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Books by Okey Uzoechina
Future Governance: The Internet, Vulnerability, Social Change, and State-Society Relationship in Nigeria , 2019
In our brave new world of ultra-high-speed, seamless interconnectivity of bandwidth, ideas, peopl... more In our brave new world of ultra-high-speed, seamless interconnectivity of bandwidth, ideas, peoples, finance, resources, goods and services, nearly anything is possible in cyberspace. Processes of government and governance are not spared in the global move towards digitization and the Internet of Things. Recent events in Nigeria irrefutably point to the fact that the cyber-enabled surge in citizen consciousness and explosion of virtual spaces for citizen engagement inspire and incite needed change by making increasing demands on transparency, accountability, responsiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and creative problem-solving.
Future Governance shines a light on the shifting dynamics of governance in Nigeria, how the internet enables the shift, and the role of the Nigerian youth in shaping the future. Part A maps likely future scenarios of social change and state-society relationship in the next 15-30 years, indicating the drivers of change and what needs to be done now to prepare for the future. Part B addresses the growing importance of cyberspace, privacy and data protection, the link between cyberspace and governance, and why we must make our cyberspace more secure now and for the future.
100% revenue from all book sales, donations and contributions will go to supporting EduTrust Foundation https://www.edutrust.org.ng, a social enterprise committed to transforming the education sector and expanding access to quality and inclusive education (SDG4).
Cascades: 20 Poems for 20 Years, 2019
Cascades is published in commemoration of 20 years since the author, Okey Uzoechina, started writ... more Cascades is published in commemoration of 20 years since the author, Okey Uzoechina, started writing poetry. The collection covers a rainbow of emotions; in it you will find love and beauty, hope and faith, joy and wonder, and soul searching. Enjoy the reading and absorb the blessings.
Okey Uzoechina started writing poetry in at age 18, in his first year at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus. That early start helped him develop a unique voice, a reflective outlook, and a distinctive flowing style. Over time, his writing has evolved to become more or less unencumbered by the fixations of any genre or the expectations of any audience.
100% revenue from all book sales, donations and contributions will go to supporting EduTrust Foundation https://www.edutrust.org.ng, a social enterprise committed to transforming the education sector and expanding access to quality and inclusive education (SDG4).
Papers by Okey Uzoechina
Research Problem: Conceptual Clarification Due to the increased focus on dysfunctional states sin... more Research Problem: Conceptual Clarification Due to the increased focus on dysfunctional states since the 9/11 attacks, sundry development agencies, academic think-tanks, policy makers and government departments have sought to better understand the phenomenon of state fragility in order to develop policies to address it. Sadly, this has led to a muddling up of the concept resulting in what might now be described as terminological chaos. Thus, adjectives like weak, failing, failed, collapsed, vulnerable, quasi, recovering, inter alia, have been used to describe different degrees of fragility. 1 The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID), the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI), the United States' Political Instability Task Force, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) have employed sui generis terms like Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS), complex political emergencies, difficult partnerships, and political instability to indicate their policy thrust. A corollary of this obsession of branding fragile states with catchy and newsworthy labels is the tendency to lump fragile states together for standard treatment. 2 Such branding has also been deprecated as a distraction from concrete challenges of crisis response and post-conflict reconstruction. 3 1 In an attempted taxonomy of failed states, Jean-Germain Gros placed them in five categories: anarchic, phantom, anaemic, captured, and aborted. See: Gros (1996) 2 Picciotto, et al. (2005), p. 8 3 Patrick & Brown (2007), p. 129 8 The new ECOWAS Strategic Vision seeks to gives effect to this principle of "supranationality", tracing its mandate to the peoples as opposed to states of West Africa, thereby seeking to bypass sovereign national walls to make ECOWAS decisions directly applicable in member states. See: § 4, ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework (ECPF) approaches to the study of state fragility all address different fragments of the
Future Governance: The Internet, Vulnerability, Social Change, and State-Society Relationship in Nigeria , 2019
In our brave new world of ultra-high-speed, seamless interconnectivity of bandwidth, ideas, peopl... more In our brave new world of ultra-high-speed, seamless interconnectivity of bandwidth, ideas, peoples, finance, resources, goods and services, nearly anything is possible in cyberspace. Processes of government and governance are not spared in the global move towards digitization and the Internet of Things. Recent events in Nigeria irrefutably point to the fact that the cyber-enabled surge in citizen consciousness and explosion of virtual spaces for citizen engagement inspire and incite needed change by making increasing demands on transparency, accountability, responsiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and creative problem-solving.
Future Governance shines a light on the shifting dynamics of governance in Nigeria, how the internet enables the shift, and the role of the Nigerian youth in shaping the future. Part A maps likely future scenarios of social change and state-society relationship in the next 15-30 years, indicating the drivers of change and what needs to be done now to prepare for the future. Part B addresses the growing importance of cyberspace, privacy and data protection, the link between cyberspace and governance, and why we must make our cyberspace more secure now and for the future.
100% revenue from all book sales, donations and contributions will go to supporting EduTrust Foundation https://www.edutrust.org.ng, a social enterprise committed to transforming the education sector and expanding access to quality and inclusive education (SDG4).
Cascades: 20 Poems for 20 Years, 2019
Cascades is published in commemoration of 20 years since the author, Okey Uzoechina, started writ... more Cascades is published in commemoration of 20 years since the author, Okey Uzoechina, started writing poetry. The collection covers a rainbow of emotions; in it you will find love and beauty, hope and faith, joy and wonder, and soul searching. Enjoy the reading and absorb the blessings.
Okey Uzoechina started writing poetry in at age 18, in his first year at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus. That early start helped him develop a unique voice, a reflective outlook, and a distinctive flowing style. Over time, his writing has evolved to become more or less unencumbered by the fixations of any genre or the expectations of any audience.
100% revenue from all book sales, donations and contributions will go to supporting EduTrust Foundation https://www.edutrust.org.ng, a social enterprise committed to transforming the education sector and expanding access to quality and inclusive education (SDG4).
Research Problem: Conceptual Clarification Due to the increased focus on dysfunctional states sin... more Research Problem: Conceptual Clarification Due to the increased focus on dysfunctional states since the 9/11 attacks, sundry development agencies, academic think-tanks, policy makers and government departments have sought to better understand the phenomenon of state fragility in order to develop policies to address it. Sadly, this has led to a muddling up of the concept resulting in what might now be described as terminological chaos. Thus, adjectives like weak, failing, failed, collapsed, vulnerable, quasi, recovering, inter alia, have been used to describe different degrees of fragility. 1 The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID), the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI), the United States' Political Instability Task Force, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) have employed sui generis terms like Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS), complex political emergencies, difficult partnerships, and political instability to indicate their policy thrust. A corollary of this obsession of branding fragile states with catchy and newsworthy labels is the tendency to lump fragile states together for standard treatment. 2 Such branding has also been deprecated as a distraction from concrete challenges of crisis response and post-conflict reconstruction. 3 1 In an attempted taxonomy of failed states, Jean-Germain Gros placed them in five categories: anarchic, phantom, anaemic, captured, and aborted. See: Gros (1996) 2 Picciotto, et al. (2005), p. 8 3 Patrick & Brown (2007), p. 129 8 The new ECOWAS Strategic Vision seeks to gives effect to this principle of "supranationality", tracing its mandate to the peoples as opposed to states of West Africa, thereby seeking to bypass sovereign national walls to make ECOWAS decisions directly applicable in member states. See: § 4, ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework (ECPF) approaches to the study of state fragility all address different fragments of the