National Conference on Digital Government Research

dg.o2003
The National Conference on Digital Government Research
May 18-21, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts

The National Science Foundation's Digital Government Research Program and the 
Digital Government Research Center (DGRC) invite you to join leading scientists 
and government program managers at the annual conference devoted to 
cutting-edge NSF-funded research collaborations between the research community 
and the government. 
Home page: http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2003/

This spring, dg.o2003 features the multidisciplinary aspects of digital 
government research partnerships between the nation's top computer, 
information, social, organizational and political scientists, and federal, 
state and local government program managers from the U.S. and abroad.  

Panels, technical sessions, demonstrations, case studies and birds-of-a-feather 
sessions will feature projects related to:

        IT-Enabled Government-Citizen Interaction:
        -       Integration of Data and Services
        -       Universal Access to Information and Services
        -       Public Policy and Organizational Management
        -       Digital Democracy and Governance
        -       Impact of More Transparent and Understandable Government 
Processes and Decision-Making
        -       IT Adoption in Government
        -       National and International Digital Government Efforts and 
Cooperation
                
        IT Research:
        -       Geographic Information Systems
        -       Semantic Web
        -       The Grid
        -       Modalities, Multimedia Interfaces, and HCI
        -       Trust, Confidentiality, Ownership, Reliability
        -       Large Scale Data and Information Acquisition and Management
        -       Software Engineering of Large-Scale Government Projects
        -       Technology Transition
        -       Collaboration Tools

        Government Application Domains:
        -       Electronic Grants Administration
        -       Environmental Management
        -       Electronic Rulemaking
        -       Interoperable Data, Networks and Architectures
        -       Long Term Preservation and Archiving of Government Information
        -       Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance
        -       Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
        -       Crisis Management and Emergency Response
        -       Federal Statistics

MIT's Media Lab Co-founder, Nicholas Negroponte to open dg.o2003:
Multimedia pioneer Nicholas Negroponte is scheduled to deliver the keynote 
address opening this year's conference, which meets May 18-21, 2003 at the 
Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston, MA. The co-founder and chairman of the MIT 
Media Lab, Negroponte is also author of the 1995 best-seller, Being Digital, 
which has been translated into more than 40 languages.

Additional Information: 

You can find the 2003 Call for Papers and Proposals here:
http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2003/papers/

For the latest information on speakers, panels and more, please subscribe to 
dgOnline, the monthly electronic newsletter for digital government research:
http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/dgonline

To learn more about NSF's digital government research program see:
http://www.digitalgovernment.org

The Digital Government Research Center is a collaboration of the University of 
Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and Columbia University. 
Learn more about DGRC here:
http://www.dgrc.org/

If you have any questions please contact one of the following:

General Conference Chair: Yigal Arens (USC/ISI and DGRC), 
arens-h7NAIIay7WI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Program Chair: Peggy Agouris, University of Maine, 
peggy-FkJKxAlp8y17tfSOMOqMUYdd74u8MsAO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Government Liaison: Valerie Gregg (NSF), vgregg-k7xdciBi28c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Communications: Mack Reed (USC/ISI and DGRC), mack-h7NAIIay7WI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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