Workshop on Digital Governance in China and Arab

(Preliminary)

Cosponsoring organizations

Association of Arab Universities

Arab Governance Council

Fudan-Arab Research Centre for Global Development and Governance

China-Arab Network of Schools of Public Policy and Administration

Cohost organization

China Association of Higher Education

Time: 11am-4pm (Amman Time), 4pm-9pm (Beijing Time)

Date: Apr 20 2024

Venue: Online

Backgrounds and purposes

ICT technologies have been fundamentally reshaping public sector values, structures, and functions, as well as state-society relations. Developing countries, while making tremendous efforts to cope with the many new and wicked challenges imposed by digitalization, have also been taking strategic initiatives to catch up and to exploit the potential benefits of digital governance. Public sectors in China and Arab countries, despite their starkly different social, economic and cultural contexts, face similar challenges in adapting to an emerging digital society by introducing transformative changes and reforms.

To better understand the evolution of digital governance, its causal factors, and its future trajectories in both China and Arab countries, Association of Arab Universities, Arab Governance Council, Fudan-Arab Research Centre for Global Development and Governance, and China-Arab Network of Schools of Public Policy and Administration jointly propose to organize a workshop on Apr 20 2024, inviting scholars from both sides to discuss issues, including but not limited to the following:

Digital governance and administrative reforms;

Public organization management under digital transformation;

Digital governance and public-private partnerships;

Cultural and social aspects of digital governance;

Cross-region and cross-country digital governance cooperation;

Policy making under digital modernization;

Digital divide and digital participation;

Challenges and frontier issues in digital governance;

National strategies and local best practices of digital governance;

Comparison of digital governance between China and Arab countries;

How to submit your proposal

Applicants shall submit a proposal that includes a full title of the presentation and an abstract (between 200-500 words), with the author information including name, affiliation, and bio.

Please send the proposal to fudan_arab@fudan.edu.cn, starting from Mar 25 2024. 

The deadline for submission is Apr 10, 2024. We will notify authors of accepted proposals as early as possible and by Apr 15.

Accepted participants shall submit a full PPT to the organizer as early as possible and by the noon of Apr 19 (Beijing time).

The official lanauge of this workshop is English.