Multidisciplinary E-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective Information Technology Transfer to Regional Governments

这笔赠款将汇集一个多学科的团队（技术和社会/组织），以探索部署和电子政务服务的影响在波多黎各，与安全，隐私和其他使IT能力。马亚圭斯市将成为政府合作伙伴。多语言将是技术主题之一，沿着语义信息的自动表示和提取，以及协作安全的广域政府对政府数据库。社会科学方面包括研究技术采用的经济/社会障碍。大多数电子政务部署的原则是“建立它，他们会来”;不幸的是，很多时候他们不会来。该项目将帮助我们了解公民在允许跨越旧网络技术的环境中全面接受电子政务服务的障碍，与不成熟且对电子政务服务缺乏经验的民众合作。城市和大学将提供强大的杠杆作用。

This grant will bring together a multi-disciplinary team (technical and social/organizational) to explore deployment of and impact of e-government services in Puerto Rico, with security, privacy and other enabling IT capabilities. The City of Mayaguez will be the government partner. Multi-lingualism will be one of the technical themes, along with automated representation and extraction of semantic information, and collaborative secure wide area government to government databases. Social science aspects include study of economic/social barriers to technological adoption. Most e-gov deployments operate on the principle of 'build it and they will come'; unfortunately many times they don't come. This project will help us understand the barriers to citizens' full embrace of e-gov services in an environment which will allow leapfrogging of older web technologies, working with a populace that is not sophisticated and is inexperienced with e-gov services. Strong leverage will be provided by the City and the University.