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Stuart Shulman: After 10 years of DG conferences, this is an important question. Digital Government may be a term that needs updating. Whether mGov is the way forward, is not clear. While mobiles are ubiquitous and tweets come straight from the Capitol Building whil... [read more]

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Hello all, the CFP for dg.o 2010 is ready (see http://www.dgo2010.org/). We invite you to submit a paper in any of the different formats. Hope to see you all in Puebla next year!! I leave you a picture of the Cholula's pyramid, which is located about a mile from the Universidad de las Americas, the main venue of the Conference.

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Hello everyone. We are just reloading this site, and soon we'll update the headers so it refers to dg.o 2010. Please join or start conversations about our next Conference. We in Mexico are very glad of having the opportunity of having you here, and we are making our best to have a great Conference. Hope to read you around and see you in Puebla next year. I am attaching for you an image of the "Capilla Real" in Puebla, one of the beautiful places ... [read more]

The Board of DGSNA, the Digital Government Society of North America, has decided that the dg.o 2009 conference, originally scheduled to be held in Puebla, Mexico, on May 18-20, will not be held this year, due to fears raised by the swine flu epidemic. This was a difficult decision to make, and involved extensive discussions and the investigation of various alternatives. We are aware that the annual conference is one of the signal events of the ye... [read more]

Due to the outbreak of swine flu virus, we regret to announce that the dg.o 2009 conference will not be held in Puebla on May 17-20 this year. The conference organizers are investigating the following alternatives: + postponement: holding the conference later this year in Puebla + movement: holding the conference later this year elsewhere + virtualization: holding the conference virtually, via the web + merging with dg.o 2010 or some other DG-rel... [read more]

Eduard Hovy: An update: The DG Society Board and the dg.o conference Organizing committee are investigating several alternatives for dg.o 2009, including possibly holding the conference later this year near Washington DC, and then going to Puebla in May 2010. Wha... [read more]

Willem Pieterson: I'd say that holding the conference later this year would be a good idea. However, I wonder to what extent that would infringe upon everyone's schedules for later this year. I can image everybody already has planned conferences and the like for the a... [read more]

Hello all, Since I live here, I forgot to tell you where is Puebla, and maybe more than one is asking it himself or herself. Sorry about that. Puebla is 60 miles to the south from Mexico City. There are few international flights in the local airport, but you can also travel to Mexico City and then take a bus to Puebla. Buses depart every 30 minutes directly from Mexico City airport, cost 170 pesos and it is a 2-hour ride (1 hour to leave Mexico C... [read more]

Janice Warner: Hi Luis, The sessions will be held at the university. Where will the tutorials be held? Is there any advantage to one hotel over the other as far as getting to the conference?

Luis F. Luna-Reyes: The tutorials will be held at NH Hotel, but the welcome reception and the poster session will be held at the Camino Real Hotel, there is just few blocks between them. Buses will leave from both hotels to the university in the morning and back in the ... [read more]

The dg.o 2009 conference registration site is up. Please register by April 15, 2009 to get the early registration rate.

This is well worth a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InI5n3NTvR4

I'm just arriving home from a nice evening in Downtown Puebla. I went with my wife and kids to a nice show called "Las Noches Poblanas". The show takes place in the "Casa de la Cultura" (Culture House) every Saturday at 7:00 pm, and you can listen, watch and even dance some very nice Mexican Waltzes, music from the Mexican Revolution, and see the "chinas" and "chinacos" dancing some "Jarabes". I did not take my camera, but I found a demo on Youtu... [read more]

San Andres Cholula, a small city that has become part of Puebla Metropolitan area, is the most ancient continuously inhabitated city in Mexico (the city was founded about 500 b.c.). The host University, UDLAP, is in this ancient city, and less than a mile away from the University there is an archeological site with one of the biggest pyramids in Mexico, which is still covered because it has a XVI century church on top. However, archeologists have... [read more]

Another very nice place to visit while you are in Puebla is the city of Tlaxcala in the state of the same name. Although a different state in Mexico, Tlaxcala is only 30 minutes from Puebla and Cholula by car. Downtown Tlaxcala is also full of colonial buildings and typical restaurants. I am posting here a picture of the Saint Francis Convent in downtown Tlaxcala.

Now is the time for the FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2009 email push. Please help get the reminders out, especially now that we have moved the deadline to January 18, 2009. Please note there are many forms of 2-page and other under 10-page submissions, such as: * Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages) * Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 6 pages) * Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages) * Panels (maximum of 4 pages) * Post... [read more]

Is there any reason not to use the 2008 dgo LaTex format documents for 2009?

Soon Ae Chun: As long as you use the template availablet at ACM proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), it should be fine.

Please read our short "Dear Colleagues" letter from Jing and Andrea describing the opportunity to propose pre-conference workshops and tutorials for dg.o 2009. If you lead a successful tutorial, dg.o will pay you $500.

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia: I think that these are great opportunities for sharing information and knowledge about specific topics. For example, last year I organized a tutorial on the use of Partial Least Squares...

If you are new to the dg.o community, or even if you have been going for years, there are now 17 short videos posted on the YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/dgo2009org I invite you to view, comment, tag, embed, & link to these videos as a way of advancing the core identity of dg.o research.

What did dg.o aspire to become?

Stuart Shulman: Getting interesting research into actual government practice is difficult. Some 2003 reflections on this from Eduard Hovy remain on point for researchers today:

Stuart Shulman: According to Valerie Gregg (2002), DG is a "state of mind." I think that is still an apt description!

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia: I totally agree with Stuart. This is still a very good description!

Another nice place for a family/friends visit around Puebla is Africam Safari zoo. You drive in your car among the free animals first, and in a second section you can walk closer to some others like the kangaroos and wallabies.

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia: I am sure dg.o 2009 is going to be not only an intellectually estimulating event, as always, but also a wonderful opportunity to visit a very nice area in Mexico.

This is one of the two patios of the Camino Real Hotel in the heart of Puebla Historic District, and one of my favorite places to have our Poster and Dinner Session.

Stuart Shulman: Fantastic! Luis, I cannot wait to get to Puebla. Keep sharing the wonderful pictures. Many thanks! ~Stu

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia: Hi Luis! Yes, this is a great place and I look forward to attending dg.o 2009 in Puebla. Best, Ramon

This is more archival video from past dg.o meetings. In this case, Larry Brandt of the NSF speaks at dg.o 2003 about the role of social science in the Digital Government research tradition and some of the emerging needs of government agencies.

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia: I think this is very interesting and agree with Stuart that still reflects in several ways our goal in digital government research.

I fixed the weird alignment issue in the dgo2009.org search box that arose from adding multilingual support. Let's use this thread to post additional desiderata and bug reports.

As a part of a continuing relationship between the NSF, the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the eRulemaking Research Group, you can access the corpus of emailed public comments submitted about "Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing This Distinct Population Segment From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife." There you will see a suite of tools for search and ... [read more]

Washington, D.C. – The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced it will extend the duration, increase the maximum number of applications, and expand the scope of applications eligible to participate in the Peer Review Pilot. The pilot, launched in June 2007, encourages the public to review volunteered published patent applications and submit technical references and comments on what they believe t... [read more]

Straight from the dg.o 2000 archives...

The eRulemaking Research Group's University of Pittsburgh website is moving to UMass: http://people.umass.edu/stu/eRulemaking/index.html There you can find many past dg.o papers and other links of interest.

Crowdvine's Facebook integration allows you to find and connect with people at the dgo.2009 conference. You can even see which of your Facebook contacts will be attending.

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Stephen Purpura: If (1) the user has a Facebook account; (2) the user has provided the facebook profile info to crowdvine and (3) the user already has a friendship relationship established with you through facebook ... then crowdvine's facebook integration will simpl... [read more]

Andrea Kavanaugh: hi all, I did link my facebook and crowdvine, but I don't know if it's still not letting others connect to my facebook from crowdvine. (Sameer, please let me know if it's still not integrated when you get a chance to test it again.) Andrea

Stephen Purpura: if you've linked your crowdvine to facebook, there is something wrong.

Puebla is a metropolitan area rich in history, archeological treasures and Colonial Architecture. I am including in this post a picture from the cathedral and the Saint Michael Fountain in Puebla main plaza.

The dg.o 2009 organizers have settled on Puebla, Mexico for the site of the conference. We plan on making this the most family-friendly digital government conference to date, with exciting field trips and opportunities in the region. For example, courtesy of Google Images: "The Pyramid of the Moon photographed from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. The stairs on both pyramids begin on a stone structure which is attached to the pyramid, but many ... [read more]

Luis F. Luna-Reyes: Teotihuacan pyramids (the picture from Stu post) is just one of the interesting sites around Puebla. It is a 2-hour drive to the Pyramids from Puebla. Teotihuacan means "the place were men become gods", and it is the name given by the aztecs to the p... [read more]