Summarizing our
MBA of Public Administration & e-Government Program
| Total
Cost |
The total cost of
any course are US$ 490.00 in one only payment, or US$ 590.00 in
four payments of US$ 147.50. |
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Scholarship
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Our Board
will examine all requests for a partial fully justified
scholarship. We do not issue total scholarship. Any
partial scholarship must be paid in full. |
| Begin |
Any course will
begin five working days after your payment. |
| Duration |
Four and half
months (in Fast Track) or One year. We recommend the Fast Track model. |
| Languages |
All courses are in
English, plus the same lessons in one of the following
translations: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Espanol, Swedish, Ukrainian,
Vietnamese.
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| Diploma |
After
the final exam, you will receive (through a Priority
Airmail Registered letter) a Diploma and a Transcript, both with
an official Public Notary signature and seal.
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| Exam |
You
have two options for the final exam, at your choice: Or a
multiple choice test through the Web, or to write a 10-pages
white paper about the studied subject.
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Brief Notes on Public Administration & e-Government - public policy government
Dr. S. Koner,
MBA Professor
E-Government opens up many possibilitiës for innovating and improving Government services. Many governments are working toward providing citizens with access to information and services 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the convenience of their home or office PC. This requires organizing services by the needs of citizens, rather than by the agencies that provide them.
The past few years has seen significant growth in the number of e-Government services available over the Internet. The potential for the Internet to significantly enhance the way that individuals and organisations conduct business with e-Government is now more evident than ever before.
In the minds of elected officials, encouraging e-Government is a win-win proposition. The public loves to cut waste while improving service, and politicians are happy to show that tax dollars are being spent more efficiently.
Viewing e-Government projects as mainly an investment in public infrastructure is too restricted, since the investment is also aimed at reducing the size and costs of Government while accelerating the growth of the e-Government market, helping to create new businesses and jobs in the private sector.
E-Government gives New Public Management fresh blood. Not only does information and communications technology provide the infrastructure and software tools needed for a loosely coupled network of governmental units to collaborate effectively, the infiltration of this technology into Government agencies tends to lead naturally to institutional reform, since it is difficult to maintain strictly hierarchical channels of communication and control when every civil servant can collaborate efficiently and directly with anyone else via the Internet.
The challenge for e-Government is to continually embrace the opportunities that the online world provides and ensure that community needs and expectations are met, while at the same time ensuring program and cost effectiveness for Government.
E-Government promises to make Government more efficient, responsive, transparent and legitimate and is also creating a rapidly growing market of goods and services, with a variety of new business opportunities.
e-Government might enable a citizen to access the form they need to fill out to order a copy of their birth certificate without needing to know that the Health Department handles the request. Other services that citizens want online include renewing a driver's license, voting on the Internet, filing taxes, and obtaining park information.
e-commerce is not at the heart of e-Government. The core task of Government is governance, the job of regulating society, not marketing and sales.
Citizens need to be encouraged to use e-Government services, whilst at the same time understanding that electronic services will not replace other trusted channels of delivery such as face-to-face contact.
All surveys indicate strong demand for e-Government from citizens and business and significant benefits flowing from access to online services. Government agencies demonstrated significant improvements in efficiency and reduced costs. The findings provide strong support for the Better Services, Better Government strategy.
Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate typifies the way legislators often blend e-democracy and e-Government rhetoric, but in concrete actions overwhelmingly focus on e-Government. The bipartisan e-Government Act of 2001, co-sponsored by 12 senators, says two of its major goals are: to enhance citizen access to Government information and to increase citizen participation in Government.
The next phase of activity will focus on proving, qualitatively and quantitatively, the direct benefits of CRM for the citizen and council, including a tool for calculating the benefits and the Return-on-Investment.
The e-Government resulting benefits can include less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience, revenue growth, and cost reductions. e-Government has a great role in offering services to citizens and promoting democracy brought by the integration of the Internet in the process of governance.
New technologies are changing the way that law enforcement investigates suspected criminals from tracking e-mails and eaves dropping cellular phone calls. These examples of e-Government, and many others, show how IT is changing the way we share information, transact business, and make decisions. Lawyers are among the many professionals impacted by these changes.
Dr. S Koner is a MBA Professor of the education organization http://administration-ego.mba-low-cost.com, with almost 60 years of experience in the areas of information technology and business management. |
