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 - government websites
Dr. S. Koner,
MBA Professor
e-Government is all about Govėrnment agencies working together to use technology so that they can better provide individuals and businesses with Government services and information.
Web sites are the most common vehicle for providing electronic access to public information. According to some estimates, there have been more than 10,000 e-Government Web sites developed in the United States to date. These include the full array of federal, state, and local governments.
As a CIO in charge of an e-Government project, the first step is to define the accessibility of the enterprises and citizens to the e-Government services and informations.
Getting the data infrastructure right is important and having access to citizen information is half the battle in providing excellent e-Government support. How this is presented at the front-end, however, is just as important in ensuring the organisational issues are resolved.
We are only starting to understand how the internet can contribute to the health and strength of representative democracy.
e-Government impacts the way we interact with Government agencies at all levels, whether that interaction takes place through telephone, fax, e-mail, a Web site, or directly into a data base.
e-Government it is more about leading change and transforming institutional processes with technology as the enabler and leadership as the driver. e-Government Fellows offer a unique perspective on e-Government and the challenges of implementing it [see Reach for the Future]. Also, e-Government can be funded through reengineering and other Management improvements.
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.
Government agencies describe online and offline information and services using a consistent classification system [a metadata]. The result is an integrated catalogue of information that you can search via the Internet.
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.
New Public Management is a kind of Management theory about how to reform Government by replacing rigid hierarchical organisational structures with more dynamic networks of small organisational units.
e-Government is in principle nothing new. Governments were among the first users of computers. But the global proliferation of the Internet, which effectively integrates information and communications technology on the basis of open standards, combined with the movement to reform public administration known as New Public Management, has for good reason generated a new wave of interest in the topic.
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.
The number of people in the United States seeking Government-related information online increased 70% between 2000 and 2002, from 40 million in 2000 to 68 million in 2002, according to a Pew Internet and American Life study.
The e-Government ROI analysis that will answer these types of questions considers how much the investment contributes to achieving program goals and producing the desired results. It considers direct, indirect, and opportunity costs. The indirect costs include such things as training and administration over time. An opportunity cost could be the loss of return or revenue you would have received had you chosen a different alternative.
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. |
