Basics of Digital Government Transformation

The "Basics of Digital Government Transformation" programme includes 5 basic courses and 36 modules as follows: The Gov 1.0 course addresses the foundations of digital government, including modules in the following topics: Introduction to electronic government (index, indicators, definitions), Digital Government (OOP, innovation, e-Id, etc.), standardization and interoperability (EIF, EIRA). The Gov 2.0 course focuses o digital governance and engagement, including modules in the following topics: Digital transformation, Open Government and Data, E-Participation (e-consultation 2.0, e-democracy), Service co-creation & Social Media. The Gov 3.0 course encompasses data-driven and evidence-based decision and policy making, including modules like: Big Data, Smart City Government / IoT, Machine Learning/Data Mining and more. Ethics and soft skills: This course includes modules related to Legal Foundations, including international and national laws regulating digital government, Sustainability and societal challenges and Ethics in disruptive technologies. The Entrepreneurship courses will teach you basic knowledge about starting your own business. It will take you through how to organize your ideas, get to know your market and customers and develop products and services.

Provider

• Provider Name: University of the Aegean
• Provider URL: https://www.aegean.edu/
• Provider Description: The University of the Aegean (UAegean) is dedicated to conducting high level research and qualitative teaching on contemporary dynamic study subjects serving the economic and social development of the country, the cohesion of the European area and the values of a universal culture, of which the Archipelagos is an integral part. UAegean aims to introduce new approaches in tertiary education and promote regional development through innovative educational programs and interdisciplinary fields of study and research. The decision to develop in more than one University Units is based on firm strategic and geopolitical criteria.
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Course characteristics

• Who it is aimed at (Target Group): Public Digital Leader
• Short description: Digital transformation characterizes the attempt of modernizing government and public service provisioning through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).
• Teaching objectives & learning outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course must be able to: • know the basic characteristics of the main functions (both operational and policy-making) of public organizations. • understand in depth the key concepts of this area and its generations • understand the ethics and security issues arose from digital transformation of any generation • understand the concepts and models of e-participation and collaborative governance • understand and seek ways of innovation in and entrepreneurship with the public sector (available business models) • know the basic characteristics of the main forms of information systems that have been developed for public organizations • know the basic technologies under digital government 3.0 • know the main actions required for electronic public administration and governance but also the challenges it creates • understand the main models of acceptance and diffusion of technological innovations • understand the basic principles and methods of artificial intelligence - machine learning, ways of utilizing them in public organizations • understand the key levels of interoperability and the basic principals of its achievement (EIF 3.0) • understand the key features and possibilities offered by one-stop virtual e-public services, as well as the challenges and difficulties • understand the structure and possibilities offered by pan-European electronic public administration transaction services
• Keywords: digital government, digital transformation, information systems, generations of e-government, gov3.0, entrepreneurship, exponential technologies
• Difficulty: Advanced
• Duration: 64 hours
• Language: English
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Course access

• Access link (URL) to the course: https://moodle.gov30.eu/course/view.php?id=29
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Certificate of attendance

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• Information on the certificate of attendance: Instructions : With the enrolment in " Basics of Digital Government Transformation " you automatically be enrolled in all 5 other courses needed for the certificate. Upon successful completion of the 5 courses then you can request to issue the Certificate. The certificate will be issued after 30 days since you enrolled in the course " Basics of Digital Government Transformation ". You must complete the courses in the following order: Gov 1.0: Foundations of Digital Government Gov 2.0: Digital Governance and Engagement Gov 3.0: Towards data-driven and evidence-based decision and policy making Ethics and soft skills Entrepreneurship In order to be considered successful and be able to apply for the certificate you must succeed the highest grade 10/10 in all the quizzes. You have up to 5 attempts in each quiz to do it right (provide the right answers), otherwise you can't issue your certificate. Βe careful: there might be more than one correct answer in some quizzes. Your certificate should be issued by you. Please scroll down at the end of the "Overview" in course "Basics of Digital Government Transformation" to find the button. If it is not enabled please check the instructions above.

Copyright

• Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
• Date: 23-12-2023

Contributors

• Name of contributors/teacher(s): Yannis Charalabidis, Charalampos Alexopoulos
• More info about contributors/teacher(s): This MOOC is coordinated by UAEGEAN. It has received funding from the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance, Project Reference No. 588306-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-KA. The consortium comprises of the following contributing partners: United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV); Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Danube University Krems) - DUK; Singular Logic Cyprus Ltd. (SILO); National E-Government Kompetenzzentrum (NEGZ); The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl (Lisbon Council); UNIVERSITETET I AGDER / Agder University (UiA); PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Solutions SA - PwC.
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