Former CTG Graduate Assistant, Mohammed Gharawi, and Senior Fellow Sharon Dawes won Best Paper Award in the eGovernment Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. The title of their paper is Exploring the Influence of Contextual Distances on Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks: A Comparative Study of AIRNow-Shanghai and the Hajj-MDSS Initiatives. The paper compared two case studies, one done as part of CTG's project on Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks and the other adapted from Mohammed's Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 2012 at UAlbany's College of Computing and Information, Informatics Department.

Download full paper>>