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Pardo to speak at Symposium on Human Resource Management & Innovation Strategies
August 30-31, 2016
Taiwan
CTG Director Theresa Pardo will travel to Taiwan to speak at the 4th International Symposium on Human Resource Management & Innovation Strategies, hosted by the Civil Service Development Institute (CSDI) of the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration of the Republic of China. CSDI is a government training organization for civil servants of China, whose mission is to provide professional trainings for Taiwan's middle and high-level civil servants. Theresa will speak about how organizations generate, use, and share data in order to enhance innovation capacity.
Pardo, Dawes, Cook presented at dg.o
June 8-10, 2016
Shanghai, China
Theresa Pardo, Senior Fellow Sharon Dawes, and Program Director Meghan Cook participated in the 17th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Theresa, who is Conference Co-Chair and a Track Chair, and Dawes, Chair of the Doctoral Colloquium, spoke on a Digital Government Society 10th Anniversary panel. Cook moderated a panel on smarter cities and presented a paper on urban blight. Additionally,
Pardo participated in Astana Economic Forum
May 25-26, 2016
Astana, Kazakhstan
Theresa Pardo traveled to Kazakhstan to participate in the Astana Economic Forum, an annual event that brings together representatives from the world's economic community, current and former heads of states, Nobel Prize laureates, outstanding figures from the scientific world, and businessmen. Theresa moderated a panel titled "Ensuring that Digital Dividends Improve People's Lives." She also participated in a Digital Kazakhstan 2020 roundtable discussion titled "Building a Digitally Smart Future: Global Trends and Opportunities for Cooperation" that will focus on creating a shared vision and catalyzing partnerships for building a digitally smart Kazakhstan and also highlighted global trends for digital transformation.
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| CTG Welcomes New Visiting Scholars |
 Manuella Maia Ribeiro joins CTG from the São Paulo School of Business in Brazil. Manuella's research focuses on the implications of the adoption of new information systems in social policies in intergovernmental relations.
 Yuexin Zeng, a Masters student at Jinan University in China, has arrived at CTG for a one-year stay. Yuexin's research interests include o pen data, open government, and Emergency Management Information Systems as they pertain to Emergency Management.
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| Pardo Now a Full Research Professor |
 Theresa Pardo was promoted to Full Research Professor at Rockefeller College.
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Digital Government Society presents Dawes with Distinguished Service Award
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The Digital Government Society presented CTG Senior Fellow Sharon Dawes with the inaugural Distinguished Service Award for  her long-standing commitment and contributions to the development of the Society, and her leadership in the digital government community.
The award was presented at the Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research in Shanghai, China.
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| Students Helping to Open Government |
Students from UAlbany's College of Engineering and Applied
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| | Student interns Rahul and Reena brainstorm with Web Application Developer Jim Costello |
Sciences completed the critical first phase of CTG's project to help Digital Towpath, a digital government shared service for small and medium sized local governments in New York State, improve its electronic records management system so that governments can operate more efficiently, easily comply with records management laws, and be more open. Read more...
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Leadership Institute Hosts Study Tours
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CTG's Leadership Institute welcomed two international delegations from three different countries for study tours in June:
Visitors from Uruguay's Agency for the Development of Electronic Government spent two days at CTG learning about open data. In addition to working with CTG's staff, the group participated in workshops with NYS Chief Data Officer Barbara Cohn, NYS Department of Health Division of Information & Statistics Deputy Director Natalie Helbig, and NYS Committee on Open Government Executive Director Robert Freeman.
CTG also welcomed two fellows from the Ukraine and Azerbaijan, who were participating in a 2-week exchange program for eastern European young professionals sponsored by the US Department of State. Denys and Shebnem are up-and-coming leaders in their home countries and were eager to learn about open government, data analytics, and policy innovation from CTG and many of our partners including the NYS Enterprise Corporation, Wise Labs, NYBizLab, the SUNY Research Foundation, and more.
If you are interested in having a course designed specially for you or your organization, contact Donna Canestraro, Program Director, at dcanestr@ctg.albany.edu
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| Students Creating Additional Health Data Visualizations |
Students from UAlbany's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences are spending their summer at CTG as part of our project with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to create dynamic, user friendly health data visualizations.
This summer's project expands on CTG's work with NYSDOH last summer, in which four interns created data visualization prototypes for publicly available data designed to help consumers better evaluate the quality of health care provided by NYS' managed care plans. This summer, interns Meet Parikh and Varun Narayanan are working in CTG's Student Lab to produce several deliverables, including refining, expanding, and finalizing the publication of visualizations prototyped in 2015. CTG will then develop the prototype to a full production online tool for consumers.
In addition to the full production online tools, the team will conduct an evaluation to assess any efficiencies or cost-savings achieved by the new process. The NYSDOH provided funding for the project through Funding Opportunity Number PR-PPR-14-0055-01-00 from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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