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Revenue, expenditure, and employment data indicate that county governments - once taken for granted and playing 'second fiddle' to municipalities - are playing an increasingly important role (and sometimes a role equal to that of municipalities) as vital service providers. Therefore, one would expect that county governments and municipal governments would receive approximately equal treatment in college and university graduate and undergraduate local government courses. However, a recent survey of college and university faculty who regularly teach local government courses reveals that this is not the case. Moreover, a content analysis of local government textbooks indicates that they are skewed in favor of municipalities. This article reports other findings from this survey that shed light on the reasons for this unequal treatment in the local government classroom and offers suggestions for changing the unbalanced approach to teaching these courses. Adapted from the source document.

The concept of entrepreneurship in the government sector is very important and strategic to be input into the mindset and culture set of the state government apparatus. That is, the fundamental point is to organize the orientation of the government apparatus to be more adaptive, responsive, creative, innovative, professional, and visionary, to serve and capture every opportunity. The entrepreneurial spirit of government in the public sector is an ideal concept in the context of utilizing resources to improve the quality of public services and public trust more efficiently, effectively and more productively. However, it should be realized that even though the government adopts the principles of the private sector, the government's orientation is non-profit but to serve. This paper attempts to articulate how to implement entrepreneurship government in the Makassar City Government.

This article explores the opening and the free usage of stored public sector data, supplied by state. In the age of Open Government and Open Data it's not enough just to put data online. It should be rather weighed out whether, how and which supplied public sector data can be published. Open Data are defined as stored data which could be made accessible in a public interest without any restrictions for usage and distribution. These Open Data can possibly be statistics, geo data, maps, plans, environmental data and weather data in addition to materials of the parliaments, ministries and authorities. The preparation and the free access to existing data permit varied approaches to the reuse of data, discussed in the article. In addition, impulses can be given for Open Government – the opening of state and administration, to more transparency, participation and collaboration as well as to innovation and business development. The Open Data movement tries to get to the bottom of current publication processes in the public sector which could be formed even more friendly to citizens and enterprises.