

Dean of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Once again, thank you for your valuable contribution. Indeed, this has been a great knowledge-sharing experience which hopefully could enhance and contribute to the development of more advanced theories and practices in the future. I hope that 63 articles published in this proceeding will provide new insights and debates on open government discussion. This proceeding is the collective research made by approximately one hundred participants during the IAPA Conference. Openness culture would ease researchers to gain access to government information, data, and document which stimulate research on public issues which might already illustrate on this proceeding. As academics, I believe that the scholars would have crucial role in addressing open government initiatives. By promoting transparency, public involvement, and technology usage, open government initiative seeks to tackle today’s governing challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality, and climate change by opening the doors for non-government actors to get involved, including the academics. In the forms of organisations, citizen projects, and ICT usage, the movements of open government urge public leaders and other stakeholders to strengthen their commitments in order to promote openness culture between government bodies. The topic spesifically addressed the urgency of open government which at the moment has received exponential and positive responses from leaders and citizens around the globe. Last year’s conference main topic was ‘Towards Open Government: Finding the Whole Government Approach’. Remarks from the Dean Dear IAPA Conference 2017 delegates, Thank you for your enthusiastic participation during the Indonesian Association for Public Administration International Conference held in Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, from 8 to 9 September 2017. Prints I, September 2017 First published in Indonesia in 2017 by The Faculty Of Social And Political Science Universitas Airlangga Dharmawangsa Dalam Surabaya Street 60286, East Java, Indonesia Telp.: +62-31-5034015 Fax.: +62-31-5012442 Website: E-mail: ©2017 The Faculty Of Social And Political Science Universitas Airlangga Proceeding International Conference Toward Open Government: Finding The Whole – Government Approach ISBN 978–602–18461–5-5 Editor: Nanang Haryono, Agie Nugroho Soegiono, Putu Aditya Ferdy Ariawantara, Philipus Keban.


TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT : FINDING THE WHOLE–GOVERNMENT APPROACHĭepartment of Administration The Faculty of Social and Political Science Universitas Airlangga INDONESIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Indonesian Association for Public Administration 2017
