The 5th annual Public Performance Measurement & Reporting Network conference is hosted by Rutgers' School of Public Affairs and Administration. This year's conference is focused on the theme: Great Expectations: Getting Results From Performance Budgeting, Measurement and Reporting Systems. Natalie Helbig is presenting a paper entitled, Getting to actionable front-line practice improvements: The critical role of translation.
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Creating Public Value in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power World is hosted by the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota. The main goal of the conference is to gain a deeper understanding of the foundational building blocks of how public value is created and to identify the characteristic strengths and weaknesses of this approach from a comparative perspective. Anthony Cresswell is presenting a paper entitled, Putting Public Value to Work: A Framework for Public Management Decision Making.
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Theresa Pardo is a member of the Executive Council for Information and Technology Management of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The Executive Council is composed of noted IT experts from the public and private sectors and from academia, and serves to advise the U.S. Government Accountability Office on issues related to information management and technology.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration of Children and Families is hosting a Technology and Human Services Symposium to gain a better understanding of the issues and opportunities surrounding the intersection of technology with human services. Experts in and across the fields of human services administration and management, grant making, technology, and research have been invited to explore novel uses of technology and the needs of human services systems to identify where technology can meet these needs and stimulate new thinking about human service-related problems.

GTC East is an event for and about state and local government to foster discussion and dialogue on the use of information technology as a strategic tool for managers, executives and policy makers. At this year's conference, CTG will be participating on the following panels: IT Governance (Theresa Pardo); Knowledge Sharing and Cross Boundary Collaboration (Donna Canestraro); and The Transparency of Transparency (Meghan Cook & Natalie Helbig).
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As the US member of the international consortium working on ICTs, governance, and policy modeling, GovPoliNet/Crossover, Sharon Dawes participated in scientific advisory board and consortium meetings, as well as a project workshop. These meetings coincide with EGOV 2012: International IFIP Electronic Government Conference. Dawes will organize the EGOV 2012 PhD student colloquium, which provides doctoral students an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.
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The IFIP eGovernment Conference 2012 will bring together the top of the scientific research community in e-government and e-governance from all over the world. The conference provides a highly interactive and professional forum for exchanging research concepts, progress and results. As in the past, IFIP EGOV will feature refereed paper presentations, invited keynote presentations, high-level discussion panels, workshops, and a PhD Colloquium. Sharon Dawes is co-chair of the PhD Colloquium, along with Björn Niehaves, European Research Center for Information Systems, Germany, and Jochen Scholl, University of Washington.
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Theresa Pardo will give the keynote at the Government Innovation Forum 2012 (GIF) on Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value. Pardo’s keynote will focus on the current open government landscape and the role research and practice innovations are playing in managing the complexity of opening government and facilitating the creation of public value. GIF integrates local and international experts in the public sector and officials from all levels of government to discuss the opportunities in the Mexican technology agenda. The forum will provide an overview of the initiatives that are improving the way governments provide services to the community, and explore the use and benefits of social networks and mobility in collaboration with the community.
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As part of CTG's role in New York State's implementation of the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), Amanda Kronen, NYTD Project Coordinator at CTG, will be attending the NYTD Technical Assistance Meeting. The purpose of the meeting is for participants to discuss the results of the first round of national data and associated data quality issues, federal plans for continued analysis and dissemination, and preparations for the first follow-up population period. Additionally, there will be opportunities to network with NYTD teams from around the country to better understand the project on a national level.
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Join an expert session on Open Government: Modeling the Informational Relationships between Government and Society on the July 18th radio broadcast of Coffee Break with Game Changers. “Coffee Break” is a live, one-hour weekly Internet radio show on Voice America Business, produced in conjunction with SAP Radio. The Open Government panel will be featured live from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET. The radio show will feature four distinguished panelists including: David Nero, Director of Technology for the City of Boston; Jeanne Holm, Data.gov Chief Evangelist and NASA Chief Knowledge Architect; Natalie Helbig, Senior Program Associate, Center for Technology in Government; and Russ LeFevre, Vice President, Industry Solutions Marketing, SAP.
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The City Protocol is a new open, global, and progressive working framework for cities worldwide to assess and improve performance in environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, quality of life, and city services, by innovating and demonstrating new leadership models, new ways of engaging society, and by leveraging new information and communication technologies (ICT). At the workshop, representatives of 35 cities from six continents will be joined by colleagues from universities, industry and city organizations to help create the City Protocol Society and define how we understand the future of our cities and to begin to create a real market and a real science of smart cities.
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Data.gov and the World Bank are sponsoring the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC), which will bring together the world's foremost experts on open government data around the theme "Putting Data to Work." The conference will gather policymakers, developers, and others with a keen interest in open government data to share lessons learned, stimulate new ideas, and demonstrate the power of democratizing data. From policy to technology, IOGDC promises to be filled with thoughtful, dynamic discussion around the historic opportunity presented by open government data to foster collaboration, transparency, and interactive public participation.
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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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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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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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