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.
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
11/01/2025
Con la crisis de las grandes ideologías del s.XX y el momento de una cierta revisión del modelo socioeconómico y del contrato social en el s.XXI, entra con fuerza la idea de una Administración emprendedora, capaz de dialogar y dinamizar el resto de actores de su ecosistema, y que se persona con voz propia en el diseño de un proceso constituyente que tenga en el centro el interés general, la sostenibilidad económica, social y medioambiental en un entorno cambiante, complejo e incierto. Si bien conceptualmente se ha llamado a este modelo como Nueva Gobernanza Pública, existen todavía dificultades en ...
2025-01-10 12:57:33 ¿Debe un directivo público poder teletrabajar?
2024-10-08 12:00:25 Fin de etapa en la EAPC