Academic and business partnerships to enhance digital government research

ABSTRACT

Kimberly Nelson is Executive Director for eGovernment at Microsoft Corporation where she is helping develop Microsoft's e-government strategy. She will talk about how Microsoft is working with partners to establish long-term strategies for more efficient and cost-effective online services and government solutions.Ms. Nelson will discuss some of the trends that are impacting government policy makers today -- increasingly mobile work forces, heightened demands for collaboration among government agencies, and the changing demographics of the people we serve and those who serve them, and the rise of "Government by Networks."She will talk about policies and tools that the workforce of the future will need -- to meet changes that are expected within organizations for both internal and external service delivery and effective decision making. Included in this discussion is the evolution from traditional eGovernment services to a true Digital Society.Finally, Ms Nelson will discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the today's workforce -- governments, businesses and academia working together to solve government's toughest problems with an emphasis on academic and business partnerships to enhance digital government research.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.1 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Design