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DGRC is a joint research center of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University.
::: FOCUS :::
The center focuses on four types of activity:
- Information Technology research: development of advanced information systems to address critical areas of need for government agencies and citizens in online transactions;
- Digital Government community building: organization of the annual dg.o conferences that bring together staff from federal, state, and local government, researchers in IT and social sciences, and companies with a commercial interest in Digital Government;
- Production of the monthly newsmagazine dgOnline;
- NSF Digital Government program growth: organization of and participation in workshops that help develop new directions for NSF's Digital Government program.
::: ANNUAL CONFERENCE :::
 As sponsor of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, the DGRC fosters a support mechani
sm for hundreds of Digital Government researchers. The next annual conference, dg.o 2006, is to take place May 21-24 in San Diego, CA.
The 2005 conference took place May 15-18, 2005 in Atlanta, GA, and was presented in collaboration with the IEEE Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
::: FEATURED RESEARCH :::
DGRC researchers are engaged in several projects exploring two problems presented by the vast amounts of statistical data that must be collected and published by government agencies: The authoring of survey instruments for collecting data, and the public
dissemination or the resulting data over the Internet.
::: EDUCATION & OUTREACH :::
In addition to its research activities, DGRC is involved in important educational efforts in the area of digital government, including:
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