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President's Inaugural Message

Incoming President Jochen Scholl discusses the present and future of digital government in his inaugural message.

dg.o 2010 Conference

The 11th Annual Conference on Digital Government Research is being planned for May 17-20, 2010 in Puebla, Mexico.

2009 Online Election: New DGSNA Board

The DGSNA Election Committee is pleased to announce the new Board, serving for the calendar years 2010 and 2011. We wish the Board much success in the coming two years! Full election vote tallies are now available.

President:
Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, Seattle

President-elect:
John Bertot, University of Maryland at College Park

Treasurer:
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Secretary:
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

Past President:
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Board members:
Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico
Norman Jacknis, Director, Cisco IBSG Public Sector Group, New York
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government at the University of Albany
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information
Sciences Institute
Rejean Roy, CEFRIO, Montreal, Quebec
Norm Sondheimer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Christine Williams, Bentley University, Massachusetts

dg.o 2009 Conference

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference, "Social Networks: Making Connections Between Citizens, Data & Government" are available on the ACM Digital Library.