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Governance of liquid communication generated through the use of social media by the Botswana government
Get PDFSocial networks have increasingly become a platform for liquid communication through which real business transactions take place. Liquid communication in this study refers to records generated by the government on social media for customer service, access to information and direct community involvement needs. The content on social media platforms can be shared and re-tweeted many times beyond the control of the creating agency, resulting in challenges regarding its management. The government of Botswana has been fully active in the use of social media as part of the government’s electronic government programme, thereby generating liquid communication in the process. The unstable nature of liquid communication calls for its governance according to the established records management requirements. Using the Association of Records Managers and Administrators’ (ARMA) Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP®) as a theoretical framework, this qualitative study examined the governance of liquid communication generated through the use of social media by the Botswana government with the view to developing a framework for liquid communication governance (See Table 1.1). Data were collected through interviews with a purposively chosen sample targeting public relation officers and policy makers based at the Botswana Government Communications and Information System (BGCIS) office, which manages the government of Botswana’s social media platforms, as well as records managers and archivists, chief programmer and director, corporate services from other Botswana government departments with the role of information management such as the Botswana National Archives and Records Services (BNARS), the Botswana Communication and Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) (See Table 4.2).
The key results suggest that the government of Botswana, through the BGCIS, mainly uses social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate key decisions with the public. The analysis in this study revealed that despite the clear evidence of the Botswana government being active on social media platforms through its pages titled “BWGOVERNMENT”, engaging with the citizens, social media entries were not considered or managed as records by the government. As a result of this no proper measures were put in place to ensure governance of liquid communication. The study revealed that the policy framework was lacking in that there was no social media policy, no measures in place to ensure the integrity of liquid communication, no regard for issues of retention and disposition of liquid communication, as well as a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for the governance of liquid communication in the country. This is despite the fact that the National Archives and Records Services Act of 1978 (as amended in 2007) (NARS Act) (amended in 2007), which is the principal records management legislation, recognises the existence of other records formats such as liquid communication through its definition of a record. The trends around the world show recognition by governments that social media content may constitute records and are managed accordingly. The literature indicates that other governments and organisations in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and Australia have social media policies and strategies to guide the management of social media content though less evidence amongst African countries. The study concludes that without a governance framework for liquid communication in place, the government faces the risk of losing evidential information required for legal, administrative, historical and compliance purposes. Additionally, the government may face the risk of losing its digital heritage. This study, therefore, proposes a framework for the governance of liquid communication to guide the government to manage content generated through the use of social media. A further study to make a comparison or do a benchmarking of the maturity of the governance of liquid communication between governments, for example within Southern Africa, using the proposed framework and/or the ARMA Information Governance Maturity Model is recommended.D. Phil. (Information Science)Information Scienc
The Use of Social Media by the Botswana Government and Governance of Liquid Communication
No full textSocial media as a communication tool has enabled governments around the world to interact with citizens for customer service, access to information and to direct community involvement needs. The trends around the world show recognition by governments that social media content may constitute records and should be managed accordingly. The literature shows that governments and organisations in other countries, particularly in Europe, have social media policies and strategies to guide the management of social media content, but there is less evidence among African countries. Thus the purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of usage of social media by the Botswana government in order to determine the necessity for the governance of liquid communication. Liquid communication here refers to the type of communication that goes easily back and forth between participants involved through social media. The ARMA principle of availability requires that where there is information governance, an organisation shall maintain its information assets in a manner that ensures their timely, efficient and accurate retrieval. The study adopted a qualitative case study approach where data were collected through documentary reviews and interviews among purposively selected employees of the Botswana government. This study revealed that the Botswana government has been actively using social media platforms to interact with its citizens since 2011 for increased access, usage and awareness of services offered by the government. Nonetheless, the study revealed that the government had no official documentation on the use of social media, and policies and strategies that dealt with the governance of liquid communication. This study recommends the governance of liquid communication to ensure timely, efficient and accurate retrieval when needed for business purposes
Electronic Court Records Management Systems: A Review of Literature in Selected African Countries
No full textCourt records are a vital source of information for the judicial system. They are mainly used by legal researchers, legal practitioners and policymakers for decision-making. The invention of modern technology systems has seen courts around the world adopting electronic systems to manage these records. Consequently, records management has gained prominence since a systematic, efficient and organised records management system is crucial in guaranteeing unbiased decisions through trusted records by the courts. The computerisation of court records has its own challenges that may be peculiar to the justice system in any country. The creation, management and preservation of digital records have an impact on policies, standards, copyright, metadata and other technical issues. Velicogna has noted that even though the use of technologies reduces delays, improves economy, efficiency and effectiveness and promotes confidence in the justice system, due process, impartiality and independence should also be carefully taken into account given the nature and importance of the judiciary. This is especially so when structural and procedural changes, such as the ones driven by the introduction of new technologies, take place. Through a review of literature, this paper seeks to examine the implementation of electronic court records management systems in selected African countries with a view to ascertaining whether the intended objectives for their deployment have been achieved. Generally, this study found that justice systems in the selected countries implemented computerised court records systems and derived some benefits as anticipated. However, the implemented systems were confronted with some challenges that can be resolved in due course to ultimately facilitate the systems to enhance delivery of justice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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