CTG is a global leader in advancing research and practice on the interaction of policy, management, and technology use at all levels of government in the US and around the world. We have taken a leading role in building a community of practice for researchers and government practitioners to advance knowledge about information technology innovation in government. A critical part involves actively serving on advisory boards and committees at all levels of government to explore and advise on key issues related to digital government.

Below is a list of these activities during 2010-2011.

The NYS Forum Webmasters' Guild provide a means for those individuals within state and local government that have responsibilities for their agencies Web Sites to share ideas, issues, problems, etc.

CTG Participant: Jim Costello (Co-Chair)

The scope of the IT Skills Development Work Group of The NYS Forum is to provide a fundamental framework on IT skills development for NYS IT professionals allowing them to build their capabilities to take on more advanced roles and tasks in their workplace.

CTG Participant: Donna Canestraro (Co-Chair)

The Board of Directors is responsible for establishing the Executive Council and serves as the core of that body. The Board approves the creation of all Work Groups and Projects, and provision of staff support and provides oversight of the financial affairs of The Forum. It also promotes a culture of ethics and compliance with all applicable laws and carries out the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and the purposes of the Corporation.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The NYS CIO Council's Open Government, Collaboration, and Communication Committee (OGCCC) is responsible for encouraging the NYS government community to collaborate through the exploration of shared initiatives/services, resources and information using inter and intergovernmental networks. They also promote the same for the public through open government initiatives and communities.

CTG Participant: Meghan Cook

The NYS CIO Council's Enterprise Architecture Committee is responsible for encouraging the sharing of technical knowledge/expertise across agencies of state and local government, and reviewing current and emerging technologies to develop enterprise technology standards.

CTG Participant: Donna Canestraro

The NYS Office of Cyber Securty hosts this group, which works toward making cyber security everyone's responsibility.This group consists of representatives from each level of government (State, county, city, town and village). They voluntarily work together to identify the cyber security issues facing localities and work toward solutions.

CTG Participant: Meghan Cook

CTG serves in an advisory role to the NYS Local Government IT Directors Association, an organization dedicated to the coordination and improvement of information technology in all types of governments in New York State. NYSLGITDA promotes the interests of those engaged in local government information technology services by providing a forum for the exchange of views and the dissemination of information; advises all government agencies and officials concerning the use of information technology; and rosters collaborative research among members and encouraging education, training and projects in the field of local government information technology.

CTG Participant: Meghan Cook

Sponsored by Government Technology, GTC East is New York's Digital Government Summit held annually in Albany, NY. GTC East provides an important venue for sharing innovative uses of information technology to streamline state agencies' operations.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

DataONE is part of the NSF DataNet initiative, which is designed to provide archival infrastructure for science data. DataNet projects bring together scientists, librarians, information scientists, social scientists, and computer scientists to tackle the difficult issues of data sharing, data management, and digital data preservation. The Socio-Cultures Working Group is focusing on understanding the sociological and cultural issues that inhibit effective data sharing and long-term preservation and on devising and implementing strategies to overcome those barriers.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The AC/GPA uses evaluation criteria, or performance indicators, to evaluate outcomes from NSF’s grant programs in research, education, and research infrastructure. The indicators take into account the support of potentially transformative research, stimulating innovation, developing successful models for teaching and learning, achieving active support of undergraduate and graduate students in research projects, and fostering research at large facilities or with advanced instrumentation that could not have been carried out without NSF support.

CTG Participant: Sharon Dawes (Vice Chair)

The Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archives (ACERA) is a deliberative body to advise the Archivist of the United States on technical, mission, and service issues related to ERA. This includes, but is not limited to, advising and making recommendations to the Archivist on issues related to the development, implementation, and use of the ERA system.

CTG Participant: Sharon Dawes

OPM aims to: Build trust with the American people, empower the public, become more innovative, effective, and efficient, make wiser decisions, foster a culture that values everyone’s contributions, and increase accountability.

CTG Participant: Meghan Cook

The Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security (ASCHS) is a nationally recognized center of innovation and excellence for applied science, focused on the convergence of technology on the homeland security market. The center's purpose is to focus and accelerate the transfer of technology and ideas into market driven products and systems to solve key problems in protecting our society against terrorist events and disasters, while creating jobs in New York State. More>>

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The Your Voice Matters: A Dialog on USA.gov was an effort to use citizen input to inform GSA of improvements that can be made in the delivery of government information. The process was being administered by the National Academy of Public Administration through its Collaboration Project. The panel served to identify themes, ideas, and trends that emerged from the dialog and to make recommendations to GSA for future stakeholder engagements. More>>

CTG Participant: Sharon Dawes

The Executive Council on Information Management and Technology is composed of noted IT experts from the public and private sectors and from academia, and serves to advise the U.S. Government Accountability Office on issues related to information management and technology.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The Digital Preservation Management Workshops, is a series initially developed at Cornell University in 2003 and continued at ICPSR since 2008, which offers practical guidance to organizations for developing effective digital preservation programs. Members of the Advisory Board are working to assist curriculum development and guide the transition of the workshop series from Cornell University, its original home institution, to its new home at ICPSR, University at Michigan.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

UNU-IIST is an international center of excellence on research and practice in electronic governance and part of United Nations University. The Institute aims to support governments in developing countries in strategic use of technology to transform the working of public organizations and their relationships with citizens, businesses, civil society, and with one another. It is focused on applied and policy research, capacity building and various forms of development – strategy development, software development, institutional development – and development of communities of practice. More>>

CTG Participant: Sharon Dawes (Chair)

The Digital Government Society of North America is a global multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners engaged in and committed to democratic digital government. Digital (or electronic) government fosters the use of information and technology to support and improve public policies and government operations, engage citizens, and provide comprehensive and timely government services.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo (Board Member)

CIDE is one of Mexico’s centers of teaching and research in the social sciences. Part of the network of highly specialized public centers for research and higher education coordinated by the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), CIDE is fully committed to contributing to the development of Mexico through its demanding academic programs; rigorous, relevant research; and links to the public, private, social, and academic sectors.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The State Information Center (SIC) is a Chinese government policy making think tank affiliated with the National Development and Reform Commission established in 1987. The Information Research Institute concentrates on information technology development strategy and planning; e-government, e-commerce theory and practice; information industry development and policy research for the State; information forums, organization and coordination of research publications.

CTG Participants: Anthony M. Cresswell, Sharon Dawes, and Theresa Pardo

The Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in eGovernment is a program of the Information Technology Authority of Sultanate of Oman. The national competition targets government institutions and is a result of His Majesty's call for the development of a national strategy developing knowledge of citizens and skills in dealing with information technology and a call for all government institutions to accelerate the enhancement of services by digital technology and best practices. The Jury Members are chosen from outside the Sultanate and are accredited by the United Nations to ensure transparency and credibility. The Jury Panel comprises 12 international members from the USA, UK, Syria, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Slovakia, India and Palestine.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The Educating Stewards of Public Information in the 21st Century (ESOPI-21) seeks to prepare the next generation of public information stewards by developing fellowships, curricula, courses, and experiential components designed specifically for the needs of public sector information professionals. This project provides graduate students interested in public information curation and public policy the skills needed to become leaders in public information curation and public policy administration.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

Through collaboration, creativity, and a commitment to excellence, the National Center for Security and Preparednessat the University at Albany supports the nation's efforts to be secure from acts of terrorism and to be prepared to respond to incidents of high consequence and disasters through research, education, training, and technical assistance. NCSP has become a global leader and innovator in security and preparedness, the National Center for Security and Preparedness integrates research, education, training, and technical assistance.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The Campus Committee on University-Community Engagement was formed by UAlbany's President and Provost in January 2010. The committee works to coordinate community engagement university-wide and increase the benefits and impact.

CTG Participant: Anthony M. Cresswell

The CLUE program is a multi-faceted and growing set of initiatives aimed at addressing the various calls for action in UAlbany's Going Forward Plan and the newly developed strategic plan. The Going Forward Plan called for ways to “invest in, and work to retain, our high quality faculty and staff” and the CLUE Program is specifically designed to support and retain our talented faculty and staff.

CTG Participant: Donna Canestraro

Government Information Quarterly is an international journal of information technology management, policies, and practices.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The International Journal of Electronic Government Research is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary, international journal that publishes high-quality, original research about electronic government. Electronic government is broadly defined within topics such as but not limited to the hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning and management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts. The journal also serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners to present theoretical and philosophical discussions on current issues relating to the practice of electronic government.

CTG Participant: Anthony Cresswell

The International Journal of Electronic Governance is a fully refereed inter-disciplinary research journal covering the theory, applications and impact of using the internet, the world-wide web and digital communication media as governance channels. The journal focuses on the use of electronic and information technologies in deliberation over democratic policy and decision making processes, community governance as well as governance in non-political domains such as corporate, open project, online community and social network contexts.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo

The International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics provides an international forum for practitioners and researchers from social sciences, along with information systems professional practitioners to contribute and share research regarding the impact and future of IT in the workplace. Covering all aspects of social issues impacted by information technology in organizations and inter-organizational structures, IJSODIT presents the conceptualization of specific social issues and their associated constructs. This journal encompasses designs and infrastructures, empirical validation of social models, and case studies illustrating socialization success and failures relating to Information technology.

CTG Participant: Senem Guney

The Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP) seeks high-quality manuscripts on the challenges and opportunities presented by information technology in politics and government. The primary objectives of the journal are to: promote a better understanding of how evolving information technologies interact with political and governmental processes and outcomes at many levels, encourage the development of governmental and political processes that employ IT in novel and interesting ways, and foster the development of new information technology tools and theories that can capture, analyze, and report on these developments.

CTG Participant: J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

Transforming Government publishes leading scholarly and practitioner research on the subject of transforming Government through its people, processes and policy. Unique and progressive in its approach, the journal seeks to recognize both the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of eGovernment, and welcomes both pure and applied research that impacts central and local government.

CTG Participant: Theresa Pardo