The fifth and sixth entries in Volume 20 of the Public Management Review are really summed up in the abstract of the introductory article by the guest editors.
“We argue that their similarities and differences present opportunities for more dialogue between digital government and public management scholars that could produce synergies to enhance the production and dissemination of knowledge, yielding greater influence on practice,” wrote J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Sharon S. Dawes and Theresa A. Pardo.
Gil-Garcia is the research director for the Center for Technology in Government at the University of Albany (CTG at UAlbany), while Dawes is the former director of the applied research center and Pardo is its current director.
Since CTG at UAlbany was founded in 1993 its members have explored emerging technologies and empowered governments to oversee those innovations, but this is the first time its members have served as editors of an issue of a journal specifically focusing on public management.
“Working on this journal was both a great challenge and a great honor,” said Gil-Garcia. “Our hope is that we will help cultivate new ideas and collaborations among people who may have never thought to work together.”
“Here at CTG at UAlbany we are always looking for new ways to reach out, to engage, and this was a wonderful experience and opportunity to do that,” Pardo said. “We encourage anyone with comments, questions or interest in our work to reach out to us through our Twitter and Facebook pages or our website, ctg.ualbany.edu.”
Public Management Review has been published since 1999 and is ranked at an ‘A’ level in the ABDC Journal Quality List.
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