New Directions for Digital Government Research

Panelists:
€ Moderator: Valerie J. Gregg, Digital Government Program Manager, National Science Foundation, vgregg@nsf.gov
€ Margaret Hedstrom, School of Information, University of Michigan
€ Gary Strong, Program Manager, National Science Foundation
€ Paul S. Rosenbloom, Director New Directions, Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
€ William L. Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University and chair, National Research Council Committee on E-Government Research
€ Thomas R. Temin, Vice President and Editorial Director, Government Computer News, PostNewsweek Tech Media, a division of Post Newsweek Media

Often digital government workshops energize new domains of interest for research collaborations between academic, government and private sector partners (Workshop on ³Research Challenges in Digital Archiving²). Still other digital government research focus areas are determined by events, as is the case in the tragic wake of September 11, 2001 (Workshop on ³Responding to Unexpected Events²) and which enable possible new research opportunities in collaboration with the Intelligence Community. The NSF¹s Digital Government research program anticipates receiving proposals in these domain areas, as well as other new domains such as ³E-Rulemaking² and ³Digital governance and democracy.² This panel presented several different visions that represent new directions for Digital Government research. The panel consisted of two halves and spanned two sessions