Technology and Public Management

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management need a strong foundation in how government and NGOs are connected with information technology. This innovative textbook explores the latest trends in technology, providing real-life examples about the need for policies and procedures to safeguard technology infrastructure while providing greater openness, participation, and transparency. It also examines emerging and adapted technologies to help government achieve ambitious goals, such as drawing carbon out of the atmosphere, empowering students everywhere to learn effectively, improving healthcare, providing affordable housing, enabling agriculture to keep pace with population growth, and improving scores of other public services.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 468 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management require a robust foundation in the relationship between government and NGOs and information technology. Whether simplifying internal operations, delivering public-facing services, governing public utilities, or conducting elections, public administrators must understand these technological tools and systems to ensure their effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. This innovative textbook is designed for students of public affairs at every level who need to know and understand how technology can be applied in today's public management workplace. The book explores the latest trends in technology, providing real-life examples about the need for policies and procedures to safeguard technology infrastructure while providing greater openness, participation, and transparency.

In Technology and Public Management, Second Edition, author Alan Shark informs, engages, and directs students to consider best practices, with new material on emerging technology, data management and analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. This thoroughly updated second edition explores:

A broad range of technologies on which government, nonprofit partners, and citizens depend upon to deliver important infrastructure, including security, education, public health and personal healthcare, transit and transportation, culture and commerce.

Growing mistrust in government, and the role technology can play in ameliorating it.

Emerging and adapted technologies to help government achieve ambitious goals, including drawing carbon out of the atmosphere, empowering students everywhere to learn effectively at home or at school, improving healthcare, providing affordable housing, enabling agriculture to keep pace with population growth, and improving.

Weight: 714g
Dimension: 227 x 153 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032341125
Edition number: 2 ed