Investigating E-government Knowledge Base Ontology Supporting Development Projects Monitoring in Sub Saharan Africa
Jean Vincent, Fonou Dombeu, Magda Huisman · 2010
In recent years, a number of developed countries have employed ontology in e-government projects. On the other hand, Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries have followed the trends towards e-government and adoption of new technologies during the past eight years, resulting in many applications developed in various government departments. However, little work has been done in building knowledge base ontologies that facilitate communication amongst stakeholders and that specify processes and data description of these applications; thereby, guaranteeing their maintainability, interoperability and sustainability. This paper presents a case study of constructing ontology in support of e-government initiatives in the domain of development projects monitoring in a Sub Saharan African country. Case studies of development projects conducted in different SSA countries as well as related published works in various fields including project management, project monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building are reviewed and the features of the ontology are extracted. The main purposes of the ontology encompass; providing developers of potential e-government applications for development projects monitoring in Sub Saharan Africa and the developing world at large, with key concepts and activities of the domain, facilitating communication amongst all the role players involved in development projects implementation