http://www.ctg.albany.edu/projectsThe CTG Projects List240http://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/nytdThe National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) is a new data collection and reporting mandate for states from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The NYTD is focused on collecting data on the independent living services provided to youth across the United States. In New York, the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany/SUNY is partnering with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) to develop a strategy for collecting data directly from youth. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/broadbandCTG is supporting New York State in its efforts to ensure broadband is universally available so that every New Yorker can fully participate in the modern digital economy. One of the first steps toward achieving this goal is to clearly understand the existing broadband landscape. In support of activities by the New York State Broadband Development and Deployment Council, CTG is working with the NYS Office of Cyber Security (OCS) on several initiatives to help the state develop a clear picture of where broadband service gaps exist. The results of these initiatives will be used by the state to help guide policy decisions and direct future resources and investments in broadband infrastructure. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/ichooseThe Building Information Sharing Networks to Support Consumer Choice Project (I-Choose Project) is a three-year research activity funded by the National Science Foundation. The research team consists of a network of researchers and practitioners from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The project aims to develop a data interoperability framework to provide consumers with a wide range of information about how, where, and by whom products are manufactured and brought to market. The project will focus first on development of interoperability among stakeholder communities for the single case of coffee grown in Mexico, and distributed and consumed in Canada and the United States. The lessons learned from this specific case will then be generalized across other product domains. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/smartcitiesThe Smart Cities Service Integration project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), a Canadian federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of the project is to create a framework for service integration for Smart Cities. The international research team includes researchers and graduate students from the US, Canada, Mexico, and China. The project will produce a series of comparative case studies of Quebec City, Canada, New York City and Seattle, U.S., Mexico City, Mexico, and Shanghai and Macao, China. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/nysspeedtestThe Center for Technology in Government’s is partnering with the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC) to test the speed of broadband service available in New York State. CTG is developing a strategy to recruit NY citizens to run a broadband internet speed test program from their personal computers. CTG will collect and analyze the results and report them to CSCIC. The project is supported by a grant to CSCIC from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to develop a comprehensive map of broadband internet availability throughout New York State. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/opengovThe growing importance of opening government provides an excellent opportunity for CTG to bring its expertise to bear on the critical challenges of access to and sharing of government data. Our expertise is a result of an extensive body of work that includes research on cross-boundary information sharing, interoperability, and most recently, development of methods to assess the public value of open government initiatives. This latest work is supported by an Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research from the National Science Foundation and a grant from Microsoft. The results include an expanded conceptual framework for open government and citizen services, plus a research agenda for addressing the most challenging open government questions facing the academic, government, and non profit communities. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/arraThe Center for Technology in Government hosted a series of forums with New York State practitioners designed to support the sharing of current and best practices in the use of technology resources to capture, manage, and deliver the data required for Recovery Act (2009) reporting. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/transnationalThe substantive focus of this applied research project, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, is international collaboration efforts regarding air quality monitoring and reporting initiatives that involve the United States and Mexico, and the United States and China. An international network of native research partners led by the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany will explore the issues in the context of these two bi-lateral collaborations. The goal is to analyze the actual experiences of government and partner organizations as the basis for developing both conceptual models and practical tools for effective transnational knowledge sharing. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/socialmediaThe overall aim of this project is to provide government professionals with practical advice on policy and regulatory issues associated with the use of social media by government agencies, offer guidance on resolving some of the most pressing concerns identified, and offer suggestions on tools that would help agencies achieve their organizational objectives in respect to social media effectively and efficiently. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/grandchallengesThis National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop brought together a select group of social and information science researchers and government leaders to lay out a research agenda on the interplay of complexity, value, and risk inherent in the emergence of new information technologies and their adoption by individuals, organizations, and governments. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/nadgwgThe North American Digital Government Working Group (NADGWG) was formed in early 2007 by researchers and practitioners from a variety of institutions and disciplines in Canada, the United States and Mexico to advance electronic government research across geographic and political boundaries in the region. The working group members are developing a comparative and transnational research agenda targeted at questions about intergovernmental digital government initiatives in North America. This group was formed with the support of the National Science Foundation Digital Government Research Program and the home institutions of the members. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/itgovThe purpose of this project was to generate a set of recommendations for enterprise IT governance in New York State government. The recommendations are based on a framework that was collaboratively developed with key stakeholders within New York State, including state CIOs, state control agencies, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT). Through facilitated exercises, CTG explored two main areas of concern: (1) what value should the enhanced enterprise IT governance framework deliver to New York State and its agencies and (2) what are the necessary changes needed to achieve and sustain this value? The project produced a set of recommendations for New York State and a set of companion reports that draw on a review of IT governance experiences nationwide. 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/dg_instDigital government is a global phenomenon that is changing the capabilities of government, the expectations of citizens, and the nature of related scholarship. Thanks to an initiative sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, doctoral students from around the world who are interested in digital government (DG) research can apply to participate in a week-long, intensive residential program focused on ways to advance, study, and understand digital government research in an international context. 05 Apr 2007 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/mobileThe Center for Technology in Government (CTG) in collaboration with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is in the process of assessing the use of mobile technologies in child protective services (CPS) in New York State. This project has four phases, the first phase started in the summer of 2006 and the final phase is scheduled to be completed in January 2009. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/dgiThis project is a four-year effort to develop a sustainable global community of practice among digital government researchers and research sponsors. It includes an international reconnaissance study describing the current status of digital government research, an annual research institute, a framework for several international working groups, and travel support for US investigators and doctoral students to participate actively in international conferences and workshops. 22 Feb 2007 01:10:11 ESThttp://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/miii Integrating and sharing information across government settings involves complex social and technological interactions. This research begins with a study of information integration initiatives in public safety and environmental management. Based on these projects, researchers will develop and test dynamic models that explain the complex relationships between organizations and technology that can be used to inform other government information integration projects. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:11 EST