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To understand the current state of education in the digital transformation domain, it is useful to take a look through the lens of established competences and qualifications frameworks. These frameworks help to identify the necessary skills in a certain career path needed in the digitalization journey. It is useful for education institutions in the process of designing curriculum and ensuring the students get the necessary skills to support GovStack approach. Additionally, when designing the curriculum, several issues need to be addressed, as a first step to supporting the long term development of capacity building in the country Digital skills.
The multidisciplinary approach should be considered as it allows students to increase their strengths as well as fill in gaps in their knowledge in the areas of technical skills, service design, ethics, creative problem solving, the regulation of technologies, legislation, and generally in the digital transformation.
The university education should help to improve knowledge of public services design with the use of new technologies. Through gaining an understanding of co-creation, the design process, creative problem solving, human-centric approach in public services, and prototyping the graduates should use to apply new ways to design and implement services with along the new technologies and process re-design.
GovStack Approach supportive curricula are following the based on the following user profiles categories:
1. Management/ Policy Makers
2. Trainers
3. Service Designers
4. IT personnel
5. End Users.
Table Showing , and Relevant Competencies recommended for the Stakeholders Involved
The following are the relevant e-competencies for this phase
A.1. Information systems and Business Strategy Alignment
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.2. Service level management
Management/Policy makers, IT personnel
A.3. Business Plan Development
Management/Policy makers, IT personnel
A.4. Product/Service Planning
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.5. Architecture Design
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.6. Application Design
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.7. Technology Trend Monitoring
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.8. Sustainability Management
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.9. Innovating
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel
A.10. User Experience
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel, Trainers
This knowledge dimension of competency represents foundational and technical components that are very relevant in order to implement GovStack's vision of digitalization.
In order to sustain a digital society, it is equally important to continuously monitor industry trends and emerging new technologies. There is need to establish a digital talent archive that will ensure continuous sustainability in a country's capacity strength.
The successful implementation of the GovStack Approach requires countries to consider a long-term strategy that accounts for the kind of academic support that is needed to achieve digitalization goals. From a short-term perspective, the general GovStack approach is sufficient to keep the GovStack eco-system up and running. However, in order to foster sustainability within country digital teams, academic support is a valuable asset to ensure that long-term goals are met.
While developing university programmes at the Masters' level, universities should consider not only theoretical approaches, but also labor market needs based on different competency and qualification frameworks. These frameworks reflect the skills that are needed in different domains within digitalization.
The main learning outcomes to support the GovStack's approach will give
Enabling an understanding of the different competencies needed for digital journey
Informing different co-design techniques and applying this knowledge to implement the GovStack Approach
The expected learning outcomes should ensure the program meets the following:
Knowing the current potential of technology and data and being able to critically assess their social and ethical impacts,
a. Understanding technology that is used in the delivery of the digital state.
b. Learning to operate with technology and how to create human centric government e-services.
Knowing to design / plan / implement / evaluate a practical digital transformation project for an up-to-date range of public services,
a. Developing strategic management abilities,
b. Learning to analyze and propose digital concepts for governance and public services.
The academic study program should serve as an enabler of providing knowledge and skills at the intersection of technology, business and management, design thinking and policy sides. The reason for such an interdisciplinary approach lies in the needs of the labor market.
Management/Policy makers, Service Designers, IT personnel (Recommended Curriculum Skills Matrix based on )
Additionally to the study programmes should follow the Computing Curricula 2020, CC2020 approach in terms of the elements of knowledge.
GovStack uses a descriptive and e-learning approach, that is the to train the stakeholders.
The is destined for innovative professionals working in public sector organizations. It describes the eight skills that are necessary to promote innovation in the public sector: self-organizations, independent learning, creativity, communication, teamwork, networking, capturing trends and risk management. The framework reflects three primary vector:, the individual, the team, and the organization. To achieve innovation, the individual needs to be action-oriented; the team needs to be cooperative; and the organization must be sustainable.
ISCO is one of the main international classifications for which the International Labor Organization (ILO) is responsible. ISCO is a tool for organizing jobs into a clearly defined set of groups according to the tasks and duties undertaken in the job. ISCO-08 is a four-level hierarchically structured classification that allows all jobs to be classified into 436 unit groups. They are aggregated into 130 minor groups, 43 sub-major groups and 10 major groups.
e-QF is considered an instrument of comparing qualifications across countries and institutions. As of September 2021, 35 countries have linked their national qualification systems to e-QF.
It also recommends including cybersecurity and data science to curricula . Also, the report creators have come up with the list of draft competencies in each of the researched areas.
SFIA introduces 7 different levels of responsibility, at which skills can be exercised. However, the seven levels are not applicable to all skills, as some are necessary at entry level and some at senior roles.
An example of the SFIA application can be found in the Australian work on the creation of the a supporting tool to identify career routes and skill gap.
The framework uses to describe professional roles. The roles are described in a unified manner (name, mission, description of significant activities and tasks, list of competences, trends and factors in change for the job-role, example of a typical deliverable).
The roles are divided into 7 families: Organization and management of changes to the information system, Project management, Application life cycle, Provision of infrastructure and maintenance in operational condition, Support and assistance, Security, Operational Management, Data, Supplier relationships.
In addition to German Qualifications Framework , which covers a broad scope of qualifications, provides a system of career profiles of specialists in the computer, software and telecommunications sectors.
provides along with the toolkit easy steps on how to structure an e-Governance team and how to conduct fact-based training needs analysis for competency benchmarking. It includes 19 identified e-governance roles categorized into 2 major roles: 8 administrative and 11 technical roles.
It covers all kinds of competencies and is not limited to IT capabilities only. The aligns competencies across four dimensions: Professional Skills Set, Knowledge Set, Behavioral Set, and Qualifications Set. It also recommends improvements in recruitment processes and outcomes, and performance evaluation.
