Fwd: MOOC on Open Government

From: Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott@openthegovernment.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:23 AM
Subject: MOOC on Open Government
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Cc: Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk - TBM
<A.M.G.Zuiderwijk-vanEijk@tudelft.nl>, "Marijn Janssen
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Please excuse cross-postings, but/and please share.

"We at Delft University of Technology will be teaching a free Massive
Open Online Course (MOOC) about Open Government soon. The MOOC starts
on March 14, 2016, and will run for 5 weeks. Enrollment for our MOOC
is possible now via
https://www.edx.org/course/open-government-delftx-og101x. An
informative video about the MOOC is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93BzVj_-7vo&feature=youtu.be. "

Patrice McDermott, Executive Director
OpenTheGovernment.org<http://www.openthegovernment.org/>
202.332.6736
________________________________

Call for Enrolment - Open Government MOOC
While governments all over the world aim to become more open and
transparent, opening the government is a complex and challenging
problem. How can governments become more open and transparent, while
simultaneously dealing with various challenges, such as data
sensitivity? How can open government data be made available to improve
public policy making? Which technologies are available to make
governments more open and to use open government data?
We at Delft University of Technology will be teaching a free Massive
Open Online Course (MOOC) about Open Government soon. The MOOC starts
on March 14, 2016, and will run for 5 weeks. Enrolment for our MOOC is
possible now via
https://www.edx.org/course/open-government-delftx-og101x. An
informative video about the MOOC is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93BzVj_-7vo&feature=youtu.be.
This Open Government MOOC is aimed at university students,
professionals, government officials, policy advisors and researchers,
but is open to anyone interested in Open Government. It will help
participants grasp the key principles of open government, and answers
questions like: 'What are the best practices for opening governments?
And how to give citizens access to governmental data to answer their
questions?' Most importantly, participants will apply the topics of
the course to concrete cases.
What participants will learn:

·         Basic concepts related to Open Government and Open Government Data

·         How to analyze and discuss benefits, barriers and potential
negative effects of a particular open government case and an open
government data case

·         How to analyze public values and best practices related to
open government

·         How to apply the open government principles in various situations

·         To understand potential negative and positive effects Open
Government might bring to the workplace

This MOOC includes lectures by:

·         Prof. Marijn Janssen - Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, Head of ICT section and professor in ICT and governance

·         Dr. Anneke Zuiderwijk - Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, Researcher in Open Data and data infrastructures

·         Dr. Bastiaan van Loenen - Delft University of Technology,
the Netherlands, Associate Professor in geo-information and land
development

·         Dr. Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University, Portugal,
head of United Nations University, Operating Unit on Policy-Driven
Electronic Governance

·         Prof. Keith Jeffery, Cardiff University, United Kingdom,
professor in Computer Science & Informatics

·         Dr. Amr Ali Eldin, Mansoura University, Egypt, senior
lecturer in Computer Science and Information Technology

·         Dr. Iryna Susha, Örebro University, Sweden and guest at
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, postdoctoral
researcher on open government, open data, and citizen participation

Please forward this call to anyone in your network who might be
interested in Open Government. Thank you very much!

Kind regards, on behalf of our Open Government MOOC team,
Marijn Janssen and Anneke Zuiderwijk

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