Author: Dieter Zirnig

EGOV-CeDEM-ePART 2018: Keynote Tomasz Janowski

“From Digital Government to Cognitive Government” was the Keynote from Tomasz Janowski:

5 questions to Tomasz Janowski with Noella Edelmann

Tomasz Janowski
Head of Department of Applied Informatics in Management Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Visiting Professor at Danube University Krems, Austria Switzerland

Tomasz Janowski is the Head of Department of Applied Informatics in Management at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Visiting Professor at Danube University Krems, Austria; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly, Elsevier. Previously, he was Visiting Professor at University of Lugano, Switzerland and University of Minho, Portugal. During 2004-2016, he founded and directed a digital government program at the United Nations University. Operating from China and Portugal, the program conducted activities in 61, mostly developing countries. During 2007-2017, he founded and coordinated 10 editions of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. He also carried out multiple projects for Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission, IDRC, ITU, Macao Foundation, Microsoft, OSCE, UNDP, UNESCO and the World Bank, and for governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America. His research, policy and education work focus on Digital Government and Development Informatics.

EGOV-CeDEM-ePART 2018 Summary

EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 represented the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference was held annually, and was hosted 3-5 September 2018 at the Danube University Krems in Austria.

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EGOV-CeDEM-ePART 2018: Keynote Sabine Juninger – Inquiring, Inventing, and Integrating

“Inquiring, Inventing, and Integrating: Applying Human‐Centered Design to the Challenges of Future Government” was the Keynote Sabine Juninger:

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Sabine Juninger
Head of Competence Center for Research into Design & Management Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Design & Art Switzerland

Sabine Junginger is an internationally recognized expert on human-centered design in organizations and management. She studies how policy-makers and public managers employ design thinking, design processes, design practices and design methods when they develop and implement public policies and public services. She serves and has served on a number of advisory boards related to government and public sector innovation, including Mindlab (Denmark), and GovDesign (Australia), GovLAB (Austria), Dataport (Germany) and WITI (Germany). She is Research Fellow of the Hertie School of Governance (Germany); Academic Advisor to the European Forum Alpbach (Austria) and member of the Research Committee of the Free University Bozen (Italy). Previous academic positions include Lecturer and founding member of ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University (UK) and Associate Professor, the Kolding School of Design, Denmark. She is also a founding member and chair of the initiative Politics for Tomorrow, Berlin.

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EGOV-CeDEM-ePART 2018: Keynote Wolfgang Drechsler

Look further than the western public administration.
“Estonia has turned its government into a website” – but this is not true. EE is not a world leader, it is doing very well, but it is not number 1. Important from drawing lessons.

Number one is part of the malayian peninsula (Singapore)
Why does Estonia oversell? The push-pull factors, not only what you are saying, but what people want to hear.

5 questions to Wolfgang Drechsler with Noella Edelmann

Wolfgang Drechsler
Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation & Governance (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. He has been advisor to the President of Estonia, Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, and, as an APSA Congressional Fellow, Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. His areas of interest include Public Administration, Technology, and Innovation; Non-Western Public Administration, especially Confucian and Buddhist, and Public Management Reform generally, as well as e-Governance, Municipal Autonomy, and Academic Administration.

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EGOV-CeDEM-ePART 2018: Keynote Bill Dutton

Bill Dutton starts with the story by Martha Payne, a 9-year old changed food policy in British schools – internet can impact institutions.

The role of the internet is always changing, at the moment the Internet is seen as empowering institutions. It is not technological determination but it does help change – e.g. access to information. It is about reconfiguring access to information, people, services and technology; it is a power shift.

Bill considers the constantly changing role of the internet, that at the moment is seen as empowering institutions. Whilst we should not see it as technological determination, the internet does help change – e.g. by providing access to information. It is about reconfiguring access to information, people, services and technology; it is a power shift.

He presents the known 4 estates, clergy (experts, public intellectuals), nobility (business, industry, and internet industrial elites), commons (government), press, mob (civil society, networked individuals); he adds the fifth, which includes bloggers, whistle-blowers and other individuals that improve government and governance – reshaping and improving the institutions. Not every internet user is the 5th estate – it is those users who use the internet “strategically”,– often younger, urban, and from a minority.

5 questions to Bill Dutton with Noella Edelmann

Bill Dutton
College of Communication Arts & Sciences (Michigan State University, USA)

William H. Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the Department of Media and Information, College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California. He is also the recipient of the International Communication Association’s (ICA) first Fred Williams’ award for contributions to the study of communication and technology, the William F. Ogburn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2014, was named an ICA Fellow in 2015, and received an Endowed Faculty Medallion from MSU in 2017.