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DGOnline Newsletter
Volume 3: February 2007
Welcome to the new 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:
-- Meet dg.o 2007 keynote speaker William Pelgrin
-- dg.o 2007 research paper authors are notified of acceptance
-- Conference registration for dg.o 2007 coming soon
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
-- Grant Opportunities
Meet dg.o 2007 keynote speaker William Pelgrin.
William Pelgrin is a man of wider influence than his title as Director of the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination and the Chief Cyber Security Officer for New York State would imply. He also chairs the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) which includes participation from all 50 states and the District of Columbia to share important cyber security information. Because of the success of the MS-ISAC, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has officially recognized it as the national center for the states to coordinate cyber readiness and response.
In addition, he was appointed as a charter member of the Global Council of Chief Security Officers comprised of influential cyber-security leaders including senior executives from Google, Microsoft, MCI, Oracle, Bank of America, Sun Microsystems and Washington Mutual to form a think tank to encourage dialogue and action that will meet the new challenges of online security. Mr. Pelgrin is the only government representative selected to participate.
In New York State, Pelgrin has been responsible for leading and coordinating the state’s efforts toward cyber readiness and resilience; leading and coordinating geographic information technologies, especially in emergencies, where CSCIC is the single point-of-contact. Under his leadership, CSCIC has established a 7X24 Cyber Security Center to analyze and respond to intrusions and other anomalous cyber activity of state entities; deployed intrusion detection architecture for critical segments of the State's network and computing infrastructure; released statewide cyber security policies on cyber alert level protocols, incident reporting and baseline cyber security requirements; implemented statewide cyber security training for state and local government; and enhanced the capabilities of the State's critical infrastructure application to assist in responding to any emergency.
A dynamic speaker, Mr. Pelgrin will address lessons learned as well as challenges facing government agencies as they collaborate to share information about networks and computing infrastructures across boundaries in support of emergency response at the state and national level as well as between the public and private sectors. His remarks will include a discussion of the key questions researchers might explore to support the cyber security community and the potential value of related research and management partnerships.
dg.o 2007 research paper authors are notified of acceptance .
February 15 was the date authors were notified of the acceptance of their papers for the dg.o 2007 Conference “ Bridging Disciplines and Domains”.
“The quality and variety of the research papers we received is a tribute to the growing reputation of this conference,” says Alan Borning, University of Washington, program co-chair. The papers will be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings.
Conference registration for dg.o Conference coming soon.
Registration for the dg.o conference "Bridging Disciplines and Domains" to be held May 20-23 at the Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia will begin in the next few days. An e-mail will be sent announcing the availability of the registration site.
This year’s conference will focus on interdisciplinary and cross-cutting approaches to digital government research through workshop presentations and discussions, as well as birds-of-a-feather roundtables, panels, posters and demo sessions. The conference is a unique opportunity for participants to discuss their ideas and problems with researchers working at the leading edge of digital government -- and with government officials and technology developers who have experience in the practical issues of getting systems into operation.
The continuing level of diversity of the US and international participants is evidence of the success of this conference in bringing people together to “Bridge the Domain”. Confirmed participants will be traveling to the conference from China, South Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada.
Membership in the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA) will be offered along with registration to the dg.o 2007 Conference.
For information on registering for the conference visit the Digital Government Society web site at www.dgsociety.org/conference/dgo2007.
Articles and Reports of Interest:
National Science Foundation announces the appointment of Jeannette Wing.
Carnegie Mellon Professor Jeanette Wing is chosen to head Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate at NSF.
www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07009
President's Budget: $65.5 billion for IT
The fiscal budget proposal released in February includes a 2.6% increase in finds for IT with the Department of Defense getting the biggest share.
www.usa.gov/Federal_Employees/USA_Buzz/Newsletter_0227.html#budget
Building semantic Webs for e-government with wiki technology.
This paper proposes a two-layer semantic wiki Web that promises several advantages that enable incremental growth, collaborative development by a large community of non-technical users and the ability to continually grow the content layer without the immediate overhead of parallel maintenance of the semantic layer.
www.fcw.com/solutions/ea/ea.asp
Conferences and Calls for Papers:
International Journal of Electronic Government Research
Special Issue on E-Government in Developing Countries
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2007
Contact: Mila Gasco, special editor, mila_gasco@yahoo/es
Eastern European eGov Days 2007
April 11-13, 2007
Prague, CZ
Contact: Vranova@epma.cz
TED Conference on E-Government: Enhancing Public Administration Back Offices
April 25-27, 2007
Olten, Switzerland
www.international.fhso.ch/ted/ted
eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition
The Hague, The Netherlands October 24-26, 2007
www.echallenges.org/e2007/default.asp?page=c4p
European Group for Public Administration
Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration
Madrid, Spain September 19-22, 2007
Call for Paper Deadline: March 31, 2007
Contact: Albert Meijer a.j.meijer@uu.nl
Frank Bannister Frank.Bannister@tcd.ie
Conference: www.egpa2007.com
6th International EGOV Conference 2007
Regensburg, Germany September 3-7, 2007
NASCIO Mid Year Conference May 1-4, 2007
Chantilly, Virginia
NASCIO Annual Conference September 30-October 3, 2007
Tucson, Arizona
9th Public Management Research Association (PMRC) Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona October 25-27, 2007
Call for Paper Deadline: March 30, 2007
5th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2007)
Orlando, Florida
July 12-15, 2007
1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling E-Government (MeTTeGo7)
Camerino, Italy
September 27-28, 2007
Call for Papers Deadline: May 1, 2007
www.conferences.cs.unicam.it/metteg07/
3rd International Conference on E-Government (ICEG) 2007
University of Quebec at Montreal
Montreal, Canada
September 27-28, 2007
Call for Papers Deadline: April 19, 2007
www.academic-conferences.org/iceg/iceg2007/iceg2007-call-papers.htm
Grant Opportunities:
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) 06-535
Full Proposal: April 25, 2007
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=CISE
Cyber Trust (CT) 06-500
Full Proposal: November 14, 2007
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=CISE
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) 07-540
Preliminary Proposal: April 5, 2007
Full Proposal: October 5, 2007
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=SBE
Job Opportunity:
Arizonia State University has two tenure track faculty positions available in policy informatics. Contact: James H. Svara, Professor, School of Public Affairs
Contact Denise Dreany for questions or to submit material for future newsletters.
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