The SSL/TLS protocols over HTTPs main tasks are to encrypt communication and provide verification to the user that the website is the one it is claiming to be. With an increase in egovernment and agencies using e-services where sensitive information can travel over the Internet the need for SSL/TLS has increased and will continue to increase. This study therefore aims to provide answers to how the Swedish agencies have configured their websites in terms of SSL/TLS and why they are at their current level of security in regards to SSL/TLS. A technical survey using the tool Qualys SSL Server Test was used in order to collect the configurations. Follow up interviews with a semi-structured qualitative approach was then used to answer the second research question of what factors affect why they had their current security level. 48,77% of agencies had some sort of implementation but the majority did not use SSL/TLS. The ten most common factors which affected agencies security levels was “Projects”, “Availability”, “Attitude towards security”, “Perceived sensitivity of data”, “Consultants”, “Resources”, “Knowledge of SSL”, “Security responsibility”, “Eservice”, and “Laws or other externa influence”.

O presente estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de identificar os limites e possibilidades do exercício de atividades de polícia administrativa por entidades privadas. Primeiro, analisou-se a atividade de polícia administrativa, procurando-se definir o seu conceito e abrangência no modelo atual do Estado. Em seguida, examinaram-se as diversas configurações utilizadas pelo Estado para o desempenho das suas atividades. Foram identificadas mais detidamente as características do exercício de atividades estatais por meio de entidades da Administração indireta com personalidade jurídica privada e dos contratos de delegação e de colaboração. Após essa análise, demonstrou-se que o dogma da indelegabilidade da atividade de polícia não pode ser tomado como absoluto, de modo a vedar toda e qualquer participação privada no exercício dessa atividade. Delinearam-se os limites e possibilidades do exercício privado de atividades de polícia administrativa. Nesse ponto, constatou-se que a atividade normativa originária e o exercício de coerção não comportam a delegação do seu exercício a particulares. As demais atividades que integram o denominado ciclo das atividades de polícia são passíveis de delegação, observando-se determinados critérios e limites. Uma vez identificados os requisitos a serem observados para a delegação, aplicaram-se esses conceitos a atividades específicas de polícia administrativa. A seguir, examinou-se o regime jurídico a ser observado no exercício de atividades de polícia administrativa por entidades privadas. Demonstrou-se que a observância de determinados aspectos desse regime jurídico consiste em condição para a legitimidade da atribuição do exercício dessas atividades a entidades privadas. Ao final, foram arroladas as conclusões obtidas ao longo do trabalho. / This study aimed at identifying the limits and possibilities of the exercise of administrative police activities by private entities. Firstly, the activity of the administrative police was analyzed in order to define its concept and scope in the current model of State. Then, the various settings used by the State for the performance of State activities were examined. The characteristics of the exercise of State activities by means of indirect Government Agencies of private law personality and delegation and collaboration agreements were identified in more detail. After this analysis, it was demonstrated that the dogma of the impossibility to delegate police activity cannot be considered as absolute, as to prohibit any private participation in the exercise of this activity. The limits and possibilities of the private exercise of administrative police activities were outlined. At that point, it was noted that primary normative activity and the exercise of coercion do not accept delegation to individuals. The other activities that integrate the so-called cycle of police activities can be subject to delegation, considering certain criteria and limits. Once the requirements for delegation were identified, these concepts were applied to specific activities of administrative police. Then, the legal regime applicable in the exercise of administrative police activities by private entities was examined. It was demonstrated that compliance with certain aspects of this legal regime is condition for the legitimacy of assigning the exercise of these activities to private entities. At last, the conclusions obtained throughout the study were presented.

Thesis (M.Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2018 / The high unemployment rate in South Africa encourages citizens to be job creators rather than job seekers. It is often said that small businesses hold the key to economic growth. The South African government endeavours to accelerate economic growth, job creation and to address inequalities, through enterprise development and support. It created and enacted laws that seek to create an enabling environment for the growth and support of predominantly black, women, youth and people with disabilities owning small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives. In ensuring support for SMMEs, the government of the Republic of South Africa promulgated the National Small Business Act (NSBA), Act 102 of 1996, which clearly outlines the support that national, provincial, local governments and private sector entities are compelled to develop and implement - programmes geared towards the support and promotion of SMMEs. Since 1996, these entities have developed programmes and projects that aim to implement support of SMMEs. Similarly, the government agencies that operate in the Capricorn District Municipality (CDM) have developed programmes in support of SMMEs and cooperatives as per the abovementioned Act. Most business owners are constantly faced with challenges, especially women-owned SMMEs. The role of government agencies and the implementation of relevant programmes and strategies to empower women-owned SMMES are explored. Despite the above-mentioned government initiatives, women-owned SMMEs are still facing challenges such as lack of financial support, inadequate infrastructure, access to market and other related problems. These challenges hinder their business initiatives and economic growth in the CDM. This research contributes to the public discourse regarding empowerment of SMMEs, with particular reference to women-owned businesses, and also to contribute to policy development in the promotion and support of SMMEs. A conceptual framework is also reviewed in the study, regarding the importance of government agencies, SMMEs and women empowerment to the development of the South African economy.

This thesis is about the capacity of local government agencies in Makassar (Indonesia) to provide services to the public. Besides aiming to understand the institutional capacity of local government agencies, the research also examines the role internal and external factors play in determining the service delivery capacity of public organisations. Internal factors refer to the organisational structure, managerial practices and the management of human resources in public organisations. External factors refer to the degree of bureaucratic and political accountability as well as the level of competition experienced by government agencies. ¶ This research will enrich the existing development literature by strengthening our understanding of the ways in which internal and external factors strengthen or weaken the capacity of public sector institutions. ¶ Institutional capacity is measured by the quality of services provided by the local government agencies as assessed by their clients through both questionnaires and interviews, whereas the data regarding the role internal and external factors play in determining the institutional capacity of local government agencies were collected by in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with the management and staff in a number of agencies, with high-level bureaucrats, with non-government organisations and business associations, and members of the Makassar parliament. ¶ This study concludes that the institutional capacity of local government agencies in the case studies varies, although overall institutional capacity is relatively low or unsatisfactory. Of the four agencies in the case studies, only one agency was able to deliver quality services higher than the level expected by its clients. ¶ In general, this research reveals that the degree of accountability of the local government agencies in the case studies is relatively weak. The study infers that the degree of accountability does not have a significant impact on the agencies' performance. ¶ It was found that the competitive or monopolistic environment in which the local government agencies operate does affect the capacity of the agencies to serve their clients. This capacity is also affected by a number of aspects within the organisation and human resource dimensions of the agencies. ¶ This study shows that, in the case of Indonesia, attempts to improve the capacity of government agencies to deliver quality public services by improving the capacity of parliament to politically oversee the executive, as recommended by a number of international agencies and commentators, may not be the best and most effective alternative. Rather than focusing the resources to improve the degree of political accountability, the study suggests that a more effective strategy to develop the capacity of government agencies is to enhance the organisational structure, managerial practices and the management of human resources in the public organizations, and to introduce competition into the delivery of public services.

Agencification-the creation of autonomous agencies within the public service-has been occurring in many jurisdictions. It has usually had a rationale of improving the way in which government works. Generally, agencies are expected to provide more flexible, performance-oriented, responsive public services. The purpose of this work is to examine a particular example of agencification in the Australian Public Service (APS) and to compare it analytically with similar occurrences elsewhere. Specifically, it will examine the splitting of the former Department of Social Security (DSS) into two separate organisations, a policy department and a service delivery agency operating under a purchaser-provider arrangement, Centrelink. It will do this in the context of theories of agencification and of practical experience of agencification elsewhere. It will analyse why agencification has happened in this case and what the experience has shown, focusing on the role, governance, accountability and prospects for the new arrangements. This, the most prominent and substantial case of agencification in the Australian government, will be compared with the agencification experience reported in other jurisdictions-the United Kingdom and New Zealand. It will address why Centrelink came about, what the outcome has been of the change in institutional arrangements, and what the likely future is of the Centrelink arrangements. It will show that, when examined closely, the mechanisms bringing about agencification have been diverse. However, there are parallels in the experience. This leads to a conclusion that the current Centrelink arrangements are not stable in the long term, and some aspects-such as the purchaser-provider arrangement - should be set aside.

The specific aims of this study were determined on a conceptual appreciation that management of information assets and services in some government agencies was deficient in meeting both existing and developing demands. This appreciation manifested itself in a commitment to investigate the principles and processes intrinsic to existing management methodologies, to relate these processes to the needs of users, and to determine a strategy which could more ably meet the information provision requirements of those users. The achievement of these aims predicated the use of the case study research method, selecting as the first case study the Department of Human Services and Health (DHSH), an agency that had recognised that a problem existed in the provision of information services, and had initiated action to address that problem. As a counter, the Department of Defence, an agency which adrmts to a problem, but which had yet to initiate an active, global program for its resolution, was chosen as the second case study. A theoretical model, which reflects extant international thinking and practice, was initially constructed in order to establish a basis on which to ascertain and evaluate the information management circumstances of the two case study departments. This model specified the objectives considered to be fundamental to effective information management in a public service environment. It included studying the foundation repositories of information services from which information in the portfolio domains of government are sought. These services are the traditional records centres or registries, the library services which provide a repository of published and grey material in printed, image and magnetic formats, and the computerised networks holding electronic records at varying levels of development. An analysis of findings was carried out separately on each case study agency before bringing the data together for cross-case analysis. In order to maximise the veracity and validity of the data collected and its subsequent interpretation by the researcher, the draft analysed case study findings were submitted to the respective agencies for review and critique. All matters of substance received have been incorporated in the final version. The findings from the two case studies and the cross-case analysis confm that, despite significant advances in some specific agencies, the initial hypothesis that government agencies are still deficient in providing optimum services to meet the information needs of users, is demonstrated. The advances that have been made, however, similarly support the other thesis hypotheses that the implementation of an integrated information management strategy in any government agency will provide a foundation for improved information provision and the timely delivery of relevant available information to the user. Finally, a model of optimum processes involved in such a strategy, derived from the theory and practical products of this study, is offered. This could be the subject for future evaluation and testing for realistic and functional application.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Donizete Leite.pdf: 1198294 bytes, checksum: 73ecdd658bc98f6d2d453c54d2844d4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-29 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / Based on the principle that a broader conceptualization of work may allow us to reach a more comprehensive awareness of what teachers work is (MACHADO, 2008), we analyzed an official educational document of the Government of State São Paulo (Curricular Proposal/2008) and texts written by some teachers of the Public Education Network of this State aiming at contributing to a better understanding of the teaching work. In this context, the general objective of the research is to investigate which constituent elements of the teaching work are constituted as a focus and evaluated in the texts of this official document and in the texts of the participant teachers, for this research may disclose factors that interfere in a significant way in teachers work actions. The analysis of these texts was carried through on the basis of the theoretical principles of ISD (Socio-discursive Interactionism), from a dialogic perspective, where work is seen as a way of acting whose configurations are constructed in language. Results allow us to detect that in the official text teaching work depends only on one of the elements focused by the Proposal, which are offered by its prescribers, while in the texts of the participant teachers we may see that teachers act in function of several constituent elements of their work. Thus, the research shows to be necessary a review of certain conceptions and a multidimensional perspective which give voice to these professionals, so that we may arrive at the improvement of prescriptions and thus contribute for the improvement of education, but also for rescuing the social values implied in the teaching work / Partindo do princípio de que uma conceitualização mais ampliada do trabalho, pode nos levar a uma maior conscientização do que vem a ser o trabalho do professor (Machado, 2008), análises de um documento oficial educacional do Governo do Estado de São Paulo (Proposta Curricular/2008) e de produções textuais de alguns professores da Rede Pública deste Estado foram realizadas em busca de contribuir para uma melhor compreensão do trabalho docente. Neste contexto, o objetivo geral da pesquisa é investigar quais os elementos constitutivos do trabalho docente que são tematizados e avaliados nos textos desse documento oficial e nos textos dos professores- participantes, pois essa investigação pode nos revelar fatores que interferem de forma significativa no agir do professor. A análise desses textos foi realizada com base nos pressupostos teóricos do ISD, em uma perspectiva dialógica, em que o trabalho é visto como uma forma de agir, cujas configurações são construídas na linguagem. Os resultados obtidos permitem detectar que no texto oficial o trabalho docente depende de um dos elementos tematizados na Proposta, o qual é oferecido por seus conceptores, enquanto que os textos dos professores-participantes revelam que o professor age em função de vários elementos constitutivos de seu trabalho. Assim é preciso rever certas concepções e ter um olhar multidimensional , dando voz a esses profissionais, para que se possa chegar à melhoria das prescrições e, assim, não só contribuir para a melhoria do ensino, mas também para o resgate dos valores sociais do trabalho docente

This study investigates differences in approaches to public sector relocation reforms in Denmark and Sweden, using a comparative public administration research design. These countries are both part of a Nordic administrative model, but important differences in their respective administrative traditions exist. Previous research on public sector relocation shows a varying array of arguments and approaches to such reforms used in different European countries over time. Building on the experiences from such research, the study aims to map how public service relocation reforms are conceived and designed. The objects of comparison are a Swedish relocation reform from 2005 and a Danish relocation reform from 2015. The respective approaches in Denmark and Sweden are found to differ on most of the studied variables. Using neo-institutional theory, explanations for these differences, and the few similarities that are found, are attributed to path dependency, mimetic isomorphism, and the internal logic of the reforms themselves. The differences in administrative traditions are not found to have impacted the reforms.

Bulan, Jiří. Je třeba reformovat české zpravodajské služby? Praha, 2011. 101 s. Diplomová práce (Mgr.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut politologických studií. Katedra mezinárodních vztahů. Vedoucí diplomové práce Gen. Ing. Andor Šándor. Abstract The thesis is a comparative analysis of the Czech intelligence system. It is trying to answer how and whether or not to reform the Czech intelligence services on the basis of scholarly articles and especially interviews with current and former intelligence officials and particular politicians. It turned out that among some of the Czech intelligence services and even within those services prevails the tense atmosphere, which had been caused by various personal failings. All the cases were the individual personal excesses, not the system errors. Representatives of the services assesses the ability to detect security threats very critically. The services miss particularly tight government management as well as the independent overview of the service operations. How to improve the intelligence services work? The intelligence community must establish a common vision that will emerge from a deeper internal discussion only. It is not possible to reform the system without it.

政府出版品是探討一國政府施政運作與績效的重要紀錄，也是民眾瞭解政府施政成果的主要憑藉，被視為現代圖書館重要的參考資料之一。此類出版品無論從內容、資料來源、出版及發行等層面來看，都具有相當程度的權威性、時效性、廣泛性及非營利性等特性，可視為國家重要的資產。由於政府出版品具備上述重要特性，使得一國政府能否建立公開、即時且平等的政府資訊傳佈政策，乃成為民主社會發展的重要指標及基本要求之一。從政府出版品管制度層面而言，先進國家對於政府出版品多規劃有「寄存」及「銷售」兩大途徑，作為提供政府出版品的主要服務窗口。 審視美國地區政府出版品聯邦寄存制度建置迄今已擁有百餘年的發展經驗，而我國政府出版品寄存制度初期的規劃藍圖，大體輪廓皆源自於美國的經驗，惟受到國情、社會文化與經濟條件上的差異性，使兩地區在規劃寄存圖書館制度運作策略上仍各有特色，且彼此間具有可比性。因此，為瞭解中美寄存圖書館制度的形成與未來電子寄存服務的發展及角色定位，本研究擬以政府出版品寄存圖書館制度為論述主題，利用比較研究法對中美寄存圖書館制度相關議題，進行深入的比較分析，據以瞭解其制度的發展歷程。 本研究採比較研究法，配合文獻分析法進行。分別運用「描述」、「解釋」、「併排」及「比較」四個主要研究步驟，探討中美兩國政府出版品寄存圖書館制度之發展。主要的研究目的有四：一、分析中美兩國寄存圖書館制度發展的歷史沿革及制度形成之宗旨、任務與功能；二、探討中美寄存圖書館制度運作的相關法源依據、主管機關組織、管理作業運作現況及電子化寄存服務之發展趨勢；三、探討中美政府資訊公開理念及政府出版品著作權的規範現況，對寄存圖書館制度發展之影響；四、比較中美寄存圖書館制度規劃與運作現況之異同與未來發展趨勢，並據以提出對國內未來規劃寄存圖書館制度之具體建議。為達成前述研究目的，研究者分析、報導中美政府出版品寄存圖書館制度之相關文獻後，綜合歸納制度的比較研究結果，提出六項結論暨十項建議，茲分項臚列如下： 一、結論部份 目的在於綜理上述各章所作的現況探討，具體比較中美兩國政府出版品寄存圖書館制度在規劃與現況運作上的差異性、現況發展及趨勢，並歸納提出免費提供政府出版品之寄存圖書館制度，未來仍有其繼續存在的必要性。比較分析的項目分別有： （一） 中美政府出版品寄存圖書館制度之發展歷史； 　（二） 中美政府出版品寄存圖書館制度之相關法源； 　（三） 中美政府出版品寄存圖書館制度管理現況； 　（四） 中美政府資訊公開政策與寄存制度之發展； 　（五） 中美政府出版品電子化寄存服務之發展趨勢； 　（六） 政府出版品寄存圖書館制度之存與廢之探討。 二、建議部份 　（一）積極爭取上級機關重視與經費支援； 　（二）健全政府出版品管理制度法源基礎； 　（三）建立正確的政府資訊利用觀念； 　（四）暢通寄存圖書館制度的溝通與合作管道； 　（五）訂定明確的寄存圖書館作業標準及規範； 　（六）釐清政府出版品著作權的授權與合理使用； 　（七）建構完善的寄存制度績效與評估獎勵模式； 　（八）規劃並建置我國電子化寄存服務環境； 　（九）重視寄存館員在職訓練與服務內涵的提昇； 　（十）強化政府出版品之灰色文獻的整理與利用。