ICTlogy
Ismael Peña-López, lecturer and researcher
Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D
Ismael Peña-López, lecturer and researcher
Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D
I am Ismael Peña-López.
I am researcher and lecturer at the School of Law and Political Science, Open University of Catalonia (2005-2018; 2024-).
I have been Director of the School of Public Administration of Catalonia (2021-2024) and Director General of Citizen Participation and Electoral Processes at the Government of Catalonia (2018-2021).
I have also been fellow director of Open Innovation at Fundació Jaume Bofill and senior researcher at Open Evidence.
My main areas of work are the impact of ICTs in society (e-Readiness, the digital divide), especially in development (e-inclusion, ICT4D), and educational (e-Learning, digital competence) and political (e-participation, e-democracy) institutions.
I here present my communication for the 4th Congress of Economics and Business of Catalonia 2025 organized by the College of Economists of Catalonia. The communication is titled New Public Governance in practice: a toolbox model for public policy in times of networks, uncertainty and complexity and proposes and applied model to transform public Administrations in order to face this new era of complexity, uncertainty and networks.
The theoretical background is that of New Public Governance that has been building momentum for the last 20 years approximately. The intended contribution of my paper is not to build up on theory, but how to bring all this theory into practice, how to provide something public managers can cling on to foster the much needed transformation of public ...
When working with the idea of the citizen participation ecosystem from the point of view of a national government, one of the basic questions is how the Administration should nurture and facilitate such ecosystem. There are, at least, two approaches that have been traditionally explored.
11/01/2025
With the crisis of the major ideologies of the 20th century and the current revision of the socioeconomic model and the social contract in the 21st century, the concept of an entrepreneurial Administration is gaining strength. This is an Administration capable of engaging in dialogue and articulating the other actors within its ecosystem, asserting its voice in the design of a constituent process centered on the public interest, and fostering economic, social, and environmental sustainability in a changing, complex, and uncertain environment. Although this model has been conceptually referred to as New Public Governance, there are still challenges in translating it both to internal organization —procedures, spheres of competence, relationships between units and among Administrations— and to the provision of policies and public services —effectiveness, efficiency, and citizen engagement.
Below, I present a framework outlining the key considerations for implementing this model in practice, leveraging a constellation of tools already aiming to initiate deeply transformative policies oriented toward systemic impact beyond mere outcomes. These tools acknowledge the difficulties of establishing clear causal relationships, unanimous diagnoses, and stable courses of ...
2023-08-22 12:49:44 Managing complexity for systemic impact: responses to VUCA and BANI environments
11/03/2025
Aquí presento mi comunicación para el 4º Congreso de Economía y Empresa de Cataluña 2025, organizado por el Colegio de Economistas de Cataluña. La comunicación, titulada New Public Governance in practice: a toolbox model for public policy in times of networks, uncertainty and complexity, propone un ...
2025-03-10 18:59:31 Un siglo de leyes de Educación en España
2025-03-08 12:46:28 Brecha digital de género 2025
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