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• Introduction - governments' use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is tool to achieve better government
• Strategic Planning e-governance strategies, how an effective strategic plan can be developed through a process, Important elements of the strategic plans of some e-governance leaders
• Structures and Processes for Implementing and Operating - organizational transformation in the context of electronic governance, change management in large organizations, good practice program management when implementing IT strategy, importance of ICT governance
• Workflow and Business Process Management - technologies supporting e-governance
• Building a Community of Practice - rationale, objectives, activities and future directions of the UNeGov.net initiative
• Ontology, Semantic Web - examines Ontologies and the Semantic Web, presents some case studies

Technology, Society, and Business, availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society: search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, search of blogs and online communities
 

Introduction and the Production Possibilities Frontier, Comparative Advantage and the Gains From Trade, Supply and Demand, Cap and Trade, Game Theory
 

Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Under Unconfoundedness, Linear Panel Data Models, Regression, Discontinuity Designs, Nonlinear Panel Data Models, Instrumental Variables with Treatment Effect, Heterogeneity, Control Function and Related Methods, Bayesian Inference Cluster and Stratified Sampling, Partial Identification, Difference-in-Differences Estimation, Discrete Choice Models, Missing Data, Weak Instruments and Many Instruments, Quantile Methods, Generalized Method of Moments and Empirical Likelihood
 

basic tools of game theoretic analysis, applications of game theory, primarily in economics and political science: readings

current and potential applications of information technology in electronic commerce, document representation in form of XML, XSL, DTD's, knowledge discovery using metadata & data mining, data management as in digital libraries & electronic document management, trading including deliberative, spontaneous & auctions, security (public keys, PKI, digital signatures, etc)

how to start & run a company (slides - 8 lectures)

basic concepts of financial and managerial reporting, viewpoint of readers of financial and managerial reports rather than the accountants who prepare them: readings