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 administration policy
Dr. S. Koner,
MBA Professor
The CRM will help local authorities rëalise their ambitions to deliver better services, modernisation and e-Government.
Since governmental institutions take part in marketing and sales activities, both as buyers and sellers, it is not inconsistent to speak of e-Government applications of e-commerce. Governments do after all conduct business.
Among the most interesting and challenging sociotechnological issues of e-Government are in the area of e-Democracy, which aims to apply information and communication technology to improve the public opinion formation process central to government’s primary regulatory function.
Any e-Government portal offers a varied bouquet of services. Citizens can apply for the issuance of birth certificates and replace national ID cards, view their phone and electricity bills, check for outstanding traffic fines, renew their driving licenses and apply for entry to state universities. Tourists, meanwhile, can file complaints, while other features are provided for exporters, including taxation and customs services.
The future for e-Government will be affected by the way that the supply market changes. To date, some IT suppliers have responded more effectively than others to the way in which the local e-Government market has developed.
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.
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.
Many e-Government IT investment planning processes now require some analysis of the costs and returns expected from that proposed investment. Unfortunately, public sector managers often lack models that can guide them through such analyses.
E-Government is about improving the work of all branches of Government, not just public administration in the narrow sense.
We are only starting to understand how the internet can contribute to the health and strength of representative democracy.
Opportunities for citizens to communicate with their governments are growing. A recent e-Government study found continued improvement in the number of state and federal sites that provide e-mail addresses to allow direct communication with Government departments and individuals; more opportunities for site visitors to post comments; and a doubling in the percentage of sites that allow citizens to register for e-mailed updates on specific issues.
Federal and state agencies, as well as many local and county governments, have realized the Internet - through the e-Government - can help them communicate with the public, with businesses, and with one another. The anytime, anywhere character of the Web allows Government information and services to be more available to more people at greater convenience, and hopefully with increased satisfaction.
Often there is not a hard-and-fast distinction between e-Government and e-democracy. Take voting technology. To the extent that improved voting technology reduces Government's cost of conducting a reliable vote, it is e-Government. But to the extent it systematically influences who votes, whose votes are actually counted or any other variable that affects the translation of voter preferences into public policy, it is e-democracy.
Web portals can deliver Government services with various levels of interaction. Three levels are usually identified: information, communication, and transactions.
The final phase of any e-Government study examine the Return-on-Investment from implementing online services. The aim must be to determine a benchmark Return-on-Investment [or other suitable form of measurement] to be used as a guide to assist agencies in future service planning. Return-on-Investment will encompass not only financial returns, but also impacts for individual agencies, Government more broadly and users of Government services.
Dr. S Koner is a MBA Professor of the education organization http://low-cost-ego.mba-low-cost.com, with almost 60 years of experience in the areas of information technology and business management. |
