DGOnline Newsletter

Volume 32: January 2010

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 send email to Meelis Kitsing at newsletter@dgsociety.org .

In this Issue:

• Goodbye Message from the DGSNA President
• Conferences and Calls for Papers
• Grant Opportunities and Announcements

Goodbye Message from the DGSNA President

Dear member of the Digital Government Society of North America!

Happy new year!  I hope you have had an enjoyable break and are looking forward to a fun and productive 2010. I write to inform you of the current status of the DGSNA and to introduce your new President, Prof. Jochen Scholl.

DGSNA News
2009 was a rather difficult year for DGNSA.  The Swine Flu scare caused us to cancel the dg.o 2009 conference, which meant that we lost interpersonal momentum as well as the income so necessary for the Society to survive.  Fortunately, thanks to the ceaseless efforts of our Treasurer Yigal Arens, we have the wherewithal to mount dg.o 2010, and preparations are well in hand.

dg.o 2010 http://www.dgo2010.org/ promises to be a very interesting conference, and will take place on May 17-20 in Puebla, Mexico, a wonderful setting and World Heritage Site.  See Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla,_Puebla.   We hope that you will be able to attend!

We have ongoing agreements with several journals, and continue to offer members subscription discounts.  Please see the website.

The DGSNA Board and several additional people met for two days in Washington DC in December.   On the first day, we held a Leadership Retreat, at which the most pressing issues facing the Society were discussed, and several new directions of activity outlined.  You might already have noticed new additions to our website at http://www.dgsna.org, notably:
- a list of Curricula for teaching DG
- the beginnings of a Yellow Pages of DG expertise
- a new Special Interest Group page
May I invite you to contact me with pertinent information on any of these three topics, if you have something to contribute?

The second day in Washington was devoted to connecting with people from the General Services Administration and other offices in the US government, and featured talks by various government people and specially invited DG researchers.  This was organized by Board members Theresa Pardo and John Bertot.

During 2009, Larry Brandt, our untiring advocate and research program manager at the National Science Foundation, retired.  He is now freelancing as a consultant on DG matters, and we wish him well.

US Government news
Digital Government is on the rise!  The Obama Administration is very actively pursuing digital governance. Its Office of Science and Technology Policy http://blog.ostp.gov/ has an active blog site on which various interesting issues are discussed.

Prof. Beth Noveck, s DGSNA member, is the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama's Open Government Initiative.  Read about her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Simone_Noveck.

New DGSNA Board
In November and December, as required by the DGSNA Constitution, we held an election for the new Board.  As announced, the new board is larger than the outgoing one, and includes the following members:

President:
  Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, Seattle
President-elect:
  John Bertot, University of Maryland at College Park
Treasurer:
  Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Secretary:
  Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Past President:
  Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Board members:
  Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico
  Norman Jacknis, Director, Cisco IBSG Public Sector Group, New York
  Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
  Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government at the University of Albany
  Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
  Rejean Roy, CEFRIO, Montreal, Quebec
  Norm Sondheimer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  Christine Williams, Bentley University, Massachusetts

I would like to congratulate all the electees and wish them a very enjoyable and effective two-year tenure.

Outgoing Board
I would like to thank the outgoing Board for their enthusiasm and willingness to help, each in their own way, during the past two years.   Specifically, I would like to thank Judy Cushing, Evergreen College and Sharon Dawes, retired from Center for Technology in Government at the University of Albany

One of Judy's special areas of concern was student affairs, and her devotion and enthusiasm will be missed on the Board.  Thank you, Judy!

Sharon, as Past President and one of the pillars of the DGSNA, needs no introduction, of course.  She has spent more time and effort than almost everyone else combined on setting up the Society and making it run.  Sharon, your humor, expertise, connections, and delicate yet effective way of cutting through difficult issues is unparalleled, and we hope that you will continue to work within DGSNA for a long time to come.  Thank you very much for all your service!

And finally, I would like to introduce your new President.  Prof. Jochen Scholl http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ from the Information School of the University of Washington in Seattle has been a very active proponent and supporter of DG both in the US and abroad.  He is known for his comprehensive studies of how DG is growing along all dimensions and how it is becoming a real field of research.  He is one of the founders and leading lights of the DG Track in the HICCS conference series in Hawaii every January.  He has very strong ties to eGovernment and DG in Europe, and is an effective communicator between the various DG constituencies in North America. I know we will have an interesting and very fruitful period under his leadership.

It has been my great pleasure serving the Society the past two years.

Warmest regards,
Eduard Hovy
Past President, DGSNA

Conferences and Calls for Papers

EGES conference at WCC 2010

The E-Government and E-Services (EGES) conference will take place on September 20-23, 2010  at Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia is a cooperation of a number of groups that already have well-established activities in the field of e-government, e-governance, e-business, e-tcetera. Notably, IFIP working group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration) and IFIP working group 6.11 (Communication Aspects of E-Business, E-services and E-society) and the CSI SIG on E-Governance (Computer Society of India Special Interest Group on E-Governance) have joined forces as the program co-chairs to make this stream of the IFIP World Computer Congress indeed outstanding and challenging. A “must attend” meeting opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policymakers where contributions from all three angles will lead to new perspectives and a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that come with developing and implementing e-government services and applications.  For details see: http://www.wcc2010.com/eges

EGOV 2010

The IFIP e-government conference (EGOV 2010) will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland on August 29 - September 2, 2010. The conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and from a number of disciplines. Over the years, the interest in this domain of study has steadily increased. The 2009 EGOV conference - within the DEXA conference cluster - has attracted more than 130 participants from 32 countries including developing countries, with 35 contributions in completed research, 25 contributions in ongoing research, 7 projects contributions and 3 workshops. eGovernment research has demonstrated its relevance to practice and consequently has influenced and even shaped government strategies and implementations. Conversely, eGovernment practice has inspired eGovernment research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention. In recent years, the assessment and evaluation of eGovernment projects, the foundations of eGovernment as a research discipline, integration and interoperation in government, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among leading topics on the research agenda. More information is available at http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2010

Call for Papers: dg.o 2010

The 11th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2010) will take place on May 17-20, 2009 in Puebla Mexico. The dg.o meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion and demonstration of interdisciplinary digital government research, technology innovation, and applications. Each year the conference combines: presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government and research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

The dg.o 2010 conference theme "Public Administration Online: Opportunities and Challenges" focuses on open government, information sharing, interoperability, distributed collaboration, and massive intelligence in government areas, as well as Web 2.0, and cloud computing. The theme encompasses issues related to the capabilities to be provided by such environments; user interactions and experiences with such online Digital Government resources and environments; and, the technical infrastructure needed to support such environments. Topics in Web 2.0 technologies, online collaboration environments, user adoption and adaptation, and use of cloud computing to support such environments are all relevant and pose interesting scientific questions. At the same time, governments around the world are being confronted with incredible challenges in privacy and policy issues, even as there are trends and pressures to make these data accessible via more platforms, e.g. mobile devices. An additional important focus area of the conference is on policy issues related to the above topics. More information is available at http://www.dgo2010.org

EGOVIS 2010

The conference will take place in Bilbao, Spain on August 30-September 3, 2010 and features invited talksby Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK,  with tentative title: “We Can Work It Out: Argumentation techniques for e-particpation" and Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria, with title: “Web 2.0 Applications create a new Government”. The international conference EGOVIS represents a continuous sequel of the 8th International Conference EGOV in conjunction with DEXA, which focuses on information systems aspects of e-government. Information systems are a core enabler  for electronic government/governance with all its dimensions: e-administration, e-democracy, e-participation and e voting. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/

EDem10

The 4th International Conference on eDemocracy (EDem10) will take place on May 6-7, 2010, at Danube University in Krems, Austria. Scientific eDemocracy visions and models have been developed since the 1960s, but it is now, during the first decade of the 21st Century, that they are becoming reality, being tested and implemented. Extensive IT provides the necessary basis, but it is not the developments in IT alone that are responsible for successful eDemocracy projects - it is due all those who use and apply them, as they adopt new behaviours and change old ones. The new, digital generation lives and breathes new values: they collaborate, compile content together, share their ideas, create networks on social platforms and organise themselves quickly and simply. The new values held, the new behaviours adopted, the changed mindset, along with improved usability and a still-increasing use of the internet, has led to a rapid and radical change in our society. We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their research and project papers. More information is available at http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem

Politics of Open Source

The conference will take place on May 6-7, 2010, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The conference features Eric von Hippel is Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and Clay Johnson (Sunlight Labs) as keynote speakers. Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) has made significant advances, both technically and organizationally, since its emergence in the mid-1980s. Over the last decade, it has moved from a software development approach involving mostly volunteers to a more complex ecology where firms, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and volunteers may be involved. Moreover, the production paradigm continues to expand to other areas of digital content (e.g., Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Connexions, etc.). In this conference we use the phrase “open source” to capture this broader phenomenon. The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of open source, broadly defined.

"Politics" in the conference title, can have many interpretations. Political issues closely tied to the free and open source software movement(s) include: national government policies related to the adoption of open source technologies or questions related to interoperability and open standards, software patents, vendor lock-in, and copyright. These are central themes we expect may be discussed in this forum. In this context, we welcome international submissions since differences in the political perspective appear in international contexts. However, topics related to how the concept of openness has led to various interpretations, adaptations, and applications of “open source” in other domains, and political issues that surround these broader innovations, are also welcome. More information is available at the conference website at http://www.umass.edu/jitp/

WikiSym 2010

WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, will be held on July 7-9, 2010, in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples. Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds. More information is available at http://wikisym.org/ws2010

The 9th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2010)
The conference will take place on June 13-15, 2010,  in Athens, Greece. The Mobile Government Track at ICMB is seeking quality submission on the various aspects of mobile business in government. Mobilizing the Business of Government can be seen as a direct outgrowth of digitizing the business of government (also known as Digital Government, or e-Government). Under the new mobility paradigm and regardless of the sector (public or private), human actors expect to be able to satisfy their information and electronic transaction needs (combined data/voice) at any time and at any place. For the public sector this shift has numerous and challenging implications, but also holds promises of huge productivity gains and ubiquitous service availability in unprecedented ways. The Mobile Government Track is intended to showcase and discuss current practices, applications, opportunities, and unique challenges in mobile public-sector services, government field force automation, and mobile ICT-enabled disaster and emergency response management among other areas of mobile business in government. The track is also intended to pave the path towards a comprehensive research agenda on mobile government. More information is available at http://www.mbusiness2010.org

Call for Papers: The 8th annual Eastern European eGov Days
The days will be held on 21-23 April 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic and titled "Changing Concepts & eGovernment as a Service. The event is jointly organised by: Forum e|Government / OCG-Austrian Computer Society, Vienna (AT) and EPMA/Vysocina Region (CZ) with partners. The annual Eastern European e|Gov Days has become a recognised platform for dialogue and knowledge transfer between Western and Eastern European countries. This event brings together over  200 professionals from the private and public sector in a lively exchange of experience and ideas and real life examples. More information is available at http://www.epma.cz/eeegov-days.html>http://www.epma.cz/eeegov-days.html

JOEUC Special Issue Proposals on E-government
The research in the e-government area has exploded over the last decade or so. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) invites special issue proposals from well-published scholars for a special issue on e-government.  We are especially interested in theoretically grounded empirical research that emphasizes citizens' interactions with e-government.  If you are interested, please send a proposal to the editor Adam Mahmood at mmahmood@utep.edu

Call for Papers: Public Knowledge 
Public Knowledge is an interdisciplinary student-run electronic journal hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech (ISSN 1948-3511).  As an electronic journal, Public Knowledge uses a variety of communication technologies to create a conversation about the questions and topics raised. Issues contain scholarly refereed articles as well as book reviews, essays, interviews and other works utilizing a variety of media. The next issue will be published in May 2010. Public Knowledge seeks articles, book reviews, essays, interviews and multimedia submissions for its next issue on the topicPublic Information in a Democracy. As scholars and citizens, we are constantly inundated with information that we must sort, evaluate, and perhaps use in our work and our daily lives. Public information comes to us from all areas of life - interactions with other people, television, radio, internet - and we must use our faculties to dig through the mass of information to help organize and synthesize all that we experience.  Furthermore, shifting definitions of the public and the private mean that formerly private information may now be considered public.  In this upcoming issue, we seek to explore this concept of (mass) public information. Deadline for refereed articles: February 12, 2010. All other, non-peer reviewed submissions (multimedia pieces, blogs, response essays, etc) are due March 31, 2010. You can also turn in response pieces throughout the life of the journal issue - up to 6 months.This schedule helps invigorate the conversation throughout the issue’s lifespan. For more information about publishing in Public Knowledge and to upload your submissions, please visit our website at www.pkjournal.org and follow through to the Submissions site. 

Call for Papers: Regulation & Governance

This relatively new journal is about to enter its fourth year with a high reputation, high impact factor,  high turn out of submissions (47 days on average between submission and decision) and no backlogs of papers. See more at the Journal's website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1748-5983

Call for Papers: Transforming Government

The journal publishes leading scholarly and practitioner research on the subject of transforming

government through its people, processes and policy. Unique and progressive in its approach,

the journal seeks to recognise both the multidisciplinary and the interdisciplinary perspectives

of e-Government, and encourages both pure and applied research that impacts central and local

Government, with international perspectives also welcome. It will also be interested in exploring

how research carried out in the private sector can be applied to the public sector as a means of

improving efficiency and effectiveness. Coverage is international and focused on original research

in e-Government ICT, service chain issues, public sector management, policy implications of

developing environments, and organizational and human resource issues. To submit an article,

please go to the journal homepage at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tg.htm, or contact:

The Editor, Professor Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK E-mail: Zahir.Irani@Brunel.ac.uk,

or the publisher, Kelly Pycroft, E-mail: kpycroft@emeraldinsight.com 

Call for Papers: International Journal of Electronic Governance

International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) is an academic journal focusing on interdisciplinary issues of electronic governance and digital collaboration in the domains of administrative, political and social interaction world-wide. IJEG is published in english by Inderscience Publishers and all submitted manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process. Full text of the IJEG inaugural and the second issues available from http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg

Information Polity: Call for Papers

Authors who wish to write articles for future editions of Information Polity are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically to the Editorial Assistant: Dr Alasdair Marshall, email: amar2@gcal.ac.uk. For more detailed instructions please refer to the Authors Corner on the IOS Press website: www.iospress.nl
 

Grant Opportunities and Announcements

2010 iGov Research Institute  
The Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany is pleased to announce the 2010 iGov Research Institute held in the Netherlands, from July 18-25, 2010.  Supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute was created for doctoral students from around the world who are interested in the impacts of information and communication technologies on government and governance. The iGov Institute includes both academic sessions and practical field work and is organized around the experiences of a city or region using advanced information policies and technologies for economic, cultural, and social benefits. The faculty team comprises internationally known researchers as well as senior government officials. This year our field venue is The Hague in the Netherlands.  Our local university partner and residential location is TU Delft. For more details about the program design, please read summaries http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute?sub=past  of programs from previous years. The 2010 iGov application submission deadline is March 15, 2010. To learn more and to apply, please visit the institute website http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute .

Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford

Professors Joshua Cohen, Larry Diamond and Terry Winograd founded the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University in 2009. The purpose of the Program is to understand how (and to what extent) various information technologies and their applications -- including mobile phones, text messaging (SMS), the Internet, blogging, GPS, and other forms of digital technology -- are enabling citizens to advance freedom, development, social justice, and the rule of law.  The program lies at the intersection of social science, computer science, and engineering and thus focuses not only on conducting research but also on fostering the design of new technologies to achieve these ends.
This year, the Program has made the decision to expand its mailing list beyond members of the Stanford community.  While we post information on events in the bay area, we also share information such as news and jobs that may be of interest to the larger community. Please contact Yosem Companys at ycompanys@gmail.com for more information.

Open Government Directions Blog

AmericaSpeaks has just launched called Open Government Directions at http://www.opengovernmentdirections.org The blog will be a resource for those who care about theOpen Government Directive and creating a more participatory and collaborative government. Thus far it includes four kinds of resources:
1) Several thought pieces http://opengovernmentdirections.org/resources/ that we have written about best practices in open government, as well as links to resources that others have written. Specifically, we have written a few interesting pieces on key questions that agencies should ask before launching an online dialogue as well as recommendations for what agencies should include in their open government web sites. These will be regularly updated and added to.
2) Online dialogues about best practices in online engagement using Idea Scale http://opengovernmentdirections.ideascale.com/ and Mixed Ink http://opengovernmentdirections.org/mixed-ink/
3) A newsfeed http://opengovernmentdirections.org/ with links to new stories and articles about Open Government
4) And links to specific elements of the Open Government Directive http://opengovernmentdirections.org/open_gov/

The e-Government EndNote Reference Library has been updated to Rev 5.0 
The Digital Government Society makes available to members and non-members version 5.0 (May 2009) of the E-Government Master Library in EndNote TM (Version X2) XML format or a Package Version in ZIPformat. The library currently contains 3,090 references of predominantly English language, peer reviewed work. The library has been cleaned, and some 300 references were removed, since they did not meet the inclusion criteria or were undetected duplicates. The library now contains 3,090 entries, a net increase of 21.79 % over version 3.2 (July 2008). We continued detecting older work, which has been added. Also, 345 entries (11.16 %) published in 2008 were included. In order to download the library,please register yourself and accept the GPL license agreement. We provide the reference in EndNote XML or as a zippedPackage Lib, so that they can be imported by various EndNote versions. For the XML v ersion, please use the EndNote IMPORT function (select EndNote XML document). Click here to access the EndNote Library

The Journal of E-Governance

IOS Press announces a change in the journal title I-Ways - Journal of E-Governance and Regulation (ISSN 1084-4678). Since the focus of the journal is increasingly on advancements in e-governance, it has been decided that the name of the journal will change to Journal of E-Governance (ISSN 1878-7681), beginning with the first quarter of 2010. The Journal of E-Governance is dedicated to publishing facts and analyses on strategic developments and opinions of leading commentators on economy, policy, regulation, technology and applications of electronic government services through the Internet, broadband and other communications networks. The ICT infrastructure and services required for the delivery of e governance benefits, as well as accompanying applications and reforms in administrative practices, will be major features of the journal. While the focus of news and articles describing e-governance programs will be worldwide, there is a consensus by most national governments, international organizations, non governmental bodies and others involved in economic and social development that e-governance represents the most cost-effective and efficient process to pursue in developing countries to accelerate economic development as well as progressive democratic institutions. In addition to national and municipal e-governance programs, the work of a number of intergovernmental organizations, including the World Bank, the European Union, the UN Development Program and OECD will be reported on regularly. More information is available at

Policy & Internet

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and Berkeley Electronic Press are proud to announce Policy & Internet: the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. The Internet is now the most important international medium of communication and information exchange, embedded in interactions between citizens, firms, governments and NGOs, and bringing with it new practices, norms and structures. The societal shift enabled by the Internet has major implications for public policy in all sectors, requiring rigorous empirical investigation, theoretical development and methodological innovation across academic disciplines. Policy & Internet is the first journal to fill a crucial gap in policy knowledge and research. It will be the premier venue for scholars and researchers to set the public policy agenda in the digital era. More information is available at http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/

Free Public Comment Analysis Toolkit Launched at UMass Amherst
Researchers in the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Pittsburgh have launched a free, Web-based beta version of the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) to assist government agencies in searching, analyzing, and responding to citizen comments submitted through federal regulatory sites like www.regulations.gov. The software research and development was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. To test PCAT, visit http://pcat-test.qdap.net. The next training will take place on Friday, February 12, at 9:00 - 11:00 am at Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene building, room #107. Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/greene.html

ParticipateDB

ParticipateDB is a nifty little directory of online tools for public participation. The site went live on

September 15, 2009 and is currently in closed alpha. Take a sneak peek at our initial round of 25 tools

and 10 projects. The website is http://participatedb.com/

Call for Proposals for Transparency and Democracy Websites

mySociety has teamed up with the Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org/ (OSI) to help people in Central and Eastern Europe build transparency and democracy websites suited to the needs and realitiesof their countries. In the UK mySociety runs a variety of sites such as http://www.theyworkforyou.com and our Freedom of Information website http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/. As a result of running these, we know that there are lots of people outside the UK longing to build similar sites that help increase transparency and accountability in their own government institutions. We have now launched a Call for Proposals for participants in Central and Eastern Europe, similar to the one we recently ran in the UK cee.mysociety.org . 

NSF Programs

The programs can be a good fit with certain types of digital government research:
Innovation and Organizational Sciences  (IOS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5378&org=SES&from=home

Law and Social Sciences

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422&govDel=USNSF_39

Sociology

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&govDel=USNSF_39

Political Science

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&govDel=USNSF_39

Creative IT

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09572/nsf09572.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences  (DRMS)

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&org=SES&from=home 

Science, Technology and Society

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&govDel=USNSF_39

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry  (GOALI)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13706

SBE Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&govDel=USNSF_50
The full list of Social and Economic Science programs at NSF can be
found at http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=SES

Disclosure of White House Visitor Access Records Online

In September President Barack Obama took another important step toward a more open  and transparent government by announcing a historic new policy to  voluntarily disclose White House visitor access records.  Each  month, records of visitors from the previous 90-120 days will be  made available online. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Opening-up-the-peoples-house

New E-Governance Book Series by IOS Press

IOS Press is specialized in advanced publications in the field of administrative sciences. Recently, the Press started a new series named Global E- Governance.  The publisher maintains longstanding collaborations with international organisations like IIAS and NATO and publishes a book series Innovation and the Public Sector, edited by Professor Victor Bekkers. In addition they publish 3 journals: Information Polity, edited by Prof. John Taylor, I-Ways, edited by Mr. Russel Pipe, and the International Journal of Regulation and Governance, published with TERI (New Delhi).

SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to announce a call to faculty for interdisciplinary research field proposals for the 2009 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) program.  Established in 2006, the DPDF combines financial support and workshop experience for early-stage graduate students engaged in predissertation research and developing their dissertation proposals. The DPDF program is designed to intervene at a critical moment in the career development of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences by aiding their transition from students to researchers. It provides complementary interdisciplinary perspectives to students across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Faculty applicants must be tenured at different doctoral degree-granting programs at US universities and apply in teams of two. DPDF Research Directors lead groups of 12 graduate student fellows in two four-day workshops Research directors receive a stipend of $10,000 each. More information about the program may be found at: http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf

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