Wanted: Research fellow in Public Administration, Public Policy, Management or related Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” of Milan seeks for an enthusiastic Research Fellow to join their team working on «Co-VAL: Understanding Value Co-Creation in Public Services for Transforming European Public Administrations», an EU H2020 project. The contract’s duration is set to 24 months and the […]

Two 50% positions on digital transformation and innovation labs are now open! The Department of Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz will offer two half-day positions as academic employee (salary group 13 TV-L) for a period of 2 years. Applicants are required to own an academic degree with an excellent master’s degree […]

RESER is an interdisciplinary European network of social scientists linked by a common interest in service industries and their territorial expression. The annual RESER research conference provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of ideas concerning the cutting edge of service research and is open to all researchers interested in these topics.  The in Gothenburg […]

During last August, the 13th biennial Norddesign Conference was held in Linköping, Sweden. Norddesign is a biennial Nordic conference, covering design, design engineering and design education in its full width. Topics include engineering, manufacturing, aesthetics, emotions, ergonomics, sustainability, and business.  The main theme of the 2018 conference was ‘design in the era of digitalization’, which […]

On the 4th of July 2018 Doctor Francesco Mureddu, associate director at the Lisbon Council and responsible for WP7 – Policy implications for public sector transformation and WP9 – Sustainable Policy Impact, presented the Co-VAL project at the 2018 Samos Summit and Summer School during his lecture on Digital Transformation of Public Administration. The 8th […]

  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 […]