National Center for Digital Government

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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.

Visit 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.

Announcements and Publications

Current Projects

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 one of her latest working papers and the Building Cross Agency Initiatives page for more information on the topic.

Crowdsourcing and the Environment:
Charles Schweik, NCDG Associate Director, and colleagues at UMass Amherst are creating the Mobile Gulf Observatory, an iPhone application that creates "citizen scientists" and uses crowdsourcing technologies to help locate and rescue injuried and oiled wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

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. More information about his research is available here.

Ethics in Science and Engineering:
Jane Fountain, NCDG Director, and Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst are developing a beta site to test cybertools and cyberinfrastructure for an interdisciplinary, multimedia, and international online beta repository to support ethics in science and engineering. Visit the Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (ESENCe) Beta Site here. Fountain, MJ Peterson, and several other faculty at UMass Amherst are also developing modules and frameworks to introduce international dimensions of ethics into S&E courses. For more information on this project, visit the International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Project page.

For more NCDG projects, please visit our Research section.

More publications

Recent Publications

	Schweik, C.M., Ines Mergel, Jodi Sandfort, and Zhirong Zhao. "Toward Open Public Administration Scholarship" Journal of Public Administration Theory and Research 21 (2011): i175-i198.
	Alexander Schellong. 2010. Benchmarking EU e-government at the crossroads: A framework for e-government benchmark design and improvement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy.
	Philip N. Howard. 2010. The Internet and Islam - The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Oxford University Press.
	Schweik, C.M., English, R., Paienjton, Q., and Haire, S. 2010. “Success and Abandonment in Open Source Commons: Selected Findings from an Empirical Study of Sourceforge.net Projects.” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010) Workshops. Notre Dame, IN, USA. June 2, 2010.
	Schweik, C. M. & Kitsing, M. 2010. Applying Elinor Ostrom’s Rule Classification Framework to the Analysis of Open Source Software Commons. Transnational Corporations Review 2.1, 13-26.
	Seok-Jin Eom. 2010. "The Institutional Dimension of e-Government Promotion: A Comparative Study on Making ‘Business Reference Model (BRM)’ in the U.S. and Korea." NCDG Working Paper #10-001.
	Charles M. Schweik. 2009. The Open Source Software Ecosystem. NCDG Working Paper #09-002.
	Ines A. Mergel, Charles M. Schweik, and Jane E. Fountain. (2009). The Transformational Effect of Web 2.0 Technologies on Government.
	Enrico Ferro, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, & Michael D. Williams, Eds. 2009. Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society.IGI Global.
	Lazer, D. et al. 2009. Computational Social Science. Science, 323(5915), 721-723.

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