2.1: Expertise Network
Building the Global Network of Digital Government Experts Other Information:
The Center convenes leading researchers and practitioners to engage in deliberation and collaborative learning in workshops
and executive sessions. The research team has extensive experience in running executive sessions, an approach refined at the
Center for Public Policy and Administration over the past two decades to build and deploy policy-relevant intellectual capital.
The National Center will convene on a regular basis senior researchers and practitioners to pool perspectives, test assumptions,
challenge orthodoxies, and synthesize new approaches to important challenges posed by digital government. Jane Fountain, the
Director and Principal Investigator of the Center, has taught on digital government for the past eight years in several executive
programs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and internationally, including the Senior Managers in Government
program, which brings approximately 100 members of the Senior Executive Service, the highest ranking federal civil servants,
to the Kennedy School for three weeks each summer. An important element of our research strategy includes knowledge and innovation
that result through dialogue in networks of researchers, fellows, and practitioners. The initial strategy is to extend outward
from our current networks, which are already diverse, and to make strategic connections among them. We are not proposing to
build a new network from scratch. Rather, we are filling what network theorists have referred to as “structural holes,” unexploited,
strategically important connections across professional networks. Thus, results from developing and working at these boundaries
will be important across multiple fields and of increasing importance over time.
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