PA 613 IT in Public Administration 3(2+1)

This subject aims at studying the role of Information Technology in supporting the Public Sector Organizations, through focusing on the basic Information Technology that managers and decision makers, should know. It also tackles electronic government which has modern policies and procedures that emerge from the relationship between the development of Information Technology and the process of managing the affairs of the state such as, coding, confidential information, class divide, information technology and the national security. This subject also teaches the basic principles for knowledge management and the difference between knowledge and information, and the connection between culture of the organization and the principles of the hidden and clear knowledge and utilizing this source in gaining a competitive attitude.