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Technology Innovation in Public Administration: November 9, 2019

This document provides an outline for a course on technology innovation in public administration. The course examines the evolution of digital technologies and their innovative application. It aims to provide knowledge on applying technologies to government and business situations, and developing critical thinking and problem solving, communication, teamwork, and ethical decision-making skills. The learning plan includes required readings on the history of the internet and technology innovation, as well as an evolution of information technology timeline. The timeline outlines the progression from early writing and numbering systems to modern computers and networking technologies.

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Technology Innovation in Public Administration: November 9, 2019

This document provides an outline for a course on technology innovation in public administration. The course examines the evolution of digital technologies and their innovative application. It aims to provide knowledge on applying technologies to government and business situations, and developing critical thinking and problem solving, communication, teamwork, and ethical decision-making skills. The learning plan includes required readings on the history of the internet and technology innovation, as well as an evolution of information technology timeline. The timeline outlines the progression from early writing and numbering systems to modern computers and networking technologies.

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Technology Innovation

in Public
Administration
November 9, 2019
COURSE OUTLINE
AY 2019 – 2020

Course Description

New technologies are creating significant opportunities in the management of different


industries including public administration.. This course examines the evolution of digital
technologies, the underlying technologies that are driving the current digital revolution, and
the innovative application of existing technologies, resources, and services. Particularly,
the course includes appreciation of the Internet technology and its role in innovation and
administration of government or non-government organizations.
Course Objectives/Competencies:
1) Knowledge: Select and apply disciplinary knowledge to government or business situations in a
local or global environment.

2) Critical thinking and problem solving: Identify and research issues in public administration
situations, analyze the issues, and propose appropriate and well-justified solutions.

3) Communication: Prepare written documents that are clear and concise, using appropriate style and
presentation for the intended audience, purpose and context, and prepare and deliver oral
presentations that are clear, focused, well structured, and delivered in a professional manner.

4) Teamwork: Participate collaboratively and responsibly in teams, and reflect on your own teamwork,
and on the team’s processes and ability to achieve outcomes.

5) Ethical, social and environmental responsibility: Identify and assess ethical, environmental and/or
sustainability considerations in public administration or business decision-making and practice, and
identify social and cultural implications of the same (public administration or business situations.
Learning Plan and References

Required Readings:

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg – Disruptive Innovation in the Age of


the Internet. Naughton, John. (2014). Rarondom House Publisher
Services. Broadway New York, NY 10019.
 
Technology, Innovation and Management. HYPERLINK
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management
/technology-innovation-and-management/content-section-0?intro=
1

Technology, Innovation and Management (PDF)

 
Other Links:
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice,
Clayton Christensen et al. (2016), HarperBusiness
Technology Timeline. Chris Woodford. Explainthatstuff. HYPERLINK
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html.
 Innovation in the UK: Good, but not enough? HYPERLINK
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/technology-ma
nagement/innovation-the-uk-good-not-enough
 The Guardian: HYPERLINK https://www.theguardian.com/international.
 Who Invented the Internet?Evan Andrew.HYPRLINK
www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet
 Innovation in the UK: Good, but not enough? HYPERLINK
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/technology-ma
nagement/innovation-the-uk-good-not-enough
 Interview with Sir George Buckley. HYPERLINK
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/technology-m
anagement/innovation-the-uk-good-not-enough
 
Evolution of Information Technology
 Premechanical Age (between 3000BC and 1450AD)
 characterized by using of language or simple picture drawings known as petroglyphs usually
carved in rock.
 early alphabets were developed such as the Phoenician alphabet.
 development of pens and paper.
 people realized the importance of organizing and storing them in permanent storage.
 first books (Egyptian scrolls and book-like binding of paper) were written and kept in libraries
 also marked by the development of the first numbering systems.
 first 1 – 9 system was created in 100AD; and the number 0 was invented and added in 875AD
 invention of calculator, then known as abacus. This was the very first sign of information processor.
 Mechanical (between 1450 and 1840)
 Invention of the slide rule by William Oughted, an analog computer used for multiplying and dividing.
 Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, a very popular mechanical computer.
 Charles Babbage developed the difference engine which tabulated polynomial equations using the
method of finite differences.
Timeline of inventions / Evolution of Information Technology

 Electromechanical (1840 -1940)


 marked the beginning of telecommunication.
 The telegraph was created in the early 1800s.
 The Morse code was created by Samuel Morse in 1835.
 The telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
 The first radio was developed by Guglielmo Marconi in 1894.
 At around 1940, the first large-scale automatic digital computer, Mark1 in the US was
the created at Harvard University It was programmed using punch cards.
 55 feet long and eight feet high
 Designed by Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper
 Electronic (1940 – present)
 Creation of ENIAC , the first high-speed, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed
to solve a full range of computing problems.
 designed to be used by the U.S. Army for artillery firing tables.
 680 square feet and weighing 30 tons. It mainly used vacuum tubes to do its calculations .
UB IT Timeline
Period Software Purpose

1986 – 1990 Payroll System Payroll computation


  (Accounting Office)
 Student enrollment listing for CHED
 Enrollment Listing
(Registrar’s Office)
 
 
Employee (Teaching and Non-Teaching) Faculty and non-faculty Efficiency
Performance Evaluation System Evaluation (Personnel Office)
   
1991 - 1994 Equipment Inventory Database System Recording/Monitoring of equipment and
  other supplies
  (General Services Office)
 
Faculty Performance Evaluation by Students Evaluation of Teachers’ Performance by
  Students
  (Personnel Office)
 
Offering of BSCS program Curricular program for students
  (Academic Department)
 
UB Technology Timeline

Period Software Purpose

1994 - 1996    
1996-1998 School Information System (SIS) Student registration

1999-2003 University Information System (UIS) Student registration

2004-2010 Electronic School System (eSS) Student registration

2011-present Student Lifecycle Management System Student registration, updates on


(SLiMS) residency and graduation

Source:

Research:

Technology Roadmap For Educational Institutions Using Big Data Analytics


For Decision Support: A Case Of University Of Batangas

By Dr. Auroral Tolentino

Published in 2014 at UB Kalinangan Research Journal, Volume 20


FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUKERBERG – JOHN NAUGHTON

Chapters / Modules Titles


1 TAKE THE LONG VIEW
2 THE WEB ISN'T THE NET
3 DISRUPTION IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
4 THINK ECOLOGY, NOT ECONOMICS
5 COMPLEXITY IS THE NEW REALITY
6 THE NETWORK IS NOW THE COMPUTER
7 THE WEB IS CHANGING
8 HUXLEY AND ORWELL ARE THE BOOKENDS OF OUR FUTURE
9 OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME IS NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE
Thank you!

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