultural Research Council Infruitec-Nietvoorbij, by means of a questionnaire, regarding the application of project management. The study was done to investigate and bring forth opinions and reasons why project management is deemed to be unsuccessful within the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij. A comprehensive study of literature regarding the successful application of project management within an organisation, was done. This was used to develop a questionnaire applicable to the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij, to test the above mentioned perceptions. With the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative outcomes of the questionnaire, opinions and perceptions of the respondents were identified, which should be of interest to the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij. These opinions and perceptions undoubtedly influence the dynamics of the working environment and will in future influence the successful application of project management within the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij. Therefore some areas of concern were identified which need attention before the ARC Infruitec- Nietvoorbij can be truly successful in the implementation of project management. With the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative outcomes of the questionnaire, the results also indicated that "conventional" project management, as applied to the engineering, architectural and construction fields, can not without further ado, merely be applied in a research environment and specifically the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij. The ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij needs to give specific attention to the development of an own methodology to apply project management in the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij. This methodology needs to be relayed by means of a specific strategy and policy inherent to the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Studie is gedoen by die Landbou Navorsingsraad Infruitec-Nietvoorbij aangaande die aanwending van projekbestuur, deur middel van 'n vraelys. Die studie is gedoen om opinies en redes uit te bring waarom projekbestuur onsuksesvol is by die LNR Infruitec- Nietvoorbij. 'n Omvattende literatuurstudie aangaande die suksesvolle aanwending van projekbestuur in 'n organisasie is gedoen. Die bevindinge uit die literatuurstudie is aangewend om 'n vraelys te ontwikkel wat van toepassing is op die Landbou Navorsingsraad Infruitec-Nietvoorbij, om sodoende die bogenoemde persepsies te toets. Met die analise van die kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe gedeeltes van die vraelys, is opinies en persepsies van die deelnemers geïdentifiseer wat betekenisvol vir die LNR Infruitec-Nietvoorbij behoort te wees. Die opinies en persepsies beïnvloed beslis die funksionaliteit van die werkomgewing en sal ook in die toekoms die suksesvolle aanwending van projekbestuur in die LNR Infruitec-Nietvoorbij beïnvloed. Daar is 'n aantal areas geïdentifiseer, waaraan aandag geskenk sal moet word, voordat die LNR Infruitec-Nietvoorbij werklik suksesvol met projekbestuur sal wees. Met die analise van die kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe gedeeltes van die vraelys het die resultate ook aangedui dat "konvensionele" projekbestuur soos toegepas in die ingenieurs-, argitektoniese-, en konstruksievelde, nie summier by die LNR Infruitec- Nietvoorbij en spesifiek in 'n navorsingsomgewing toegepas kan word nie. Die LNR Infruitec-Nietvoorbij moet spesifiek aandag skenk aan die ontwikkeling van 'n eie metodologie. Dié metodologie moet deur middel van 'n spesifieke strategie en beleid in the LNR Infruitec-Nietvoorbij gepromulgeer word.
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Oliveira, Marques Leal Nata´lia Filipa de. "The role of the Council Presidency in EU crisis management policy." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589959.

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Using a role theory framework, this thesis seeks better to understand how the Council Presidency functions as a policy actor, specifically within the sphere of Crisis Management policy-making as enshrined in the ESDP before the Lisbon Treaty. It focuses on explaining Presidency role variation and on identifying the main factors (at policy level, Presidency level, the level of contingent factors, and at actor/Member State level) responsible for such variation within Crisis Management policy. For these purposes, the thesis draws on the 2007 Portuguese Presidency as a case-study which illustrates how these factors and both self and alter expectations about Presidency behaviour are closely related to actual performance. The main conclusion of the thesis is that role theory allows different theoretical contributions to be combined into a single and more comprehensive explanatory framework. By shedding light on the apparently contradictory actions of different Presidencies, thus, this thesis' role theory framework opens the door not only to a sharper conception both of Crisis Management policy and the Presidency itself, but also to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the behaviour of other policy actors and the evolution of different European policy areas.
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Richardson, Elise. "The Arts Council of New Orleans: An Internship Report." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/161.

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The Arts Council of New Orleans is the official arts agency of New Orleans, located at 935 Gravier Street. The organization supports and develops the arts community through many different programming initiatives, including administering grants, managing a monthly Arts Market, and providing business training to artists. In this internship report, I discuss my role within the organization during my internship, which began in January 2013 and lasted through June 2013. I then analyze my observations of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and provide recommendations for improving the Arts Council’s operations based on best practices and expert literature in the field of nonprofit management. The Arts Council hired a new CEO in May of 2013, after a seven-year period of operating under interim management. With a permanent leader now in place, the organization is in a position to apply my recommendations so it can grow into a stronger arts agency, and better serve the New Orleans community.
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Mannya, Clement. "Stakeholder involvement in strategic planning and management at the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71840.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Local government in South Africa has gone through the transitional phase to become developmental with a number of challenges, one of the most prominent of which has been the lack of adequate financial resources to carry out various service delivery obligations. The lack of financial resources was one of the important reasons that led to local authorities being reduced from 843 to 284 municipalities through the process of re-demarcation that resulted in the consolidation of most of the local authorities. Because of these long standing challenges of financial viability, the objective of the study was to investigate stakeholder involvement in strategic planning and management within the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council. It had become evident that existing financial constraints in municipalities in general and at Ekurhuleni in particular would remain for the foreseeable future, unless ways and means are found to improve the management of existing resources. The contention in this study is that the inclusion of stakeholders in strategic planning and management should be viewed as important to the Metro as it significantly lessens the doubt as to whether there is a common understanding of what is possible given the limited resource capacity to address many competing service delivery needs. The literature study undertaken showed that local government has learnt lessons from the private sector, and has adopted some of its strategic planning and management practices and adapted them to suit public service delivery needs. In South Africa the local government planning framework is called integrated development planning (IDP). The IDP approach entails the formulation of focused plans, based on developmental priorities. This approach assists in avoiding wasteful expenditure and perpetuating past spending patterns. Furthermore, the idea of adopting a more business-based approach does therefore not mean that the council is run like a company but rather that scarce resources are spent effectively and that all citizens have access to at least a minimum level of basic services. The IDP should be undertaken through participatory processes for effective urban management given the fact that private and public investments and municipal services delivery affect the well-being of all urban residents. Observation at the Ekurhuleni Metro revealed that while strategic planning and management does take place, it does not involve various stakeholders in the processes in a manner that is contemplated by the integrated development planning framework. The absence of a public participation strategy at the Metro meant that methods of engagement, consultation and communication with stakeholders are not clearly spelled out. So is the identification of various stakeholders in terms of the needs, the roles that they can play in the planning processes, allocation of resources to facilitate their participation and empowerment in various planning processes. It was the conclusion of the study that there is limited stakeholder involvement in strategic planning and management at the Ekurhuleni Metro.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Plaaslike regering in Suid-Afrika het deur ‘n oorgangsfase na ‘n ontwikkelings orientasie gevorder maar het ook ‘n aantal uitdagings bygekry. Die prominentste een hiervan is die gebrek aan fondse om die verskillende dienslewering verpligtinge na te kom. Die gebrek aan finansiële bronne was een van die belangrike redes vir die reduksie van plaaslike owerhede van 843 na 284 munisipaliteit deur die proses van her-afbakening wat gelei het tot die konsolidasie van die meeste plaaslike owerhede. In die lig van die lang-durige aard van die uitdagings van finansiële lewensvatbaarheid, ondersoek hierdie studie belanghebber betrokkenheid in strategiese beplanning en bestuur binne die Ekurhuleni Metropolitaanse Raad. Dit het duidelik geword dat die bestaande finansiële beperkings in munisipaliteite in die algemeen, en in Ekurhuleni in die besonder, so sal bly in die voorsienbare toekoms, tensy meganismes gevind kan word waarmee die bestuur van die bestaande bronne verbeter kan word. Die studie voer aan dat die betrokkenheid van belanghebbers in strategiese beplanning en bestuur as belangrik geag behoort te word in die Metro aangesien dit die onsekerheid oor ‘n gedeelde verstaan van wat moontlik is met die beperkte bronne kapasiteit in die hantering van die baie kompeterende diens behoeftes, verminder. Die literatuurstudie poog om aan te toon dat plaaslike regerings lesse geleer het by die privaatsektor en sommige van die stategiese beplanning en bestuurspraktyke opgeneem en aangepas het by die publieke diensleweringsbehoeftes. In Suid-Afrika word die plaaslike regering beplanningsraamwerke, geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsplanne genoem (IDP). Die IDP benadering vereis die formulering van gefokusde planne, gebaseer op ontwikkelingsprioriteite. Hierdie benadering vermy verkwistende uitgawes en die voortsetting van uitgawepatrone van die verlede. Verder beteken die aanvaarding van ‘n besigheidsgeoriënteerde benadering nie dat die raad soos ‘n besigheid bestuur word nie maar eerder dat skaars bronne effektief bestuur word en dat alle burgers ten minste toegang tot minimum dienste het. Die IDP behoort deur deelnemende prosesse uitgevoer te word ten einde effektiewe stedelike bestuur te verseker, gegee die feit dat private en publieke beleggings en minisipale dienste die welsyn van alle stedelike inwoners affekteer. Waarnemings by die Ekurhuleni Metro bring aan die lig dat, terwyl strategiese beplanning en bestuur wel plaasvind, dit nie verskillende belanghebbers op die wyse betrek wat in die geïntegreede beplanningsraamwerk voorsien word nie. Die afwesigheid van publieke deelname in die Metro het beteken dat meganismes van deelname, konsultasie en kommunikasie met belanghebbers nie duidelik gemaak word nie. Dieselfde geld vir die identifikasie van verskillende belanghebbers in terme van belanghebberbehoeftes, die rol wat hulle kan speel in die beplanningsprosesse, die toewysing van bronne en die bemagtiging van belanghebbers om hul deelname te verseker. Dit is die slotsom van die studie dat daar beperkte belanghebber betrokkenheid in strategiese beplanning en bestuur in die Ekurhuleni Metro is.
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Irion, John Allen. "A longitudinal study of an elementary school site council : participation, processes, and impacts /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7755.

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Books on the topic "Council management"

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Council, International Records Management. The International Records Management Council Journal. Northampton: IRMC8c19861998., 1986.

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Chibang ŭihoe unyŏng: Local council management. Kyŏnggi-do P'aju-si: Sŏgang Ch'ulp'ansa, 2008.

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E, Hammel Philip, and American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education., eds. Industrial Asset Management Council lease handbook. [Philadelphia, Pa.]: American Law Institute-American Bar Association [and] Industrial Asset Management Council, 2008.

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Yuan, Lim Lan. Marine Parade Town Council. Singapore: School of Building & Estate Management, National University of Singapore, 1996.

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Northwest Power Planning Council (U.S.). Council staff: Technical planning report. Portland?, Or: The Council?, 1986.

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Office, National Audit. Financial management and control of the Sports Council. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts. Financial management and control of the Sports Council. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

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McBride, Drennan. Absence management in the contract services department: The dichotomy of sickness absence management practice within Belfast City Council. (s.l: The Author), 2003.

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Managing the crisis in council housing: A report. London: H.M.S.O., 1986.

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Smyth, Colin. A property management strategy for Belfast City Council. [s.l: The Author], 1997.

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Alberto, Fernanda, and Marta Silva Guerreiro. "World Business Council for Sustainable Development." In Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management, 1–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_974-1.

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Schmid, Hillel. "Vision and Reality in the Community Council." In Neighborhood Self-Management, 135–47. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1259-2_7.

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Cantor, Robin. "Enterprise Risk Management Perspectives on Risk Governance." In International Risk Governance Council Bookseries, 87–91. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6799-0_3.

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Hitchens, David M. W. N., Jens Clausen, and Klaus Fichter. "World Business Council for Sustainable Development - WBCSD." In International Environmental Management Benchmarks, 279–80. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58442-8_35.

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Arellano Gil, Amparo, Thomas Colonna, John Hontelez, Marion Karmann, and Anakarina Pérez Oropeza. "Forest Stewardship Council: Transforming the Global Forestry Sector." In Natural Resource Management in Transition, 481–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14877-9_26.

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Hitchens, David M. W. N., Jens Clausen, and Klaus Fichter. "European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future — e5." In International Environmental Management Benchmarks, 246–47. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58442-8_22.

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Otte, Andreas, Welf Schröter, Ingo Breite, Frank Gerth, Sylvia Laur, Volker Ost, Can Sekertekin, Andreas Tabor, Marco Wedel, and Hannah Ulbrich. "The Living Group Works Council Agreement as Social Innovation: Internal Crowdsourcing in the GASAG Group." In Contributions to Management Science, 153–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52881-2_9.

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AbstractShortly after the formal launch of the ICU project in the summer of 2017, representatives from the group works council of the GASAG group sat down with the trade union network Forum for the Social Forms of Technology, the FST, to start up an independent practical initiative to examine the topic of internal crowdsourcing to be implemented soon after. In 2018, a model works council agreement between the group works council and the management was agreed, henceforth framing the IC procedure in the GASAG group. The agreement is meant to serve as a template for the introduction of internal crowdsourcing in other companies and industries. A special feature of the agreement is the so-called ‘living’ group works council agreement. The following article analyses its significance and provides a translation by reproducing the agreement in its wording (This text is based on an original version in the German language that was published under the provisions of the Creative Commons at the URL: www.blog-zukunft-der-arbeit.de/betriebsraete-setzen-starken-innovationsimpuls-fuer-digitalen-aufbruch or www.blog-zukunft-der-arbeit.de.).
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Saitis, Christos, and Anna Saiti. "Practical Strategies for the Teachers’ Council Operation." In Initiation of Educators into Educational Management Secrets, 145–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47277-5_7.

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Edirisinghe, R., S. Setunge, G. Zhang, and R. Wakefield. "Council Building Management Practices, Case Studies and Road Ahead." In Engineering Asset Management and Infrastructure Sustainability, 165–79. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-493-7_15.

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Darwish, Mohammed, and Rabi H. Mohtar. "Water-Energy-Food Relation in Gulf Cooperation Council." In Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, 503–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8_17.

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Gaynor, Gerard H. "Technology management council." In 2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC-Europe 2008). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iemce.2008.4617938.

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"IEEE technology management council." In 2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iemce.2008.4617935.

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"Advisory Council." In 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/picmet.2018.8481739.

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"Advisory Council." In 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/picmet.2019.8893860.

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"Advisory Council." In 2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/picmet.2017.8125237.

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Kadama, F. R. Kizza. "A comparative analysis of communal waste collection options for Mafikeng city council." In WASTE MANAGEMENT 2010. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/wm100201.

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Fu, Min. "Discussion on Joint Council Management Mode of Archives and Library." In 3rd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2014). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icssr-14.2014.174.

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Jamil, Majid, and Sonam Mittal. "Building Energy Management System: A Review." In 2017 14th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/indicon.2017.8488004.

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Ingle, Chinmay, Ashwin Samudre, Param Bhavsar, and P. S. Vidap. "Audit and Compliance in Service Management using Blockchain." In 2019 IEEE 16th India Council International Conference (INDICON). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/indicon47234.2019.9030369.

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Drennan, Michael, Carl Blum, and Eliza Jane Whitman. "The Importance of a Long Range Vision of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council." In Watershed Management and Operations Management Conferences 2000. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40499(2000)28.

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Regan, C., S. Lee, O. K. Chopra, D. C. Ma, and W. J. Shack. Summary of technical information and agreements from Nuclear Management and Resources Council industry reports addressing license renewal. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/392805.

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CIFOR. Evaluation of the impacts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification of natural forest management in the tropics. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.17528/cifor/004345.

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Powers, Robert F., Donald L. Hauxwell, and Gary M. Nakamura. Proceedings of the California Forest Soils Council Conference on Forest Soils Biology and Forest Management, Feb. 23-24. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/psw-gtr-178.

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Poelina, Anne, J. Alexander, N. Samnakay, and I. Perdrisat. A Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate (No. 1). Edited by A. Hayes and K. S. Taylor. Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council; Nulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32613/nrp/2020.4.

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The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (Martuwarra Council) has prepared this document to engage widely and to articulate its ambitions and obligations to First Law, customary law and their guardianship authority and fiduciary duty to protect the Martuwarra’s natural and cultural heritage. This document outlines a strategic approach to Heritage Conservation and Management Planning, communicating to a wide audience, the planning principles, key initiatives, and aspirations of the Martuwarra Traditional Owners to protect their culture, identity and deep connection to living waters and land. Finer granularity of action items required to give effect to this Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate are outlined in section 7 and which will be more fully explored by the Martuwarra Council in the coming months and years.
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Carr, Frank. Partnership Councils: Building Successful Labor-Management Relationships,. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, October 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada295928.

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DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY FORT BELVOIR VA. Office of General Counsel Total Quality Management Plan. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada212907.

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Aiginger, Karl, Andreas Reinstaller, Michael Böheim, Rahel Falk, Michael Peneder, Susanne Sieber, Jürgen Janger, et al. Evaluation of Government Funding in RTDI from a Systems Perspective in Austria. Synthesis Report. WIFO, Austria, August 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2009.504.

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In the spring of 2008, WIFO, KMU Forschung Austria, Prognos AG in Germany and convelop were jointly commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth to perform a systems evaluation of the country's research promotion and funding activities. Based on their findings, six recommendations were developed for a change in Austrian RTDI policy as outlined below: 1. to move from a narrow to a broader approach in RTDI policy (links to education policy, consideration of the framework for innovation such as competition, international perspectives and mobility); 2. to move from an imitation to a frontrunner strategy (striving for excellence and market leadership in niche and high-quality segments, increasing market shares in advanced sectors and technology fields, and operating in segments of relevance for society); 3. to move from a fragmented approach to public intervention to a more coordinated and consistent approach(explicit economic goals, internal and external challenges and reasoning for public intervention); 4. to move from a multiplicity of narrowly defined funding programmes to a flexible, dynamic policy that uses a broader definition of its tasks and priorities (key technology and research segments as priority-action fields, adequate financing of clusters and centres of excellence); 5. to move from an unclear to a precisely defined allocation of responsibilities between ministries and other players in the field (high-ranking steering group at government level, monitoring by a Science, Research and Innovation Council); 6. to move from red-tape-bound to a modern management of public intervention (institutional separation between ministries formulating policies and agencies executing them, e.g., by "progressive autonomy").
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Perceptions of community pharmacists, patent and proprietary medicine vendors, and their clients regarding quality of family planning services: The IntegratE Project. Population Council, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh17.1016.

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The IntegratE Project is a four-year initiative (2017–21) implemented by the Population Council and partners that seeks to increase access to contraceptive methods by involving the private sector (community pharmacists [CPs] and patent and proprietary medicine vendors [PPMVs]) in family planning (FP) service delivery in Lagos and Kaduna States, Nigeria. The project aims to establish a regulatory system with the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria to ensure that CPs and PPMVs provide quality FP services, comply with FP regulations, and report service statistics to the Health Information Management System (HMIS). To achieve this, the project is implementing: a pilot three-tiered accreditation system for PPMVs; a supervisory model to ensure standard drug-stocking practices; building the capacity of CPs and PPMVs to provide a wider range of FP services and data report to the HMIS. This brief focuses on quality of care received by women voluntarily seeking FP services from CPs and PPMVs. CPs and PPMVs and their clients appear to be satisfied with the FP services offered by CPs and PPMVs; on-going learning opportunities, and a supportive supervision system that is properly coordinated should be sufficient to maintain the quality of services offered by CPs and PPMVs.
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Testing a community-based distribution approach to reproductive health service delivery in Senegal (a study of community agents in Kébémer). Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh17.1010.

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The Division of Reproductive Health (DSR) of the Senegal Ministry of Health and Social Action, in partnership with the Population Council’s FRONTIERS in Reproductive Health program and Management Sciences for Health (MSH), conducted a study to test and compare three ways of providing reproductive health services to rural communities in the Kébémer district of Senegal in terms of their effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness. FRONTIERS and MSH collaborated with the DSR to design the interventions, MSH supported the DSR in implementing the interventions, and FRONTIERS undertook the evaluation. This study, funded by USAID, responded to the recommendations of a 1999 workshop, organized by FRONTIERS and the DSR, on the community-based distribution (CBD) approach, which defined alternative CBD models appropriate for Senegal. The DSR sees the development of community-based service delivery models as essential for the future of health care in Senegal. As noted in this report, the general objective of the study was to contribute to the development of an integrated cost-effective program to increase the accessibility and availability of reproductive health information and services in rural areas of Senegal.
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African Open Science Platform Part 1: Landscape Study. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0047.

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This report maps the African landscape of Open Science – with a focus on Open Data as a sub-set of Open Science. Data to inform the landscape study were collected through a variety of methods, including surveys, desk research, engagement with a community of practice, networking with stakeholders, participation in conferences, case study presentations, and workshops hosted. Although the majority of African countries (35 of 54) demonstrates commitment to science through its investment in research and development (R&D), academies of science, ministries of science and technology, policies, recognition of research, and participation in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), the following countries demonstrate the highest commitment and political willingness to invest in science: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to existing policies in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the following countries have made progress towards Open Data policies: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. Only two African countries (Kenya and South Africa) at this stage contribute 0.8% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to R&D (Research and Development), which is the closest to the AU’s (African Union’s) suggested 1%. Countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar ranked as 0%, while the R&D expenditure for 24 African countries is unknown. In addition to this, science globally has become fully dependent on stable ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, which includes connectivity/bandwidth, high performance computing facilities and data services. This is especially applicable since countries globally are finding themselves in the midst of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is not only “about” data, but which “is” data. According to an article1 by Alan Marcus (2015) (Senior Director, Head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries, World Economic Forum), “At its core, data represents a post-industrial opportunity. Its uses have unprecedented complexity, velocity and global reach. As digital communications become ubiquitous, data will rule in a world where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time. That will require a highly reliable, secure and available infrastructure at its core, and innovation at the edge.” Every industry is affected as part of this revolution – also science. An important component of the digital transformation is “trust” – people must be able to trust that governments and all other industries (including the science sector), adequately handle and protect their data. This requires accountability on a global level, and digital industries must embrace the change and go for a higher standard of protection. “This will reassure consumers and citizens, benefitting the whole digital economy”, says Marcus. A stable and secure information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure – currently provided by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) – is key to advance collaboration in science. The AfricaConnect2 project (AfricaConnect (2012–2014) and AfricaConnect2 (2016–2018)) through establishing connectivity between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is planning to roll out AfricaConnect3 by the end of 2019. The concern however is that selected African governments (with the exception of a few countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and others) have low awareness of the impact the Internet has today on all societal levels, how much ICT (and the 4th Industrial Revolution) have affected research, and the added value an NREN can bring to higher education and research in addressing the respective needs, which is far more complex than simply providing connectivity. Apart from more commitment and investment in R&D, African governments – to become and remain part of the 4th Industrial Revolution – have no option other than to acknowledge and commit to the role NRENs play in advancing science towards addressing the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). For successful collaboration and direction, it is fundamental that policies within one country are aligned with one another. Alignment on continental level is crucial for the future Pan-African African Open Science Platform to be successful. Both the HIPSSA ((Harmonization of ICT Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa)3 project and WATRA (the West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly)4, have made progress towards the regulation of the telecom sector, and in particular of bottlenecks which curb the development of competition among ISPs. A study under HIPSSA identified potential bottlenecks in access at an affordable price to the international capacity of submarine cables and suggested means and tools used by regulators to remedy them. Work on the recommended measures and making them operational continues in collaboration with WATRA. In addition to sufficient bandwidth and connectivity, high-performance computing facilities and services in support of data sharing are also required. The South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System5 (NICIS) has made great progress in planning and setting up a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in support of collaborative science and data sharing. The regional Southern African Development Community6 (SADC) Cyber-infrastructure Framework provides a valuable roadmap towards high-speed Internet, developing human capacity and skills in ICT technologies, high- performance computing and more. The following countries have been identified as having high-performance computing facilities, some as a result of the Square Kilometre Array7 (SKA) partnership: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia. More and more NRENs – especially the Level 6 NRENs 8 (Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and recently Zambia) – are exploring offering additional services; also in support of data sharing and transfer. The following NRENs already allow for running data-intensive applications and sharing of high-end computing assets, bio-modelling and computation on high-performance/ supercomputers: KENET (Kenya), TENET (South Africa), RENU (Uganda), ZAMREN (Zambia), EUN (Egypt) and ARN (Algeria). Fifteen higher education training institutions from eight African countries (Botswana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania) have been identified as offering formal courses on data science. In addition to formal degrees, a number of international short courses have been developed and free international online courses are also available as an option to build capacity and integrate as part of curricula. The small number of higher education or research intensive institutions offering data science is however insufficient, and there is a desperate need for more training in data science. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science aim at addressing the continental need for foundational data skills across all disciplines, along with training conducted by The Carpentries 9 programme (specifically Data Carpentry 10 ). Thus far, CODATA-RDA schools in collaboration with AOSP, integrating content from Data Carpentry, were presented in Rwanda (in 2018), and during17-29 June 2019, in Ethiopia. Awareness regarding Open Science (including Open Data) is evident through the 12 Open Science-related Open Access/Open Data/Open Science declarations and agreements endorsed or signed by African governments; 200 Open Access journals from Africa registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); 174 Open Access institutional research repositories registered on openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); 33 Open Access/Open Science policies registered on ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies); 24 data repositories registered with the Registry of Data Repositories (re3data.org) (although the pilot project identified 66 research data repositories); and one data repository assigned the CoreTrustSeal. Although this is a start, far more needs to be done to align African data curation and research practices with global standards. Funding to conduct research remains a challenge. African researchers mostly fund their own research, and there are little incentives for them to make their research and accompanying data sets openly accessible. Funding and peer recognition, along with an enabling research environment conducive for research, are regarded as major incentives. The landscape report concludes with a number of concerns towards sharing research data openly, as well as challenges in terms of Open Data policy, ICT infrastructure supportive of data sharing, capacity building, lack of skills, and the need for incentives. Although great progress has been made in terms of Open Science and Open Data practices, more awareness needs to be created and further advocacy efforts are required for buy-in from African governments. A federated African Open Science Platform (AOSP) will not only encourage more collaboration among researchers in addressing the SDGs, but it will also benefit the many stakeholders identified as part of the pilot phase. The time is now, for governments in Africa, to acknowledge the important role of science in general, but specifically Open Science and Open Data, through developing and aligning the relevant policies, investing in an ICT infrastructure conducive for data sharing through committing funding to making NRENs financially sustainable, incentivising open research practices by scientists, and creating opportunities for more scientists and stakeholders across all disciplines to be trained in data management.
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