If public institutions can gain the required internal support, as well as obtain the needed funding and showcase a positive ROI, then they will be able to readily make improvements that will boost short-term operating efficiencies and facilitate the long-term success. Apart from the numerous challenges that can make it difficult to start a digital transformation initiative in the public sector, the opportunity for greater efficiencies and growth justifies the efforts. Here are 10 benefits of digital transformation in the public sector:
Better ability to meet customer expectations
Increased cross collaboration between departments
Greater agility within IT to meet the business needs
Improved competitive position within the market
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This action cluster is presenting the joint efforts of initiatives across Europe to ensure the following two main objectives:
- Enabling citizens with the tools and opportunities to create and problem-solve and
- Facilitating conversation between stakeholders, so citizens’ voices are not only heard, but instrumental in designing solutions.
The Citizen Focus Action Cluster has identified a list of principles and facilitators for citizen engagement that can be put into practice to smart city projects. These can be viewed as general criteria collected by the diverse pool of projects and engagement strategies represented by the Citizen Focus Action Cluster and the European Parliament.
• Simple - “Aim to facilitate understanding and usage”
In order to grasp citizen’s attention and facilitate the common language between professional and technical from one side, and translating into a language that can be easily understood by the residents, so that they can support them in their daily lives and problems. Vice versa, the ability to understand the complexity implied in voices and concerns expressed by citizens and to transfer it back into urban policy planning as well as technological research and design is also
The reality of today’s world is that ICTs have become an increasing feature in all spheres of our lives be it private or public. The sphere of public administration has not escaped this reality, as the adoption of ICTs in my view has been a creature of policy transfer from the private sector and developed countries.
Direct community engagements for inputs from these groups is important. Through meetings, interviews, surveys, and questionnaires, FNHA should consult the program users and beneficiaries for constructive feedbacks that would shape and better address their vision needs.
allow us to become part of the solutions through knowledge and understanding. Insight to issues.
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2 years ago I facilitated a call to action organising an open meeting to a number of key stakeholders about working towards a Dementia Friendly City, this included the City Council. The Council left feeling inspired but unable to offer any contribution. My role was voluntary with a passion for grass roots community change. As a result many stakeholders have since made small changes within their organisations using an incremental approach and producing revolutionary results. At this stage the Council had not yet contributed to this initiative.
With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s focus on increasing the health IT workforce, nurses with an informatics background will be in high demand in the coming years.
Let us start with a simple question, a definition. What is “digital transformation”? At its most basic level, or at its very core, digital transformation is the use of technology to radically improve the performance of an organisation, and this includes its people.
Sustain the relationships, strategies, and changes at multiple levels, including the individual, group, and institutional levels.
1. These days, many scholars are moving away from use of the term “cyberspace” to describe digital communications and networked environments. Similarly, the inventor of the term, science fiction writer, William Gibson, also warns against the misinterpretation and misuse of the term. What are the reasons behind this view of scholars and Gibson? Explain.
The clock is ticking, the work is piling up, and with only a few hours to go before sunrise you stop and realize that you have just read some fifty pages and absorbed almost nothing. Some would agree when I say that this situation epitomizes one of the common problems of the Net Generation. With the help of the Internet, not only has every aspect of life gotten faster and more efficient, but it has changed the way people process information and perform tasks. In addition, while technology does have its benefits, the extensive use of the internet is affecting the way people think.
Discuss the increasing adoption of digital technologies in the provision of legal services with specific emphasis:
GIS could be able to analyze the area by using various attribute data such as welfare level, land and housing value and other sensitive information. There are some problems either ethical or practical to use GIS as tool to involve the public to find the neighbourhood problems. The problems are about transparency of information and private privacy. Moreover, Managing data would need an expert to organize using GIS. This practice could make disempowerment potential assets in community. However, by using participatory GIS in community based participation could guarantee the accessibility to information (Smith and Miller 2013). It could provide the decision maker supporting data to create planning or project based on the community
When the times get tough, businesses and organizations of all types find themselves challenged to be effective and efficient with their resources. When it comes to the domain of the public sector those that serve a government or nonprofit purpose -- the elements and motivations for achieving such improvements becomes even more important because the resources needed to sustain the organization come under closer scrutiny. Studies on what it takes to "pull the levers" of success in this type of setting can provide clarity for what transformation leaders can do in organizations with the structural elements that let change be a partner in investments.
In today's public sector environment virtually all federal, state and local government use computers. Computerization has streamlined repetitive processes, promoting a more cost effective and efficient use of information technology. " Studies suggest that managers look to information technology to streamline work processes, enable easier access and retrieval of information, provide better products and services, save money by avoiding workforce expansion, speed up transactions and provide better data security."[iii]
At this point you 've heard the "brilliant urban cities" pitch. Our streets will be implanted with sensors, our structures connected to the web of things, our commons observed by cameras and automatons, our urban frameworks recalibrated by constant information on energy, water, atmosphere, transportation, waste and machines. Any day now, our urban areas will be sublimely changed into efficient machines. Be that as it may, it 's not all that simple to see where you and I fit in. Most talk on "smart" and "conscious" cities, in the event that it locations individuals by any stretch of the imagination, concentrates on them as wellsprings of information encouraging the calculations. Once in a while do we consider the purpose of engagement — how individuals interface with, and experience, the city 's operating system?