Delft University of Technology launches Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
about Open Government
While governments all over the world aim to become more open and transparent,
opening governments is a complex and challenging problem. How can
governments become more open and transparent, while simultaneously dealing
with various challenges, such as data sensitivity? How can open government
data be made available to improve public policy making? Which technologies
are available to make governments more open and to use open government data?
We at Delft University of Technology will be teaching a free Massive Open
Online Course (MOOC) about Open Government soon. The MOOC starts on March
14, 2016, and will run for 5 weeks. Enrolment for our MOOC is possible now
via
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This Open Government MOOC is aimed at university students, professionals,
government officials, policy advisors and researchers, but is open to
anyone interested in Open Government. It will help participants grasp the
key principles of open government, and answers questions like: 'What are
the best practices for opening governments? And how to give citizens access
to governmental data to answer their questions?' Most importantly,
participants will apply the topics of the course to concrete cases.
What participants will learn:
* Basic concepts related to Open Government and Open Government
Data
* How to analyze and discuss benefits, barriers and potential
negative effects of a particular open government case and an open government
data case
* How to analyze public values and best practices related to
open government
* How to apply the open government principles in various
situations
* To understand potential negative and positive effects Open
Government might bring to the workplace
This MOOC includes lectures by:
* Prof. Marijn Janssen - Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, Head of ICT section and professor in ICT and governance
* Dr. Anneke Zuiderwijk - Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, Researcher in Open Data and data infrastructures
* Dr. Bastiaan van Loenen - Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, Associate Professor in geo-information and land development
* Dr. Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University, Portugal,
head of United Nations University, Operating Unit on Policy-Driven
Electronic Governance
* Prof. Keith Jeffery, Cardiff University, United Kingdom,
professor in Computer Science & Informatics
* Dr. Amr Ali Eldin, Mansoura University, Egypt, senior lecturer
in Computer Science and Information Technology
Please forward this call to anyone in your network who might be interested
in Open Government. Thank you very much!
Kind regards, on behalf of our Open Government MOOC team, Marijn Janssen and
Anneke Zuiderwijk
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Prof.dr.ir <http://prof.dr.ir/>. Marijn Janssen
Full Professor in ICT & Governance
Head of the ICT section
Co-editor Government Information Quarterly
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Delft University of Technology
Building 31
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Room B3.150 PO Box 5015
2600 GA DELFT
Jaffalaan 5
2628 BX DELFT
the Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (15) 278 1140
Fax: +31 (15) 278 3741
