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Master of Public Policy & Management
Campus Griebnitzsee
DFG-Research Training Group "WIPCAD"
University of Potsdam
Department of Economics
and Social Sciences
August-Bebel-Straße 89
14482 Potsdam, Germany
Office: Campus Griebnitzsee, House 7,
Room 3.07.211-15
"Big Data in Government: Discursive Proto-Institutionalization of Data-Driven Governance in European Metropolitan Governments"
Master of Arts »Public Policy & Management« at University of Potsdam
Thesis <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-ma-ambivalent-civil-society-in-democratic-consolidation.pdf _blank>»Ambivalent civil society in democratic consolidation – The case of local chambers of commerce and industry in the Visayas and Northern Mindanao«
Bachelor of Arts »Political Science & Economics« at WWU Münster
Thesis <link http: www.basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa_microfinance_revolution.pdf _blank>»A Microfinance Revolution? – Microfinance and 1970s Development Banks compared«
visiting researcher – Chair for E-Governance & Innovation at <link http: www.hertie-school.org _blank>Hertie School of Governance | Berlin/Germany
& Research Associate – <link http: www.ercis.org _blank>European Research Center for Information Systems | Münster/Germany
e-government research, acquisition of funding, teaching
Business Trainee – <link http: indonesien.ahk.de en _blank>German-Indonesian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (EKONID) | Jakarta/Indonesia
market analyses for renewable energy
research assistant – <link http: www.climate-chameleon.de htm_engl index_engl.html _blank>Chameleon Research Group, <link http: www.ioew.de en _blank>Institute for Ecological Economy Research | Berlin/Germany
research on adaptation to climate to climate change in the public utility sector
research consultant – AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation | Cebu/Philippines
field study <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads lehner_thapa_vester_microfinance_as_a_chamber_service_2010.pdf _blank>»Microfinance as a Chamber Service« (funded by an <link http: www.asa-programm.de en english about overview.html _blank>ASA scholarship)
intern – unit for »Sustainable Economic Development«, <link http: www.giz.de en html index.html _blank>German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) | Eschborn/Germany
<link https: dgsociety.org services valerie-gregg-student-scholarship _blank government>
<link https: www.pogs.uni-potsdam.de article phday-2016 phday-2016.html>Best Talk Award at Potsdam PhD
<link https: dgsociety.org services valerie-gregg-student-scholarship _blank up-external-link government>Valerie Gregg International Student Scholarship to attend Digital Government Conference 2015 in Phoenix/Arizona
Best Lightning Talk Award at <link https: www.volkswagenstiftung.de en events calendar-of-events veranstaltungsseite big-data-conference-summary-report.html _blank volkswagenstiftung>Herrenhausen Conference »Big Data in Transdisciplinary Perspective« 2015
Junior Researcher Travel Grant by VolkswagenStiftung to attend <link https: www.volkswagenstiftung.de en events calendar-of-events veranstaltungsseite big-data-conference-summary-report.html _blank volkswagenstiftung>Herrenhausen Conference »Big Data in Transdisciplinary Perspective« 2015 in Hannover/Germany
ICEGOV scholarship to attend <link http: www.icegov.org _blank conference on theory and practice of electronic>International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Electronic Government 2013 in Seoul/Korea
<link https: www.daad.de hochschulen programme-weltweit mobilitaet promos de _blank akademischer>PROMOS travel grant for three-month research stay in the Philippines in 2012
<link http: wittenherdecke.oikos-international.org projekte award0.html _blank for sustainable economics and>oikos Sustainability Thesis Award 2010 for Bachelor thesis on microfinance
Thapa, Basanta (2016) <link http: shop.welttrends.de e-journals e-paper welttrends populist-reformer-oder-hardliner>“Populist, Reformer oder Hardliner? Der neue Präsident auf den Philippinen” WeltTrends – Das außenpolitische Journal 117: 16-19.
Thapa, Basanta (2016) “<link http: asien.asienforschung.de asien-138-januar-2016 _blank gesellschaft für asienkunde e.>An Ambivalent Civil Society in Democratic Consolidation – The Case of Local Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Visayas and North Mindanao” ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 138: 70-88.
Thapa, Basanta (2015) <link http: www.pacific-geographies.org pg44 _blank pacific>„Silent Politics: How local chambers of commerce in the Philippines fail to foster democratisation” Pacific Geographies 44: 11-16.
Thapa, Basanta; Niehaves, Björn; Seidel, Claudius; Plattfaut, Ralf (2015) <link http: content.iospress.com articles information-polity ip351 _blank>»Citizen Involvement in Public Sector Innovation: Government and Citizen Perspectives« Information Polity 20 (1), 3-17.
Kleibrink, Alexander; Niehaves, Björn; García, Pau Palop; Sörvik, Jens; Thapa, Basanta (2015) <link http: link.springer.com article s13132-015-0240-0 _blank springer.com>“Regional ICT Innovation in the European Union: Prioritization and Performance (2008–2012)” Journal of the Knowledge Economy.
Becker, Jörg; Heddier, Marcel; Hofmann, Sara; Jurisch, Marlen; Krcmar, Helmut; Niehaves, Björn; Räckers, Michael; Rauer, Hans Peter; Schilling, John; Scholta, Hendrik; Seidel, Claudius; Thapa, Basanta; Wolf, Petra; Zepic, Robert (2014) <link http: erc.is go negzstudie _blank>„Analyse des Potenzials des E-Government-Gesetzes“, NEGZ-Studie Nr. 1 (im Auftrag des Bundesministerium des Innern). Nationales E-Government Kompetenzzentrum, Berlin.
García, Pau Palop; Thapa, Basanta; Niehaves, Björn (2014) <link http: link.springer.com chapter _blank springer.com>»Bridging the Digital Divide at the Regional Level? The Effect of Regional and National Policies on Broadband Access in Europe’s Regions« Electronic Government – Proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference (EGOV 2014), pp. 218-229
Seidel, Claudius; Thapa, Basanta; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn (2013) <link http: dl.acm.org _blank digital>»Selective Crowdsourcing for Open Process Innovation in the Public Sector – Are Expert Citizens Really Willing to Participate?« Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2013), pp. 64-72
Thapa, Basanta; Proske, Niels (2012) <link http: www.egovernment-review.org fileadmin e-gov _blank>»Portal oder App? M-Government zwischen zwei Gestaltungsprinzipien« eGovernment Review Nr. 10, pp. 26-27
Thapa, Basanta (2012) <link http: opus.kobv.de ubp volltexte pdf _blank bibliotheksverbund>»Mit internetbasierter bürgerschaftlicher Koproduktion zu einer neuen Partizipationskultur«. In: Burchert, Linn; Zoon Politikon – Werkstatt für Politik & Wirtschaft e.V. (2012) »Perspektiven für morgen. Gedanken zur Zukunft von Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft« Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, pp. 82–92
Lehner, Sarah; Thapa, Basanta; Vester, Bernhard (2010) <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads lehner_thapa_vester_microfinance_as_a_chamber_service_2010.pdf _blank>»Microfinance as a Chamber Service. Research Report & Workshop Documentation« Cebu City: Working for the Enhancement of the Chamber & Association Network in the Visayas and Caraga.
<link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-ipsa-foreshadowing-data-driven-government.pdf>»Foreshadowing Data-driven Government: Citizen-Government Interaction in Visions of the Data-powered State« at the <link http: wc2016.ipsa.org my-ipsa events wc2016 panel public-administration-and-digital-turn>24th World Congress of Political Science in Poznan/Poland, 23-28 July 2016
Proposal presentation <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-technosciencesocieties-big-data-in-government-abstract.pdf>»Big Data in Government: Of the Big Data Myth and Its Translations in Local Governments« at the <link https: www.itas.kit.edu veranstaltungen_2016_summerschool.php>Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School »Techno Science Societies: Between Myth Formation and Societal Structure« in Donostia-San Sebastián/Spain, 18-22 July 2016
Presentation <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-phday-big-data-knows-best_presentation.pdf>»Big Data knows best? Datengetriebene Verwaltung zwischen Big Brother und rationalistischem Mythos« at the <link https: www.pogs.uni-potsdam.de article phday-2016 phday-2016.html>Potsdam PhDay 2016 in Potsdam/Germany, 7 July 2016
Paper presentation <link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-big-data-is-power-fojus.pdf _blank>“Big Data is power? Potential knowledge political effects of Big Data Analytics in government” at the FoJuS Annual Conference 2016 [Forum of Young Public Administration and Policy Researchers] in Hannover, 11-12 February 2016
Proposal Presentation “<link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-big-data-in-government-spetses.pdf _blank up-external-link>Big Data in Government: Discursive Proto-Institutionalization in European Metropolitan Governments” at the 3rd COST-LocRef PhD-Training School in Spetses/Greece, 13–17 September 2015
Proposal Presentation “<link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa-dgo_2015_submission_63_short.pdf _blank up-external-link>Big Data, Government & Wicked Problems: Shifting Knowledge Politics in Smart Cities” in the PhD Colloqium of the <link http: annual international conference>16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (d.go 2015) in Phoenix/Arizona, 27–30 May 2015
Poster presentation “Big Data in Government: A Social Science Perspective” at the <link>2nd International WIPCAD Conference “Contested Public Organizations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy” in Potsdam, 4-6 December 2014
Paper presentation “<link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa_icegov_-citizensourcing.pdf _blank up-external-link>Selective Crowdsourcing for Open Process Innovation in the Public Sector – Are Expert Citizens Really Willing to Participate?” at the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2013) in Seoul/Republic of Korea, October 2013
Workshop “Inside the Brussels bubble – Lobbying EU institutions” (with <link https: www.linkedin.com in danielfritz _blank up-external-link linkedin.com>Daniel Fritz & Jacob Müller) at Chemnitzer Politiktage 2012, TU Chemnitz, November 2012
Presentation “<link http: basantathapa.de wp-content uploads thapa_zp_koproduktion.pdf _blank up-external-link>Through internet-based civic co-production to a new culture of participation” at the Long Night of Science 2012 at University of Potsdam, June 2012
Workshop & Report Presentation “Microfinance as a chamber service” in Cebu City/Philippines, November 2010
Big Data Analytics is considered a major technological innovation for government and public administrations, but there is substantial disagreement about the scope of its impact. In the theoretical perspective of new institutionalism, Big Data in government is a case of proto-institutionalization whose specific social construction or ‘theorization’ is subject to discursive struggles among actor constellations and processes of translation and editing that render it compatible to institutional legacies. Comparing the discursive dynamics of the theorizations of Big Data Analytics in three metropolitan European Smart Cities (Vienna, Amsterdam, and London) with qualitative data analysis and co-occurrence analysis, the patterns of theorization and the influence of actor constellations, contextual factors, and institutional legacies on the local understanding of Big Data in government are explored. The findings also shed light on the suggested emergence of a new digital public sector reform paradigm.
DFG-Research Training Group "WIPCAD"
University of Potsdam
Department of Economics and Social Sciences
August-Bebel-Straße 89
14482 Potsdam, Germany
Office: Campus Griebnitzsee, House 7, Room 211-215
E-Mail: coordinatoruwipcad-potsdampde