Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age (TPSDA)

Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age is trying to drive up the overall number of public servants who have the fundamental skills they need to succeed in the digital era.

The project

The international project “Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age” is the work of a new, international community of researchers, teachers and practitioners with the shared goal of increasing the level of digital skills in public administration. Experts from ten institutions – including the University of Konstanz, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University – are developing an open access syllabus to help teach digital skills to current and future public servants.


Project history

First steps

We published the eight core competencies that we believe all public service leaders need to develop alongside their more traditional public service competencies.

We published our full open access Masters Level syllabus, which has been designed to be taught in whole or in part in universities around the world.