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Author: Otis R. Bowen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253337672

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"Otis Bowen grew up poor in Fulton County, but was rich in the things that count. With the support of his parents, siblings, teachers, and friends, he pursued a dream of becoming a family physician. This book is Otis Bowen's recollection of his hard work and continuous sacrifice to finance his way though medical school."--BOOK JACKET.

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society
Author: Juliane Jarke
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030528731

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This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons is that many digital public services (or e-services) do not respond well to the life worlds, use contexts and use practices of its target audiences. This book argues that when older adults are involved in the process of identifying, conceptualising, and designing digital public services, these services become more relevant and meaningful. The book describes and compares three co-creation projects that were conducted in two European cities, Bremen and Zaragoza, as part of a larger EU-funded innovation project. The first part of the book traces the origins of co-creation to three distinct domains, in which co-creation has become an equally important approach with different understandings of what it is and entails: (1) the co-production of public services, (2) the co-design of information systems and (3) the civic use of open data. The second part of the book analyses how decisions about a co-creation project’s governance structure, its scope of action, its choice of methods, its alignment with strategic policies and its embedding in existing public information infrastructures impact on the process and its results. The final part of the book identifies key challenges to co-creation and provides a more general assessment of what co-creation may achieve, where the most promising areas of application may be and where it probably does not match with the contingent requirements of digital public services. Contributing to current discourses on digital citizenship in ageing societies and user-centric design, this book is useful for researchers and practitioners interested in co-creation, public sector innovation, open government, ageing and digital technologies, citizen engagement and civic participation in socio-technical innovation.

Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany

Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany
Author: Frank A. Rollin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781717258366

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At the close of every revolution in a country, there is observed an effort for the gradual and general expulsion of all that is effete, or tends to retard progress; and as the nation comes forth from its purification with its existence renewed and invigorated, a better and higher civilization is promised. Before entering upon such an effort, it is usual to compute the aid rendered in the past struggle for national existence, and the present status of the auxiliaries in connection with it. In this manner, as the sullen roar of battle ceases, as the war cloud fades out from our sky, we are enabled to look more soberly upon the stupendous revolution, its causes and teachings, and to consider the men and new measures developed through its agency, the material with which the country is to be reconstructed. In reviewing the history of the late civil war, it will be found, as in former revolutions, that those who were able to master its magnitude were men who, prior to the occasion, were almost wholly unknown, or claimed but a local reputation.

Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, 1865

Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, 1865
Author: Kittrell J. Warren
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0820334790

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Published in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler is a fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback, Confederate deserter from Georgia, as he wanders the southern countryside he had sworn to protect. In its comic portrayal of the rascally Fishback, An Army Straggler pays homage to the forms and dialects of the picaresque frontier folktale.

The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...

The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...
Author: Henry Jarvis Raymond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1865
Genre: United States
ISBN:

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Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter.

Public Service Values

Public Service Values
Author: Richard C. Box
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317507541

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Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals. A discussion of these very tenets and their relevance to core public functions, as well as which areas might elicit value conflicts for public professionals, is central to any comprehensive understanding of budget and finance, human resource management, and strategic planning in the public sector. Public Service Values is written specifically for graduate and undergraduate courses in public administration, wherever a discussion of public service ideals might enrich the learning experience and offer students a better understanding of daily practice. Exploring the meaning and application of specific values, such as Neutrality, Efficiency, Accountability, Public Service, and Public Interest, provides students and future professionals with a ‘workplace toolkit’ for the ethical delivery of public services. Well-grounded in scholarly literature and with a relentless focus on the public service professional, Public Service Values highlights the importance of values in professional life and encourages a more self-aware and reflective public practice. Case studies to stimulate reflection are interwoven throughout the book and application to practice is cemented in a final section devoted to value themes in professional life as well as a chapter dedicated to holding oneself accountable. The result is a book that challenges us to embrace the necessity of public service values in our public affairs curricula and that asks the important questions current public service professionals should make a habit of routinely applying in their daily decision making.

Abraham Lincoln. His Life, Public Services, Death, and Great Funeral Cortege, with a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument

Abraham Lincoln. His Life, Public Services, Death, and Great Funeral Cortege, with a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument
Author: John Carroll Power
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2024-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385376165

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.