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Structuring Continuous Education Offers for E-Government-Competence Acquisition: A Morphological Box

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Being involved in all facets of the digital transformation of the public sector, public officials play a pivotal role in successfully pursuing the transformative process. Hence, they must be equipped with the means to actively partake in creating a digitalized public sector, making the acquisition of e-government-competences indispensable. However, we must observe an increasing gap between the degree of required and obtained e-government-competences in the workforce of public sector organizations in developed countries, especially in examples such as Germany. This is also due to public officials being unable to select and attend the individually appropriate continuous education offers for them. To provide a means for structuring the decision-relevant criteria when choosing continuous education offers for e-government-competences, we develop a morphological box depicting the conceptual dimensions for such offers as the main result of this study. To that end, we conducted an in-depth interview study, aggregating the perspectives of relevant stakeholders from the German public sector.

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This research article has received funding from the projects DFG FOR3539 (GZ: BE 1422/28-1 & GZ: PA 1771/3-1) and the German IT Planning Council / FITKO eGov-Campus 2023 (FI-50/043/001-012023).

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    Holger Koelmann, Michael Koddebusch & Jörg Becker

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Koelmann, H., Koddebusch, M., Bücker, J., Egloffstein, M., Becker, J. (2023). Structuring Continuous Education Offers for E-Government-Competence Acquisition: A Morphological Box. In: Edelmann, N., Danneels, L., Novak, AS., Panagiotopoulos, P., Susha, I. (eds) Electronic Participation. ePart 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41617-0_6

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