3.1: Fellows Program
Support the National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellows in Digital Government Program Other Information:
To help broaden attention to the social and governance dimensions of information technology and build the next generation
of researchers trained in and sensitive to the unique problems of technological transformation in government, the National
Center has inaugurated an NSF Digital Government Fellows Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Recruitment takes
place through a major competition open to computer/information and social scientists as well as professional school doctoral
students. We search both for fellows trained in computer science or engineering who seek more exposure to the policy and social
uses of their training, as well as for fellows trained in the social sciences who seek a stronger technical grounding for
their efforts. This is a unique aspect of the National Center. Based on our experience with other fellows programs on campus,
we expect that a central benefit to the emergent digital government community will be that the Fellows will learn from and
collaborate with one another and with the research team and its partners at a formative stage in their careers. The Fellows
are drawn from around the world through an open fellowship competition. The core research team collectively selects Fellows
to come to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a year to work with the Team in our research and outreach efforts.
During each year, each Fellow writes a major paper on a particular relevant project of his or her own, plus a joint paper
or papers with particular Team members for the explicit purpose of providing material for research and workshops and for dissemination
through the National Center web portal. After their time at the university, the Fellows return to their home institutions
where we endeavor to keep them engaged in the research and activities of the center for digital government.
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