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Assignment: Proposal Instructions: After reviewing the Application Paper instructions, please submit a brief paragraph explaining your proposed Application Paper topic. This must include a specific public administration organization in the US and a specific leader in that organization who can be interviewed for your paper.
Application Paper Instructions: The Application Paper is the culminating project of the course where students will apply course concepts to an analysis of a real public administration organization including an interview of a key leader within that organization. Students will submit a topic proposal for professor review and upon approval will write 12-14 pages of content. The paper must include citations from at least 15 scholarly sources in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible.
Specifics: • 12-14 pages of content, double-spaced
• Must include citations from all readings and presentations for the assigned module and at least 25 scholarly sources in total
• Each paper consists of 3 parts (below) plus an introduction and reference section.To make it easier for readers to follow your thinking, please discuss the topics in the order presented above and with appropriate heading.
• Current APA format
Discuss the following:
• Part 1: Your observations and learnings from the interview with a public sector administrator, CIO/CTO, elected or appointed official, or other policy maker on how he/she and her/his organization are using IM/IT.
• Part 2: Applying what we've studied thus far to what you learned in that interview, assess for a specific public service or policy the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of its management of information.
• Part 3: Recommendations in an action plan that organization can consider and adopt to increase its effective and impactful use of technologies and information to improve that service.
• Synthesize the above with a Biblical model of government and statesmanship.
Magana, Sonny. Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin/Sage Publishing. 2017. 9781506359090.
Valacich, Joseph. Information Systems Today: Managing in the Digital World. 8th ed. Pearson. 2018. ISBN: 9780134635200.
White, Jay. Managing Information in the Public Sector. M.E. Sharpe. 2007. ISBN: 9780765617491.