[dgOnline] - dg.o2005 Registration and Conference News

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Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to update you on preparations for dg.o2005, the Sixth 
National Conference on Digital Government Research, which convenes May
15-18 in Atlanta, Ga. at the Westin Buckhead.

I hope you will circulate this to your colleagues in academia, 
government and private industry who may not be on the dgOnline mailing 
list.

Complete details on dg.o2005: http://dgrc.org/dgo2005
Online registration is now open: http://dgrc.org/register/start.jsp
Book rooms at the Westin: http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/venue

I'm pleased to report this year that we have received nearly 100 
submissions of research papers, system demos, posters and Project 
Highlights,  which are being reviewed by our program committee: 
http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/papers#committee .

This year's Digital Government conference will have an extraordinarily 
full program, kicking off on Sunday, May 15 with two International  
Workshops:

- "Operational e-Democracy Research: Cross-National, Multi-Method, 
Interdisciplinary Studies of Digital Government"
      http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/workshops/shulman_wrapped.jsp
- "Digital Government Integration & Systems Evaluation"
      http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/workshops/macintosh_wrapped.jsp

You are invited to submit white papers to these two workshops before 
Feb. 18, in accordance with the submission guidelines laid out on the 
two above-linked pages. More workshops are under development.

The technical program includes a keynote address by Neil Eisner, 
assistant general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mr. 
Eisner is one of the architects of the federal EDOCKET system, and has 
done extensive work in the field of e-rulemaking.

For the first time, the conference will also offer tutorials by Digital 
Government researchers on topics of interest to the academic, 
government and private-industry communities. While more tutorials are 
under development, these two will be offered on Wednesday afternoon, 
May 18:

- "Building Working Partnerships: Government and the Academy"
      http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/shulman_wrapped.jsp
- "Data Confidentiality and Statistical Dislosure Limitation"
      http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/program/tutorials/karr_wrapped.jsp

If you have any questions on the conference or the program, please do 
not hesitate to contact me directly. We look forward to seeing you in 
Atlanta.

Sincerely yours,

m
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::::..... Mack Reed, Communications Manager
::::..... Digital Government Research Center
::::..... USC Information Sciences Institute
::::..... 310.448.8494 ... mack at isi.edu
::::..... http://digitalgovernment.org
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