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PP290-4 (3) Special Topics:Information Technologyand Public Policy

Fall 2011

Tuesday, Thursday | 5:00-6:30PM |Room 105

Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Instructors: Prof. Michael O’Hare and Jason Christopher, Dir.

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Technology pervades our personal and professional lives. Our students need to be IT literate (GSPP Program Review)

Policy problems are increasingly addressed with IT tools (Experiments of Concern Portal)

Adoption of a new technology or information system will have anticipated and unanticipated implications… (Stanford, UCB)Learning IT skills will develop your IT conceptual literacy. Our philosophy is that in learning real IT skills, you will gain an invaluable IT literacy that will inform your public policy thought and decision making.

PremisesSlide3

Technology Pervades: Climbing Mt. Everest this Summer? Don’t Forget your Cell Phone.

Pasi

Koistinen, chief executive officer of Ncell

, Nepal’s first private telecom company speaks on a cell phone at an Everest base camp

First 3G (Third Generation) cell phone call from the summit of Mt. Everest on 6 May 2011.Slide4

Technology pervades our personal and professional lives. Our students need to be IT literate (GSPP Program Review)Policy problems are increasingly addressed with IT tools (Ex. Biosecurity: Experiments of Concern Portal)

Adoption of a new technology or information system may have anticipated and unanticipated implications…(Stanford, UCB)

Learning IT skills will develop your IT conceptual literacy. Our philosophy is that in learning real IT skills, you will gain an invaluable IT literacy that will inform your public policy thought and decision making.PremisesSlide5

It Tools for PolicySlide6

Technology pervades our personal and professional lives. Our students need to be IT literate (GSPP Program Review)

Policy problems are increasingly addressed with IT tools (Experiments of Concern Portal)

Adoption of a new technology or information system will have anticipated and unanticipated implications…(Stanford, UCB)Learning IT skills will develop your IT conceptual literacy. Our philosophy is that in learning real IT skills, you will gain an invaluable IT literacy that will inform your public policy thought and decision making.PremisesSlide7

Adoption of a new technology at Stanford…

“Sometimes I look and wonder if this wave of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software…wasn’t a collective hallucination,” Stanford CIO Chris Handley

“By the time Handley was hired to oversee the Oracle and PeopleSoft projects, Stanford had decided to change itself rather than the software. This meant relinquishing forever the convenience of technically superior mainframe software.”

“Version upgrade gridlock” caused by interfering software Oracle v

Peoplesoft

Techs supporting the software w/o enhancing the code

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Management/Stanford-University-Hard-Lesson/Slide8

UC Berkeley Calendaring and E-mail

E-mail: 4 million offered/day, 1 million served

Calendar System: CalAgenda, a PeopleSoft product

PeopleSoft bought by Oracle

But Oracle already has a calendar system

No plans to further develop PeopleSoft calendar

UC looks to open source (OS) development –

Rensselear

Polytechnical

Project flounders for lack of high level staffing

UC system flounders

Lead tech for

CalAgenda

migration leaves for Twitter

UCB looks to Google and Microsoft for a

soltion

Google won’t make guarantees about not hosting e-mail in China….Hello Microsoft? Slide9

Technology pervades our personal and professional lives. Our students need to be IT literate (GSPP Program Review)

Policy problems are increasingly addressed with IT tools (Experiments of Concern Portal)

Adoption of a new technology or information system may have anticipated and unanticipated implications…(Stanford, UCB)Learning IT skills will help you develop an IT conceptual literacy. Our philosophy is that in learning real IT skills, you will gain an invaluable IT literacy that will inform your public policy thought and decision making.PremisesSlide10

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What is your experience?Slide11

Student IntroductionsSlide12

How

Tuesday Sessions (Conceptual)

Primarily discussion based on readings and in-class presentation, see syllabus, find readings and links on bSpace, required and recommended material.Thursday Sessions (Skills)“Lab” session, project-oriented, experimental, what can you make the technology do?Hands-on, demonstrations of applications and technologies, students sign-ups next TuesdayFirst demo: google docs (Jason)First project: HTML-based, create a personal web page…http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/Slide13

TOPICSInternet

Filtering and Tracking

Personal Hardware: Desktops and LaptopsInternet and the WebProperty and Digital GoodsThe Ubiquitous World of DataIT as a Management ToolContent Management SystemsIT Applications and ToolsCollaborative ToolsHTML, python, Access, Plone and more… Writing IT Functional SpecificationsSlide14

ToolsClickersNotes

A shared google doc document for each session

WhiteboardA shared google doc “drawing” for each sessionWhat else?Slide15

Goals of the Class

Learn IT skills, add to your policy toolkit (HTML markup, a bit of python, collaboration tools, apps…)

Learn IT concepts, converse constructively with IT developers to build, rebuild or migrateBecome familiar with the marketplace of IT systems, their pros and cons, features and flaws, especially content management systems (CMS) (Compare and contrast systems)Learn about Managing IT Resources, write a functional specification for an IT/Policy projectMore…Slide16

AdministrativePre-requisites: None

Always bring your laptop

Grades:25% Class Participation25% Quizzes (frequent), interim group or individual projects25% Mid-term exam25% Final group projectSlide17

AdministrativebSpace for:

Web-based syllabus

Revised detailed scope and Word-based syllabus…E-mail archiveReadingsAnnouncementsOur course e-mail address: itandpp@bspace.berkeley.eduSlide18

Final Note“Could you make the blue more blue?”…