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DGOnline Newsletter
Volume 7: June 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:
-- DGS Joins Transitions in Governance 2008 Project
-- Leadership Retreat Sets Future Direction
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
DGSNA Joins Transitions in Governance 2008 Project
The Digital Government Society has joined with the Transitions in Governance 2008 Project in helping shape the e-government portion of the agenda for the next U.S. Presidential Administration. This is an exciting opportunity to participate with a coalition of organizations to broaden the conversation and harvest ideas about the management of the U.S. Government with the intent of developing a consensus on:
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What management initiatives and strategies have proven effective
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What ideas are no longer viable, relevant or worth pursuing
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What more needs to be done and what new needs to be developed
Program Performance and Results Financial Management and Integrity Federal Workforce and Human Capital Sourcing, Acquisition and Partnerships Electronic Government Governance New Government Networks and Partnerships |
The Transitions in Governance 2008 Project will be holding a series of high-profile dialogue sessions around each of the core management issues they have targeted, bringing together a cross section of government, academia, public policy and other disciplines.
The project will use a web-based survey to develop a comprehensive picture of Federal management’s experiences and ideas going forward. What are the best ideas for the future and best policy options for the next Administration.
Also a method for generating ideas, the Transitions blog will be a featured link form both coalition organization’s and other websites actively engaging in a dialogue with leaders in management, government. and academia.
The focus of this activity is to develop a Final Report, a full finding of the groups’ work, survey results and dialogue sessions. The report will highlight the leading ideas for improving performance as determined by everyone who took part is the project.
DGSNA urges you to add your voice to the Electronic Government portion of the Transitions Project and join in this unique opportunity, with researchers and government, to collectively influence the direction of the next President’s management agenda.
Leadership Retreat Sets Future Direction
On the weekend before dg.o2007, DGS officers, board members, and committee chairs assembled to assess the Society’s first year and to brainstorm ideas to grow and strengthen it in the next year. Six areas for high-priority attention emerged from the day-long discussion:
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Fostering organizational growth and stability through membership, sponsorship, and financial strategies
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Developing a broad societal impact agenda that highlights the importance of digital government principles and developments for society as a whole
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Enhancing academic impact though advocacy for interdisciplinary research, articulation of core digital government research questions, shared curricula, and support for students
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Fostering more government-research partnerships to broaden and deepen the connection among government needs, policies and programs and targeted research and evaluation that supports them
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Creating products and services of value to members such as information repositories, job exchanges, and expertise banks
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Expanding international cooperation both within North America and with existing and emerging societies in other parts of the world
An electronic survey of members will be conducted later this summer to delve more deeply into these ideas and to generate action plans for 2007-08.
Articles and Reports of Interest:
NASCIO Report on Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation
This report is the first in a series that will present the current issues in electronic records management for State Information Officers and recommendations for action. This release deals with the principles of records management, and highlights the most significant challenges facing the states.
Since 2000, The Economist Intelligence unit has published an annual e-readiness ranking of the world's largest economies. In the 2007 report their ranking model, developed with IBM Institute for Business Value, evaluates the technological, economic, political and social aspects of 69 countries and their cumulative impact on their respective information economies.
What is Being Done to Protect Your Personal Information
This report highlights the many ways governments and other organizations are protecting personally identifiable information, with articles from federal agencies, state and local governments, other countries, associations, and industry, and excerpts from the U.S. government’s fiscal 2008 budget and recommendations of the President’s Identity Theft Task Force.
The tip of the iceberg or a tool for citizen-centric transformation of government. A video report of a conference on National e-Government Portals sponsored by the World Bank.
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Calls for Papers
ICEGOV 2007
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
December 10-13, 2007
Macao SAR, China
Deadline: July 16, 2007
Call for Volume Chapters and Reviewers
Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS)
Volume on Electronic Government: Information, Technology and Transformation
Dr. Hans J. Scholl, AMIS EG Volume Editor
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Contact Dr. Hans J. Scholl
International Journal of Electronic Democracy Special Issues – Call for Papers:
Democratic Internet - Foundations, Ideas, Approaches, and New Perspectives www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=641
Deadline: October 15, 2007
Free/Libre and Open Source Software as a Foundation for E-Democracy
www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=642
Participation in Democracy for All - the Society of Active Citizens, an E-Democracy Primer
www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=643
Conferences
5th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2007)
Orlando, Florida, July 12-15, 2007
6th International EGOV Conference 2007
Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007
Workshop on Design & Evaluation of E-Government Applications and Services (DEGAS '2007)
Held in conjunction with IFIP TC 13 Conference INTERACT '2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007
European Group for Public Administration Conference
Madrid, Spain, September 19-22, 2007
1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling E-Government (MeTTeGo7)
Camerino, Italy, September 27-28, 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
www.academic-conferences.org/iceg/iceg2007/iceg07-home
NASCIO Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, September 30-October 3, 2007
www.nascio.org/events/2007Annual
International Conference on Information Society
(i-Society 2007)
Merrillville, Indiana, October 7-11, 2007
9th Public Management Research Association (PMRC) Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, October 25-27, 2007
http://www.pmranet.org/conferences/ProConf.html
eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition
The Hague, The Netherlands, October 24-26, 2007
www.echallenges.org/e2007/default.asp?page=c4p
41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 41)
Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2008
Grant Opportunities:
Cyber Trust (CT) 06-500
Full Proposal: November 14, 2007
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=CISE
Science and Society (S&S) 05-588
Full Proposal: August 1, 2007
Full Proposal: February 1, 2008
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=SBE
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