University at Albany, State University of New York

China

Comparative and Transnational Digital Government Research

North America, East Asia

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and a graduate assistant at the Center for Technology in Government at SUNY Albany. I obtained my MPA degree at the University of Arizona with a concentration in international management and a B.A. degree from Beijing International Studies University. Before I came to the US for my graduate study. I worked in Shanghai, China for six years in various jobs. My early jobs include working as a tour coordinator in a travel agency, as a marketing assistant at Coty Cosmetics, and as a brand supervisor at Nestlé China. The most recent job before I left China was working as a market intelligence specialist at Xerox China for three and a half years. This job was the first to raise my interests in information management and gave me initial hands-on experiences in the field.

I am interested in the comparative and transnational domains of digital government research. Some of my research interests are: To what extent could digital government theories and practices in one country be applied to other countries with different political, economic, social and cultural background? What are some of the challenges and obstacles for transnational information sharing? How do countries respond to cross-national information policy conflicts among them? How could researchers cope with the challenges of conducting comparative and transnational digital government studies such as access to data, travel cost, language, cultural barrier etc.