Using ICTs to enhance duty bearer accountability and transparency to citizens in Eastern and Northern Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorMirembe, Drake Patrick
dc.contributor.authorLubega, Jude T.
dc.contributor.authorKibukamusoke, Martha
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-23T08:48:07Z
dc.date.available2022-10-23T08:48:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the use of ICTs to enhance engagement between citizens and leaders in Eastern and Northern Uganda. It highlights how ICT empowers citizens to demand accountability and transparency from leaders. The key objective was to establish the extent to which the use of ICT promoted leaders responsiveness to citizens’ concerns about accountability and transparency. A participatory action research was used through key informant interviews, focus group discussions and survey targeting 180 citizens and leaders. Findings show that nearly 83.1% of the citizens (108 of the 120 who responded to the question) do use ICT to engage duty bearers on government programmes and accountability issues and the most commonly used ICTs by citizens to engage with leaders are mobiles phones (about 83.1%) and radios (64.6%). It was clear that use of ICT does indeed improve leader responsiveness to citizen concerns.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMirembe, D. P., Lubega, J. T., & Kibukamusoke, M. (2019). Using ICTs to enhance duty bearer accountability and transparency to citizens in Eastern and Northern Uganda. International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, 3(3), 228-243.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJITCC.2019.106559
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/4977
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergenceen_US
dc.subjectICTen_US
dc.subjecte-democracyen_US
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectAccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectTransparencyen_US
dc.subjectDuty beareren_US
dc.titleUsing ICTs to enhance duty bearer accountability and transparency to citizens in Eastern and Northern Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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