The National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will host United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government Beth Noveck on Friday, October 30, 2009.
The Open Government Initiative, which Noveck directs, was founded after President Obama’s January 21, 2009 Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum announced the administration’s commitment to an “unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
As Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Noveck works to enable greater transparency and accountability, broader and more diverse citizen participation, and increased opportunities for government to government and citizen to government collaboration. Her lecture “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” will describe in greater detail the initiatives pursued by her office.
Noveck is author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006). She is on leave as a professor of law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University.
Noveck’s speech, “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration,” will be October 30, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Isenberg School of Management, room 108. The event is open to the public, but RSVPs to ncdg@pubpol.umass.edu are strongly encouraged. The speech will also be streamed live through www.ncdg.org
The National Center for Digital Government is a research center based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Center for Public Policy and Administration and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. NCDG’s mission is to build global research capacity, to advance practice, and to strengthen the network of researchers and practitioners engaged in building and using technology and government. It seeks to apply and extend the social sciences for research at the intersection of governance, institutions and information technologies. For more information about NCDG and the event, visit www.ncdg.org or call (413) 577-2354.