Alena Labanava
ABSTRACT
Education in e-government needs to be better aligned with Sustainable Development Agenda. To clearly understand the potential adjustments of an e-government education programme, an initial assessment of the programme's impact on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be made as well as appropriate capabilities for sustainable development selected. Following the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, the research has identified the list of SDGs that an e-Governance study programme influences most. They include SDG 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure), SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals), SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities), SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions). In the future the programme is expected to have bigger impact on SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals), SDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities), SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production). The research also shows a big difference between the programme's actual and desired impact on SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities), SDG 12 (Responsible consumption), SDG 13 (Climate action). Researchers identified twelve capabilities as essential for an e-Governance specialist toward the achievement of the SDGs.
- United Nations. 2016. United Nations E-Government Development Index 2016. United Nations, New York, NY. Retrieved from: https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/Portals/egovkb/Documents/un/2016-Survey/E-Government%20Survey%202016.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Tomasz Janowski. 2016. Implementing Sustainable Development Goals with Digital Government – Aspiration-capacity gap. Government Information Quarterly 33, 4 (October 2016), 603-613. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2016.12.001.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski. 2013. Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development — Conceptual framework and state of research. Government Information Quarterly 30, 1 (January 2013), 94-109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.11.001.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Ignacio Marcovecchio, Mamello Thinyane, Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski. 2019. Digital Government as Implementation Means for Sustainable Development Goals. International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age 6, 3. DOI: 10.4018/IJPADA.2019070101.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Rony Medaglia, Gianluca Misuraca, Vincenzo Aquaro. 2021. Digital Government and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Towards an Analytical Framework. 2021. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community, DGO 2021. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, United States. 473-478Matthew Van Gundy, Davide Balzarotti, and Giovanni Vigna. 2007. Catch me, if you can: Evading network signatures with web-based polymorphic worms. In Proceedings of the first USENIX workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’07) . USENIX Association, Berkley, CA, Article 7, 9 pages.Google Scholar
- EY. 2019. How governments can plan for a future-fit digital workforce. EY. Retrieved May 4, 2023 from https://www.ey.com/en_gl/government-digital-innovation/how-governments-can-plan-for-a-future-fit-digital-workforce.Google Scholar
- United Nations. 2015. The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: An opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/G. 2681-P/Rev.Google Scholar
- United Nations. 2020. United Nations e-government survey. 2020 : digital government in the Decade of Action for Sustainable Development : with addendum on COVID-19 Response. United Nations, New York, NY. Retrieved from: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3884686?ln=en.Google Scholar
- Gervas E. Assey. 2020. The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals. The Cradle of Knowledge: African Journal of Educational and Social Science Research 8, 1 (2020). 2304-2885.Google Scholar
- Ademola A. Adenle, Marian R. Chertow, Ellen H.M. Moors, David J. Pannell. 2020. What Can Science, Technology, and Innovation Offer in the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals? Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Energy, edited by Ademola A. Adenle , Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949501.003.0001.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Ricardo Vinuesa, Hossein Azizpour, Isabel Leite, 2020. The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Nat Commun 11, 233 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14108-y.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Francesca Mazzi, Mariarosaria Taddeo, and Luciano Floridi. 2023. AI in Support of the SDGs: Six Recurring Challenges and Related Opportunities Identified Through Use Cases. In The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, F. Mazzi and L. Floridi, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2023, vol. 152, pp. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21147-8_2.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Måns Nilsson, David Griggs, and Martin Visbeck. 2016. Policy: Map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals. Nature 534, 320-322 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1038/534320a.Google ScholarCross Ref
- David Le Blanc. 2015. Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets. Sust. Dev. 23, 176–187 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1582.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Therese Bennich, Nina Weitz, and Henrik Carlsen. 2020. Deciphering the scientific literature on SDG interactions: A review and reading guide. Science of The Total Environment 728 (2020), 138405, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138405.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Zsuzsanna Katalin Szabo, Zsombor Szádoczki, Sándor Bozóki, Gabriela C. Stănciulescu, and Dalma Szabo. 2021. An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach for Prioritisation of Strategic Objectives of Sustainable Development. Sustainability 13, 2254 (2021), https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042254.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Philip McGowan, Gavin Stewart, Graham Long, and Matthew Grainger. 2019. An imperfect vision of indivisibility in the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability 2 (2019), 43-45, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0190-1.Google ScholarCross Ref
- OECD. Civil service capacities in the SDG era: An assessment framework, OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, No. 47, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1787/a20bad7c-en.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Oana Forestier and Rakhyun Kim. 2020. Cherry-picking the Sustainable Development Goals: Goal Prioritization by National Governments and Implications for Global Governance. Sustainable Development 28, 1269–1278 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2082.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Atie Asadikia, Abbas Rajabifard, and Mohsen Kalantari. 2021. Systematic prioritisation of SDGs: Machine learning approach. World Development 140 (2021), 105269, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105269.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Cameron Allen, Graciela Metternicht, and Thomas Wiedmann. 2019. Prioritising SDG targets: assessing baselines, gaps and interlinkages. Sustainability Science 14, 145-162 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0596-8.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Wolfgang Toth, Harald Vacik, Helga Pülzl, and Henrik Carlsen. 2021. Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting. Sustainability Science 16 (2021), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01009-7.Google ScholarCross Ref
- OECD. 2017. Core Skills for Public Sector Innovation. (April 2017). Retrieved from https://www.oecd.org/media/oecdorg/satellitesites/opsi/contents/files/OECD_OPSI-core_skills_for_public_sector_innovation-201704.pdf.Google ScholarCross Ref
- UK Government. Digital Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework. 2021. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework.Google Scholar
- Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale. n.d. Competenze di e-leadership. Retrieved from 2. Principi e strategie per la mappatura e la valorizzazione (lg-competenzedigitali.readthedocs.io).Google Scholar
- Public Administration School of Catalonia. 2020. Competency framework for innovative professionals in public administrations. Public Administration School of Catalonia. (July 1, 2020). Retrieved from Comptetency framework for innovative professionals in public administrations (gencat.cat)Google Scholar
- Alena Labanava, Richard Dreyling, Marzia Mortati, Innar Liiv, and Ingrid Pappel. 2022. Capacity Building in Government: Towards Developing a Standard for a Functional Specialist in AI for Public Services. In Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications (pp. 503-516). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-8069-5_34.Google ScholarCross Ref
- ITU and UNESCO. 2022. Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Competencies for Civil Servants. Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Retrieved from https://www.broadbandcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Artificial-Intelligence-and-Digital-Transformation-Competencies-for-Civil-Servants.pdf.Google Scholar
- Arnim Wiek, Lauren Keeler, and Charles Redman. 2011. Key Competencies in Sustainability: a Reference Framework for Academic Program Development. Sustainability Science 6, 203–218 (2011), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-011-0132-6.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Marco Rieckmann, Lisa Mindt, and Senan Gardiner. 2017. Education for sustainable development goals: Learning objectives. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000247444.Google Scholar
- Catherine Cote. 2019. 8 sustainability skills for working professionals. Harvard Business School Online. Retrieved from https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/sustainability-skills.Google Scholar
- Guia Bianchi, Ulrike Pisiotis, and Marcelino Cabrera Giraldez. 2022. GreenComp The European sustainability competence framework, edited by Yves Punie and Margherita Bacigalupo. EUR 30955 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2022, ISBN 978-92-76-53201-9, doi:10.2760/821058, JRC128040. Retrieved from: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128040.Google ScholarCross Ref
- EuroTech Universities. (n.d.). EuroTech Universities. Retrieved May 6, 2023, from https://euroteq.eurotech-universities.eu/.Google Scholar
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2021. Developing capacities for effective governance for the sustainable development goals. Capacity development workshops and pilot testing of the Curriculum on Governance for the SDGs toolkits. 2020-2021 Report. Retrieved from: https://unpan.un.org/sites/unpan.un.org/files/Report%20on%20Piloting%20trainings%20of%20the%20Curriculum-min_0.pdf.Google Scholar
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. n.d. Competency framework for public servants to realize the sustainable development goals. Retrieved from: https://unpan.un.org/sites/unpan.un.org/files/UN%20DESA%20Competency%20framework_Final.pdf.Google Scholar
- GovStack. (n.d.). Home. Retrieved May 7, 2023, from https://www.govstack.global/.Google Scholar
- Thomas L. Saaty. 1984. The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Decision Making in Complex Environments. In Quantitative Assessment in Arms Control, R. Avenhaus and R.K. Huber, Eds. Boston, MA: Springer, 1984, pp. 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2805-6_12.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Innar Liiv, Erkki Karo, and Ralf-Martin Soe. 2023. Computer-Aided Corporate Sense-Making and Prioritization for SDGs. In The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, F. Mazzi and L. Floridi, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2023, vol. 152, pp. 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21147-8_20.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Randall Dunham. 1998. Nominal Group Technique: A User's Guide. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved May 7, 2023, from https://sswm.info/sites/default/files/reference_attachments/DUNHAM%201998%20Nominal%20Group%20Technique%20-%20A%20Users'%20Guide.pdf.Google Scholar
- Morris Gallagher, Tim Hares, John Spencer, Colin Bradshaw, and Ian Webb. 1993. The nominal group technique: a research tool for general practice? Fam Pract, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 76-81, Mar. 1993. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/10.1.76. PMID: 8477899.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network. (n.d.). Estonia. SDG Index and Dashboards. Retrieved May 7, 2023, from https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/profiles/estonia.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- e-Governance education for sustainable development: prioritising sustainable development goals and building capabilities to drive progress
Recommendations
Smart E-Governance and Sustainable Development: Strategic Alignment Assessment Framework
ICEGOV '18: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic GovernanceWeb 2.0 has provided impetus to infuse citizen centered Services in effective manner. It has been the focus of Indian government to provide "minimum government and maximum governance" through digital India initiatives. E-Gov 2.0 in India has been ...
E-governance and millennium development goals: sustainable development perspective in rural India
ICEGOV '12: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic GovernanceThe year 2015 is fast approaching for the countries and the United Nations pursuing Millennium Development Goals (MDG). In the United Nation (UN) Millennium Summit 2000, 191 countries adopted the Millennium declaration. Information and Communication ...
Towards Sustainable Development Goals: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework of Governance Issues in Africa
ICEGOV '19: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic GovernanceThis paper presents a systematic literature review of governance issues in Africa. The study focuses on the evaluation of governance for sustainable development. This study contributes to the interdisciplinary research of governance. The study finds ...
Comments