The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 20% of the total assessment for the course. ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign system provided by Blackboard automatically. Late submission will be penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please note Saturday and Sunday are included in the count of days late. Requests for an extension to an assignment MUST be made to the course coordinator prior to the date of submission and requests made on the day of submission or after the submission date will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. Assignment submission extensions will only be made using the official University guidelines.

Report Format - Your report should be around 2,000 words and it would be best to be no longer than 2,500 words long. The report MUST be formatted using the following guidelines: Title Page – Must not contain headers, footers, or page numbering. Include your name as the report’s author. Header – Report title, Footer – your name and the page number, Paragraph text – 12 point Calibri single line spacing, Headings – Arial in an appropriate type size, Margins – 2.5cm on all margins, Page numbering. Executive summary to the last page of Table of Figures to use roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv). Introduction and onwards to use conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) starting at page 1 from the introduction. The report is to be created as a single Microsoft Word document (version 2007 or later). No other format is acceptable and doing so will result in the deduction of marks.

Referencing - The report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references should follow the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references should be from journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. The use of unqualified references will result in the deduction of marks. Assignment Return and Release of Grades - Assignment grades will be available on the blackboard in two weeks after the submission. Details of marking will also be accessible via online rubrics on the blackboard.

The task of developing an EIA for E-Government would in practice would take a team of IT professionals hundreds of hours to complete. It is acknowledged that your time is constrained to several weeks and approx. 20 hrs work on this assignment, and as such this assignment is not so much about completing it but seeing how far you get. Whole text books have been dedicated to the topic of EIA RA, thus in your discussion of EIA RA you will need firstly to be succinct, and secondly to be selective in describing aspects of EIA RA significant to an E-Government system. It is not expected that you become an expert in E-Government, but it is expected that you demonstrate your research into the field as it pertains to EIA.

As this is a master’s level course, you will be graded on your ability to put forward an argument supported by scholarly articles. Simply regurgitating the text book is not sufficient. There is no correct answer and it is expected that students’ answers will vary greatly. Ensure that you clearly understand the requirements for the assignment – what must be done and what are the deliverables. If you do not understand any of the assignment requirements – Please ASK your tutor. Each time you work on any aspect of the assignment reread the assignment requirements to ensure that what is required is clearly understood.