Co-Production from the Viewpoint of Design and Computing Education Development

This paper focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to finding similarities of problems and their solutions as well as how both governmental institutions and educators of design and computing can deal with service and social design, co-production, and co-creation of public services. The paper provides an empirical analysis of several case studies, one of which was a coproduction session held by a governmental institution and students of the Faculty of Computing at the University of Latvia. The conclusion marks a possible future scenario involving the process of co-production with students from design and computing, as well as other relevant departments, thus helping to engage young citizens, and at the same time future professionals in a better delivery of public services.