Cultivating the Next Generation of International Digital Government Researchers: A Community-Building Experiment

Authors

Natalie Helbig
Sharon S. Dawes
Meghan E. Cook
Jana Hrdinova

Peer Reviewed

Yes

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011), Mon, 26 Sep 2011.Over the last two decades universities and post-secondary education policies have addressed globalization trends by internationalizing curricula and articulating global concern in their missions. This paper presents an evaluation of an international training program for early-career digital government researchers, designed to develop their interest and skill in cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, and practice-oriented research. The program overall appears to stimulate participants’ individual creativity, scholarly productivity, and professional networks, while broadening their appreciation for work that investigates internationally important topics and involves not only multidisciplinary but multicultural teams. The survey results also suggest that a short-term (one-week), intensive, immersive, and relatively inexpensive program can have strong and lasting effects on early-career scholars.

Recommended Citation

Helbig, Natalie; Dawes, Sharon S.; Cook, Meghan E.; and Hrdinova, Jana, "Cultivating the Next Generation of International Digital Government Researchers: A Community-Building Experiment" (2011). Center for Technology in Government. 78.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/ctg/78