Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación

Digital Government and Development –

Principles, Practice and Research

LECTURER:    Tomasz Janowski
             Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
             Danube University Krems, Austria

AIM:

How digital technologies are used by government organizations?
How such technology use transforms government into digital government?
How digital government can generate public value and contribute to development?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. How is digital technology transforming government organizations?
2. How is digital technology transforming the relationships between government and citizens?
3. How is digital technology transforming the entire public governance systems?
4. How to manage the emerging versus planned technology-enabled change?
5. How to align technology-enabled change with government reform efforts?
6. How to align technology-enabled change with public policy and development objectives?
7. How to adapt Digital Government to respond to the circumstances of the local and sectoral contexts?
8. How to measure the performance and progress with development of Digital Government?
9. What is the dark side of the impact of Digital Government and how to control it?
10. What are the trends and predictions in the evolution of Digital Government?
11. What are the pertinent open research questions in the Digital Government domain?
12. What research methods are being used to address such questions?
13. What is the importance/role of the national/international policy context in conducting such research?
14. What role project context and interaction with practice plays in Digital Government research?

STRUCTURE

1. Introduction to Digital Government
2. Digital Government Evolution
3. Digital Government Measurement
4. Digital Government Infrastructure and Services
5. Digital Government and Organizational Change
6. Digital Government and Electronic Participation
7. Digital Government and Sustainable Development
8. Digital Government and Smart Cities
9. Digital Government Research

MODALITIES
Face-to-face lectures
Group discussions
Team presentations
Research paper presentation and discussion