This column highlights some of the connections that we've made over the past four months.

This fall, Deputy Director Theresa Pardo taught "Building a Case for IT Investments" in the Public Administration Department at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY.

Project Support Manager Donna Canestraro was a guest lecturer on database management, information integration, and business case development at a number of fall UAlbany courses.

CTG's E-Government program team presented a series of "Tools of the Trade" at Government Technology Conference East 2002 in Albany, New York.

Director of Administration and Outreach Jane Krumm-Schwan attended an Electronic Grants Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Deputy Director Tony Cresswell presented "Justice Information Integration" at the National Association for Justice Information Systems Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Graduate Assistant J. Ramon Gil-Garcia participated in "The Future of e-Governance," a conference at Syracuse University.

Director Sharon Dawes and Graduate Assistant Ophelia Eglene presented results from the New Models for Collaboration project at the "Public-Private Partnership Symposium" in Quebec City, Canada.

Project Associate Meghan Cook presented testimony on local e-government initiatives to the New York State Task Force on Local Government Reform in Lake Placid.

Meghan Cook presented "Making a Case for Local E-Government" to the Long Island Library Association in Farmingdale.

Technology Services Director Derek Werthmuller participated in a conference on Large Installation System Administration. LISA 02 was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CTG hosted a Justice Information Sharing workshop at the New York City Police Academy.

Sharon Dawes presented "Challenges of E-Government" during the United States General Accounting Office's (GAO) IT Training Week program.

Derek Werthmuller attended the annual Supercomputer Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Meghan Cook and Communication Manager Mark LaVigne delivered a teleconference presentation of "Making a Case for Local E-Government" to the Association of Local Government Information Management's annual international conference in New Zealand.

Mark LaVigne presented "Creating and Maintaining Proper Systems for Electronic Record Keeping" at the 6th Annual Conference of the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (NEC3).

Sharon Dawes presented a morning keynote address on "An Internal Action Agenda for the Next Phase of e-Government" to NEC3's Annual Conference.

Sharon Dawes, Theresa Pardo, Tony Cresswell, and Graduate Assistant Jing Zhang presented papers at the 36th Annual Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS).

Tony Cresswell presented "Justice Information Integration" to the Annual Conference of the National Governors Association in Washington, D.C.