Carlos Juiz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios carry out dissemination activities in Tunisia under the scope of the ITG4TU project
IT Governance frameworks for Tunisian Universities
A Erasmus+ Project belonging to Capacity Building, in the field of Higher Education
University of Gabes, University of Manouba, University of Tunis el Manar and University of Sfax
On 6th to 10th February, on the occasion of the Initial Assessment on IT Governance in Tunisian universities under the ITG4TU project, Carlos Juiz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios carried out dissemination activities to students and professors from the four universities. The objective of these activities is, besides promoting the project, to promote the Governance of Information Technologies in public organizations and to advance in the research on this and other related topics.
Carlos Juiz's lecture titled "Introduction to IT Governance: Strategic Management of Information Systems" showed with two real examples the importance of information technology for the achievement of the business and the need to govern and manage them correctly to not only obtain value but also keep it. Dr. Juiz stressed the importance of transforming information technologies so that they are no longer just commodities but are part of the organization's corporate strategy, aligning theirselves to the business and generating the desired value.
On the other hand, the conference of Ricardo Colomo-Palacios entitled "Research in Technology: Beyond Publishing" was based on the following learning objectives: understanding of research work in the academia, familiarity with research processes for computing, know the insights of scientific publishing in terms of writing style and structure, ability to search and select a suitable editorial and perception of details about peer review. Dr. Colomo-Palacios enphasized the quality publications must show through a systematic and careful research and so new conclusions are obtained. He also indicated the scientific processes to be followed in order to obtain new and significant results and how the acceptance criteria have changed since 2000 up to now.
Attendees were mainly master and doctorate students of the Université de Tunis el Manar, Université de la Manouba and Université de Sfax, and also Université of Gabès teachers.
IT Governance for Tunisian Universities
This project is aimed to gather a set of researchers from four universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying ITG framework models from 3 different countries (Spain, Germany and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new ITG framework to be implemented in HEIs in Tunisia. Expected results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Tunisian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Tunisia.
Event date: 06/02/2017
Publication date: 16/02/2017