The 31th NISPAcee Annual Conference

Conference 2023 Beograd, Serbia, May 25-27, 2023

Excellent conference. I really enjoyed the papers, speakers, schedule and location and great staff!

D.B., United States, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

...relating to public administration and policy. Good opportunities for networking.

N.D., Georgia, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

Excellent participants, argument-driven discussions, impartial and supportive Chairs in the Working Group.

D.G., Republic of North Macedonia, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

...to detail and I really enjoyed the supportive and encouraging atmosphere there. Thank you!

R.B., Lithuania, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

...both in terms of academic quality and logistics, and also social events. It was a true joy.

E.Z., Bulgaria, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

...The special programmes were really excellent and we took home many varied experiences.

P.N., Hungary, 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2019, Prague

...Sessions were interesting, scholars were engaging and all the social events were amazing!

B.K., Kazakhstan, 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2018, Iasi

Excellent organization, excellent food. Compliments to the organizers, they did a wonderful job!

V.J., Netherlands, 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2018, Iasi

...I must say that the PhD pre-conference seminar was the most useful seminar of my life. Very well...

K.V., Czech Republic, 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2018, Iasi

... I would even argue that they are the very best - both in terms of scientific content and also entertainment…

P.W., Denmark, 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2018, Iasi

An opportunity to learn from other researchers and other countries' experiences on certain topics.

G.A.C., Hungary, 25th Conference 2017, Kazan

Very well organised, excellent programme and fruitful discussions.

M.M.S., Slovakia, 25th Conference 2017, Kazan

The NISPAcee conference remains a very interesting conference.

M.D.V., Netherlands, 25th Conference 2017, Kazan

Thank you for the opportunity to be there, and for the work of the organisers.

D.Z., Hungary, 24th Conference 2016, Zagreb

Well organized, as always. Excellent conference topic and paper selection.

M.S., Serbia, 23rd Conference 2015, Georgia

Perfect conference. Well organised. Very informative.

M.deV., Netherlands, 22nd Conference 2014, Hungary

Excellent conference. Congratulations!

S. C., United States, 20th Conference 2012, Republic of Macedonia

Thanks for organising the pre-conference activity. I benefited significantly!

R. U., Uzbekistan, 19th Conference, Varna 2011

Each information I got, was received perfectly in time!

L. S., Latvia, 21st Conference 2013, Serbia

The Conference was very academically fruitful!

M. K., Republic of Macedonia, 20th Conference 2012, Republic of Macedonia

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WG2: Digital Government

WG coordinators:
 
  • Nicolae Urs, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; urs@fspac.ro
Nicolae Urs, a vice-dean of the college, is interested in everything related to technology. More specifically, he has been studying and researching the way in which public institutions employ new technologies, the changes that the new social networks brought about in communication, the opportunities provided by "big data" and the way in which visualising statistical data can help decelerate social trends. He has a PhD in online communication, to which he added an internship in the United States. He teaches courses related to e-Government, to the use of new technologies, and to online communication. He is actively involved in public institutions' digitization projects, both at the level of the city of Cluj-Napoca, as well as at a national level.
 
  • David Špaček, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, david.spacek@econ.muni.cz
David Špaček is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In his research he has been focusing on administrative reforms, strategic planning and management, quality management, digitalization and participatory initiatives.
More information is available here: https://www.muni.cz/en/people/77120-david-spacek.
 
 
  • Steven Nõmmik, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn (TalTech), Estonia. E-mail: steven.nommik@taltech.ee
Steven Nõmmik is an Early Stage Researcher and the NISPAcee Steering Committee member representing young generation of PA professionals. His PhD thesis focuses on the various forms of collaborations within the public sector to create and maintain innovation with both the collaborative processes and impacts being studied. His main research interests are connected to public management, coordination, collaborative governance and innovation studies. For his work he has been involved with different national and EU funded projects - RITA1/02-96 „Machine learning and AI powered public service delivery", EUPACK project and H2020 project TROPICO. In the Nurkse school he has been teaching a course in Classics of Social Sciences and has been assisting courses on the basics of EU institutions as well as public ethics and corruption. Furthermore, he is a member of the Master's thesis defence committee for the HAAM Master’s programme and a member of the TGDT Master's programme council. He was also a recipient for the NISPAcee Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 29th NISPAcee Annual Conference for his paper „Cross-organisational collaboration management of digital innovation in the public sector - the case of the Estonian Employment Register".
 
Report


The WG on eGov was running on Tuesday and Thursday.

Eventually  4 conference sessions were allocated to the WG considering the number of papers accepted and authors registered and 14 papers were presented. This year a relatively high number of papers were focused on results of literature reviews, the use of AI in the public sector and smart public governance. Also digital transformation as an important topic was paid attention in two papers. All papers in the programme were presented.