The crowdsourced dataset is available online for the public.
Hertie School students in the Digital State Capacities course, taught by Assistant Professor for Public Administration Luciana Cingolani in spring 2018, have created a dataset of digital milestones. The crowdsourced dataset compiles the digital achievement of governments around the world in recent decades, but goes back as far as the earliest forms of digital governance in the 1950s.
Students turned their research into an interactive graphic map and timeline using an online tool offered by the Open Knowledge Foundation, accessible to the general public.
The second-year Master of Public Policy and Master of International Affairs students researched how state capacities are evolving in the digital age. The course explored information-based regulation and algorithm governance; digital identities, digital services and the reach of the state; crowdsourcing, coproduction and collaborative technologies; and people analytics and information management systems in the civil service.
Students addressed topics such as which conditions allow governments to build digital capacity more readily, the intended and unintended consequences of digital instruments, as well as the strongest opportunities and biggest threats.
The timeline is a work in progress, and inputs are welcome by contacting Luciana Cingolani.
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Luciana Cingolani, Assistant Professor of Public Administration