| Digital Government Society (in formation)
Mission Statement (approved by public vote between Oct 16 and Nov 16, 2005) The Digital Government Society (DGS)** is a global multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners engaged in and committed to democratic digital government. Digital (or electronic) government fosters the use of information and technology to support and improve public policies and government operations, engage citizens, and provide comprehensive and timely government services. DGS equips its members with a professional support network focused on both scholarship and effective practices that nurture technical, social, and organizational transformation in the public sector. The society welcomes members from all sectors, endorses diverse, multi-, and interdisciplinary research undertakings relevant to both theory and practice, and strongly encourages practitioner-researcher exchanges at local, regional, national, and international levels. Background: The Mission Committee was formed at the 2005 International Conference on Digital Government Research in Atlanta, GA, for the purpose of facilitating an inclusive global process of threaded discussions leading to a widely accepted mission statement for the future Digital Government Society. The Committee decided to conduct a staged, half-year process of discussing the various aspects of the mission, then developing a mission statement from those discussions, and finally have the global Digital Government Community vote on the proposed mission statement. Between October 16 and November 16, 2005 a total of 128 scholars and practitioners from around the world cast their votes. Of those 128 votes, 123 (=96.09%) were in favor of the proposed mission statement, while 5 (=3.91%) were not. The Mission Committee Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, (sdawes<at>ctg.albany.edu) Enrico Nardelli, NESTOR, University of Roma "Tor Vergata," (nardelli<at>nestor.uniroma2.it) Jochen Scholl,The Information School, University of Washington, (jscholl<at>u.washington.edu) Voter comments on the mission statement Last Updated: January 26, 2006 |
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