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An investigation of electronic government transition case study in health: Hospitals in Erbil
(2013) Jamel, Ahmed Abdulrahman M.
Electronic government initiatives and public participation to them are among the indicators of today's development criteria of the countries. After consequent two wars, Iraq's current position in, for example, UN's e-government ranking is quite concerning and did not improve in recent years, either. In the preparation of this work, we are motivated with the fact that handling geographic data of the public facilities and resources are needed in most of the e-government projects; such examples are reported to the literature. Geographical information systems (GIS) provide most common tools not only to manage spatial data but also to integrate such type of data with nonspatial attributes of the features. With this background, this thesis proposes that establishing a working GIS in the health sector of Iraq would improve e-government applications. As the case study, investigating hospital locations in Erbil is chosen. The results show that setting up a GIS in Erbil does not require extreme technical knowledge; however, a strong limitation that obtaining clean and up-to-date data is an important concern. Although it is possible to establish a GIS in this sector, the starting point should not be acquiring hardware and software but to collect clean data from the field and to ensure that the data gets updated timely. Keywords: e-government, Iraq, Erbil, GIS, spatial data, hospital locations
The benefits and potential implementation problems of GIS in the water distribution services of municipalities case study: The Kirkuk Water Directorate
(2012) Ali, Suha Aziz
A potential implementation of geographic information systems (GIS) in Kirkuk Water Directorate is evaluated at a preliminary level. Selected literature has been surveyed and it is perceived that there are municipalities of smaller, bigger and same sizes which have successfully setup GIS in their water distribution departments for asset management, real time monitoring and hydraulic modeling in there services . Such works report success stories in managing their network as well as pinpointing malfunctioning segments due to problems such as leak, blowout or broken pumps. This research targeted to reveal potential problems that Kirkuk Water Directorate can face while transforming paper based records into digital environment for a prospective GIS. While the literature survey has provided reports of successful applications, any potential problem that Kirkuk Water Directorate can face could be only inferred from them. Hence, to experience GIS software and data preparation, a GIS course has been followed by the researcher. The researcher has also contacted key informants who have actively worked in Ankara?s water distribution department during the rehabilitation of its GIS. By this way, potential problems could be identified. Investigations have been done over sample files of map sheets shared by the Kirkuk Water Directorate and it is seen that potential problems can be solved by a data operator who has attended a basic GIS course. Both the literature and investigation results show that preparing spatial and non-spatial databases of assets is the start of a productive GIS. Before increasing data quality, building a hydraulic model is almost impossible and setting up a real time monitoring system is quite difficult. It is also found that organizational changes such as in business rules could be necessary as frequent field trips will be needed with the GIS staff to check assets in use. It is expected that this research will be beneficial for the municipality of Kirkuk to manage resources in implementing GIS for it is anticipated to start financial feasibility works under this topic

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