70% of top public policy programmes offer no course on technology at all.
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What is Digital Era Government?
Get students to recognise what is different about governing in an era filled with pervasive digital technologies.
User-focus & design
Students learn why public servants need to be user-focused, and instructors help them understand when and why to apply design methods to solve problems.
PayIt – City of Toronto's Innovative Digital Transformation or an Accountability Failure?
Explore the competing interests and dilemmas faced in a rapidly evolving digital environment.
StaySafe PH App: An Assessment of the COVID-19 Digital Public Health Response in the Philippines
Examine the development, adoption, and challenges of StaySafe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Short, informal one-hour sessions where educators share how they've taught a class and the materials they used. Free and open to all.
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Wim Vanhaverbeke · Belgium
Wim walks through how to bring digital-era topics into teaching. Full session details to be announced.
Digital-era governance: smart cities and urban innovation
Rajendra Kumar · India
An interdisciplinary look at architecture, urbanism, and governance, drawing on international practice to explore smart cities, sustainable urban design, and digital-era public administration.
Teaching legal tech: building AI prototypes with students
Stefan Weiland · Germany
How a legal tech course gets students building real prototypes, using tools like Bryter to explore how AI can support public administration and legal work.
Leading public problem-solving in the digital age
Tara McGuinness · USA
A walkthrough of teaching user-centered design, data-driven decision-making, and delivery skills for public problem-solving, drawn from a course on leadership in the digital age taught at Georgetown.
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Cristina Martinez Pinto · Mexico
Cristina walks through how she brings digital-era topics into her teaching. Full session details to be announced.
Teaching digital government in a business school
Jonas Bruder · Germany
How Jonas adapts the syllabus for a business administration programme, and what changes when you teach these topics from a management perspective rather than a public policy one.
Who's already teaching
Introducing digital-era skills into public policy courses
Join the professors and educators who have added at least one class on digital or AI to their syllabus this semester.
Dr Owen Parker
Senior Lecturer in European Politics
University of Sheffield, UK
AI governance and the EU AI Act
Manoela Vilela Araújo Resende
Professor
Institute of Education, Development and Research, Brazil
Public Management and Digitalization: The Public Sector in the Digital Age