KAY465 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Academic Year and Term: 2023 - 2024, Fall

Course Code and Title: KAY465 Information Technology in Public Administration

Instructor: Associated Professor Dr. Doğan Nadi Leblebici

Office Hours: Anyone can get appointment by e-mail: nadi@hacettepe.edu.tr

Scope of the Course: The course aims at establishing a conscious understanding on how information technologies be effective and increase productivity in public service delivery. In this context, information technologies (IT) are explained and IT applications in management/ administration and e-bureaucracy in public administration are discussed.

Basic Requirements: Regularly attendance and participation in the class are considered two very important aspects of learning process by the instructor. There will be one performance homework and one final exams.

Contribution of Each Class Activity to the Final Grade:

40 % Mid-Term Exam

60 % Final Exam –Attention ! 50 percent of final exam is necessary for getting a pass grade.

Required* and Reccomended Course Reading Material:

Ackoff, Russell (1967) Management Misinformation Systems, Management Science Vol. 14, No.4, pp. 319-331.*

Ackoff, Russell (1971) Towards A System of Systems Concepts, Management Science Vol. 17, No.11, July 197, pp. 661-71.*

Bozeman, Barry ve S. Brestschneider (1986) Public Management Information Systems: Theory and Prescription, Public Administration Review, Special Issue: 475-487.*

Brestschneider, Stuart (1990) Management Information Systems in Public and Private Organizations: An Empirical Test Public Administration Review, Sept.-Oct.: 536-545.*

Duncan, George T, Stephen F. Roehrig (2003) Mediating the Tension between Information Privacy and Information Access: The Role of Digital Government, in Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues (Ed. David Garson), Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp.94-119.*

Fountain, Jane (2001) Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change, Washington DC: Brookings Institute. *

Grafton, Carl, Anne Permaloff (2003) Computer Tools for Better Public Sector Management, in Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues (Ed. David Garson), Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp.190-220.*

Prysby, Charles L., Nicole D. Prysby (2003) Electronic Mail in the Public Workplace: Issues of Privacy and Public Disclosure, in Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues (Ed. David Garson), Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp.271-298.*

Rocheleau, Bruce (2003) Politics, Accountability and Governmental Information Systems, in Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues (Ed. David Garson), Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp.20-52.*

Schedule

WEEK(1): Introduction: Public systems and how IT effects public administration

WEEK(2): Software widely used in public administration

WEEK(3): Politics, accountability, and governmental information systems

WEEK(4): Digital government (e-government)

WEEK(5): Computer tools for better public administration

WEEK(6): Matter of privacy in e-government applications

WEEK(7): Information system design

WEEK(8): Functional aspects of information systems in public administration

WEEK(9): Problematic aspects of IT use in public administration

WEEK(10): Legal aspects of IT use in public administration

WEEK(11): Public web services

WEEK(12): Future of IT use in public administration

WEEK(13): Discussion

WEEK(14): General evaluation