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Jana Hrdinova

Program Associate

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Specialty

Current practice research
Social Media Policies
Immigration policy and analysis
Comparative and International Politics

Upcoming and Recent Events

June 17-20, 2013, CTG to Help Organize dg.o 2013 Conference ▼

The 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2013) will focus on the theme, From e-Government to Smart Government. Natalie Helbig and Theresa Pardo are Track Chairs, Teresa Harrison and Jana Hrdinova are Panel Chairs, and Sharon Dawes and J. Ramon Garcia are co-chairs of the Doctoral Colloquium. Natalie, Theresa, Teresa, Sharon, and Ramon are also on the Program Committee. The dg.o meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary digital government research, technology innovation, applications, and practice. This year's conference is hosted by the Faculty of Business Administration at Laval University. Paper submissions are due February 1, 2013.
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April 9, 2013, Hrdinova to Guest Lecture at UAlbany Graduate Class Focused on Urban Planning in Developing Countries ▼

Jana Hrdinova will be a guest lecturer for the class, Planning for Jobs, Housing & Community Services in Third World Cities, taught by Corianne P. Scally, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Co-Director of UAlbany's Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning Program. Jana's lecture will focus on the issues surrounding government use of technology in developing countries. The Master's program provides education for professional planning practice, to research and publish on planning-related issues, and to apply planning methods to improve the quality of life in communities and regions.
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April 3, 2013, Hrdinova and Sayogo Present on iChoose at RPI as part of Ontology Summit 2013 ▼

Jana Hrdinová and Djoko Sigit Sayogo (PhD student at Rockefeller College & graduate assistant at CTG), jointly presented with team members from CCI/UAlbany and Tetherless World Constellation/RPI: Semantic Web Development Methodology in Practice: The iChoose Ontology as a Use Case at RPI as part of Ontology Summit 2013. In addition, they are holding a Ontology Summit Hackathon Clinic at RPI this Saturday also based on the iChoose project.
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March 16-18, 2013, Hrdinova to Speak about Social Media at Regional Technology & Social Networking Forum ▼

The objective of the 1st Regional Technology and Social Networking Forum is to bring together leading scholars, authorities, practitioners and experts to discuss emerging trends and future opportunities of technology and social networking, and its economic impact on the region. Jana Hrdinova will be speaking on social media policies and guidelines for governments.
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March 14-15, 2012, Hrdinova to Conduct Social Media Training for Moldova ▼

Jana Hrdinova will be delivering a two-day training course for government professionals from Moldova on managing social media use in a government context. The training is financed by the U.S. Department of State. After the training, Jana will spend an additional two days at the e-Governance Center of Moldova working with them on social media guidelines.
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Brief Bio

Jana Hrdinová is a program associate at CTG. In this position, Jana is responsible for assisting in the development, planning, implementation, management, analysis, and writing associated with various CTG projects.

Jana began working at CTG as a program assistant in January 2006. She came with an extensive expertise in the field of immigration policy and policy analysis, and has built expertise in conducting current practice research, survey design, and project development and administration. In most recent years, she has managed CTG’s Exploratory Social Media Project, organized its doctoral research institute, and conducted research in the field of mobile technology and enterprise IT governance.

Jana previously worked for U.S. Senator (Minnesota) Mark Dayton as deputy director for constituent services concentrating predominantly on immigration issues. In addition to assisting constituents with problems regarding federal agencies, Jana conducted outreach to Minnesota’s African-immigrant and African-American communities, and advised Senator Dayton on immigration, worker’s compensation, and postal service policy issues.

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Jana graduated summa cum laude in International Relations from the University of Minnesota, and obtained a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.

Selected Publications

Jana L. Hrdinová, Natalie Helbig, Catherine Stollar Peters. Designing social media policy for government: Eight essential elements, Albany, NY: Center for Technology In Government, 2010.

Meghan E. Cook, Natalie Helbig, Jana L. Hrdinová, Fawzi H. Mulki, Bahadir K. Akcam. Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services: A Demonstration Project in 23 New York State Local Departments of Social Services, Albany, NY: Center for Technology In Government, 2008.

Cook, Meghan E., Cresswell, Anthony M., Natalie Helbig, Jana L. Hrdinová, Fawzi H. Mulki, Bahadir K. Akcam. Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services: An Extended Pilot in New York City's Administration for Children's Services, Albany, NY: Center for Technology In Government, 2008.

Cresswell, Anthony M., Cook, Meghan E., Helbig, Natalie, Hrdinová, Jana L., Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon, Mulki, Fawzi H., Akcam, Bahadir K., and Canestraro, Donna S. Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services, Albany, NY: Center for Technology In Government, 2007.

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Full List of CTG Publications for this author

Natalie Helbig, Sharon S. Dawes, Jana Hrdinová, and Meghan Cook

, Cultivating the Next Generation of International Digital Government Researchers: A Community-Building Experiment , 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011), 2011

Teresa M. Harrison, Santiago Guerrero, G. Brian Burke, Meghan Cook, Anthony Cresswell, Natalie Helbig, Jana Hrdinová, and Theresa Pardo

, Open Government and E-Government: Democratic Challenges from a Public Value Perspective , Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2011), 2011

Jana Hrdinová, Natalie Helbig, and Catherine Stollar Peters

, Designing social media policy for government: Eight essential elements , Center for Technology in Government, 2010

Natalie Helbig, Sharon S. Dawes, Fawzi H. Mulki, Jana L. Hrdinová, Meghan E. Cook, and Tuuli Edwards

, International Digital Government Research: A Reconnaissance Study (1994 - 2008) - UPDATED, Center for Technology in Government, 2009

Theresa A. Pardo, Donna S. Canestraro, Jana Hrdinová, Anthony M. Cresswell, and Anna Raup-Kounovsky

, Creating Enhanced Enterprise Information Technology Governance for New York State: A Set of Recommendations for Value-Generating Change, Center for Technology in Government, 2009

Jana Hrdinová, Natalie Helbig, and Anna Raup-Kounovsky

, Enterprise IT Governance in State Government: State Profiles, Center for Technology in Government, 2009

Meghan E. Cook, Anthony M. Cresswell, Natalie Helbig, Fawzi H. Mulki, Bahadir K. Akcam , and Jana L. Hrdinová

, Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services: A Demonstration Project in 23 New York State Local Departments of Social Services, Center for Technology in Government, 2008

Meghan E. Cook, Anthony M. Cresswell, Natalie Helbig, Jana L. Hrdinová, Fawzi H. Mulki, and Bahadir K. Akcam

, Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services: An Extended Pilot in New York City's Administration for Children's Services, Center for Technology in Government, 2008

Donna S. Canestraro, Jana Hrdinová, Jim Costello, Theresa A. Pardo, and Derek Werthmuller

, Knowledge Sharing Innovations in the Natural Resources Community: A toolkit for community-based project teams, Center for Technology in Government, 2007

Anthony M. Cresswell, Meghan E. Cook, Natalie Helbig, Jana L. Hrdinová, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Fawzi H. Mulki, Bahadir K. Akcam , and Donna S. Canestraro

, Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services, Center for Technology in Government, 2007

Education

M.A., Political Science, 2003, University of Minnesota
B.A., International Relations, 2000, University of Minnesota