Title
Advancing E-governance: Connecting Learning and Action
Date/Time
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 09:00 - 10:00
Venue
Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker
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Dr. Sharon S. Dawes
Center for Technology in Government, UAlbany, SUNY |
Abstract
Electronic Governance is defined in many ways, but all the definitons include an expectation of innovation and improvement in the public sphere. Innovation entails experimentation and risk. Improvement requires deep understanding of the context of government, as well as new tools and new ways of working. Accordingly, advancing electronic governance demands both learning and action. This talk will focus on ways to conceptualize, operationalize, and capitalize on ways to link research and practice in a shared and mutually rewarding enterprise aimed at better public management and better governance.
Biography
Sharon Dawes is Senior Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany. Her main focus is international research and innovation partnerships, including programs and projects with academic institutions and government agencies in Asia and the European Union.
Sharon served fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007, as CTG's founding director building and nurturing CTG's research programs, applied projects, and public-private-academic partnerships. In addition to research, her work included program development, strategic management, and maintaining state, national, and international relationships with the research and practice communities. Under her leadership, CTG was the recipient of several prestigious national awards including an Innovations in American Government Award, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
Sharon is also an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and led the development of the UAlbany's Government Information Strategy and Management curriculum in public administration. This academic program encompasses the policy, management, and technology dimensions of information and technology use in the design and delivery of government programs. She is also a faculty member of the Information, Government, and Democratic Society specialty in the Department of Informatics.
Before coming to CTG, Sharon was Executive Director of the New York State Forum for Information Resource Management, and an Executive Fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. She began her career as a government program manager in the New York State Department of Social Services, where she spent seven years as an Associate Commissioner responsible for New York's then $12 billion social welfare programs.
A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Sharon was elected the first President of the Digital Government Society of North America in 2006. She serves on advisory committees for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST). She has been honored with leadership awards from public, private, and academic organizations.
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