PAP 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Public Administration, Knowledge Management

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3340
• Professor: David Brown

Document Summary

November 29, 2016 issues in hrm technology. Technology has always been a driving force in governance and public administration. I(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s history, it has shaped: (cid:862) ea(cid:272)h(cid:863) of the tate. Expansion of canada telegraph and railway. Nature of government operations telephone and automobile: how the state operates. Recording information typewriters and data bases. Remembering acid free paper, new generation software: what the state addresses. 20th century saw three strands of technology development, each with its own public policy/public administration environment: telecommunications, broadcasting, computing less regulated, but government research and use. Telecommunications and broadcasting began to converge in mid-20th century: department of communications (1969): hardware and software, computing relatively unregulated. Networked computing linked computing and telecommunications in the late 20th century. Internet in late cold war, www, in early 1990s: growing public policy importance of it industry, science, and technology. Icts and governance in the past 20 years. 1993 k. campbell reorganization of government.