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$8 Million Available for Digital Government Research Grants

News Release, July 2003

The National Science Foundation has announced an October 8, 2003 deadline for this year's Digital Government research awards.  The research goals of the Digital Government Program are to support:

1) multi-disciplinary and multi-sector partnerships of researchers in information technologies and government agencies at all levels in order to foster collaboration among societal sectors, and

2) research on the relationships between the design and use of information technologies on:
i) forms, processes, and outcomes of democracy,
ii) government organizational forms, learning, and adaptation,
iii) new forms of government-government collaboration,
iv) citizen/government interaction, and
v) other social/political science research related to IT and government.

Academic/government collaborations are expected to contribute to government strategic planning for information technologies and services (external and internal) while providing interesting and unique new research problems and data sets for the academic research community.

Estimated Number of Awards: 10-20
Anticipated Funding Amount: $8 million

For more information, see the grant announcement.