As part of the Write. Review. Publish. Webinar Series on Academic Publishing, the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) is organizing the tenth webinar, centred on the challenges faced by young researchers and possible actions to tackle them.
The session will take place on November 3rd, at 11h00 (Lisbon Time | UTC+0). The guest is Elsa Estevez, Director of the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS).
Seminar Overview
Digital government research is a domain with distinctive features. It draws on contributions from many disciplines, including public administration, computer science, data science, social sciences, law, and others. Digital tools, as main enablers of digital government solutions, change rapidly, and solutions in the digital world are being scrutinized through an increasing number of lenses, including ethics and human rights. Given these complexities, competencies for contributing to digital government research require a balanced combination of depth and breadth across topics.
Thus, young researchers in the area face several unique challenges, such as contributing to an interdisciplinary domain in many cases lacking comprehensive and specific training; bridging gaps between academic research and practical implementation in government; ensuring access to government data, which is often inaccessible and siloed; dealing with rapid technological change and emerging technologies; ensuring funding for emerging topics at the time of restrictions in the use of public funds; and finding venues for publishing.
In this talk, we will address challenges faced by young researchers and possible actions to tackle them, aiming to facilitate the process towards meaningful theoretical and practical impact of their work, and contributing to nurturing the community of future domain experts in digital government research.
Agenda
Speaker Bio
Elsa Estevez is the Director of the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS); the chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Societies and Digital Governance at UNS, a Principal Researcher at CONICET, and Full Professor at the National University of La Plata, all in Argentina.
She is the Executive Secretary of MetaRed TIC Argentina, and member of the Global Advisory Board of the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at University at Albany, State University of New York. She is also a consultant for Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) on the matters of digital government, particularly in Latin America.
Previously, she was a Senior Academic Program Officer and Academic Program Officer at the United Nations University (UNU) in Macao and Portugal; Visiting Professor at the National University of Rio Negro, Argentina; Gdansk University of Technology, Poland; University of Minho, Portugal; and head of Information Technology (IT) departments in large financial and pharmaceutical organizations in Argentina. She consulted for governments, taught to public managers and policy makers, and organized events about digital government in over 30, mostly developing countries.
Her research interests cover the structuring of the information technology function in government, digital transformation of government-citizen relationships, and the impact of such transformation on nations' and cities' capacity to pursue sustainable development. She has a PhD in Computer Science from UNS, Argentina.
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