[Air-L] “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” - Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States to Speak at UMass Amherst - Live Stream Available

[Stuart Shulman]

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States to Speak at UMass
Amherst

“Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration”

http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/events/pdfs/PR_Noveck.pdf

The National Center for Digital Government at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst will host United States Deputy Chief
Technology Officer for Open Government Dr. Beth Simone
Noveck on Friday, October 30, 2009.

The Open Government Initiative, which Noveck directs, was founded after
President Obama’s January 21, 2009 Memorandum for Heads of Executive
Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government. The
memorandum announced the administration’s commitment to an “unprecedented
level of openness in Government.”

As Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Noveck works to enable greater
transparency
and accountability, broader and more diverse citizen participation, and
increased
opportunities for government to government and citizen to government
collaboration. Her lecture “Open Government: Transparency, Participation,
and
Collaboration” will describe in greater detail the initiatives pursued by
her office.

Noveck is author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government
Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of
The
State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006). She is on leave as a
professor
of law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New
York Law
School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford
University.

Noveck’s speech, “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and
Collaboration,” will be October 30, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the
Isenberg
School of Management, room 108. The event is open to the public, but RSVPs
to ncdg at pubpol.umass.edu are strongly encouraged. The speech will also be
streamed live through www.ncdg.org.

For more information visit our website at www.ncdg.org or contact:
Michelle Sagan Goncalves
mgoncalves at pubpol.umass.edu
(413) 577-2354.

-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
200 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003

http://people.umass.edu/stu/
stu at polsci.umass.edu
413-545-5375

Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
http://www.jitp.net

Director, QDAP-UMass
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/

Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government
http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/