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Cook to lead panel at national Smart Cities Week
September 27-29
Washington D.C.
Program Director Meghan Cook is convening a panel of international experts to discuss leveraging sensor data at the 2nd Annual Smart Cities week, an event hosted by the Smart Cities Council and supported by the White House. Sensor technology can be thought of as a city's nervous system, capturing voluntary and involuntary messages and communicating them with different parts of the city. However, it is only transformative when a city has the capacity to leverage the data. Meghan's session, which will allow for candid conversation and brainstorming, will present insights from leaders across the globe who have successfully developed the organizational, technical, policy, and human capabilities needed to collect, maintain, and leverage sensor data.
Pardo & Dawes participating in IFIP 2016
September 5-12, Portugal
CTG Director Theresa Pardo and Senior Fellow Sharon Dawes are in Portugal for the Dual 15th Annual IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and 8th Electronic Participation Conference (ePart). Theresa is organizing a workshop to convene the members of the Smart City Smart Government Research Practice Consortium, and during the open government/big data track, Dawes will present a paper titled "Open Government Data Ecosystems: Linking Transparency for Innovation with Transparency for Participation and Accountability," coauthored with Luigi Reggi.
Pardo spoke at Symposium on Human Resource Management & Innovation Strategies, Taiwan
CTG Director Theresa Pardo traveled 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 spoke about how organizations generate, use, and share data in order to enhance innovation capacity.
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| UAlbany Launches New Online Resume Tool |
UAlbany has launched Merit, a customizable online resume tool, to the campus community. Learn more.
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Happy September!
With another busy summer coming to a close, the CTG team looks forward to an even busier September and a productive fall. As you'll see below, we have a number of exciting things happening - several projects continue as we find innovative solutions for our government partners, our calendar is full of trips to present about our work and convene workshops, and our research agenda is filled with exciting new opportunities. And, while we were sad to say "see you later" to some of our international visiting scholars and student interns as their terms at CTG came to a close, we are pleased to welcome some new faces to our team!
Wishing you a happy and productive Fall!
Sincerely,
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Students Create Data Visualiations for a Healthier NY
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Three UAlbany graduate students spent this summer honing their programming and research skills by making charts, tables, graph  and scatter plots come visually to life for the benefit of a more healthy New York. Working at CTG on a project with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) as part of CTG UAlbany's Student Technology Innovations Lab Experience (STILE) program, Meet Parikh, Varun Narayanan and Sora Park developed software that can create interactive data visualizations using publicly available data from New York's Health Data NY website. Read more...
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| CTG Designs the First Online Course for Rockefeller's GISM Program |
Students in the Government Information Strategy & Management graduate program (GISM) at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy were able to fulfill a course requirement entirely online this summer for the first time in the program's history.
The course, which was designed and taught by CTG Postdoctoral Associate Djoko Sigit Sayogo, was called "Government Information Strategy and Management: Comparative and International Perspectives" (PAD 570) and focuses on the cultural differences in digital government, including practical applications for building information capabilities across cultural boundaries and understanding the behavioral aspects of digital government within the larger society and global economy. Read more...
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| Meghan Cook Selected as Analyst for Intelligent Community's Forum's Award Program |
 Program Director Meghan Cook was selected to serve as an analyst for the Intelligent Community Forum's (ICF) Awards Program, which recognizes Intelligent Communities and the partners who contribute to them. The team of analysts will announce its 'Smart 21 Communities of the Year,' then narrow this group down to the 'Top 7 Intelligent Communities of the Year.' One of the "Top 7" will then be announced as the "Intelligent Community of the Year." The ICF is a global network of cities and regions, whose mission  is to "help communities use information and communications technology to create inclusive prosperity, tackle social and governance challenges, and enrich their quality of life."
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| CTG Welcomes Associate Research Director |
 CTG is pleased to announce that Dr. Mila Gascó of Spain has moved to Albany to serve as our Associate Research Director and as an Associate Research Professor at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy.Mila comes to the U.S. and CTG from the Center for Public Governance at ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona, where she was a senior researcher leading the center's e-governance, open government, and smart cities research. Read more...
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