Fountain Discusses Networked Governance with Gov Officials in Spain

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the National Center for Digital Government (NCDG),  traveled to Madrid and Alicante, Spain in February as part of her research on the European Union’s “paperless” Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM).

With Raquel Galindo, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Jeffrey Rothschild, NCDG Research Fellow and UMass political science senior, Fountain is writing a case study on the institutional challenges and opportunities OHIM faced in its transition to a paperless office.  While in Spain, Fountain met with OHIM’s president, managers and other agency leaders to discuss her research and tour OHIM facilities.

While in Spain, Fountain also met with leaders of the Escuola de Organization Industriel in Madrid and gave an invited lecture “Government 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges.” Video from Fountain’s presentation is available here.

The OHIM case study will be published in late March 2010 and will be posted to the NCDG website.