Educational programs in e-government - An active, practice- and design-oriented network?
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Pirjo Elovaara, Sara Eriksén, Annelie Ekelin, Christina Hansson, Monica E Nilsson, Jeff Winter |
| Title: | Educational programs in e-government - An active, practice- and design-oriented network? |
| Conference name: | 3rd International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2004) |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Pagination: | 457-459 |
| ISBN: | 3-540-22916-7 |
| Publisher: | SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN |
| City: | Zaragoza, SPAIN |
| ISI number: | 000223635100078 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning (Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad) School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tks.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | pirjo.elovaara@bth.se, sara.eriksen@bth.se, annelie.ekelin@bth.se, christina.hansson@bth.se, monica.e.nilsson@bth.se, jeff.winter@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In the autumn of 2004, two higher educational programs in e-government will be starting up at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Southern Sweden. One of these is a Master’s level program, while the other is a more basic, two-year vocational education. Each will be the first of its kind in Scandinavia, and both will be offered as net-based distance education. The interdisciplinary group of researchers/teachers now developing the courses for these educational programs, in co-operation with several other research groups in Scandinavia, see this co-construction of distance education as the beginning of an active Scandinavian network of competence around higher education and ongoing research and development in the e-government area. We are currently exploring the possibilities of using distance education in this area as a way of networking around on-going e-government research and competence enhancement in Scandinavia. The Scandinavian tradition of Participatory Design, as well as ideas about e-government as constantly ongoing co-construction, have inspired us in our work with developing the new educational programs. A reference group consisting of representatives from a number of municipalities and various government agencies plays an important role in this work. |
| Subject: | Human Work Science\Participatory Design Computer Science\Effects on Society Education\General |
| Keywords: | e-government, educational program, participatory design |
| Note: | The conference proceedings from the third international conference EGOV 2004 are published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3183), edited by Roland Traunmüller (ISSN 0302-9743). |
