The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2018, with a theme: “Governance in the data age”. The dg.o 2018 conference will be hosted by Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. Within the scope of the conference, Professor Dr. Ines Mergel, (Dpt of Politics […]

Discussion on co-creation for public administration is quite old. Yet, in case you are just now starting to get acquainted with the concept, we think that a good starting point is the article of Francis Gouillart & Tina Hallett [as published in the Stanford Social innovation Review, Spring 2015 issue]. The authors lead the reader […]

Next Steps for Digital Government: A Six-Point Programme. On March 14th 2018, the Lisbon Council launched “How Local Government Reform is Key to Europe’s Digital Success: A Six-Point Programme for eGovernment Renewal”, an incisive policy brief that proposes a six-step programme for improving public-service delivery throughout Europe. It calls for more direct and systematic collaboration […]

Private sector co-creation initiatives are rarely the same as the ones applied in the public sector. At least this is what F. Gouillart & T. Hallett state, in their 2015 article “Co-Creation in Government”, where they present 4 basic challenges that most co-creation projects, affecting public administration, have to overcome, and how they can achieve […]

On January 31st – February 1st 2018, the Co-VAL project will hold a meeting for discussing the status, plans and next steps with respect to Workpackages WP1, WP4 and WP6 activities, namely, WP1: Developing the conceptual framework for Co-VAL, WP4: Service design for public sector transformation and WP6: Structural transformations, public-private networks and social innovation. […]

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On November 13th-14th 2017, the Co-VAL (Understanding value co-creation in public services for transforming European public administrations) project consortium held its Kick-off meeting. The meeting was hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences at the Scandic Lillehammer Hotel in Lillehammer, Norway. The Co-VAL project is a new European research initiative, co-funded under the H2020 […]