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The research program for the National Center for Digital Government extends and refines theoretical frameworks in the social sciences to encompass fundamental changes in information processing and communications. Thus, it means to advance social and applied social science disciplines and fields as well as an understanding of digital government.
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and Working Papers and Publications Eppler, M.J., Mengis, J. (forthcoming 2005) Wirksames Wissen. Moderne Management Methoden als merkbare Metaphern, Versus Verlag, Zürich. Boase, Jeffrey, Wellman, B. (Forthcoming). "Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet." Forthcoming in the Handbook of Personal Relations, edited by Dan Perlman and Anita L. Vangelisti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Boase, Jeffrey/Miyata, K./Wellman, B./Ikeda, K. (Forthcoming) "The Mobile-izing Japanese: Connecting to the Internet by PC and Webphone in Yamanashi." In Portable, Personal, Intimate: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life, edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda. MIT Press. Jackson, Steve (forthcoming) “Technopoles and Development in a ‘Borderless World’: Boundaries Erased, Boundaries Constructed” in Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault, eds. Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World (UBC Press). Schellong, Alexander/Mans D. (2004); "Citizens preferences towards One-Stop Government", Poster, DG.O, 24.-26. May, Seattle, WA. Jackson, Steve (2004): “Surveying Surveillance Studies,” (review essay). The Canadian Journal of Communication 29:2. Lazer, D./Katz, N./Arrow, H./Contractor, N. (forthcoming 2004) “Network Theory and Group Research,” in Andrea Hollingshead and Scott Poole (eds), Perspectives on Small Group Research. Fountain, J.E. (October 2004): “Digital Government and Public Health,” Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy. Vol. 1, No. 4. (published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one of eight centers within CDC)
Mengis, Jeanne/Eppler, M.J. (2004)
The Concept of Information Overload: A Review of Literature
from Organization Science, Accounting, Marketing, MIS, and
Related Disciplines, The Information Society. An
International Journal, 20(5) Mengis, Jeanne. (2004) “Why don’t they know what we want?” The Knowledge Communication Chasm between IT-Cracks and Insurance Professional, European Case Clearing House Collection. Lazer, D./Katz, N./Arrow, H./Contractor, N. (June 2004): “The Network Perspective on Teams,” Small Group Research. Fountain, J.E./McKinnon, R. (2004): “Electronic Government: Key Challenges for Human-Computer Interaction,” in William Bainbridge, ed., Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (Sage: 2004). Hindman, M./Cukier, K. N. (2004): "More is not necessarily better", Op-Ed New York Times, August 23, 2004. Lazer, David and Maria C. Binz-Scharf (2004): Information Sharing in E-Government Projects: Managing Novelty and Cross-Agency Cooperation. Report for IBM Endowment for the Business of Government. Selian, Audrey (2004): "Governance Structures and Technology Adoption in the Post-Communist Caucasus, Case Study: Armenia". Forthcoming poster presentation at the 5th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, Seattle, WA. Selian, Audrey (2004): "The World Summit on the Information Society & Civil Society Participation." Forthcoming in the Special Edition of The Information Society, Taylor & Francis, Indiana University Press. Shah, R. C., & Kesan, J. P. (Forthcoming). Nurturing Software: How Societal Institutions Shape the Development of Software. Communications of the ACM. Selian, Audrey and Kenneth Neil Cukier (2004): "The World vs. The Web: The UN's Politicization of the Information Society." National Center for Digital Government. Kevin M. Esterling, David M. J. Lazer, and Michael A. Neblo (2004): Is Necessity the Mother of Innovation? The Adoption and Use of Web Technologies among Congressional Offices, NCDG Working Paper # 04-010.
Kenneth N. Cukier
(2004): "Internet
Governance, National Interest and International Relations",
background paper for the United Nations ICT Task Force Meeting in NY,
24-26 March 2004. Selian, Audrey (February 2004): "Mobile Phones and Youth: A look at the U.S. Student Market." A paper for the ITU workshop about social and human considerations of technology, "Shaping the future mobile information society" held in Korea, 2004. Lazer, D./Carpenter, D./Esterling, K. (February 2004): “Friends, Brokers and Transitivity: Who Informs Whom in Washington Politics?” Journal of Politics. Lazer, D./Mayer-Schoenberger, V. (Winter 2004): “Staying Connected: Baby Boomers and the Internet,” Harvard Generations Journal, Vol. 1. Boase, Jeffrey/Chen, W./Wellman, B./Prijatel, M. (2003). "Is there a Place in Cyberspace: Understanding the Uses and Users of Public Access Terminals." Géographie et Culture, 46. Boase, Jeffrey/Wellman, B./Quan-haase, A./Chen, W./Hampton, K./Isla de Diaz, I./Miyata, K. (2003) "The Social Affordances of the Internet For Networked Individualism." Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 8(3). Jackson, S./Clough-Riquelme, J./Bringas-Rábago (2003): “Regional reflections on the Johannesburg Summit: Equity and Sustainable Development in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Journal of Environment and Development 12:4. Mengis, Jeanne, (2003) A Review of Eppler's Book: Managing Information Quality. Increasing the Value of Information in Knowledge-intensive Products and Processes, Studies in Communication Sciences 3(2).
Mengis, Jeanne/Eppler, M.J. (2003)
Analysten in politischen und betrieblichen
Entscheidungsprozessen,Die Volkswirtschaft. Das Magazin für
Wirtschaftspolitik, Mengis, Jeanne/Eppler, M.J. (2003) A Framework for Information Overload Research in Organizations. Insights form Organization Science, Accounting, Marketing, MIS, and Related Disciplines, Working Paper ICA, 1 (1-42). Kenneth N. Cukier/Audrey Selian (2003): Conference Report: "The World vs. The Web: The UN's Politicization of the Information Society", World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, December 2003. Lazer, David/Coglianese, C. (December 2003): “Management-Based Regulation: Prescribing Private Management to Achieve Public Goals,” Law & SocietyReview. Hindman, M./Cukier, K. N. (2003): International Herald Tribune Op-Ed: Keep the Web Worldly and Wide, Hindman/Cukier, December 11, 2003. Binz-Scharf, Maria C. (2003): Bureaucratic Networks or Networked Bureaucracies? Knowledge Sharing in ICT-Enabled Innovation Projects, NCDG Working Paper # 03-012. Lazer, D./Carpenter, D./Esterling, K. (November 2003): “Information and Contact-Making in Policy Networks: A Model with Evidence from the U.S. Health Policy Domain,” Rationality and Society. Lazer, D. (2003): “Information and Innovation in a Networked World,” in Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences. Hindman, Matthew and Kenneth Neil Cukier (2003): "Measuring Media Concentration Online and Offline." In "Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning, Metrics, and the Public Interest" conference proceedings. Ford Foundation (December 2003). Mossberger, K./Tolbert, C. J. (2003): Race, Place, and Information Technology, NCDG Working Paper # 03-013. Selian, Audrey (2003): "ICTs in Support of Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance." International Telecommunication Union, 2003. A paper for the World Summit on the Information Society. Fountain, J. E. (2003): Electronic Government and Electronic Civics, KSG Working Paper Number:RWP03-001, Submitted: 01/01/2003. Fountain, J. E. (2003): Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government, Working Paper Number:RWP03-004, Submitted: 01/09/2003. Clark, D./Gillett, S./Lehr, W./Sirbu, M./Fountain, J. E. (2003): Local Government Stimulation of Broadband: Effectiveness, E-Government, and Economic Development, Working Paper Number: RWP03-002, Submitted: 01/01/2003. Hindman, M./Cukier, K.N. (2003): Keep the Web Worldly and Wide, in: International Herald Tribune Op-Ed, December 11, 2003. Cukier, K. N. (2003): Why the internet must regulate itself, op-ed on the Internet and international politics, in: The Financial Times, Oct. 31, 2003. Rajiv C. Shah with Jay P. Kesan (2003): Manipulating the Governance Characteristics of Code, INFO, Vol. 5, No. 4, 3-9. Fountain, J. (2003): Evaluating the Flow, Interview by Steve Ferry, in: Government Technology - Solutions for State and Local Government in the Information Age, August 2003. Rajiv C. Shah and Jay P. Kesan (2003): Incorporating Societal Concerns into Communication Technologies, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 2, 28-33. Audrey Selian (August 2003): ICTs in Support of Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance, a paper for the World Summit on the Information Society. Fountain, J.E./Arens, J./Callan, S./Hovy, E./Marchionini, G. (June 2003): Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Government, white paper written for the National Science Foundation CISE Directorate. Bieber, F. R./Lazer, D. (2003): Lessons Learned from a Miscarriage of Justice, Op-Ed in Boston Globe, April 12, 2003. Fountain, J. E. (2003): Electronic Government and Electronic Democracy, in Barry Wellman, ed., Encyclopedia of Community (Sage), pp. 436-441. Pre-publication version, Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper Series, RWP03-001, January 2003. Working paper was listed on the Social Science Research Network Electronic Library Top Ten download lists for the "Administrative Law Recent Hits," "ERN Public Policy Institutes Research Papers Recent Hits," and the "John F. Kennedy School of Government Recent Hits." Fountain, J. E. (2003): “Prospects for Improving the Regulatory Process using E-Rulemaking,” in Communications of the ACM, special issue on digital government, edited by Lawrence E. Brandt, Gary Marchionini, and Hanan Samet, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2003. Fountain, J. E. (2003): Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government, monograph based on a national workshop organized by the author, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, August 2002. Available as Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper, RWP03-004, January 2003. Working paper was listed on the Social Science Research Network Electronic Library Top Ten download lists for “Administrative Law Recent Hits,” “Public Choice & Political Economy Recent Hits,” "Political Economy (Topic) Recent Hits," and the "John F. Kennedy School of Government Recent Hits". Jackson, S./Baker K. (July 2004): “Ecological Design, Collaborative Care, and the Ocean Informatics Project,” (with Karen Baker), Artful Integrations: Proceedings of the 2004 Participatory Design Conference, Vol II, Toronto, July 27-31, 2004. Jane E. Fountain (July 10, 2004): Keynote Address. “Prospects for the Virtual State,” First Seminar on Digital Government and Governance, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Jane E. Fountain (July 12, 2004): “Prospects for the Virtual State: A Theoretical View,” University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. Jane E. Fountain (July 5-6, 2004): “Internet and Government: Themes and Styles in International Experiences,” E-Governance Catalonia Forum, Barcelona. Sponsored by the Government of Catalonia. Jane E. Fountain (June 11, 2004): “After the Revolution: Information Technology, Institutions, and Governance,” Bentley College. Jane E. Fountain (March 22, 2004): “Enacting Technology in Cross-Agency Initiatives: Structural Transformation or Consolidation?” The Fourth Social Study of IT workshop at the LSE, London School of Economics. Jane E. Fountain (March 17, 2004): “Enacting Technology: Transformation through an Institutional Lens,” Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kenneth Neil Cukier (2004): "Internet Governance: What? How? Who?" Remarks presented at the ITU Workshop on Internet Governance 26 Feb. 2004 in Geneva. 2003 Kenneth Neil Cukier (2003): "The Innovation Fulcrum: Information Technology and Public-Private Sector Partnerships", Remarks presented at the regulatory side-panel of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, Dec. 2003 in Geneva (Posted online at: http://www.cukier.com/writings/WSIS-Dec03e.html). Jane E. Fountain
(2003): Speech "Chile Digital 2010" Jane Fountain (2003): Keynote Speech, Conference of Association of Internet Researchers 4.0, Toronto, October 18, 2003.
Robert Axtell (2003), Brookings Institution "Self-Governance: Agent
Modeling of Endogenous, Emergent Institutions" Bruce P. Mehlman
(2003), Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy:
Offshore
IT Outsourcing and Global Competitiveness Paul DiMaggio (2003), Princeton University, Inequality On-Line: Has the Digital Revolution Reduced Inequality or Exacerbated It?, co-sponsored by the Inequality and Social Policy Seminar. Archon Fung,
KSG,
Mary
Graham, KSG, and
David
Weil, KSG, Bell
Hall (May 2003):
The
Political Economy of Transparency: What Makes Disclosure Policies
Sustainable?, co-sponsored with The
Regulatory Policy Program.
V. K. Samaranayake, Director, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka (May 2003): Digital Government in Developing Countries - Issues and Strategies, co-sponsored with Science, Technology and Public Policy Program. Peter Shane (April 2003), Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Institutionalizing On-Line Democratic Deliberation, co-sponsored with The Regulatory Policy Program. Laurence Prusak (March 2003), Researcher and Consultant. He was the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM), a global consortium formed to advance the practice of knowledge management though action research, What Is a Knowledge-based Organization?, co-sponsored with the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks. J. Richard Hackman (February 2003), Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Harvard University, What It Takes to Connect the Dots: Individual vs. Team Approaches to Intelligence Analysis. 2002 Lewis M. Branscomb (December 2002), Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Responding To Terrorism: Is the New Department of Homeland Security the Answer?. Kuno Schedler (November 2002), Professor for Management Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland, What Governments Do and Why? Electronic Government in Europe Noshir Contractor, (November 2002)Professor of Speech Communication and Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, The Co-evolution of Knowledge Networks and the 21st Century, co-sponsored with the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks. Jane Fountain, (October 2002), STPP Seminar, A National Center for Digital Government: Integrating Information and Institution David Clark (October 2002), Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Computer Sciences and Director, Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Does Technology Matter to Digital Government?.
Barry Wellman
(September 2002), Department of Sociology, University of
Toronto,
Netting Together: Has There Been a Turn Towards Networked
Individualism, co-sponsored with the
Cambridge
Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks.
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