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DGOnline Newsletter
Volume 13: 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:
-- Message from Outgoing President Sharon Dawes
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
Election Results Are In!
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Jochen Scholl, Yigal Arens & Andrea Kavanaugh |
Election results are in for the year 2008-2009!
Jochen Scholl, is President-Elect of the Society, Yigal Arens continues as Treasurer, and Andrea Kavanaugh is the new Secretary.
There were eleven candidates for five seats on the board, a indication of active interest in the mission and future of DGSNA. With so many strong candidates, it was quite a close race, and unfortunately not everyone could be elected. The newly elected board members are as follows:
John Bertot, Florida State University
Judy Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Valerie Gregg, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government U/Albany
All terms begin January 1, and are held for two years. The focus of the second year of the Digital Government Society of North America will be on adding members to the growing community of government managers, researchers, students, business leaders, sponsors and others interested in promoting the growth and understanding of e-government through the Society.
Also on the agenda will be creating products and services of value to members, like a database of member expertise and discounted access to journals and publications. The Society will continue to foster government and research partnerships to broaden and deepen the connection among government needs, policies and programs, and the research and evaluation that supports them.
Message from Outgoing President Sharon Dawes
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As the outgoing President of the Society, I would like to share with you some of the accomplishments of our community in its first two formative years. Thanks to a hardworking board and many talented volunteers we have become an established professional organization and made great progress under our mission to advance democratic digital government across all disciplines and sectors. Here are a few highlights since our official founding in May 2006:
We created a board of directors and established committees on membership, sponsorship, communication, connecting research and government management, dg.o2007 and dg.o2008 conferences, journals, student support, and liaison. All these efforts contributed to progress in creating a truly inclusive organization, with growing participation from Canada and Mexico, as well as many other countries around the world. I am also very pleased that we have a growing number of members who are government managers or students. I look forward to working with all of you to enhance our growth and diversity in the future.
Our first annual international conference, dg.o2007, Bridging Disciplines & Domains was held last May in Philadelphia. A resounding success, the conference carried forward the standard for high quality that was set by our predecessor National Science Foundation conferences. And plans are well along for dg.o2008 to be held in Montreal next May 18-21. With many submissions, excellent keynoters, and a variety of new features, it promises to be another excellent event that lives up to its title, Partnerships in Public Innovation.
We launched a partnership with Transitions in Governance 2008, an on-line community discussion of the management issues that will confront the next US Administration. The Society also keeps you informed of conferences, international events, reports, and funding opportunities for a wide variety of digital government topics.
While working on the program side of our mission, we also accomplished many things necessary to create a stable organizational infrastructure including registration as a non-profit corporation, application for tax exempt status, and launch of our web site www.dgsociety.org, as well as this monthly on-line newsletter, dgOnline. A well-orchestrated drive for society sponsors is in progress. We have also constructed an on-line membership function and election process, and we are now building a selection of members-only features and services.
It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve along side the other officers and directors of the Digital Government Society including Ed Hovy, Yigal Arens, Valerie Gregg, Bob Maslyn, Costas Panagopoulos, and Jochen Scholl. My sincere thanks to everyone who has played a role in building our solid foundations, especially outgoing and incoming officers, committee chairs and members, and editorial assistant Denise Dreany.
I look forward to ongoing collaboration with all of you and wish our new President Eduard Hovy and the entire community the very best for 2008 and beyond.
Sincerely,
Sharon Dawes
President
dg.o 2008 Conference Update
Plans are well underway for the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research "Partnerships in Public Innovation" at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 18-21, 2008.
Deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops is February 1, 2008.
Important Dates:
- November 1, 2007 – Conference submission web site becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008
- December 21, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
- February 1, 2008 – Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
- February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
- February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
- March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
- March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due
Articles and Reports of Interest
The OMB Tells Congress E-Gov Initiatives Have Made Government More Citizen-Centric
OMB Administrator of E-Government and IT, told Congress the presidential E-Gov initiatives have provided a more citizen-centered approach to the delivery of government services so the public can actively participate in how services are delivered. During fiscal year 2007, "USA.gov achieved an incredible 97 million visits or 1.87 million visits per week."
Government Computer News Asks IT Leaders for Views on Technology Changes in Government
For its 25 anniversary GCN, asked federal and industry leaders to reflect on some of the ways innovation has changed the way government works and how people live.
Looking Back at 20 Years of Government Technology History
Government Technology, in its anniversary issue, looks back at 20 years of the governments journey from the pre-web era to today's always connected society
Government Information Invisible to Popular Search Engines
Vital government information appears "invisible" to millions of Americans who are combing the Internet and looking for answers via the most popular search engines, according to a report released by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and OMB Watch.
Government Information Quarterly Releases Special Issue
GIG's special issue is titled Interorganizational Information Integration Issues and Practices in a Digital Government Context. It was issued on October 2007, and an introductory editorial is available on Science Direct.
Conferences and Calls for Papers:
Calls for Papers
ICE - 2008 14th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising
"A New Wave of Innovating"
Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-25, 2008
Deadline: Abstract Submission - January 08, 2008
Acceptance Notification - February 20, 2008
Final Paper - March 30, 2008
Conferences
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, Melbourne, 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
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
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
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
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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