Design, Implementation, and Management of Digital Government Policies and Strategies

Description

This track aims to provide an opportunity and an open forum for discussion of different technological, socio-political, institutional, legal, and organisational strategies that inform the design, implementation, and management of digital reforms in the public sector. Specifically, this track seeks papers that discuss theories and/or present cases and empirical studies useful to better understand how different digital government policies and/or strategies can lead to successful digital government deployments, or, on the other hand, how different factors may lead to the failure of such projects. Papers which examine or discuss external or contextual factors that affect or influence digital government, such as the political state; organizational culture; institutional factors or normative arrangements are also invited. By digital government action, we mean both macro-level institutional design and micro-level collaboration and competition between diverse stakeholders.

Contributions to literature cover different areas and topics. New and emerging technologies, not to mention new thinking about public administration and government itself, often demand new ways of thinking and innovative approaches to frame these deployments. In the current global society, these new demands become increasingly important. Digital technologies provide in fact new opportunities and challenges for adaptive and agile governance, yet they have also impacted the way by which public administration’s processes and activities are structured and executed. Papers which address these challenges are particularly welcomed this year.

In addition, the minitrack welcomes contributions exploring the issues associated with the design, implementation, and management of policies and strategies that change the nature of the interactions between government and citizens, private sector organizations, and NGOs. Moreover, papers that discuss the political, institutional, regulatory, and organisational implication of the deployment of emerging and disruptive technologies are particularly welcomed.

We invite papers on the following topics, but not limited to:

• Best practices for design, implementation, and management of digital innovation in the public sector.
• Cases of digital government platforms design, implementation, and management
• Design, implementation, and management of interoperability policies: legal, organizational, semantic, and technical layers
• Design, implementation, and management of ICT for development strategies
• Design, implementation, and management of ICT related outsourcing and insourcing in the public sector
• Design, implementation, and management of digital strategies
• Design, implementation, and management of digital transformation in policymaking
• Design, implementation, and management of E-Procurement policies and strategies
• Design, implementation, and management of ICT mediated co-creation and co-production
• Design, implementation, and management of ICT transparency, and accountability
• Design, implementation, and management of privacy and data protection policies and strategies
• Digital by default and its implications
• E-justice and ethics of emerging technologies
• E-Participation and E-democracy policies and strategies
• ICT for efficiency and effectiveness in government action
• Regulatory challenges associated with ICTs deployments
• Public health versus privacy concerns
• Public policy issues in digital government
• Quantitative and qualitative analyse of the impact of digital government policies and strategies
• Socio-political, institutional, organisational, and ethical impacts of disruptive technologies
• Strategies to design, implement, and manage innovative technologies
• Examine the impact of digital technologies on the structure and execution of public administration processes and activities
• Discuss how the external and internal context in public administration and government is shaping digital strategies and deployments
• Impact on the digital mindset on governmental strategies and policies

Minitrack Leaders

Francesco Gualdi, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Department of Management of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is affiliated to the Information System and Innovation research group. He holds a PhD in Enterprise Engineering from Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy. His main research interests cover the areas of ICT adoption in public sector, e-government, digitalization of the Public Administration, impact of technology on policymaking activity. He received a MA in International Public Affairs from LUISS University in Rome, and a MA and a BA in Political Science – International Relations from Bologna University. Prior to the academic career, he served as strategic adviser to the Minister of European Affairs within the Italian Government (2014-2018)

Yueping Zheng earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in the United States. Currently, he holds the position of Associate Professor and Ph.D. advisor at the School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he serves as the Director of the Center for Digital Governance at SYSU and is an active member of the editorial boards for several Chinese academic journals. His research interests encompass digital governance, mobile government, and smart cities. He has published articles in journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Public Management Review, and Administration & Society, among others.

Prof. Dr. Kristina Lemmer holds the Chair in Information Systems for Administrative Science, with a focus on Organisation, Administrative Informatics, and E-Government at Hochschule Bremen (City University of Applied Sciences Bremen). She previously held the Chair in Administrative Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security at Campus Kassel. She serves as a visiting scholar and lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Lower Saxony Institute for Municipal Administration in Hanover, and has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor at Victoria University in Wellington.

Prior to her academic career, she served as Chief Digital Officer for the Lüneburg District and conducted a research stay as visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She holds a Master's degree in Controlling and Risk Management and, following academic stays at Colorado State University (USA) and the University of Georgia (USA), completed her doctorate in digital transformation strategies — specialising in the use of information technologies in private and professional contexts and the development of organisational digitalisation strategies.

Among her flagship projects are the coordination of the research project "Digitalisation Strategies for Municipalities" on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia; the academic supervision of the "Digital Model Regions North Rhine-Westphalia" initiative; the "Joint Digitalisation Initiative Siegen-Wittgenstein" — the first pan-European initiative in which a district joined forces with its cities and municipalities to advance digitalisation collectively — and DIGITALIS in the Lüneburg District.