Course 2017-2018 a.y.

30495 - INNOVATION AND BIG DATA FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR


CLEAM - CLEF - CLEACC - BESS-CLES - WBB - BIEF - BIEM - BIG

Department of Social and Political Sciences

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 31
CLEAM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - CLEF (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - CLEACC (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - BESS-CLES (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - WBB (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - BIEF (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - BIEM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07) - BIG (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/07)
Course Director:
MARIA CUCCINIELLO

Classes: 31 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 31: MARIA CUCCINIELLO



Course Objectives

This course aims at providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and implement innovative solutions to public problems by developing and applying analytic frameworks and using big and open data, to define strategies for making government perform better and for increasing public value.

Course Content Summary

  • Understand the landscape of innovating in public sector organizations.
  • Explore emerging issues of open government, open and big data introducing some new practices, and the questions and dilemmas they raise, for people working in public organizations.
  • Understand the way in which data can be used to support transparency and to enhance performance in public sector organizations.
  • Use data to manage smart cities.

Textbooks

Reading materials are made available at the beginning of the course.
Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

Prerequisites

None.
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