dg.o 2007

Session 1

Monday, May 21, 2007, 10:30 am- 12:00 pm

Policy and Adoption I

Moderator: Hans J. Scholl, University of Washington, USA

• Rajiv Shah and Jay Kesan. Open Standards and the Role of Politics.
• John Rohrbaugh.  Managerial Openness and the Adoption of Distributed Group Support Systems:  The Case of Web Wide Participation.
• Cary Coglianese and Stuart Shapiro.  "First Generation" E-Rulemaking:  An Assessment of Regulatory Agency Web Sites.

Panel: Bridging Research and Practice Domains: Lessons from the Field.

Moderators:  Theresa Pardo, University at Albany, SUNY, USA

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Panel: International Developments in Digital Government: Government Perspective.

Moderator: Ed Hovy, University of Southern California, USA

Session 2

Monday, May 21, 2007, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Student Papers

Moderator: Travis Kriplean, University of Washington, USA

• Lei Zheng.  Cross-National Information Policy Conflict Regarding Access to Information:  Building a Conceptual Framework.
• Jeongsoo Kim.  The Impact of E-Government on Child Support Enforcement Policy Outcome.
• K. Sham Bhat.  A Toolbox for the Choice of Indicator Classes for Ranking of Watersheds.

Panel: Benchmarking and Measuring Digital Government:  Lessons from the EU Experience.  Moderator: Cristiano Codagnone, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Session 3

Monday, May 21, 2007, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Diffusion and Usage

Moderator: Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK

• David Lazer, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel, Kevin Esterling and Michael Neblo.  Members of Congress Web Sites:  Diffusion at the Tip of the Iceberg.
• Doria Pilling and Heike Boeltzig.  Moving Toward E-Government Effective Strategies for Uncreasing Access to and Usage of the Internet Among Non-Internet Users in the U.S. and the U.K.
• Luis F. Luna-Reyes, David F. Andersen, George P. Richardson, Theresa Pardo and Anthony Cresswell. Emergence of the Governance Structure for Information Integration Across Governmental Agencies:  A System Dynamics Approach.

Control and Integrity

Moderator: Christopher Weare, University of Southern California, USA

• Sangchul Song and Joseph JaJa. New Techniques for Ensuring the Long Term Integrity of Digital Archives.
• Vera Kartseva, Joris Hulstijn, Jaap Gordijn and Yao-Hua Tan. Control Patterns in a Healthcare Network.

Panel: Law and Governance and Virtual Worlds.

Moderator: Ethan Katsh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Session 4

Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Advances in Technology

Moderator: Peggy Agouris, George Mason University, USA

• Namhee Kwon, Eduard Hovy and Stuart Shulman. Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims.
• José Luis Ambite and Dipsy Kapoor. Automatic Generation of Data Processing Workflows for Transportation Modeling.
• Jaime Arguello and Jamie Callan. A Bootstrapping Approach for Identifying Stakeholders in Public-Comment Corpora.

Global Climate Change: Continued Plenary Discussion

Moderator: Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College, USA

Panel:  Information Integration and Dissemination for Disaster Management.

Moderator: Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Session 5

Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Information Sharing

Moderator: Bienvenido Velez, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, USA

• Seema Degwekar, Jeff Depree, Howard Beck, Carla Thomas, and Stanley Su.  Event-Triggered Data and Knowledge Sharing Among Collaborating Government Organizations.
• Andrea Matsunaga, Mauricio Tsugawa and Jose A. B. Fortes.  Integration of Text-Based Applications into Service-Oriented Architectures for Transnational Digital Government.
• Anthony Cresswell, Theresa Pardo, and Shahidul Hassan.  Assessing Capability for Justice Information Sharing.

Policy and Adoption II

Moderator: Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh, USA

• Raya Fidel, Hans J Scholl, Shuhua (Monica) Liu and Kristene Unsworth.  Mobile Government Fieldwork: Technological, Organizational, and Social Challenges
• Noor Huijboom.  Social Capital and ICT Adoption in the Public Sector.

Panel: Building a Sustainable International Digital Government Research Community.

Moderator:  Valerie Gregg, University of Southern California, USA

Session 6

Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 3:30pm - 5:00 pm

Crisis Management

Moderator: Jay Kesan, University of Illinois, USA

• Hector Jasso, William Hodgkiss, Chaitan Baru, Tony Fountain, Don Reich and Kurt Warner. Prediction of 9-1-1 Emergency Call Volumes for Emergency Event Detection.
• JinKyu Lee and H. Raghav Rao.  Exploring the Causes and Effects of Inter-Agency Information Sharing Systems Adoption in the Anti/Counter-Terrorism and Disaster Management Domains.
• Thomas Horan, Michael Marich and Benjamin Schooley.  Time-Critical Information Services:  Inter-Organizational Performance Data Access and Components for Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Systems Architecture.

Invited Systems Demonstrations

Moderator: Soon-Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA

• Manuel Perez-Quinones, Andrea Kavanaugh, Uma Murthy, Philip Isenhour, Jaideep Godara, Spencer Lee and Alan Fabian.  VizBlog:  A Discovery Tool for the Blogsphere.
• Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot and Eduard Hovy. Data Integration in the Wild: From Instances to Concept Catalogs.
• Mifan Careem, Chamindra De Silva, Ravindra De Silva, Louiqa Raschid and Sanjiva Weerawarana. Demonstration of Sahana: Free and Open Source Disaster Management.

Panel:  International Developments in Digital Government: Research Perspective. 

Moderator:  Ed Hovy, University of Southern California, USA

Session 7

Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Services

Moderator: José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, USA

• Willem Pieterson and Jan van Dijk.  Channel Choice Determinants:  An Exploration of the Factors that Determine the Choice of a Service Channel in Citizen Initiated Contacts.
• Peter Salhofer and David Ferbas.  A Pragmatic Approach to the Introduction of E-Government.
• Giovanni Sacco.  Interactive Discovery of E-Government Services.

Invited Poster Presentations

Moderator: J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA

• Marijn Janssen, Patrick van der Duin, Melanie Bicking and Maria Wimmer.  Scenario Building for E-Government in 2020 Technology.
• Lori Clarke, Alan Gaitenby, Ethan Katsh, Matthew Marzilli, Leon Osterweil, Daniel Rainey, Borislava Simidchieva, Norman Sondheimer, Leah Wing and Alexander Wise.  Using Process Definitions to Drive User Interactions with Digital Government Systems.
• Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez.  Rapid Development of Electronic Public Services - A Case Study in Electronic Licensing Service.
• Anthony Cresswell, Theresa Pardo, G. Brian Burke and Lucy Dadayan.  Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government Information Technology.

Panel: Building a Relevant Digital Government Curriculum.

Moderator: Theresa Pardo, University at Albany. SUNY, USA