Fountain keynotes public policy meeting in Japan

Political Science and Public Policy professor Jane E. Fountain recently gave a keynote address at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Public Policy Studies Association of Japan and also presented an invited lecture to the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in Tokyo.

The keynote address, titled “Still Under Construction: On the Path to the Virtual State,” and the lecture, titled "Current Issues in the Development of Cross-Agency Governance," presented findings from her ongoing study, “Building Cross Agency Initiatives” (BCIA).

BCIA is supported by the National Science Foundation and is conducted through the National Center for Digital Government, which Fountain directs. It examines the structural, behavioral, and political antecedents of sustainable cross-agency relationships in the federal government like Grants.gov and e-rulemaking. Fountain is currently investigating the implications of such relationships for state structure and the policymaking process and has published preliminary results in The Network Society and the Knowledge Economy, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso and published this year by the Brookings Institution Press.

The keynote address and REITI lecture are just two of a series of international lectures for Fountain. Since joining the faculty last fall, Fountain has given the international keynote address to the FP7-eGovernment Research Stakeholder Consultation Workshop in Brussels and to the International Conference on Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific in Wellington, New Zealand. Fountain spoke to government officials at The Hague, lectured at Bond University in Australia, and was the only U.S. invitee to address the European Commission planning session at the Gabriel Lippman National Research Center in Luxembourg.

“International collaboration is an important feature of my work,” Fountain said, “and technology is making these collaborations more frequent, necessary, and possible.”

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August 21, 2006.

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