A National Center for Digital Government program on networked governance: project highlights, dg.o 2006 NSF grant # 0131923

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe the ongoing research and activities of the National Center for Digital Government, now based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Program on Networked Governance, the successor program to the NCDG, based at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

REFERENCES

• 1: J. E. Fountain, "Challenges to Organizational Change: Multi-Level Integrated Information Structures (MIIS)," in D. Lazer and V. Mayer-Schoenberger, eds., Information Government (under review with MIT Press, forthcoming).
• 2: J. E. Fountain, "Central Issues in the Political Development of the Virtual State," in M. Castells and G. Cardoso, The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2006 in press).

INDEX TERMS

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

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING
      K.5.2 Governmental Issues
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Design, Management

Keywords:
digital government, e-government, institutional analysis, political analysis, public management, social network analysis