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Academic institutions have been investigating digital technology for

key campus mechanisms more than ever before, and for good
reason. we know the drawbacks of manual operations if we've ever
tried to reconcile data from two different worksheets, sort via stacks
of student assignments, or schedule a time to sit in a carrel and
evaluate a tenurial review binder. Digital tools have significant
advantages for improving process consistency, security, efficiency,
and performance. The case for digital solutions grows as
organisations help faculty and students across a broader range of
geographic areas with a broadening set of demands. When that
comes to digital, digital tools have two significant advantages over
any type of manual process, A data structure that ensures
information is captured consistently across all contributors. A shared
repository that excludes the need to search through binders, storage
cabinets, thumb drives, and individual spreadsheets. These factors
enable institution to capture and retain data critical to key processes,
and also report on that data over time. We enter a shared workspace
when we log in to a digital solution, for which systems are groups can
contribute to a common process or project. All work is recorded in a
factory system that also guides participants through the procedures.
The sharable workspace influences the job to cover the desired
outcome, whether it's an assessment of learning outcomes or a self-
study for accreditation.
The digital transformation is a clear example of technological
change that has had much further ramifications for politics and
society. It involved a broadening range of changes that many
attribute to the Industrial Revolution. Many argued that it brought
about another massive transformation in human life. These dramatic
changes, among other things, are beginning to transform how I
understand politics and how leaders govern. Social media, satellite
and remote sensing imagery, and administrative record digitization
have generated massive amounts of new data, and social scientists
are developing a set of novel methodological tools to deal with them.
Instantaneously, digitalization has amplified hard fears about the
future of privacy, surveillance and control, work, and the foundations
of democratic governance.
Despite the fact that digitalization is exceptional, the potential
ramifications for political science are enormous. The volume, velocity,
and variety of data have been revolutionised by digitalization, having
allowed us to observe and analyse (sometimes in real time) the
information that people choose to consume, the information
produced by political actors, the environment in which they live, and
many other aspects of people's lives." Political scientists can use new
data sources such as the internet, administrative records, political
texts, remote sensing technologies, and new media. Massive
amounts of these new types of data allow for exact information
replication. Digitalization shifts data analysis from small samples to
"near-universal population coverage."
Lawmakers already have new ways to treat their constituents and
energise voters. Governments have used big data to highlight
services and respond quickly to natural disasters and emerging
threats. It is projected that big data could help cities become
"smart," continuing to improve quality-of-life indicators by 10-30%
over current levels. "Smart cities" have the potential to reduce crime,
improve traffic and bus services, warfighting preventable disease,
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Undeniably, the digital
revolution has changed extraordinary opportunities for political
scientists, but it has also reared serious questions about politics, such
as the future of work, privacy, regulatory oversight, outright war,
and democratic. Many of these issues are not novel, but digitalization
has heightened their difficulty and significance.
The impact of the digital revolution on the workplace and workforce
is a hot topic these days. Digitization, machine learning, and big data
are merging to transform almost every aspect of daily life. Users
(sometimes unknowingly) share their private details for "unlimited"
or minimal services in the internet age. Same individuals are often
linked across datasets, raising the risk of potentially sensitive
information getting leaked. Aside from unintentionally information
disclosure, cybersecurity is a critical issue. Individual and state-
sponsored hackers have routinely attempted to breach protected
databases in order to steal credit reports, email records, closed
source corporate data, and national secrets.
Authoritarian governments' access to knowledge gives a special
problems. By limiting and shaping information flows, big data may
help to reinforce autocracy.
Authoritarian governments are also using big data to strengthen
their control and surveillance of dissent by integrating traditional
credit reporting mechanisms with online activity, online ordering
data, and social networks to create a comprehensive view of their
citizens. Many people are worried that these digital tools will
improve rather than weaken autocrats' control over society. The
indifference of automation influences not only democratic structures,
communication, and interaction in the political realm, but also our
discipline. Digitalization is both a transformative force and a research
subject for our discipline in terms of teaching, learning, and research.
Besides which, we are confronted with digitalized data analysis
methods that open up new avenues for data mining, collection of
data, and data analysis; but even so, these new opportunities are
accompanied by challenges such as research data management,
particularly ethical aspects of data processing.
This "life form" factor is critical. Even if universities provide
the infrastructure (such as e-learning management systems), the
impact of digitalization is heavily dependent on the extent to which
digital tools are integrated into the teaching. Furthermore,
professors must be prepared for this new type of teaching system. A
generational divide is evident here. This may refer even more to
digitalization as a research topic, rather than a "playing field for
younger scholars," as several authors emphasise. Another key player
in this regard is, of course, the universities or governments
(depending on the national system of higher education and who is in
charge).
Furthermore, the Belgium Political Science Association (ABSP), the
national political science association, is a very ambitious actor. Thus,
there appears to be a positive convergence of several actors pushing
for the adoption of digitalization on various levels.