Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 29th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview PhD Pre-conference Seminar Author(s) Petra Vujković University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia Title Development of a model supporting the measurement of the maturity of smart public governance File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Petra Vujković Abstract The very concept of smart public governance is new in literature. A set of different definitions of this concept can be found in the literature relating to the field of public administration. The concept of smart public governance has so far been mostly discussed in the literature which focuses on this aspect at local level or otherwise in respect of smart cities. This literature places the aforementioned concept into one of the six dimensions of smart cities and interprets it on such a basis. A review of scientific literature in the field of public administration or wider public domains (that is, smart cities and smart regions, smart government, smart public administration, etc.) showed that, so far, only two studies have dealt with the issue of quantifying smart public governance (with the analysis of one study focused on central level). Although the actual model for quantifying the maturity of smart public governance has not yet been developed, the authors have suggested a possible conceptual framework as a basis for model development. To summarise, there is currently no model available in Slovenia, nor internationally, that would support the quantification of smart public governance maturity at the level of individual public policies and, on this basis, neither at state level. The primary purpose of the doctoral dissertation is to develop a model supporting the measurement of the level of maturity of the smart public governance with the aim to fill this gap. The model will then be tested in the Slovenian public policy context. With this purpose in mind, we set three aims in the doctoral dissertation. Within the framework of the first and second aims, we want to give a substantive overview of the development of two concepts (the concept of smart and the concept of (public) governance), which constitute the concept of smart public governance in administrative science. We believe that only on this basis can we later (i.e., within the framework of the third aim) analyse the content and define the concept of smart public governance. We also want to distinguish this concept from its related concepts, such as good public governance, collaborative governance, collaborative innovation etc. This is followed by a proposal for the possible parameters of this model, which we want to develop within this doctoral dissertation, taking into account the parameters that have been defined in literature or in existing studies so far. In the second part, we will evaluate the developed model to support the quantification of smart public governance maturity through empirical research. This research will be conducted in the form of structured interviews, where we will survey public policy makers in the context of Slovenian public policy.
