Public Safety Networks and Infrastructures: Creating Successful ICT Collaborations...
This talk will examine ICT-related collaborations among public safety organizations, with an emphasis on those employing common ICT infrastructures for communication and information sharing. The speakers' goals are to contribute to scientific knowledge and policy guidance for public safety networks by discovering where collaboration does/doesn't occur and why, and by determining the factors that contribute to the success of shared ICT infrastructures. They focus on several key explanatory concepts, including governance of the collaboration, governance of the infrastructure, the architecture of the infrastructure, and the level and complexity of the initiative. By combining large-N study and case study methods, they will be able to capture the data needed to answer their research questions while also enhancing the generalizeability of the results.
Speakers:
Jane Fedorowicz, the Rae D. Anderson Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at Bentley College; M. Lynne Markus, the John W. Poduska, Sr.
Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley College; Christine B. Williams, Professor of Government at Bentley College; Steve Sawyer, founding member and Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University’s School of Information Sciences and Technology; and Michael
Tyworth, ABD Doctoral Candidate in the Pennsylvania State University’s School of Information Sciences and Technology.
Part of the National Center for Digital Government seminar series. (www.umass.edu/digitalcenter)