Introduction

  • Authors:
  • Gary Marchionini;Hanan Samet;Larry Brandt

  • Affiliations:
  • the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;University of Maryland, College Park;National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Information technologies are being applied vigorously by governmental units at national, regional, and local levels around the world. The application of IT to government service is often termed "e-government" and the larger concept of government that depends upon IT to achieve basic missions is termed "digital government." This distinction is, of course, lexically arbitrary, but serves to distinguish R&D specifically aimed at creating techniques for applying IT to government operations. Such R&D efforts also consider the long-term impact of these applications on citizens and government itself.