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Digital Government Society of North America

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International Developments in Digital Government: Research Perspective

Research in Digital Government takes quite different forms in different countries. In the US, for example, the National Science Foundation has taken the lead in Digital Government research and funds projects in a wide variety of areas, stipulating that each project should contain both researchers (from, for example, information technology or political science) and government partners.

The EU’s IST eGovernment program has concentrated much more on the commercialization of technology that will benefit government; although research projects always include researchers, they are not the driving force behind these endeavors. The EU’s eGovRTD2020 project has, with its Roadmap 2020 study, tried to envision eGovernment in the year 2020 in order to identify strategic research fields for the future development of eGovernment in the public sector.

The Korean government has formulated a coherent plan for DG research, with milestones going all the way to 2012, and has established several complementary efforts to support citizens, tourists, and government itself. These efforts include both actual day-to-day practice and an ambitious research program for the future. China has also developed similar detailed plans and research programs.

In this panel, researchers in the various domains of Digital Government or eGovernment from various countries describe their experiences in the evolution and application of Digital Government, what they think about the particular form it takes for them, and how they would like to see it evolve in the future.

This panel is paired with a companion panel, titled “International Developments in Digital Government: Government Perspective,” in which government officials address Digital Government from their point of view. The focus of that panel is the evolution and practice of Digital Government in their respective countries, and their plans and hopes for the development of Digital Government in the future.