Maxat Kassen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2512488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxat Kassen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxat |
| FAMILY NAME | Kassen |
| SIGNATURE | KASSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Astana Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9643-4249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From automation to authenticity
Blockchain and E‐Participation
E‐participation has been regarded by e‐government practitioners and researchers around the world as an ultimate strategic goal of many innovative public service delivery models. However, one of the objective obstacles in advancing the concept in such political reforms was the fact that the public sector has always resorted to centralization of information management workflows in advancing related e‐government policies and platforms, rendering all…
Blockchain and public sector innovations
Blockchain and digital governance
Blockchain is gaining popularity as a potential solution for the decentralized management of public information. A number of interesting solutions have been proposed by independent developers around the world to promote blockchain as a promising platform to potentially accelerate democratic processes and achieve certain public values in reforming digital governance. This could be reflected in facilitating direct citizen participation in digital p…
Prospects of blockchain governance
The article elaborates on the potential of blockchain technology to transform governance in different sectors of economy. The research primarily relies on rich empirical data that have been collected from semistructured interviews and focus group studies with professional blockchain developers. In this regard, the article aims to answer the following questions: How could blockchain governance conceptually work? How could one illustrate schematica…
Open Data Governance and Its Actors
Open Data Governance and Its Actors
Understanding decentralized civic engagement
What Does It Mean to Be a Political Scientist in a Transitional Society? Reflections from Kazakhstan
As a young discipline, political science in Kazakhstan could be regarded a poster child of collective intellectual offspring that reflects well all political and socioeconomic transformations that an emerging community of political scientists has had to go through for the last three decades to thrive and promote the field. In this regard, the key purpose of the article is to share an interesting insightful story of developments in the discipline …
Understanding foreign policy strategies of Kazakhstan
Examining Kazakhstan’s foreign policy through the lens of its position as the largest landlocked, and transcontinental, country in the world, the paper presents a multidimensional analysis of the unique soft power strategy adopted recently by this nation in promoting its various international initiatives in its region. In doing so, the paper attempts to understand the implications of Kazakhstan’s distinctive geopolitical setting at the heart of E…
Promoting public cooperation in government
The primary goal of the article is to understand the political and socio-economic incentives for government agencies to adopt various collaborative strategies in promoting current public sector reforms in Kazakhstan. In particular, paying special attention to the recent diffusion of various official blog platforms, public discussion, and civic tracking systems, it aims to identify typical drivers and barriers that policymakers and other intereste…
Open data and its institutional ecosystems
This research note explores consistent patterns in the development of open data phenomena in various institutional contexts. The research is based on cross‐jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms promoted today in more than 30 countries at local, sub‐national, national and supranational levels. Key findings suggest that, institutionally, the instrumentation of the concept is a highly context‐dependable undertaking. Almost all observed case…
A promising phenomenon of open data
A promising phenomenon of open data
Understanding foreign policy strategies of Kazakhstan
Examining Kazakhstan’s foreign policy through the lens of its position as the largest landlocked, and transcontinental, country in the world, the paper presents a multidimensional analysis of the unique soft power strategy adopted recently by this nation in promoting its various international initiatives in its region. In doing so, the paper attempts to understand the implications of Kazakhstan’s distinctive geopolitical setting at the heart of E…
Promoting public cooperation in government
The primary goal of the article is to understand the political and socio-economic incentives for government agencies to adopt various collaborative strategies in promoting current public sector reforms in Kazakhstan. In particular, paying special attention to the recent diffusion of various official blog platforms, public discussion, and civic tracking systems, it aims to identify typical drivers and barriers that policymakers and other intereste…
Open data and its institutional ecosystems
This research note explores consistent patterns in the development of open data phenomena in various institutional contexts. The research is based on cross‐jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms promoted today in more than 30 countries at local, sub‐national, national and supranational levels. Key findings suggest that, institutionally, the instrumentation of the concept is a highly context‐dependable undertaking. Almost all observed case…
Understanding decentralized civic engagement
A promising phenomenon of open data
What Does It Mean to Be a Political Scientist in a Transitional Society? Reflections from Kazakhstan
As a young discipline, political science in Kazakhstan could be regarded a poster child of collective intellectual offspring that reflects well all political and socioeconomic transformations that an emerging community of political scientists has had to go through for the last three decades to thrive and promote the field. In this regard, the key purpose of the article is to share an interesting insightful story of developments in the discipline …
Understanding foreign policy strategies of Kazakhstan
Examining Kazakhstan’s foreign policy through the lens of its position as the largest landlocked, and transcontinental, country in the world, the paper presents a multidimensional analysis of the unique soft power strategy adopted recently by this nation in promoting its various international initiatives in its region. In doing so, the paper attempts to understand the implications of Kazakhstan’s distinctive geopolitical setting at the heart of E…
Promoting public cooperation in government
The primary goal of the article is to understand the political and socio-economic incentives for government agencies to adopt various collaborative strategies in promoting current public sector reforms in Kazakhstan. In particular, paying special attention to the recent diffusion of various official blog platforms, public discussion, and civic tracking systems, it aims to identify typical drivers and barriers that policymakers and other intereste…
Open data and its institutional ecosystems
This research note explores consistent patterns in the development of open data phenomena in various institutional contexts. The research is based on cross‐jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms promoted today in more than 30 countries at local, sub‐national, national and supranational levels. Key findings suggest that, institutionally, the instrumentation of the concept is a highly context‐dependable undertaking. Almost all observed case…
Understanding decentralized civic engagement
Open Data Governance and Its Actors
Open Data Governance and Its Actors
Prospects of blockchain governance
The article elaborates on the potential of blockchain technology to transform governance in different sectors of economy. The research primarily relies on rich empirical data that have been collected from semistructured interviews and focus group studies with professional blockchain developers. In this regard, the article aims to answer the following questions: How could blockchain governance conceptually work? How could one illustrate schematica…
Blockchain and E‐Participation
E‐participation has been regarded by e‐government practitioners and researchers around the world as an ultimate strategic goal of many innovative public service delivery models. However, one of the objective obstacles in advancing the concept in such political reforms was the fact that the public sector has always resorted to centralization of information management workflows in advancing related e‐government policies and platforms, rendering all…
Blockchain and public sector innovations
Blockchain and digital governance
Blockchain is gaining popularity as a potential solution for the decentralized management of public information. A number of interesting solutions have been proposed by independent developers around the world to promote blockchain as a promising platform to potentially accelerate democratic processes and achieve certain public values in reforming digital governance. This could be reflected in facilitating direct citizen participation in digital p…
From automation to authenticity
Political science (9 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · E-Government and Public Services (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Blockchain (4 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (4 works) · Law (4 works)