E-government initiatives in developing countries still suffer from lack of interoperability, despite the existence of e-government interoperability frameworks in literature. For example, Uganda's e-government landscape is fragmented within and across agencies. To provide preliminary insights into addressing this, exploratory interviews were conducted to investigate why the e-government interoperability challenge prevails in Uganda, and findings were used with respect to existing literature to specify required strategic interventions. These strategic interventions point to the need for three intertwined capabilities, i.e., a regulatory and governance framework, a capacity building and sustainability framework, and an adaptation and customisation framework for e-government implementations. Therefore, the relevance of this paper is twofold. First, to give insight into strategic interventions that developing economies (that share Uganda's context) can explore to address e-government interoperability. Second, to stimulate researchers in countries that have attained e-government interoperability to publish detailed technical guidelines on implementing the strategic interventions proposed herein.

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Whereas Mobile health is becoming an important form of Information Technology enabled delivery for health care, its adoption and use by healthcare professionals still faces challenges. These include the lack of full understanding of what motivates user acceptance and adoption of mobile health applications. In the past decade, Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology has been used to develop models that help to predict and explain user acceptance and utilization of information technology in general. However, currently no studies are reported that use this theory to explain the adoption and use of mobile health applications in resource constrained environments. This paper presents the results of a study that uses this theory in an attempt to explain acceptance and utilization of the mobile health applications by health care professionals in remote constrained environments. The results confirm that performance expectancy, effort expectancy and disturbance concerns are important considerations to healthcare profeSSionals to adopt mobile health tools especially the mobile phone in Uganda. The results also help to validate the Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

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