11th International Summer School on Digital Government - opengov2024

The 11th International Summer School (01/07/2024 – 05/07/2024) focusing on Technologies and Applications for Next Generation Digital Government (3.0), a really growing and offering great challenges domain, is taking place on the beautiful island of Samos. The Summer School on Digital Government 3.0 is organized by the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean and provides a unique opportunity for participants to interact with internationally acclaimed scientists and researchers in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance, to develop their skills in the areas of data-intensive policy making, legal informatics, disruptive technologies (blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc.) in e-government and smart cities. Moreover, the opengov2024 Summer School will also enable participants' involvement in Open and Collaborative Governance (Digital Government 2.0) and e-Democracy issues and their accompanied technologies with hands-on workshops and discussions around the most prominent technologies of the domain (such as big and open linked data, crowdsourcing mechanisms, opinion mining and sentiment extraction and visualization), and offer appropriate additional skills towards shaping a successful researcher, a competitive employee and a well-informed public servant.

Course leader

Yannis Charalampidis

Target group

Undergraduate
Postgraduate
PhD Candidates
Researchers/co-doctoral fellows
Professionals

Course aim

The aim of the opengov2024 Summer School is to enable participants' involvement in Open and Collaborative Governance issues and their accompanied technologies with hands-on workshops and discussions around the most prominent technologies of the domain (such as big and open linked data, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, crowdsourcing mechanisms, policy modelling and simulation, opinion mining and sentiment extraction and visualization), and offer appropriate additional skills towards shaping a successful researcher, a competitive employee and a well-informed public servant. The topics addressed by the OpenGov2024 Summer School include a wide span of information and communication technologies and social science issues, covering the whole cycle of decision making under thefollowing thematic areas: Big and Open Linked Data applications and technologies Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools and techniques Global Systems Science approaches for evidence-based decision making and policy support Citizens’ opinion mining and sentiment analysis Social media and web 2.0 platforms and services for governance Policy modelling and electronic policy deliberation (e-participation) Mobile and cloud technologies for open and collaborative governance scenarios Interoperable infrastructures: Technical, semantic and organisational interoperability Blockchain technologies and case studies for security and trust issues in open governance

Credits info

3 EC
ECTS

Fee info

EUR 350: Summer School Participant

Includes access to the venue, welcome reception, lunches and coffee for six days, two dinners, electronic proceedings, certificate of attendance, school bag, badge
EUR 500: Summer School Participant with stay

Includes access to the venue, welcome reception, lunches and coffee for six days, two dinners, electronic proceedings, certificate of attendance, school bag, badge, six nights at the students' dormitory /private single room with bathroom

350 Euros for registration + 150 Euros for the accommodation.
Please send an email to the summer school asking for a booking to the student dormitory!