Spring, 2006, The Evergreen
State College
Lectures: Tuesdays 4-5:30,
Place LH5
Seminars: Thursdays 1-3 or Wednesdays, 10-11:30
Judy Cushing (SOS), Alan
Coppola and Richard Weiss (DtoI)
Government at all levels is a major
collector and provider of data and user of information technologies, and often
finds itself testing the limits of information technology and of the
appropriate use of that technology.
More than 200 National Science Foundation research
grants to date support interdisciplinary collaborations that
contribute to government strategic planning for information services while
providing interesting and unique new research problems and data sets for the
academic research community. Studying
these projects, and issues that face government information providers, provides
both a cross-section of innovative research in information technology and a
study of the use of information and technology in government organizations.
This lecture series (open to Evergreen students as a 2- or 4-credit course, and
to the public as free lectures) will examine a cross section of applied
information and technology research, and help participants better understand
the broader societal questions that must be addressed by those who build and
use government information technology.
The sponsoring programs are Student Originated Software (SOS) and
Data to Information.[2]
Week
1. April 4. No lecture. Students enrolling in 2- or 4-unit option meet the
faculty in the assigned lecture hall.
SOS (Wednesday) Seminar: Unlocking the Clubhouse.
Week 2. April 11. Daniel Headrick, Professor of Social Science and History, Roosevelt University. Has the Alphabetical Order Served its Purpose?
Week 3. April 18. Theresa Pardo, Center for
Technology in Government, SUNY Albany. Modeling the social and technical processes of
inter-organizational information integration.
Week 4. April 25.
Lois
Delcambre, Professor of Computer Science Portland State University. Using Semantic Components
to Facilitate Access to Government Documents.
Week 5. May 2 (Panel) Gary Robinson (DIS), Larisa
Benson (GMAP), Tracy Guerin (DIS), Washington State Dept. of Information
Services and Special Assistant for
Government Management Accountability and Performance (GMAP). Interoperability of
Emergency Communication devices and GMAP
Week 6. May 9.
Alan
Borning Professor of Computer Science University of Washington. UrbanSim http://www.urbansim.org/
Week 7. May 15 (extra lecture, 3:00-4:30, Place TBA)
David Jefferson, Center for Applied
Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, e-voting.
Week 7. May 16 Arthur Keller, Open Voting Consortium and University
of California, Santa Cruz, Open Voting: Design and Implementation of a
Prototype System.
Week 8. May 23
Toby Cremer Shulruff, Technology
Safety Specialist, National Network to End Domestic Violence, sex offender
management.
Week
9 May 30 Frank Hardisty,
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, and Evergreen Alumnus,
Making geo-spatial government data widely available.
Week 10 June 5 No Lecture.
For
additional readings see: http://scidb.evergreen.edu/DigitalGovernment,
Week 1 (SOS Program): Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher. Unlocking
the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
Week 2: Daniel R. Headrick.
When Information Came of Age:
Weeks3-9 Companion readings as recommended by each
speaker.
Related Links: http://digitalgovernment.org/about/, http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2006/
[1]This series is supported by
the PLATO Royalty Lecture Fund, est.~1985, with royalties from Computer
Assisted Instruction Software developed for the PLATO system, under contract
between Evergreen and Control Data Corp. by faculty John Cushing (aka John
Aikin) and his Evergreen students.
[2]Two-unit (lecture only) and
four-unit (lecture + seminar) course credit options are open for Evergreen
students. Requirements for the 2-unit option are to attend every lecture, and
write a reflection of each lecture. For
the 4-unit option, students must attend the weekly lecture and seminar, complete
the required reading, and write either a weekly reflection on the reading and
lecture, or a 5-7 page paper (with staged deliverables) on a topic relevant to
the series.