1.
Introduction and Structure
Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos
Senior Researcher
Information Systems Laboratory
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
University of the Aegean
Twitter: @xalexopoulos

2.
Characteristics
• 3 ECTS credits
• 9.00 – 18.00 EEST
• 6.5 hours per day
• 1 final essay
• 20+ Instructors
• 12 Institutions
• Samos Summit access
• 42 Applicants
• 27 registered students

3.
In
Collaboration
with

4.
Programme
Samos 2020 Summit
Agenda
https://www.samos-
summit.com/agenda/
Morning Session
opengov2020

5.
Programme
Afternoon Session
opengov2020

6.
FINAL ESSAY
• An essay in the form of a literature review (developing a conceptual model or a
research agenda) or a case study (including comparative studies, mapping
existing applications)
• Individual or in groups of two
• Topic: digital government, disruptive technologies in the public sector
• Deadline for the final submission: 30 September 2020
• Content-requirements: At least 15 scientific papers
• Technical requirements: 6.000 – 8.000 words including references, figures and
tables
• Alternative
• Assess the Interoperability Academy course and material. Provide
feedback to the ISA2 team

7.
ESSAY ASSESSMENT
• 20 points - relevance (relevance of the topic for the school, well defined research
question and objectives)
• 10 points – literature background (related work; fits the purpose and helps to
answer your particular research question)
• 20 points - methodology (literature review; research design; case study)
• 20 points - analysis (here we assess whether the paper is analytical or simply
descriptive. It should be analytical)
• 20 points – results
• 10 points - references/structure/grammar/style (you need to have at least 15
academic papers in your essay)
• Maximum of 100 points

8.
OUTLINE AND PRESENTATION
• 1-2 pager outline
• Deadline: 11 August 2020
• Send to the supervisors
• The outline should include the introduction of your topic, the design of
the literature review (structure and concepts) and the method

9.
Special Training Features
• The Gov3.0 MOOC: Basics of Digital Government Transformation
• https://moodle.gov30.eu/?redirect=0
• Certificate of attendance from all participating institutions
• The Interoperability Academy (ISA²) part of the EU Academy
• https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/interoperability-academy
• The TODO MOOC: Basics on open data
• http://science.geof.unizg.hr/todo-platform/course/view.php?id=2&section=1
Obligatory
Non-Obligatory

10.
Outcomes Impact
• Higher learning and knowledge of the
developments in the field (research and practice)
• A better and a more direct association of results
from practice to research and vise versa
• A better understanding of the impact on
technology developments, research and
application and a better awareness of the
multifaceted nature of the field
• Research methods that are targeted and tools to
deal with multifaceted nature of the field
• A faster and a higher quality transfer and diffusion
of knowledge and developments of findings in the
field
• Joint Educational/Research Activities +
Mobility
• Pre-graduate Curricula update and new
modules
• Joint Master Curriculum
• Summer School
• 3 Joint Conferences
• Knowledge Roadmap of Government 3.0: study
of ICT-supported solutions for open and
collaborative policy modelling and governance
• Entrepreneurship: 1 e-gov competition having
as main goal to gather complete and viable
ideas/applications regarding government 3.0
• Massive Open Online Course for training
provision: open access high quality courses
online. Education for company staff and
entrepreneurship
• Establishing ICT-enabled Governance as a vivid
research domain
ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance
Scientific foundations training and
entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT –
enabled Governance