Training Course on Mangroves and Biodiversity
This worldwide training course was intended by the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, India with financial assistance given by United Nations University. This intensive short course has a duration of 15 days.
Introduction to Integrated Water Resource Management
This course forms part of the UN-Water Virtual Learning Centre, developed by UNU-INWEH in partnership with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. It is the preliminary course used in a diploma programme on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). There are ten courses in total.
Introduction to Electronic Government
This course is an preface to electronic government (e-government). Our fundamental principle that the governments' utilize of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is not an end in itself, surely not a technical exercise, but a tool to accomplish better government. e-Government includes all measures to further this goal with the blend of ICT and the necessary organizational development. This explanation is the point of departure for the rest of the course that covers: reasons to embrace e-government, challenges to e-government, planning of e-government, front-office and back-office implementations, and the management of e-government projects.
Strategic Planning for Electronic Governance
Electronic Governance (e-Governance) seeks to renovate civic service delivery and citizens' contribution or engagement in government resolution processes for both social and economic benefits. Achieving effective and efficient e-governance depends chiefly on the availability of a strategic plan. An e-governance strategic plan characteristically describes the government's own view of electronic governance and identifies all its key stakeholders. It also provides the vision, goals, strategies and assessable objectives for the e-governance agenda as a whole. In addition, a typical strategic plan also specifies how government readiness for e-governance would be established and the foundation for prioritizing initiatives. This course aims to present a fundamental understanding of e-governance strategies and teaches how an effective strategic plan can be developed through a practice. Important elements of the strategic plans of some e-governance leaders are also discussed as case studies.
Structures and Processes for Implementing and Operating e-Governance
Governmental alteration is critical to the efficient application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business and in government in particular. There is growing consensus that most reported failures in ICT related-projects are due to the relatively deprived attention given to organizational transformation issues - especially in terms of people and processes. This course discusses organizational transformation in the circumstance of electronic governance. It starts by explaining change management in large organizations such as government agencies, new public management, strategic and performance management, business process reengineering, and the role of good practice program management when implementing IT strategy. Finally, the significance of ICT governance is explained as an enabler of organizational change.
Workflow and Business Process Management for Electronic Government
This course intends to give a fundamental understanding of technologies supporting e-governance. It examines Workflow and Business Process Management for Electronic Government.
Building a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance.
The course explains the underlying principle, objectives, activities and future directions of the UNeGov.net initiative.
Ontology, Semantic Web and Electronic Government.
This course is a preface to ontology, semantic web and electronic government (e-government). This course aims to make available fundamental understanding of technologies supporting e-governance. It examines Ontology’s and the Semantic Web in the circumstance of electronic governance. It also presents some case studies in electronic government.
Innovation Studies and Development (Audio).
This is a fresh PhD programme that targets proficient and extremely motivated students from a diversity of different backgrounds in social sciences, economics and engineering. Applicants should demonstrate an capability to pursue independent research through their prior work and academic distinction. Successful graduates will participate an important role in studying problems and choices linked to novelty processes within firms and policy institutions as well as the development and use of new technologies. Upon graduation it is anticipated that the candidates will play an important role as scholars, policymakers and professionals in their home countries and in the international UN community.
Economic Development and Innovation Studies (Audio).
In this course, the student will expand an in-depth understanding of the Economics of Technological Change, with a special importance on issues associated to economic change and advance dynamics in the world economy.
Innovation Dynamics and Industrial Change (Audio).
In this course, the student will expand in-depth understanding of innovation dynamics. In ten lectures, we will focus on fundamental concepts, theory, research questions and findings from current empirical research.
The Social Construction of Technology in Development (Audio).
This course will establish current approaches in constructivist technology studies, elaborate and investigate their significance for development studies, and explore their background in the sociology and philosophy of science.
Knowledge for Development.
The Knowledge for improvement course is not intentional to be a packaged, pre-cooked dinner to be eaten after heating it in the microwave. On the contrary, given the multifaceted and composite role of knowledge for development that challenges worldwide scholars, organizations and development practitioners alike, the course is planned rather as a hazardous journey of joint inquiry.
Environment and Sustainable Development.
This course will scrutinize policy responses to environmental problems caused by economic development with particular attention to innovation. The central topic of the course is innovation for the environment, which is explored through a number of lectures and discussion meetings.
Sectoral Systems of Innovation.
In this course, the students will expand in-depth understanding of Sectoral systems of innovation. In ten lectures, we will focus on fundamental concepts, theory, research questions and findings from current empirical research.
Technology, Industrial Development and Economic Growth in Developing Countries.
This course focuses on the practical analysis of technological development, industrial development and economic growth in developing countries. The aim is to analyze the position of developing countries in the international economy, with regard to technology, industrial development and overall economic development. Thus, it brings into argument some critical issues such as worldwide diffusion of technology, technology gaps, absorptive capacities, catching up and leapfrogging and the role of multinational corporations as actors in developing country innovation systems.
The course unlocks with two sessions on long run-trends in economic development and industrialization as a (potential) engine of growth and the emergence of manufacturing in developing countries since 1950. This is followed by two sessions focusing on the measurement and analysis of productivity and technological modify in manufacturing. We proceed with a session on country case studies of industrial development and sessions devoted to topics such as absorptive capacities, technological capabilities and the role of international companies in promoting or hindering international technology transfer to developing countries.
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