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This is a detailed breakdown of how Professor Ines Mergel from the University of Konstanz teaches a class that covers the contents of Unit 5 of the open access syllabus developed by Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age.
The official designation of the course Professor Mergel is teaching here is "MA Seminar: Digital Governance".
We believe it is helpful to see how professors in different contexts teach the same concepts, so to see how Harvard Kennedy School's David Eaves teaches the same unit, see here.
This page has been developed for use by university faculty who are teaching Master's levels students in Public Policy and Public Administration. It has been published to help them design their own approaches to teaching the digital era skills covered in Unit 5 of our syllabus.
From the New Public Management era onwards, data in government has increasingly important for evidence-based decision making. It helps public servants to understand behavioral changes around them, so that they can make better decisions. Understanding which data sources are available, how to access data from deep organizational silos, and how to clean and integrate different data sets is an integral part of the work of public managers.
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<aside> 💡 This class has a specific focus on **Competency 7 - Data** See all eight competencies here.
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