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WELCOME
The National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) seeks to build global research capacity, to advance practice, and to strengthen the network of researchers and practitioners engaged in building and using technology in government.
Please browse our Research pages for more information on our recent presentations and publications and our People pages for more information about our staff, fellows, and researchers. |
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Networked Governance
Jane Fountain, NCDG Director, is investigating the structural, behavioral, and political antecedents of sustainable cross-agency relationships in the federal government. She is examining the implications of these relationships for state structure and the policymaking process. See her latest working paper for more information on the topic.
Collaboration in Free and Open Source Software and Open Content
Charles Schweik, NCDG Associate Director, is currently conducting research around open source programming and open content projects as "commons" and as new paradigms for the production of scientific research. Browse his publications and check out his website for more information.
For more NCDG projects, please visit our Research section. |
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 Schellong, A. 2008. Citizen Relationship Management - A Study of CRM in Government. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing.
 Sarkar, S. 2008. The New Middle-Class, Technology and
Modernity in Seelampur [PDF]. NCDG Working Paper #08-001
 Chakravartty,. P. & Zhao, Y., eds. (2008). Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Chakravartty is an NCDG faculty affiliate.
 Lazar, D. and Mayer-Schonberger, V., eds. (2007) Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This volume, edited by NCDG co-founder David Lazer, includes chapters by several past and present NCDG faculty affiliates and fellows including:
>> See the complete table of contents here.
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The 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2009, has released its call for papers. Visit the conference website or join the conference Crowdvine network more information.
YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States has released a call for papers. Visit the conference website for more information.
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NCDG is pleased to welcome Dr. Stuart Shulman to the Center as Associate Director. Dr. Shulman is the founder and director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), Director of the NSF funded E-Rulemaking Research Group, and inventor of the Coding Analysis Toolkit. Professor Shulman is also Editor of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and conference co-chair of dg.o2009 .
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Citizen Relationship Management, a new book by former NCDG & PNG Fellow Alexander Schellong is now available. Click here for more information about the book from the publisher. [more]
NCDG Fellow Sreela Sarkar has been awarded the 2008-2009 Graduate School Fellowship from UMass Amherst. She will use the fellowship to conduct field research in India. Congratulations, Sreela!
NCDG Fellow Sreela Sarkar presented her research at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association [more]
NCDG Fellow, Meelis Kitsing presented two posters at the 9th annual dg.o conference in Montreal [more]
Former NCDG fellow Jeffrey Boase has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University. [more]
Meelis Kitsing is part of the core research team contributing to the UN E-Government Survey 2008. The newly released survey assesses the role of government in enhancing public service delivery, while also improving the efficiency and productivity of government processes and systems.[more]
David Lazer comments on the use of familial DNA searches in NPR's three part series on The Ethics of DNA Use. [more]
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