Building and Sustaining an International Digital Government Research Community of Practice

在过去的十年里，越来越多的证据表明，“数字政府”（DG）正在发展成为一个全球性的研究领域。由于DG领域相对较新，与更成熟的科学学科相比，不同国家的研究人员之间的互动不足。世界各地大多数受资助的研究都是在一个国家的范围内解决DG挑战;只有少数调查比较了跨国界的结果或解决了跨国范围的问题。这种情况的结果是，在日益网络化的世界中日益重要的DG中的比较性和跨国性问题没有得到应有的重视。为了解决这一差距，该团队将规划、制定和实施一项为期四年的战略，为国际研究讨论创造机会和场所，并使美国研究人员和教育工作者能够通过国际合作推进他们的工作。一个小型的国际咨询小组将被任命来帮助指导这项工作，与其他国家的研究赞助者建立联系，并定期评估实现目标的进展情况。拟议的活动将记录数字政府研究的发展和现状，并促进关系和智力参与，这将丰富它作为世界各地的研究领域。结果将有助于创新的研究问题和方法，确定目前的知识差距，可能是未来研究的重点，并构成一个有用的指南，个人研究人员谁有兴趣与国际研究人员谁分享他们的利益形成关系。所有这些影响创造了一个竞技场，在这里可以查明和调查适合国际处理的研究问题。这一系列活动将有利于NSF研究界以及其他国家的研究界，通过建立和维持世界各地的研究人员和研究赞助商之间的关系，努力对数字政府研究的资助决策进行编目，比较，并在可能的情况下建立协同效应。该项目将直接有助于美国研究人员和研究生在国际环境中成功工作的能力。拟议中的国际暑期研究所将有助于培养未来几代数字政府科学家。

ABSTRACTNSF-0540069Dawes, SharonOver the past decade, growing evidence demonstrates that "digital government" (DG) is developing as a global field of inquiry. Because of the relative newness of the DG field, there is insufficient interaction among researchers in different countries compared to what one finds in more established scientific disciplines. Most funded research around the world addresses DG challenges within the context of a single country; only a few investigations have compared results across national boundaries or tackled problems that are transnational in scope. The result of this situation is that comparative and transnational issues in DG, which are of growing importance in an increasingly networked world, are not receiving the attention they deserve. To address this gap, the team will plan, develop, and implement a four-year strategy to create opportunities and venues for international research discussions and to enable U.S. researchers and educators to advance their work through international collaboration. A small international advisory group will be named to help guide the work, connect to research sponsors in other countries, and periodically assess progress toward goals.The proposed activities will document the development and current state of digital government research and foster relationships and intellectual engagements that will enrich it as a domain of inquiry throughout the world. The results will contribute to innovative research questions and methods, identify gaps in current knowledge that could be the focus of future research, and constitute a useful guide to individual researchers who are interested in forming relationships with international investigators who share their interests. All of these effects create an arena where research problems amenable to international treatment can be identified and investigated. This set of activities would benefit the NSF research community as well as those in other countries by building and sustaining relationships among both researchers and research sponsors around the world in an effort to catalog, compare, and where possible build synergies among funding decisions about digital government research. This project will contribute directly to the ability of US researchers and graduate students to work successfully, and in a sustained way, in international settings. The proposed international summer institute will help to train future generations of digital government scientists.