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Decision Support Systems and Strategic Public Sector Decision Making in Egypt
Sherif Kamel
Abstract
This paper focuses on the application of decision support systems (DSS) to strategic public sector decision making for socio-economic development. It describes the experience of the Egyptian public sector in socio-economic decision making and the related emergence of an information-based support organisation for government, the Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC). The paper describes a set of decision support system cases, and an issue-based management approach in the design and delivery of these systems. Such cases fall within Egypt's comprehensive plan to introduce and rationalise the use of information technology in various key sectors in the economy. The paper also describes the challenges faced and lessons learned from the DSS cases.
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