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Open and Smart Government
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to Open Government
Introduction to the foundations and objectives of Open Government, including its meaning, ICT-developments that influence(d) Open Government and stakeholders of Open Government.
Week 2. Opening and reusing government data
An introduction to concepts related to Open Government Data (e.g. a definition of Open Government Data, using open data for policy making, and open data portals and infrastructures) and to benefits, barriers and potential negative effects of open government data cases.
Week 3. Technical and judicial aspects of governmental information sharing
A discussion of real open government cases and an analysis and discussion of benefits, barriers and potential negative effects of open government cases, including technological and judicial aspects (e.g. metadata and technologies for linking big and open data).
Week 4. Open government and public values and conclusions
An analysis and discussion of public values and best practices related to open government. In this week we also discuss transparency and privacy in the context of open government.
Week 5. Exam
In this week, students complete their final assignment and exam.
Prerequisite
Basic knowledge of information and communication technology Basic knowledge of multi-actor systems
Instructors
Marijn Janssen
Professor in ICT
Delft University of Technology
Anneke Zuiderwijk
Assistant Professor in Open Data
Delft University of Technology
Tomasz Janowski
Professor
Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Ricardo Matheus
Lecturer of Rapid Prototyping and data Science
Delft University of Technology
Bastiaan van Loenen
Associate Professor
Delft University of Technology
Iryna Susha
Postdoctoral Researcher
Örebro University
Gabriela Viale Pereira
Senior Scientist
Donau-Universität Krems
Amr Ali Eldin
Scientific Faculty
Leiden University
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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