Mila Gascó-Hernandez

Mila Gascó-Hernández holds a MBA and a PhD in public policy evaluation (Award Enric Prat de la Riba granted to the best PhD thesis on public management and administration, given by the Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain). She is co-founder of Estratic as well as an associate professor at both the Open University of Catalonia and the Pompeu Fabra University, both in Spain. For seven years, she was a senior analyst at the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia. She has a wide teaching experience (she worked as a full professor in the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain) as well as a broad researching experience. She has taken part in numerous national and international seminars, she has published both in Spanish and English and she has supervised some Ph. D thesis. She has collaborated with several institutions such as both the provincial and city government of Barcelona, the World Bank Development Gateway, the United Nations Development Program, the University of Hull in United Kingdom, the Mayor’s Office in Valencia (Venezuela) or the Governments of Brazil and Dominican Republic. Her main interests are related to public policies that allow the transition of a society to the so-called knowledge era (in particular she is interested in e-government and e-governance), to the use of ICTs for human development and to public policy evaluation.

Publications

Foreword
Foreword
Mila Gascó-Hernandez. © 2009. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM.
Information Communication Technologies and City Marketing: Digital Opportunities for Cities Around the World
Information Communication Technologies and City Marketing: Digital Opportunities for Cities Around the World
Mila Gascó-Hernandez, Teresa Torres-Coronas. © 2009. 438 pages.
Important investments of the past several years have greatly contributed to the study of city marketing. Nevertheless, there is still an important tool brought about by the new...
International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)
International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)
Hakikur Rahman. Est. 2009.
Information and communication technologies are directly influencing the way human beings are engaging themselves in their routine activities. The governance including...
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mila Gascó-Hernández. © 2009. 6 pages.
Many studies have already shown how a team can become more creative, and therefore more efficient, but only a few researchers have focused on how a virtual team can use...
Civil Servants' Resistance towards E-Gopvernment Development
Civil Servants' Resistance towards E-Gopvernment Development
Mila Gasco. © 2008. 9 pages.
As the new UNPAN E-Government Readiness Report (2004) stated, during the last years, governments worldwide have made rapid progress in embracing information and communication...
E-Government and Multi-Level Governance: A Comparative Examination of Catalonia, Spain, and Ontario, Canada
E-Government and Multi-Level Governance: A Comparative Examination of Catalonia, Spain, and Ontario, Canada
Mila Gascó, Jeffrey Roy. © 2008. 16 pages.
E-government is entering its second decade as a widely-embraced agenda for public sector reform. There are often distinctions made between e-government as administrative reform...
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mila Gasco-Hernandez. © 2008. 8 pages.
Many studies have already shown how a team can become more creative, and therefore more efficient, but only a few researchers have focused on how a virtual team can use...
Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Mila Gascó-Hernandez, Fran Equiza-Lopez, Manuel Acevedo-Ruiz. © 2007. 348 pages.
Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it...
Latin America Online: Cases, Successes and Pitfalls
Latin America Online: Cases, Successes and Pitfalls
Mila Gascó-Hernandez. © 2007. 386 pages.
It is becoming increasingly common for governments to initiate online governments for efficient and effective programs, facilitating more accessible government services, allowing...
E-Government and Multi-Level Governance: A Comparative Examination of Catalonia, Spain, and Ontario, Canada
E-Government and Multi-Level Governance: A Comparative Examination of Catalonia, Spain, and Ontario, Canada
Mila Gascó, Jeffrey Roy. © 2006. 19 pages.
E-government is entering its second decade as a widely-embraced agenda for public sector reform. There are often distinctions made between e-government as administrative reform...
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Improving Virtual Teams through Creativity
Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mila Gasco-Hernandez. © 2005. 6 pages.
Many studies have already shown how a team can become more creative, and therefore more efficient, but only a few researchers have focused on how a virtual team can use...
Virtual Teams and their Search for Creativity
Virtual Teams and their Search for Creativity
Mila Gasco-Hernandez, Teresa Torres-Coronas. © 2004. 19 pages.
In this chapter, we examine the differences in processes and results when creativity techniques are used in the management of traditional and virtual teams. To do this, we...