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Volume 12: December 2007
Welcome to dgOnline, the electronic newsletter of the Digital Government Society of North America. dgOnline is a monthly summary of news and events of interest to the DG community. To submit material for inclusion in future issues, please contact Denise Dreany
In this issue:
-- Deadline Extended for dg.o 2008 Submissions
-- iGov Research Institute in Manchester, UK this Summer
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
Cast Your Ballot !
Voting for the open leadership positions of the DGSNA began online November 15 and will close December 15. All members are eligible to vote; just visit the web site
If you are not yet a registered member and would like to participate in the election of officers and in the future direction of the Society, visit our membership page, and fill out the easy and secure registration form before December 15. Dues are $75 USD for individuals or $40 USD for students.
Three positions are open for officers:
President-elect - H. Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Treasurer - Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, ISI
Secretary - Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech
Five positions are open for the board, with eleven candidates:
George Beard, Executive Leadership Institute, Portland State University
John Bertot, Florida State University
Judith Cushing, Evergreen State College
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Valerie Gregg, University of Southern California
Robert Maslyn, US General Services Administration
Oscar Morales, US Environmental Protection Agency
Costas Panagopoulous, Fordham University
Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, Univ. at Albany
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California, ISI
Thomas Riley, Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance
In addition to the election of officers and board members, one constitutional amendment is proposed to Article 5, Sections 3 and 4, to simplify the creation of the Nominating Committee and to more clearly specify the sequence of steps involved in the nomination and election processes.
Deadline Extended for dg.o 2008 Submissions
The submission deadline for research papers, student papers, and panel sessions has been extended to December 21, 2007 due to numerous requests for a due date after the end of the fall semester.
Submissions can be made at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008. Acceptance notification will be announced February, 1, 2008.
Submission deadline for all pre-conference tutorials and workshops is February 1, 2008. Deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, and posters and system demonstrations is February 15, 2008. Acceptance notification will be announced March 1, 2008.
March 15, 2008 all camera-ready versions for publication are due.
The conference theme "Partnerships for Public Innovation" focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. The conference will be held at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008. Visit the conference web site for updated information.
Attend ICEGov 2007
CTG is a co-sponsor of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2007) which will take place in Macao December 10-13 2007. The conference will bring together practitioners, developers and researchers from government, academia, industry and non-governmental organizations to share the latest findings in the theory and practice of Electronic Governance. For more information, please see the conference web site at www.icegov.org
iGov Research Institute in Manchester, UK this Summer.
Doctoral students from around the world who are interested
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Students at 2007 iGov Research Institute in New York City |
in international digital government research will have an opportunity this summer to participate in an intensive, week-long program at the iGov Research Institute. This residential program takes advantage of a major city and a university setting as an integral part of the curriculum. This summer the city and university will be the city of Manchester, UK and the University at Salford.
Along with researchers from a variety of academic institutions, senior government officials from the City of Salford will serve as guest faculty and host site visits to agencies in the city that use information and communication technology with innovative public management approaches. Students will have an opportunity to assess those approaches on the public sector first hand, and learn about the multidisciplinary nature of digital government research. They will walk away with a deeper understanding of international DG research themes and methods and with international professional relationships with their fellow students that will continue throughout their careers.
“This was one of the most valuable experiences of my graduate student education. The summer institute provided a multifaceted academic occasion which granted me an opportunity to view international digital government research and practice through a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural lens.”
— Kayenda Johnson, 2007 Institute Student, Virginia Tech
Applications are available on line with a deadline of February 8, 2008. The program runs from July 13-20, 2008. Doctoral students from all relevant disciplines and academic fields are welcome to apply. Those disciplines include, but are not limited to, public administration, information science, computer science, management, political science, and law.
Articles and Reports of Interest:
NASCIO Releases Part III in a Series on Records Management and Digital Preservation
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) announced the release of Part III in the series on electronic records management and digital preservation: protecting the knowledge assets of the state government enterprise.
Five-Year HHS Project to Encourage Adoption of Electronic Health Records
Broad adoption of electronic health records has the potential not only to improve the quality of care provided, but also to transform the way medicine is practiced and delivered.
OMB to explore Government 2.0
The Office of Management and Budget has enrolled federal information technology managers in an extensive international, multidisciplinary investigation of how to take advantage of collaborative Web technologies.
New Presidential Executive Order on Performance Improvement
Fourteen years after the passage of the Results Act, this executive order formally creates a single point of accountability in each agency and government-wide for creating, tracking, and reporting performance and results.
Conferences and Calls for Papers:
Calls for Papers
dg.o 2008 "Partnerships for Public Innovation"
9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal Canada, May 18-21, 2008
Deadline: December 21, 2007
www.dgo2008.org/images/pdfs/cfpdgo2008_v18.pdf
Conferences
2nd International Conference on Legal Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 5-7, 2007
ICEGOV 2007
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Macao SAR, China, December 10-13, 2007
41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 41)
Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2008
Third Annual i Schools Conference
Futures: Systems, Selves, Society
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, February 28-March 1, 2008
CfP ICTTA 08
Damascus, Syria, April 7-11, 2008
www.conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/ictta
2008 NASCIO Mid-Year Conference
Chantilly, Virginia, April 29-May 2
dg.o 2008 "Partnerships for Public Innovation"
9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal Canada, May 18-21, 2008
ICEG 2008
4th International Conference on e-Government
RMIT University, Melborne, Australia, October 23-24, 2008
www.academic-conferences.org/iceg/iceg2008/iceg08-home.htm
Grant Opportunities:
Advanced Learning Technologies (joint with NSF’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources)
Scientific Foci: Research on computer science and cognitive science challenges posed by human learning environments and learning technology platforms. Projects must pursue both learning and technology questions, and focus on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) education.
Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12834&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (joint with the National Institutes of Health and other NSF directorates)
Scientific Foci: Interdisciplinary research in computational neuroscience, providing a theoretical foundation and set of technological approaches that enhance understanding of nervous system function and may also have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released in January 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5147&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
CreativeIT **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Focus on research that improves our understanding of creativity while producing simultaneous advances in computer science and information technologies with digital arts, cognitive science, engineering design, and physical and life science.
Proposal Deadline: September 21, 2007
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501096&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI ) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking, where computational thinking is defined comprehensively to encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools. CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research proposals within or across the following three thematic areas: From Data to Knowledge; Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems; and Building Virtual Organizations. PIs are encouraged to submit CDI proposals that are truly distinctive from proposals submitted to other CISE programs.
Letter of Intent Deadline (mandatory): November 30, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 8, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: April 29, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503163&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks
Scientific Foci: This program supports research community efforts aimed at broad digital data interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for community consensus-building activities and, based on community consensus, for developing associated technical standards with supporting implementation tools and resources.
Proposal Deadline: July 23, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
Scientific Foci: DataNet will create a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations that integrate library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences, and domain science expertise to: provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or engineering data over a decades-long timeline; continuously anticipate and adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations; engage at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure with research and development to drive the leading edge forward; and serve as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access network.
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 7, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: March 21, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503141&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (joint with Department of Homeland Security) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: CISE will establish a network of projects focused on the creation of the mathematical and computational sciences foundations required to transform data in ways that permit visual-based understanding. This is a one-time solicitation with 5-7 awards anticipated; no subsequent competitions are envisioned.
Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2007.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501081&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
High End Computing University Research Activity (with DARPA)
Scientific Foci: Research and education projects in languages, programming models and programming environments for high-end computing.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline winter of 2007-2008. Stay tuned for more information.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13645&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Human and Social Dynamics (HSD)
Scientific Foci: The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. The FY 2008 competition will include three emphasis areas (Agents of Change; Dynamics of Human Behavior; and Decision Making, Risk and Uncertainty).
Proposal Deadlines: February 19 (type 1) 22 (type 2)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08508/nsf08508.htm
Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with Computer Sciences
Scientific Foci: Supports collaborative research in fundamental mathematics and statistics, and computer science with a focus primarily on mathematical and statistical challenges posed by large data sets, managing and modeling uncertainty, and modeling complex nonlinear systems.
Proposal Deadline: Spring 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=9673&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Software for Real-World Systems (SRS) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: SRS calls on researchers to discover, define, and apply fundamental scientific principles, engineering methods, and educational methods to the challenges of developing, analyzing, and maintaining software for real-world systems of today and tomorrow.
Proposal Deadline: January 17, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503175&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Computer Systems Research
Scientific Foci: Innovative research that has potential to augment our fundamental understanding of these increasingly large and complex systems and lead to major advances in systems software, service architectures and abstractions, system modeling and simulation, virtualization, cross-system integration, real-time and pervasive computing, storage and file systems, networked sensing and control, flexible assured system composition, and design for dependability and resiliency under uncertainty.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13385&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Cyber Trust
Scientific Foci: Research leading to computer-based systems and networks that function as intended, especially in the face of cyber attack, that process, store and communicate sensitive information according to specified policies, and that reflect privacy concerns of citizens. Proposals may address any aspect related to security, privacy, dependability, reliability and safety of systems and networks.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13451&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)
Scientific Foci: Create a culture of innovation in engineering research and education that links scientific discovery to technological innovation through transformational engineered systems research in order to advance technology and produce engineering graduates who will be creative innovators in a global economy.
Letter of Intent Deadline (required): February 02, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline (required): May 03, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): December 10, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5502&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Emerging Models and Technologies
Scientific Foci: Frameworks and foundations for novel computing models that will lead to better computing and communication systems, including, for example: modeling and simulation of bio-systems; design of bio-inspired computing models for solving complex problems; investigation of various aspects of quantum-based approaches to processing information; and nanoscale science and engineering approaches.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Program announcement to be released fall 2007; proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11176&org=CCF
Expeditions in Computing **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: New research program to tap the great reservoir of opportunities that fundamental research advances in computing and information promise for the future. Investigators in the computer and information science and engineering fields and beyond are encouraged to come together within and/or across departments or institutions in the development of compelling, transformational research agendas that promise disruptive innovations in computing and information for many years to come. Three five-year awards, each totaling $10 million, will be supported this year, with three new awards to be made each year in subsequent years.
Letter of Intent Deadline (Mandatory): November 5, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: December 30, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503169&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Scientific Foci: A foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Proposal Deadline: Midsummer 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262&org=NSF
Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts
Scientific Foci: Transformative research to advance at a fundamental level the design, verification, evaluation, utilization, and understanding of computing and communication systems. Projects may focus on processes, such as design methods for hardware or software, especially programming models for parallel computing; they may also focus on artifacts, such as new tools for validation of a system design, new languages, or new techniques for graphics, visualization, and animation.
Proposal Deadline: December 7, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500027&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Scientific Foci: Synergize university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Program targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental topics, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13706&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC)
Scientific Foci: Develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and evolution.
Letter of Intent Deadline: January 4, 2008
Proposal Deadline: March 28, 2008
Letter of Intent Deadline: June 27, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5501&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human-Centered Computing; Information Integration and Informatics; and Robust Intelligence
Scientific Foci: The IIS Division has a single yearly solicitation that funds core activities in all three programmatic areas covered by IIS:
Human-Centered Computing studies the roles of and relationships between people and the computing and information technologies they develop and use, focused both on the design of computational artifacts in support of human activities and on the study of the impact these technologies have on individuals, groups, and society at large.
Information Integration and Informatics focuses on processes and technologies for creating, storing, querying, representing, organizing, integrating, updating, analyzing, preserving, protecting, and interacting with digital content at scales ranging from individuals to globally-distributed dynamic networked repository systems.
Robust Intelligence encompasses computational understanding and modeling of the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments. This programmatic area includes research in robotics, speech, vision, natural language processing, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
Each year, this solicitation also focuses on a number of cross-cutting technical areas. The current solicitation includes two such areas:
Integrative Intelligence , targeting the challenges involved in creating more broadly capable intelligent systems; and
Next-Generation Networked Information, seeking the development of information systems that anticipate future distributed networking environments.
Proposal Deadlines (by project size): October 23, 2007 (Medium); November 19, 2007 (Large); and December 10, 2007 (Small).
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13707&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Networking Technology and Systems
Scientific Foci: Supports forward looking, basic and experimental, research to increase our understanding of how complex, dynamic networks behave, how they can be designed to deliver sustainable end-to-end performance and services, and how they can be managed and controlled to rapidly adapt to changes with a high degree of reliability and minimal service disruption. Both evolutionary proposals which focus on radical approaches to address challenges related to the current Internet and revolutionary, clean-slate proposals, which seek to create a future Internet, are welcome.
Proposal Deadline: Winter 2007-2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12765&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Scientific Foci: Enable U.S. institutions to establish collaborative relationships with international groups or institutions in order to engender new knowledge and discoveries at the frontier and to promote the development of a globally-engaged, U.S. scientific and engineering workforce.
Proposal Deadline: The next PIRE competition is being planned for 2009. Please check the link below for updates.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites
Scientific Foci: Supports active research participation by undergraduate students in all research areas funded by CISE. REU Sites engage a number of undergraduate students in research and may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme.
Proposal Deadline: August 18, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Scientific Foci: Supports research by faculty members of predominantly undergraduate institutions through the funding of (1) individual and collaborative research projects, (2) the purchase of shared-use research instrumentation, and (3) Research Opportunity Awards for work with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Science of Learning Centers (SLCs)
Scientific Foci: Offers awards for large-scale, long-term centers that create the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of Science of Learning research. It supports research that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper understanding of learning.
Proposal Deadlines: February 4, 2008 and August 4, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5567&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Science and Technology Centers (STCs)
Scientific Foci: Enables innovative research and education projects of national importance that require a center mode of support to achieve the research, education, and knowledge-transfer goals shared by the partners. Science and Technology Centers conduct world-class research in partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities to create new and meaningful knowledge of significant benefit to society.
Proposal Deadline: Deadlines TBD.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5541&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Scientific Foci: SGER proposals are for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the NSF. While not a program, per se, the SGER is a mechanism NSF uses to catalyze rapid and innovative advances by supporting preliminary work on untested and novel ideas and/or ventures into emerging and potentially transformative research ideas. SGER awards cannot exceed $200,000 for a period of two years, however most are for smaller amounts and/or for shorter durations. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to contact program directors in their disciplines to discuss the opportunities for SGER awards.
Proposal Deadline: Please speak to a CISE program director.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05053/nsf05053.jsp
Theoretical Foundations
Scientific Foci: Basic research on algorithms, complexity, and theory that enables scientific advances in and reveals the potential limitations of computation, communications, signal processing, numerical computing and optimization, symbolic and algebraic computation, and the applications of these insights to other areas of science and engineering.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13679&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
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