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The purpose of Unit 1 is to get students to recognise what is different about governing in an era filled with pervasive digital technologies.
This material, developed by 'Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age', has been prepared to help university faculty to add digital era skills to the teaching of Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Public Administration programs. All these materials are based on our eight Digital Era Competencies.
This unit is one of eight units that make up a full semester course. The units have also been designed to be used by educators independently, without students taking the rest of the course. This unit can be taught in either one or two classes.
By the end of Unit 1 students will be able to situate the emerging theories and practices of 'Digital Era' government as just the latest in a wave of government practices, and explain the key values-based differences between the current wave and the last.
The key preceding phases students should know about are:
By the end of Unit 1 students will be able to understand why governments seek to make use of digital technologies. Governments do this to achieve various goals, including: