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团队（技术和社会/组织），探索波多黎各电子政务服务的部署和影响，包括安全、隐私和其他使能的IT能力。马亚圭斯市将成为政府合作伙伴。多语言将成为技术主题之一，此外还有语义信息的自动表示和提取，以及广域政府对政府数据库的协作安全。社会科学方面包括技术采用的经济/社会障碍的研究。大多数电子政务的部署都是基于“建立它，他们就会来”的原则；不幸的是，很多时候他们都不来。这个项目将帮助我们了解在一个允许旧网络技术跨越式发展的环境中，公民全面接受电子政务服务的障碍，与不成熟和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.