scholarly journals To do more, better, faster and more cheaply: using big data in public administration

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 120-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Maciejewski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Acceleration ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Predictive Approaches

Big data have become a game-changer for modern public administration in those areas in which they are used. Although their application is still limited in the public sector, their use develops dynamically in areas where they bring tangible results in terms of efficiency and efficacy. This article presents the concept of big data, outlines the possibilities for using big data in the public sector and methods of their utilization, highlights cases where these have been implemented, along with the results. This article discusses applications of big data methods in public policy design and implementation and in public authority internal management. It includes a summary of the benefits, disadvantages and challenges related to utilization of big data. The article also briefly addresses historical, current and predictive approaches. Research was carried out using internet-based case analysis and is limited by the confidentiality of details relating to big data methods. Although the research has had to be limited to publicly available descriptions, the findings make it possible to understand the big data phenomenon in public administration and to draw general lessons from their use. Points for practitioners Big data is a contemporary phenomenon. Properly utilized it brings astonishingly positive outcomes for public administration in terms of its efficacy, efficiency, and overall client satisfaction. These benefits are a result of significant increase in the accuracy of decision-making, a significant acceleration of performance of internal the ‘information task’ and a significant reduction in operating costs related to the decision-making process. This is possible thanks to the digitization of human life and IT developments applied in a specific way for public administration – the way of big data methods where huge amounts of data are processed in a form of reasoning by powerful IT technology to present information that helps public administration to better perform its task.

scholarly journals Big Data in the public sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (72) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Lucía Bellocchio
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public

There is no doubt that one of the most obvious and far-reaching derivations of the Internet and global interconnection through the network is the enormous volume of information to which we have access. It is in this context that the so-called "Big Data" appears, exposing us to great changes in the different areas of our lives, proposing scenarios that point to open governments, transparency and greater closeness to citizens. However, there are many challenges that this new reality poses on Public Administration and there appears not to be unique strategies or models for its implementation. The aim of this work is to review some of the most important concepts that are involved in this era of Big Data in the public sector. 

scholarly journals Big Data and Algorithms in the Public Sector and Their Impact on the Transparency of Decision-Making

2018 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Gergely László Szὄke
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Use

Big Data is clearly one of the most used buzzwords nowadays, but it really seems that the phenomenon of Big Data will have a huge effect on many different fields, and may be regarded as the new wave of the information revolution started in the 60s of the last century. The potential of exploiting Big Data promises significant benefits (and also new challenges) both in the private and the public sector – this essay will focus on this latter. After a short introduction about Big Data, this paper will first sum up the potential use of Big Data analytics in the public sector. Then I will focus on a specific issue within this scope, namely, how the use of Big Data and algorithm-based decision-making may affect transparency and access to these data. I will focus on the question why the transparency of the algorithms is raised at all, and what the current legal framework for the potential accessibility to them is.

“GOVERNMENT AS A PLATFORM” IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.S. DENISOV
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
The World

The article is devoted to the modern concept of government as a platform, it reveals its essence, principles, conditions of implementation and advantages. The emergence of the concept is associated with the process of digital transformation going on in the leading countries of the world. The author concludes that in the course of its implementation a state platform comes into existence on which the public sector cooperates with partners from the private sector and citizens. The author demonstrates that the prospects for cooperation are expanded, the provision of public services becomes more efficient, safe and fast and an effective mechanism for decision-making and public administration is created.

MEASURES FOR PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN R. MACEDONIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1919-1923
Author(s):  
Tatijana Ashtalkoska-Baloska ◽  
Aleksandra Srbinovska-Doncevsk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
The Republic

A number of abuses of power and position, daily committed for acquisition of unlawful profit, beyond of permitted and envisaged legal jobs, starting from the lowest level, to the so-called, daily corruption, which most often is related to existential needs and it acts harmless, not even grow into another form, to one that uses such profits as the main motive for generating huge illegal gains for a longer period of time, by exploiting and abusing high social position, corruption in public sector, but today already in private sector too, are part of corruption in the broadest sense, embracing all its forms, those who do not enter in zone of punishment and those who means committing of serious crime. It has many forms, but due to focusing on a particular problem, as a better way to contribute a solution, this paper will focus on the analysis of corruption in the public administration in the Republic of Macedonia, and finding measures for its prevention and reduction, which we hope will give a modest contribution to its real legal protection, not only in declarative efforts in some new strategy for its prevention and suppression.

scholarly journals Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Anne Vorre Hansen ◽  
Ines Mergel ◽  
Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Elusive Concept

The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding of its versatile nature. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiple dimensions of living labs, this article provides a review assessing how the environments, methods and outcomes of living labs are addressed in the extant research literature. The findings are drawn together in a model synthesizing how living labs link to public sector innovation, followed by an outline of knowledge gaps and future research avenues.

Moving On Up? Effects of Leadership Training and Intersectoral Mobility on Women’s Advancement in Danish Public Administration Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734371X2110548
Author(s):  
Müge Kökten Finkel ◽  
Caroline Howard Grøn ◽  
Melanie M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Public Managers

Women’s underrepresentation in middle and upper management is a well-documented feature of the public sector that threatens performance and legitimacy. Yet, we know far less about the factors most likely to reduce these gender inequalities. In this article, we focus on two well-understood drivers of career advancement in public administration: leadership training and intersectoral mobility. In theory, training in leadership and experience across government levels and policy areas should help both women and men to climb management ranks. We use logistic regression to test this proposition using a representative sample of 1,819 Danish public managers. We find that leadership training disproportionately benefits women, and this helps to level the playing field. However, our analyses show that differences in intersectoral mobility do not explain the gender gap in public sector management.

scholarly journals Accounting and the post-new public management

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ileana Steccolini
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Sector Accounting

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect various pathways for public sector accounting and accountability research in a post-new public management (NPM) context. Design/methodology/approach The paper first discusses the relationship between NPM and public sector accounting research. It then explores the possible stimuli that inter-disciplinary accounting scholars may derive from recent public administration studies, public policy and societal trends, highlighting possible ways to extend public sector accounting research and strengthen dialogue with other disciplines. Findings NPM may have represented a golden age, but also a “golden cage,” for the development of public sector accounting research. The paper reflects possible ways out of this golden cage, discussing future avenues for public sector accounting research. In doing so, it highlights the opportunities offered by re-considering the “public” side of accounting research and shifting the attention from the public sector, seen as a context for public sector accounting research, to publicness, as a concept central to such research. Originality/value The paper calls for stronger engagement with contemporary developments in public administration and policy. This could be achieved by looking at how public sector accounting accounts for, but also impacts on, issues of wider societal relevance, such as co-production and hybridization of public services, austerity, crises and wicked problems, the creation and maintenance of public value and democratic participation.

scholarly journals A Framework for Results Based Management to The Public Sector in Egypt:Challenges and Opportunities

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Wael Omran Aly
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Third World ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
National Development ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Effective Development

Abstract:After the Second World War, the newly emerged independent third world countries faced immense problems such as poverty, illiteracy, poor health, low agriculture and industrial productivity and social instability. The idea of development administration was born with the above-stated pragmatic concern. Since then, third world countries strived to adopt development administration principles and techniques; in order to transform their conventional traditional public administration into modern development administration that can lead the prospective development.Such conventional public administration deals with regulatory aspects of administration such as law and order, judicial administration and revenue collection, development administration is concerned with the socio-economic developmental activities. Thus, traditional public administration is structure-oriented while developmental administration is action- oriented. Many third world countries failed in realizing such desired shift by converting its conventional public administration to effective development administration; able to achieve the intended national development via the formulation and the implementation of plans, policies, programs and projects necessary for sustainable development purposes. Such bad governance had led the people to go up against such government; as it happens lately in some Arab countries like Egypt and Tunisia.Therefore, the public sector in Egypt need to be deregulated, a new results-based management is a must; to hold managers accountable. This is a fundamental change: holding managers accountable for what they do, not how they do it. The public sector reform initiatives (especially the New Public management –NPM) have resulted in changing the accountability concept; from accountability in terms of procedural compliance to accountability in terms of efficiency and results (effectiveness and cost effectiveness).  

Framing Information Technology Governance in the Public Sector: Opportunities and Challenges

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalifa Al-Farsi ◽  
Ramzi EL Haddadeh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
It Governance ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technology Governance ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Information Technology Governance ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Information technology governance is considered one of the innovative practices that can provide support for decision-makers. Interestingly, it has become increasingly a de facto for organizations in seeking to optimise their performance. In principle, information technology governance has emerged to support organizations in the integration of information technology (IT) infrastructures and the delivery of high-quality services. On the other hand, decision-making processes in public sector organisations can be multi-faceted and complex, and decision makers play an important role in implementing technology in the public sector. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on current opportunities and challenges that IT governance is experiencing in the context of public sector services. In this respect, this paper examines the factors influencing the decision-making process to fully appreciate IT governance. Furthermore, this study focuses on combining institutional and individual perspectives to explain how individuals can take decisions in response to institutional influences.

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