This document outlines the structure and content of an online summer school on digital government and disruptive technologies in the public sector. The summer school is 3 ECTS credits, runs 9am-6pm daily for 6.5 hours over multiple days, and includes over 20 instructors from 12 institutions. As part of the program, students will attend lectures and panels at the Samos 2020 Summit and have the option to complete a final essay or provide feedback on the course. The final essay should be 6,000-8,000 words reviewing at least 15 academic papers on a specified topic. Students will receive a certificate of completion and the course aims to further learning, research collaboration, and knowledge transfer around digital government transformation.

1. Introduction and Structure
Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos
Senior Researcher
Information Systems Laboratory
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
University of the Aegean
Twitter: @xalexopoulos

2. Characteristics
• 3 ECTS credits
• 9.00 – 18.00 EEST
• 6.5 hours per day
• 1 final essay
• 20+ Instructors
• 12 Institutions
• Samos Summit access
• 42 Applicants
• 27 registered students

3. In
Collaboration
with

4. Programme
Samos 2020 Summit
Agenda
https://www.samos-
summit.com/agenda/
Morning Session
opengov2020

5. Programme
Afternoon Session
opengov2020

6. FINAL ESSAY
• An essay in the form of a literature review (developing a conceptual model or a
research agenda) or a case study (including comparative studies, mapping
existing applications)
• Individual or in groups of two
• Topic: digital government, disruptive technologies in the public sector
• Deadline for the final submission: 30 September 2020
• Content-requirements: At least 15 scientific papers
• Technical requirements: 6.000 – 8.000 words including references, figures and
tables
• Alternative
• Assess the Interoperability Academy course and material. Provide
feedback to the ISA2 team

7. ESSAY ASSESSMENT
• 20 points - relevance (relevance of the topic for the school, well defined research
question and objectives)
• 10 points – literature background (related work; fits the purpose and helps to
answer your particular research question)
• 20 points - methodology (literature review; research design; case study)
• 20 points - analysis (here we assess whether the paper is analytical or simply
descriptive. It should be analytical)
• 20 points – results
• 10 points - references/structure/grammar/style (you need to have at least 15
academic papers in your essay)
• Maximum of 100 points

8. OUTLINE AND PRESENTATION
• 1-2 pager outline
• Deadline: 11 August 2020
• Send to the supervisors
• The outline should include the introduction of your topic, the design of
the literature review (structure and concepts) and the method

9. Special Training Features
• The Gov3.0 MOOC: Basics of Digital Government Transformation
• https://moodle.gov30.eu/?redirect=0
• Certificate of attendance from all participating institutions
• The Interoperability Academy (ISA²) part of the EU Academy
• https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/interoperability-academy
• The TODO MOOC: Basics on open data
• http://science.geof.unizg.hr/todo-platform/course/view.php?id=2&section=1
Obligatory
Non-Obligatory

10. Outcomes Impact
• Higher learning and knowledge of the
developments in the field (research and practice)
• A better and a more direct association of results
from practice to research and vise versa
• A better understanding of the impact on
technology developments, research and
application and a better awareness of the
multifaceted nature of the field
• Research methods that are targeted and tools to
deal with multifaceted nature of the field
• A faster and a higher quality transfer and diffusion
of knowledge and developments of findings in the
field
• Joint Educational/Research Activities +
Mobility
• Pre-graduate Curricula update and new
modules
• Joint Master Curriculum
• Summer School
• 3 Joint Conferences
• Knowledge Roadmap of Government 3.0: study
of ICT-supported solutions for open and
collaborative policy modelling and governance
• Entrepreneurship: 1 e-gov competition having
as main goal to gather complete and viable
ideas/applications regarding government 3.0
• Massive Open Online Course for training
provision: open access high quality courses
online. Education for company staff and
entrepreneurship
• Establishing ICT-enabled Governance as a vivid
research domain
ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance
Scientific foundations training and
entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT –
enabled Governance