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International Collaboration on eGovernment Research

Executive Summary
This white paper summarizes the discussions of a one-day, invitation-only, meeting held on May
23, 2004, immediately prior to the NSF’s annual National Digital Government Research
Conference, dg.o 2004 in Seattle, USA.
This meeting had several purposes, including:
1. To build on a year-long series of formal and ad-hoc discussions between US/NSF and EU
officials and researchers. These discussions included:
• dgo2003 International E-Gov Research Panel and a birds-of a feather session on the same
topic
• EU’s annual eChallenges e2003 conference (October 2003, Bologna, Italy) U.S. digital
government and digital society & technology research panel followed by a one-day
meeting on possible mechanisms for support EU-US research collaborations. (Digital
government/E-government was one focus area among others).
• Video conferences between NSF IIS program managers and EU/IST program managers
to keep a dialogue going and to prepare a framework for supporting some joint projects.
2. To better understand US and EU research programs, funding structures, partnerships
3. To explore common E-Government research interests, find complimentary strengths,
differences, etc.
4. To define mechanisms for supporting continued collaboration, including:
• Community building such as sharing calendars of events; linking to each other’s
websites, articles in each other’s newsletters
• Serving on each other’s event program committees,
• Organizing international E-Gov research workshops on specific topics
• Hosting an annual international conference for DG/E-Gov research conference,
alternating between US and Europe (and beyond)
• Holding working group meetings on a routine basis,
• Funding DG/E-Gov collaborative research projects by EU and/or US, for expanding
existing research projects to include an international focus, providing small grants to
explore research projects, and/or possibly creating a US and EU solicitation for joint
research projects.
5. To prepare a document that reflected the outcomes of the meeting which could be shared
widely, referenced in program solicitations, posted on US and EU websites, et

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