1. ‫أكاديمية الحكومة اإللكترونية الفلسطينية‬
The Palestinian eGovernment Academy
www.egovacademy.ps
Tutorial 6: The Legal Framework of New Technologies
Session 0
Outline and Motivation
Dr. Feras Milhem
University of Birzeit, Palestine
fmilhem@birzeit.edu
www.jarrar.info
Reviewed by
Prof. Hervé Jacquemin, University of Namur, Belgium
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2. About
This tutorial is part of the PalGov project, funded by the TEMPUS IV program of the
Commission of the European Communities, grant agreement 511159-TEMPUS-1-
2010-1-PS-TEMPUS-JPHES. The project website: www.egovacademy.ps
Project Consortium:
Birzeit University, Palestine
University of Trento, Italy
(Coordinator )
Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Palestine Technical University, Palestine
Université de Savoie, France
Ministry of Telecom and IT, Palestine
University of Namur, Belgium
Ministry of Interior, Palestine
TrueTrust, UK
Ministry of Local Government, Palestine
Coordinator:
Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
Birzeit University, P.O.Box 14- Birzeit, Palestine
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3. © Copyright Notes
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4. General ILOs
• Knowledge and Understanding:
• A1: understand the legal frame for access management
• a2: Enforcing security management through internal regulation
• a3: Understanding the current non electronic evidence law
• a4: Understanding the legal framework for digital signature, certificate and
third party certification
• a5: Understanding the general framework for e-government transfer of
information
• a6: Understand the importance of policy making in the legislative process
• a7:Inhance knowledge on ethics related to digital systems
• a8: Wide the awareness of students & lawyers to the best practices related to
IP laws & applications
• a9: Widen the knowledge of privacy and data protection
• a10 Enhance general understandings of e-commerce
• a11: Enhance knowledge of e-contract
• a.12: Enhance and understand Cybercrime
• a.13 Understanding of e-archiving
• a.14: Develop knowledge about international as well as EU best practices and
standards
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5. General ILOs
• B: Intellectual Skills:
• b1: Ensure public transparency of the processing of data.
• b2: Ensure the workability of a e-government service
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• C: Professional and Practical Skills:
• c1: Control of the processing of personal data by public bodies.
• c2: Ensuring international transfer of data
• c3: Ensuring validity of e-signature
• c4: Assessing the legal admissibility of an electronic document
• c5: Assessing the need for a digital signature
• c6: Managing the relationship between the citizens and the public bodies in charges
of e-services?
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• D: Transferable Skills:
• d1: Team Work.
• d2: Governmental legal issues.
• d3: Analysis skills
• d4: Research paper
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6. Tutorial Map
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