A core aspect of CTG's mission is to take an active role in the community of researchers and managers studying and adding to the growing body of knowledge about information technology (IT) in government. We accomplish this, in part, through our participation in local, national, and international academic and professional conferences. In addition, staff are involved in workshops, panels, and advisory boards at all levels of government and internationally to explore and advise on key issues such as intergovernmental relations, electronic records management, project management, and technology and public policy.

Below is a list of the venues where staff participated as speakers or presented research papers or project findings in 2006, along with the advisory and editorial boards and study panels on which CTG representatives served.

CONFERENCES

International

DEXA eGovernment Conference
Krakow, Poland

7th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o)
San Diego, California

e-Challenges 2006 Conference
Barcelona, Spain

EU IntelCities Research Conference
Sienna, Italy

39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Big Island, Hawaii

International Conference on E-Social Science
Manchester, England

32nd Meeting of the Section of International Organizations, International Council on Archives
Thessaloniki, Greece

Les Echos VIII Forum International Gestion Publique (Eighth International Forum on Public Management)
Paris, France

SAP Ecosystem Conference
Mannheim, Germany

National

67th American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) National Conference
Denver, Colorado

American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Conference
Madison, Wisconsin

Correctional Technology Association Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico

3rd Annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts

National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Annual Meeting
Washington, District of Columbia

National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (NECCC) Annual Conference
Bellevue, Washington

SAP SAPPHIRE Conference
Orlando, Florida

SEARCH Conference
Washington, District of Columbia

XML 2006
Boston, Massachusetts

Regional

FedWeb West 2006
San Diego, California

Government Technology Conference (GTC) East 2006
Albany, New York

Plato Lecture Series, The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington

Southern Region Conference on Technology Transfer and Extension in Natural Resources
Hot Springs, Arkansas

New York State

New York State Forum
Albany, New York

New York State Local Government IT Directors Association
Saratoga Springs, New York

Research Seminars, Workshops, and Panels

Building Capacity for Enterprise Content Management Workshop
United Nations
New York, New York

Building a Collaborative Framework for Enterprise Content Management at the United Nations
The United Nations is embarking on a significant new initiative to create an infrastructure for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The size and complexity of the UN make this initiative a particularly challenging one and key leaders have recognized the need for a collaboration framework to guide the critical decision making, planning, and implementation processes. Through a two-day workshop, CTG worked with the UN to design a preliminary collaboration framework; a governance mechanism per se, to guide these critical processes.

eGovernance and Free Software: How are they Changing Developing Countries Panel Discussion
United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology (UNI-IIST)
New York, New York

E-Government Workshop
Harvard Policy Group on Networked Governance
Boston, Massachusetts

EU e-Government 2020 Roadmap Workshop
San Diego, California

2006 Professional Development Seminar
National Association of Legislative Information Technology
Washington, District of Columbia

US-China Digital Government Workshop, DG-INT 2006
Beijing, China

US-China International Workshop on Digital Government Research and Practice
The first US-China International Workshop on Digital Government Research and Practice (IntDG 2006) was held in Beijing in October. The objective was to create an intellectual forum for digital government researchers in the US and China to exchange research ideas, foster research collaboration, and explore collaborative opportunities between the professional DG societies from both countries. The workshop focused on four panels: city government and services; environment; public health; and international digital government research and societies.

Sharon Dawes, director of CTG, served as one of the honorary co-chairs of the workshop and chaired the government practitioner panel. IntDG 2006 was sponsored jointly by the Chinese Academy of Science, the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, and the US National Science Foundation. CTG graduate assistant Lei Zheng was also a member of the US delegation.

Study Panels and Advisory Committees

Blue Ribbon Panel
Council of State Archivists

Nominations and Election Committee & Constitution Development Committee
Digital Government Society of North America

EUReGOV Expert Working Group
European Commission Information Society & Media Directorate

Study panel on IT Management at the USDA Forest Service
National Academy of Public Administration

Advisory Committee on Electronic Records Archive
National Archives and Records Administration

Business and Operations Advisory Committee
National Science Foundation

Proposal Review Panel on Information Security
National Science Foundation

New York State Telecommunications Reliability Advisory Council
New York State Public Service Commission

NYS/PEF Professional Development Committee for Successful Web Communications in NYS Government
New York State Governor’s Office on Employee Relations

Editorial Boards
Government Information Quarterly
Journal of Information Technology and Politics
Transforming Governance: Politics, People, and Processes

Research Discussion Breakfast Series @ CTG

Research Discussions take an informal look at research-in-progress on a variety of government IT topics.

Optical Networks - Different in Kind
Tim Lance, President and Chairman, NYSERNet

The XML Testbed: Lessons Learned and Future Research
Donna Canestraro, Program Manager, CTG
Ramon Gil-Garcia, Postdoctoral Fellow, CTG

Political Communication and the Influence of IT
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, UAlbany

Future Scenarios for e-Government
Sharon Dawes, Director, CTG

Public Accountability in an Information Age
Albert Meijer, Assistant Professor, Utrecht School of Governance, Netherlands

Current Issues in Social Software: Blogging, Wikis, and RSS
Tom Mackey, Assistant Professor, College of Computing and Information Information Studies, UAlbany