Master’s Programme in Open eGovernment, 120 credits

Stockholm 2015-08-20

Welcome to the master’s programme Open eGovernment!

Here is initial information about the programme:

· The courses at DSV start Monday August 31, 2015.

· On Monday August 31, 2015 (not before that date) you will have access to the course site(s) with the course materials, including instructions, lectures, boxes for handing in assignments etc. All course sites at DSV are available at ilearn2, which is our learnings platform. The address to ilearn2 is ilearn2.dsv.su.se, and you need your SU account to log in. When you have logged in you will see the course(s) that you is/are registered at (but note, not before August 31 and only the courses that starts August 31). In ilearn 2, you will also on August 31 see the programme site, Master’s Programme in Open eGovernment, with general information about the programme.

· The SU account has already been sent to you via email or via ordinary post, see previous mail from DSV

· If you are a student that do not have a computer science or information system background you will start with the SUPCOM course, Supplementary Course in Computer and Systems Sciences, 15 hp, during the first two months. The course responsible is Donny McMillan. This course require that you are very active from the beginning, and the course is a pre-requisite for continue the programme. You will have examination in the end of every week, or every second week. The different parts will have different teachers. In the first week (Software Engineering & Development), I will be the teacher. The parts are as follows:

o 31 Aug - 6 Sep : Intro / Software Engineering & Development

o 7 Sep - 13 Sep : HCI & Prototyping

o 14 Sep - 27 Sep: Databases

o 28 Sep - 11 Oct : Programming

o 12 Oct - 25 Oct : Systems, Architecture, & Networking

o 26 Oct - 1 Nov : Information Security

o 2 Nov - 8 Nov : Essay & FX Task

The course book is Brookshear J.G., Computer Science: An Overview (I am not sure about the edition, and I will check that and come back to you about that, by updating this web page soon)

· If you are a student with with a computer science or information system background you will start and carry out with two courses, Enterprise Computing and ERP Systems (designated and called IS1) and Knowledge Management (designated and called KM), in parallel the two first month.

o The first course is Enterprise Computing and ERP Systems (designated and called IS1). Paul Johannesson is course responsible, but I am deeply involved in the course so you should communicate with me about the course, now and during the course. In this course there are hard deadlines for handing in assignments. This course include a group assignment, and I will help you form groups after August 31. There is possible to do the assignment individually, but it will be a heavy work load on you. The course book Pavel Hruby: Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns, Springer, 2006, 35403-01542. Note that there is possible to download a digital copy of the course book via SU Library http://www.sub.su.se/home/, and Springer Link. But you need to use your SU account. I will provide you with detailed info how to download the book via SU Library soon on this web page.

o The second course is Knowledge Management (designated and called KM). I am the course responsible for the course. The course does not have group assignments, only individual assignments. This course is also possible to do in your own pace - although not recommended, that is, there is no hard deadlines, only suggested deadlines. There will be several occasions for doing the exam. I recommend you to order or borrow the course book already now, since it usually takes some weeks for the book to be delivered. The course book is Prusak Laurence & Matson Eric: Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, Oxford University Press, 2006, 0-19-929180-2

· If you have some questions, mail me on perjons@dsv.su.se and try to start the subject row in the email with “eGovMaster:” and then add some additional phase. Thereby, I can easily find the mails regarding the eGovMaster in my mail account.

Best regards,

Erik Perjons

program director, Open eGovernment,

perjons@dsv.su.se