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ITS 832 Chapter 17

Challenges to Policy-Making in Developing Countries and the Roles of Emerging Tools, Methods and Instruments

Information Technology in a Global Economy

Professor Michael Solomon

Overview

• Analytical Centers in the Russian Federation • Situational Centers • State Automated System “Administration” • Other Policy-Making Tools and Techniques • Conclusions

Analytical Centers in the Russian Federation

• First generation of analytical systems for policy making • 1970s – Chile

• Engaged stakeholders at all levels

• Nearly the same time • Soviet Union

• Nationwide automated system – OGAS

• When the Soviet Union dissolved • Russian Federation continued work in analytics

• Developed Analytic Centers, each with specific focus

Situational Centers

• Research matured in analytics • Centers began to focus on classes of issues • Situational centers emerged

• Analytics focused on specific government functions

• Share goal is to handle big data • Most stored data is not used

• Situational centers attempt to use previously unused data

State Automated System “Administration”

• Unified distribution of government data • Collection and analysis

• Includes • Classic BI processing • OLAP processing • Advanced analytics

• Supports decision making in government • Three level structure

• Central • Departmental • Regional

Other Policy-Making Tools and Techniques

Conclusions

• Situational centers • Not integrated into decision making

• Currently mainly used in crisis situations

• Capabilities not leveraged • Underutilized

• Limited funding for further research • Centers are capable, but are not being utilized