Development of Proactive Public Services Using the Service Portfolio of the City of Tartu as an Example
Name
Liisi Park
Abstract
The rapid development of technology has resulted in huge amounts of data in which people have to grasp on a daily basis. Finding the correct information at the right time is becoming more and more complicated. This is a serious challange also in the public sector because the precondition for using public services is that the citizen knows, which services are offered by the public sector and can find the information regarding how to receive the services.
Implementation of proactive services has been offered as one of the possible solutions to this chllenge as in that case the process of offering the services would be reversed in such a way that the citizen does not have to apply for the service themselves any more and instead of that the public authority offers the services to the target group at the right time and via the right channel by using the existing information in different public databases.
The research paper studies the concepts of the public sector, public service and e-government, the different stages of e-government development, the concept of a proactive service, and the practices of Taiwan and Estonia in the development of proactive services until now.
One of the goals of the research paper is to find an answer to the question regarding which services could be offered proactively. Based on the service portfolio of the City of Tartu, it is studied what is the proportion of public services that could be offered in a proactive way.
Implementation of proactive services has been offered as one of the possible solutions to this chllenge as in that case the process of offering the services would be reversed in such a way that the citizen does not have to apply for the service themselves any more and instead of that the public authority offers the services to the target group at the right time and via the right channel by using the existing information in different public databases.
The research paper studies the concepts of the public sector, public service and e-government, the different stages of e-government development, the concept of a proactive service, and the practices of Taiwan and Estonia in the development of proactive services until now.
One of the goals of the research paper is to find an answer to the question regarding which services could be offered proactively. Based on the service portfolio of the City of Tartu, it is studied what is the proportion of public services that could be offered in a proactive way.
Graduation Thesis language
Estonian
Graduation Thesis type
Master - Conversion Master in IT
Supervisor(s)
Toomas Saarsen
Defence year
2018