Technology and Public Management

This textbook is designed for students of public affairs at every level who need to know and understand how technology can be applied in today's public management workplace. The book explores the latest trends in public management, policy, and technology and focuses on best practices on governance issues.

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management require a strong foundation in how government and NGOs are connected with information technology. Whether simplifying internal operations, delivering public-facing services, governing public utilities, or conducting elections, public administrators must understand these technological tools and systems to ensure they remain effective, efficient, and equitable. This innovative textbook is designed for students of public affairs at every level who need to know and understand how technology can be applied in today's public management workplace. The book explores the latest trends in technology, providing real-life examples about the need for policies and procedures to safeguard technology infrastructure while providing greater openness, participation, and transparency.

In Technology and Public Management, Second Edition, author Alan Shark informs, engages, and directs students to consider best practices, with new material on emerging technology, data management and analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. This thoroughly updated second edition explores:

• A broad range of technologies on which government, nonprofit partners, and citizens depend upon to deliver important infrastructure, including security, education, public health and personal healthcare, transit and transportation, culture and commerce.
• Growing mistrust in government, and the role technology can play in ameliorating it.
• Emerging and adapted technologies to help government achieve ambitious goals, including drawing carbon out of the atmosphere, empowering students everywhere to learn effectively at home or at school, improving healthcare, providing affordable housing, enabling agriculture to keep pace with population growth, and improving scores of other public services.

• The critical insights and management skills needed to argue for investments in information technology as necessary priorities for our public organizations to improve public services and resources. This reader-friendly and jargon-free textbook is required for students enrolled in public administration and nonprofit management programs, as well as for practicing public administrators looking for a better understanding of how technology may be successfully and responsibly used in public organizations. It is equally valuable as a text for MBA studies, social work, education, public health, and other degree programs that produce graduates who will work with and within those organizations that deliver public services.

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Alan R. Shark is an Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. He also serves as the Vice President of Public Sector and Executive Director of the CompTIA Public Technology Institute. He is well-recognized as an author, lecturer, and speaker on technology developments and applications for most of his distinguished career. Dr. Shark's experience both balances and embraces the business, government, education, and technology sectors. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), where he is the chair of the Academy's Standing Panel on Technology Leadership. He is also a Fellow of the Radio Club of America (RCA), and Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He is the recipient of the prestigious National Technology Champion Award from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. Dr. Shark holds a Doctorate in Public Administration (DPA) from the University of Southern California, USA.

Inhalt

1. Contemporary Trends in Public Administration and Technology 2. Governance and Leading InnovationWho decides? 3. E-government and Digital Government: The Rise of the New Civic Media 4. Broadband, Mobility, and the InternetPolicies and Technology 5. The Data FactorTransparency, Reform, and Improved Data-Driven Decisions 6. Managing Knowledge and Data Management 7. Geospatial Systems and PlanningMapping and Visualizing the Future 8.Managed Software, Hardware, and Shared ServicesOnce Upon a Cloud 9. Assessing and Measuring IT Performance 10. CybersecurityUnderstanding and Managing Risk 11. The People FactorManaging the Human Resource Function in a Technology Environment 12. Ethics and Digital Equity 13. Nonprofit Technology Management 14. Future ChallengesArtificial Intelligence, Robotics, Privacy, Public Trust