Research Progress
Geoffrey Karokola
SecLab – Nov. 2010 Research Area: Secure e-Government Services Title: An Information Maturity Model for e-Government ………(ISMMeG) in Developing Regions.
Research Progress
Geoffrey Karokola
SecLab – Nov. 2010 Research Area: Secure e-Government Services Title: An Information Maturity Model for e-Government ………(ISMMeG) in Developing Regions
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. The Target: An Information Security Maturity Model for e-Goverment in Developing Regions
How to mix quantative and qualitive
How to mix quantative and qualitive
How to combine quantifve models with qualitive models
e-Government (eG) eGMM More Security
risks & threats Few Security risks
& threats Advancement of ICT Benchmarking eG implementation eG infrastructures are exposed to Traditionally it requires Physical visit eG is defined as the “Government owned / operated systems of ICTs that transform relations with citizens (C), the private sector (B) and other government (G) agencies so as to promote citizens’ empowerment, improve service delivery, …” WB[2001]
The stages reflects the level of eG maturity, the degree of technology complexity, systems sophistication, and interaction with users…
… Government Security Services are
Lacking…
California, USA - in 2002/2003 two individual cracked the commercial data broker Acxiom’s database leading to the release of approx. 20m names and social security numbers …[Solove & Hoofnagle, 2005]
UK - on 14 June 2002 the UK’s Inland Revenue withdrew its online tax filing service amid complaints that users could see other people’s tax returns… [Matthew Stibbe]
Tanzania - attackers took advantage of the newly established TISS electronic money transfer to siphon out …more than US$ 5m … [The-Citizen, 2009] Examples of why security services are needed
1.3. Main Research Objective and Question Main Research Question:
How can IT/ICT security services be appropriately incorporated into eGMM critical stages?, Research Objective:
To propose a “Approach by which IT/ICT Security Services can Appropriately be Incorporated into eGMM critical stages” Expect Result:
An Information Security Maturity Model for e-Goverment (ISMMeG) in Developing Regions
2. Approach and Methodology
Paper I:
Karokola, G. & Yngström, L. (2009b): State of e-Government Development in the Developing World: Case of Tanzania – Security View. Proceedings of the ICEG 2009, 5th International Conference on e-Government. Boston, USA. 19 – 20 October 2009. ISBN: 978-1-906638-49-8.
Paper II:
Karokola, G. & Yngström, L. (2008): Lessons Learnt in the Process of Computerization, Automation and Management of ICT Security in the Developing World: A Case Study of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Proceedings of the 7th ISSA 2008, Innovative Mind Conference on Information Security. 7 – 9 July 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa. ISBN: 978-1-86854-693-0.
Paper III:
Karokola, G. & Yngström, L. (2009a): Discussing e-Government Maturity Models for the Developing World – Security View. Proceedings of the 8th ISSA 2009, Conference on Information Security. 6 – 8 July 2009. Johannesburg, South Africa. ISBN: 978-1-86854-740-1.
Paper IV:
Karokola, G., Yngström, L., & Kowalski, S. (2010): A Comparative Analysis of e-Government Maturity Model for Developing Regions: The need for Security Services; – Submitted to Journal IGI (IJEGR), early Nov.
Paper V:
Karokola, G., Kowalski, S., &. Yngström, L (2010): Towards An Information Security Maturity Model for e-Government (ISMMeG); - to be submitted to IFIP Conference, Nov. Major Publications (Conference and Journals)
. The Target: An Information Security Maturity Model for e-Goverment in Developing Regions
(Paper III & IV…)
3.2. Findings: Critical Analysis of eGMM (Paper III & IV…) .
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