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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The 2013 Major Cities of Europe Annual Conference will focus on "ICT:Fostering Cities' Prosperity.” The annual conference brings together local government managers and CIOs with leading experts in the ICT field to identify innovative solutions for the most pressing challenges cities face today. Meghan Cook will be a Track Chair both facilitating and speaking in the session, DATA: Leveraging a City’s Goldmine. The session will feature presentations and a roundtable from cities and public service ICT companies focused on maximizing a goldmine of data to promote new services, participation, economic development, societal changes.
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Held annually, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's international research conferences attract the best researchers from around the world and covers topical issues in the public policy community. The Fudan University School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (UMD), and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) are hosting this year's conference, entitled Collaboration Among Government, Market, and Society: Forging Partnerships and Encouraging Competition. Sharon Dawes will present the paper, Collaboration across Nations: Context and Dynamics, coauthored by Brian Burke and Lei Zheng (Fudan University). The paper focuses on the interactions among the participants during the six-year engagement that culminated in the implementation of AIRNow-I Shanghai, with particular attention to the ways in which their work was influenced by the need to deal with important contextual distances associated with culture, language, organizational factors, data, knowledge, and technology.
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Theresa Pardo will be give a presentation on Leveraging Technology Innovation in Government at the SAP Public Sector Innovation Forum. The audience will be comprised of senior government officials at the federal level, as well as local municipal government officials. The theme of the event is helping public sector departments capitalize on the business technology around them.

Sharon Dawes has been invited to participate in the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Governance, Public Administration and Information & Communication Technologies for Post-2015 Development Objectives in Geneva July 3-5. The meeting is organized by UNDESA and the Center for Electronic Governance at United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology. It is part of a world-wide effort to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) built upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The group will make recommendations about ways governance and public administration, supported by information and communication technology, can contribute to a post 2015 sustainable development agenda.
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The 2013 Youth in Progress (YIP) Leadership Retreat invites foster youth from across the state to participate in a two-day conference to discuss their experiences while in care. The retreat features presentations, workshops, and forums on services available for youth as they transition to independent living. CTG’s NYTD Project Coordinator Hillary Closs will conduct a workshop on the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), a federal data collection effort to assess services used by foster youth. Raven Profit, YIP Youth Ambassador and intern at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) will co-facilitate. The workshop will include a facilitated discussion about sharing NYTD information, the importance of the initiative in the lives of foster youth, and how youth can get involved.
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