Lecture by Evgeny Styrin at the College of Public Administration of Huazhong University

Head of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration Evgeny Styrin was an invited lecturer at the College of Public Administration, Huazhong University at the invitation of Professor Tao Chen as part of the course "E-government Frontiers", attended by university students, civil servants of African countries.

As part of his lecture, Evgeny Styrin touched upon methodological issues of studying the phenomenon of digital transformation in public administration. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were considered, the importance of various topics that are simultaneously being developed in the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration was substantiated. The issues of modeling citizens' reactions to the results of digital transformation, sustainable development and digital transformation, regulation of digital platforms, digital inequality and its assessment, approaches to the analysis of data-centric management were also touched upon.

After the lecture, there was a discussion with the participants of the course. Further directions for research with Chinese partners were outlined.