A conceptual ontology for e-government monitoring of development projects in Sub Saharan Africa

2010 IST-Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fonou Dombeu, Jean Vincent ^a  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Development project; E government; Knowledge base system; Ontology; Prot g

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION PROCESS; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS; EVALUATION ACTIVITY; IN-BUILDINGS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEM; PROJECT MONITORING; SUB-SAHARAN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAINTAINABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79956081181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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