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  Lois M. L. Delcambre, Genevieve Giuliano (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2005 National Conference on Digital Government Research, DG.O 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 15-18, 2005. Digital Government Research Center 2005 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 89

Invited talks and system demonstrations

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  Neil Eisner: Digital dreams: the future of e-government. 3
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  George S. Ake: Capital wireless integrated network (CapWIN): building a bridge in transportation and public safety communications. 4-6
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  Ben Shneiderman: Human-computer interaction themes in digital government: web site comprehension and statistics visualization. 7-8
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  Hao Wu, Mahesh Palekar, Richard M. Fujimoto, Jaesup Lee, Joonho Ko, Randall Guensler, Michael Hunter: Vehicular networks in urban transportation systems. 9-10

Panels

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  Noshir S. Contractor, Scott Leischow: Cyberinfrastructures for public health. 13-14
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  William G. LeFurgy, Margaret Hedstrom, Theresa A. Pardo, Tyler O. Walters: Preserving information long-term: digital archiving. 15
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  Lois M. L. Delcambre, Genevieve Giuliano, Lynne Chronister, Jane E. Fountain, Judith L. Klavans: Keynote panel: digital government research in the academy. 16-17

Technology to support data gathering via the web

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  Egemen Tanin, Deepa Nayar, Hanan Samet: An efficient nearest neighbor algorithm for P2P settings. 21-28
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  Yan Yang, Leslie Cheung, Leana Golubchik: Data assignment in fault tolerant uploads for digital government applications: a genetic algorithms approach. 29-38

Transportation systems

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  José Luis Ambite, Matthew Weathers: Automatic composition of aggregation workflows for transportation modeling. 41-49

E-governance and public participation

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  Thomas Zwahr, Pierre Rossel, Matthias Finger: Towards electronic governance: a case study of ICT in local government governance. 53-62
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  Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Philip L. Isenhour, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Dan Dunlap: Modeling online participation in local governance. 63-64
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  Timothy L. Nyerges, Terry Brooks, Piotr Jankowski, G. Scott Rutherford, Rhonda Young: Public participation in transportation decision making. 65-66

E-rulemaking

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  Gloria T. Lau, Haoyi Wang, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold: A relatedness analysis approach for regulation comparison and e-rulemaking applications. 69-77
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  Hui Yang, Jamie Callan: Near-duplicate detection for eRulemaking. 78-86
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  Stuart W. Shulman, Eduard H. Hovy, Jamie Callan, Stephen Zavestoski: Language processing technologies for electronic rulemaking: a project highlight. 87-88

E-government: policy, legislation and law

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  Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan: Governance characteristics of information technology. 91-96
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  David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, Jane E. Fountain, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel: Connecting to congress: project highlights. 97-98
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  Ethan Katsh, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Daniel Rainey: Early lessons from the application of process technology to online grievance mediation. 99-100

Alert and crisis management

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  Vandana Pursnani Janeja, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Ahmed Gomaa, Nabil R. Adam, Christof Bornhövd, Tao Lin: DM-AMS: employing data mining techniques for alert management. 103-111
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  Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Jennifer Jie Xu, Alan Gang Wang, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Chunju Tseng, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette: Coplink center: social network analysis and identity deception detection for law enforcement and homeland security intelligence and security informatics: a crime data mining approach to developing border safe research. 112-113
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  Alan M. MacEachren, Sven Fuhrmann, Michael D. McNeese, Guoray Cai, Rajeev Sharma: Project highlight: GeoCollaborative crisis management. 114-115
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  Ganapati P. Patil: Geoinformatic hotspot systems (GHS) for detection, prioritization, and early warning. 116-117

Technology transfer and evaluation for e-government

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  José Ramón Gil-García: Exploring the success factors of state website functionality: an empirical investigation. 121-130
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  Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Sharon S. Dawes: US-European union collaboration on digital government research: developing new models. 131-132
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  Bienvenido Vélez-Rivera, Rafael Fernandez-Sein, Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro I. Rivera-Vega, Walter Díaz, Mario Nuñez-Molina: Multidisciplinary e-government research and education as a catalyst for effective information technology transfer to regional governments. 133-134

Health care, i.t. and e-government

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  Christopher Weare, Juliet A. Musso: Communications technology and urban governance reform: project highlights. 137-138
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  Vincent Price, Joseph N. Cappella: Constructing electronic interactions among citizens, issue publics, and elites: the healthcare dialogue project. 139-140
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  Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Chunju Tseng, Catherine A. Larson, Millicent Eidson, Ivan Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu: A national center of excellence for infectious disease informatics: project summary. 141-142

E-government and community information systems

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  Teresa M. Harrison, James P. Zappen: Building sustainable community information systems: lessons from a digital government project. 145-150
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  Daniel O. Kutz, Javed Mostafa, Monique Girard, David Stark: SGER: computer-assisted interpretation of citizen input in rebuilding lower Manhattan. 151-152
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  Francesca Polletta, David Stark: NSF project highlights: policy made public: technologies of deliberation and representation in rebuilding lower Manhattan. 153-154

Technology evaluation and medical informatics

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  Leon Chen, Olivia Sheng, Dennis Goreham, Jeannie Watanabe: A real option analysis approach to evaluating digital government investment. 157-166
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  Hany H. Ammar, Anil K. Jain, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb: Automated dental identification system (ADIS). 165-166
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  Venu Govindaraju: Emergency medicine, disease surveillance, and informatics. 167-168

Motivating and enabling e-government

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  José A. B. Fortes: Transnational digital government research project highlights. 171-172

User interfaces for integrating web-based information

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  Alan M. MacEachren, Daniel B. Carr, David W. Scott: Project highlight: quality graphics for statistical summaries. 175-176
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  Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Carol A. Hert: Project highlight: toward a statistical knowledge network--2004-05. 177-178
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  Junliang Zhang, Gary Marchionini: Evaluation and evolution of a browse and search interface: relation browser. 179-188

E-voting

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  Alexandros Xenakis, Ann Macintosh: E-electoral administration: organizational lessons learned from the deployment of e-voting in the UK. 191-197
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  L. Jean Camp, Warigia Bowman, Allan Friedman: Voting, vote capture & vote counting symposium. 198-199
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  Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Benjamin B. Bederson, Frederick G. Conrad, Michael Traugott: A project to assess voting technology and ballot design. 200-201

Data integration and eco-informatics

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  Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard H. Hovy: Aligning database columns using mutual information. 205-210
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  Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson, Alan Borning, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Mike Frame, John L. Schnase, William Sonntag, Janos Fulop, Carol A. Hert, Eduard H. Hovy, Julia Jones, Eric Landis, Charles M. Schweik, Lawrence Brandt, Valerie Gregg, Sylvia Spengler: Eco-informatics and natural resource management. 211-212
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  Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Mathew Weaver, David Maier, Susan Price: NSF project: harvesting information to sustain our forests. 213-214

Data quality and data mining

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  Alan F. Karr: Data confidentiality, data quality and data integration for federal databases. 217-218
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  Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang: Digitalization of coastal management and decision making supported by multi-dimensional geospatial information and analysis. 219-220
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  Salvatore J. Stolfo, Shlomo Hershkop: Email mining toolkit supporting law enforcement forensic analyses. 221-222

System demonstrations (a)

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  Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Patrizia Fariselli, Julia Culver-Hopper, Olana Bojic, Rick T. Stewart, Jim Fruscione, Nick Mannochio: Technology transfer of inter-agency government services and their transnational feasibility studies. 225-226
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  Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren, Rajeev Sharma, Isaac Brewer, Sven Fuhrmann, Michael D. McNeese: Enabling GeoCollaborative crisis management through advanced geoinformation technologies. 227-228
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  Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Chunju Tseng, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Ankit Shah, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette: Visualization in law enforcement. 229-230
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  Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang: Integration of multidimensional geospatial information for coastal management and decision-making. 231
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  Andrew Philpot, Patrick Pantel, Eduard H. Hovy: Significance information for translation: air quality data integration. 233-234
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  Daniel Dajun Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Chunju Tseng, Catherine A. Larson, Millicent Eidson, Ivan Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Michael Ascher: BioPortal: an integrated infectious disease information sharing and analysis environment. 235-236
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  Hans Jochen Scholl: Employing the mobility paradigm: the next big leap in digital government? 237-238

Posters (a)

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  Frederick R. Bieber, Charles Brenner, David Lazer: Data mining the family tree: identification of relatives using genetic kinship analysis of DNA. 239-240
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  Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Siddharth Kaza, Byron Marshall, Jennifer Jie Xu, G. Alan Wang, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette: BorderSafe: cross-jurisdictional information sharing, analysis, and visualization. 241-242
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  Songlin Fei: Hotspot detection for chestnut oak regeneration. 243-244
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  Jane E. Fountain, David Lazer: The national center for digital government integrating information and institutions. 245-246
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  Marijn Janssen: Centralized or decentralized organization? 247-248
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  Luquan Jiang, Pengzhu Zhang, Huanchen Wang: Community e-government coordination work platform. 249-250
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  Siddharth Kaza, Jennifer Jie Xu, Byron Marshall, Hsinchun Chen: Topological analysis of criminal activity networks in multiple jurisdictions. 251-252
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  David Lazer, Allan Friedman: The hare and the tortoise: the network structure of exploration and exploitation. 253-254
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  Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, José A. B. Fortes: Virtual machines in transnational digital government: a case study. 255-256
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  Ron Li, Xutong Niu: Exploring the spatio-temporal variation of seagrass ecosystems in southern Tampa bay. 257-258
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  Anu Mundkur: Research in progress: a preliminary theoretical framework for understanding e-governance initiatives. 259-260
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  John O'Looney: Using GIS technology to assess the prudence of municipal growth through annexation. 261-262
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  Mack Reed, Yigal Arens: Project highlight: digital government community-building and outreach. 263-264
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  Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan: Governing with information technologies. 265
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  Wei Tu, Lixin Li, Reinhard Piltner: A study of smart growth initiatives using GIS: the case of Austin, Texas. 267-268
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  Nancy Wiegand: Searching for geospatial government-produced data. 269-270

System demonstrations (b)

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  Hany H. Ammar, Anil K. Jain, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb: Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS). 273-274
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  José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng Pan, Naqeeb Abbasi, LanLan Wang, Matthew Weathers: Argos: dynamic composition of web services for goods movement analysis and planning. 275-276
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  Xiao Fang, Olivia R. Liu Sheng: Designing a better web portal for digital government: a web-mining based approach. 277-278
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  Kishore Kattamuri, Marius-Calin Silaghi, Cem Kaner, Ryan Stansifer, Markus Zanker: Supporting debates over citizen initiatives. 279-280
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  Ganapati P. Patil, S. L. Rathbun, Raj Acharya, Pushkar Patankar, Reza Modarres: Upper level set scan statistic system for detecting arbitrarily shaped hotspots for digital governance. 281-282
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  Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rey Koslowski, Vandana Pursnani Janeja, Janice Warner, Aabhas V. Paliwal: Agency interoperation for effective data mining in border control and homeland security applications. 285-286
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  Lillie Coney, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner: Towards a privacy measurement criterion for voting systems. 287-288
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  Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Fiona Thompson: Modeling the social and technical processes of interorganizational information integration. 289-290
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  Stephanie W. Haas, Ron T. Brown, Leo Cao, Jesse Wilbur: Evaluation of the govstat statistical interactive glossary: implications for just-in-time help. 291-292
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  William S. Hodgkiss, Chaitanya K. Baru, Tony Fountain, Don Reich, Kurt Warner, M. Glasscock: Spatiotemporal analysis of 9-1-1 call stream data. 293-294
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  Kincho H. Law: ITR/IM+SII: a distributed information management framework (REGNET) for environmental laws and regulations. 295-296
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  David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo: Style conscious: how members of congress learn new ways to communicate. 297-298
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  Ines Mergel, David Lazer, Maria Christina Binz-Scharf: Electronic communication in a geographically dispersed community of forensic scientists. 299-300
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  Ganapati P. Patil, S. L. Rathbun, Raj Acharya, Pushkar Patankar, Reza Modarres: Geoinformatic surveillance of hotspot detection, prioritization and early warning. 301-302
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  Barbara Russo, Alberto Sillitti, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Gasperi: A pilot project in PAs to transit to an open source solution. 303-304
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  Hanan Samet, Egemen Tanin, Leana Golubchik: Scalable data collection infrastructure for digital government applications. 305-306
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  Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth: Integrated criminal justice systems: designing effective systems for inter-organizational action. 307-308
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  Stuart W. Shulman, Mack C. Shelley: Give the people what they want: research notes from the hunt for better electronic rulemaking. 309-310
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  Gale Wagner, Arnie Vedlitz, Surya Waghela: Digital governance for animal health and biosecurity applications. 311-312
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  Christine B. Williams, Jane Fedorowicz: A framework for analyzing cross-boundary e-government projects: the CapWin example. 313-314
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  Pengzhu Zhang, Fangfang Xu, Luquan Jiang: Improving the quality of public services: case study of Shanghai social security and citizen services system. 315-316
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  Quan Zhou: National & municipal government websites: a comparison between the United States and China. 317-318

Student research papers

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  Feng Zhou: Vertical datum conversion in the Lake Erie coastal area. 321-325
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  Alexander Schellong: CRM in the public sector: towards a conceptual research framework. 326-332
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  Kimberly Stoltzfus: Motivations for implementing e-government: an investigation of the global phenomenon. 333-338

Birds of a feather

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  Noshir S. Contractor, Scott Leischow: Cyberinfrastructure for public health dg.o2005 birds of a feather session. 341
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  William G. LeFurgy: Long-term management and preservation of digital information dg.o2005 birds of a feather session. 342
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  José Ramón Gil-García, Theresa A. Pardo: Multiple methods and multiple paradigms for digital government research: understanding the promises and challenges. 343
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  Andrew Reamer, Marshall DeBeny: The national infrastructure for community statistics. 344
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  Hans Jochen Scholl: Digital government: the challenges of integration and interoperability dg.o2005 birds of a feather session. 345
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  Stuart W. Shulman: Building new curricula for digital government studies dg.o2005 birds of a feather session. 346