The course is designed to introduce students to gain an in-depth understanding of e-governance with an emphasis on regulatory frameworks for data security, information protection, and transparent governance. It examines legal challenges associated with the use of data collected by various smart applications for smart city plans. The course also gives a focused examination of digitalized healthcare and biomedical research, and the regulations that govern them. It addresses not only privacy and security matters but also other important challenges, such as those related to data quality and data analysis in precision medicine and clinical research.

CILO-1: Students will be able to describe basic principles and theories in the regulation of data protection in e-governance implementation. CILO-2: Students will be able to identify and describe the regulatory challenges raised by the application of big data in the public management. CILO-3: Students will be able to describe the existing legal frameworks for data collection and sharing in e-health and biomedical research. CILO-4: Students will be able to evaluate measures that aim to improve the effectiveness of data sharing and protection in the digitalized healthcare and biomedical research.