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San Diego, California
May 21-24, 2006

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• Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed Chair, UC San Diego, will deliver a keynote address on ?One Hundred Years of Data,? Monday, May 22, 2006.
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• Kim Nelson, Microsoft's E-Government Director will deliver a keynote address on "Academic and Business Partnerships to Enhance Digital Government Research," Tuesday, May 23, 2006.
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• Dr. John Phillips, Chief Scientist of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will deliver a keynote address for ISI2006 on Tuesday, May 23, 2006.
  (dg.o 2006 attendees are welcomed to attend.)

• Fighting Fear of a Bioterrorism Event with Information Technology: Real-World Examples and Opportunities
• Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) in Digital Government

• Application of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government Research
• User-Centric Developments in eGovernment in a Period of Fast Technological Change
• Usage Scenarios for Information Sharing in a Data Grid

Attendance
All invited tutorials will take place at dg.o 2006 on either Sunday, May 21 or Wednesday, May 24, 2006.? Tutorials without a minimum of eight registered participants will be canceled. A final assessment of registration status and cancellation decisions will be made on May 15, 2006, one week before the conference begins.

What are International Research Workshops at dg.o 2006?
dg.o 2006 International Research Workshops, first introduced at dg.o 2005, are half-day pre- and post-conference meetings for researchers starting or advancing multi-country projects. Of particular relevance are topics of interest to researchers and government officials in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the European Union.
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Call for Participation for dg.o 2006 Workshops - Register Today!

Sunday - May 21, 2006

• Understanding eParticipation - (All Day)
• Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning, and Sustainable Management -(All Day)
• Research on Public Returns to Government Investment in ICT - (Half Day)

• "eRulemaking at the Crossroads" - (Half Day)
• Implementing Identity Management Architectures for e-Government: Challenges and Key Issues - (Half Day)

GeoInformatics: Detecting "Hotspots" to Prevent Crisis Situations
Penn State, Distinguished Professor features workshop at dg.o 2006
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At this year?s 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, there will be an all-day workshop on ?Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning, and Sustainable Management.? Taking place on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in San Diego, it will be conducted by Ganapati P. Patil, Distinguished Professor and Director, Penn State Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics.

Geoinformatics is a relatively new discipline that uses the tools of computer science to analyze large sets of geographically based data. It is especially relevant to practitioners in public health and public policy for issues ranging from persistent poverty to epidemics and the aftermath of natural disasters. It is also valuable for those in varied environmental management disciplines, from conservation to invasive species management. Additionally, it can provide critical information for security professionals for object recognition and tracking, and for potential spread of the effects of bioterror weapons. Learn more

Application of Social Network Analysis
Harvard DG researcher features tutorial at dg.o 2006
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, Director of the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University, will chair a tutorial at dg.o 2006 on ?Application of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government Research? Other speakers will be Ines Mergel, also of Harvard University, and Noshir Contractor of the University of Illinois.

The tutorial will be a three-hour overview, ?that will inform people what you can do with social network analysis,? says Lazer.? ?Our objective is not to make you a social network expert?which is impossible in 3 hours?but to familiarize people with the key ideas and methods from social network analysis.? Learn more

New DG Team Pursues eRulemaking Research:
Cornell Researchers Extend Earlier Efforts

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"eRulemaking at the Crossroads"
Univ. of Pittsburgh DG Researcher features workshop at dg.o2006

Regulators must work out the real-life details of the laws that have been passed. For those whose mandate is implementation, rather than legislation, the calculation is never as simple as counting up how many yeses vs. how many nos. Learn more

University of Koblenz-Landau Summer Academy 2006

The Summer Academy aims at giving lectures on current research topics in English. Members of the University of Koblenz-Landau will offer their courses, and an accompanying program in regional culture is scheduled.

The faculty's attractivity for foreign students and young researchers will be increased since they will get an impression of teaching and research in Germany and particularly at our university.

This is also an offer to students of our numerous partner universities to participate in student exchange.

For our own students the objective is intercultural experience: learning to study in a foreign-language environment. The Summer Academy is also designed as an incentive to take courses at a university abroad.

The research groups of the department do not only cover a wide area of computer science. The research competence of some groups includes also business & administration and information management. For students, this wide spectrum of research topics allows for a number of attractive options. Beside computer science, they may specialize in computational visualistics, information systems or information management. At the same time, the department is capable of analysing the development and economic deployment of information technology from various, synergetic perspectives. All research groups of the department combine the effort towards a theoretical foundation of their work with a pronounced orientation towards practical problems.

For the professors and lecturers of the department, teaching and attending students is of pivotal importance. Their doors are always open for students. Usually, teaching is done in a highly interactive mode. An increasing number of lectures are taught in English. In addition to that, many students participate in research projects, which gives them direct access to relevant research topics and results.

Information about the research groups is accessible via the List of Institutes.

SEE: University of Koblenz-Landau Summer Academy 2006

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