Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States to Speak at UMass Amherst “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/events/pdfs/PR_Noveck.pdf The National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will host United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government Dr. Beth Simone Noveck on Friday, October 30, 2009. The Open Government Initiative, which Noveck directs, was founded after President Obama’s January 21, 2009 Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum announced the administration’s commitment to an “unprecedented level of openness in Government.” As Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Noveck works to enable greater transparency and accountability, broader and more diverse citizen participation, and increased opportunities for government to government and citizen to government collaboration. Her lecture “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” will describe in greater detail the initiatives pursued by her office. Noveck is author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006). She is on leave as a professor of law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University. Noveck’s speech, “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration,” will be October 30, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Isenberg School of Management, room 108. The event is open to the public, but RSVPs to ncdg@pubpol.umass.edu are strongly encouraged. The speech will also be streamed live through www.ncdg.org. For more information visit our website at www.ncdg.org or contact: Michelle Sagan Goncalves mgoncalves@pubpol.umass.edu (413) 577-2354. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/