Article Summaries

H oused in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, the National Science Foundation’s interdisciplinary Digital Government research program is intended to fund “... research at the intersection of the computer and information science research communities and the midto long-term needs of the Federal information service communities.” As active participants in NSF DG research projects and cochairs of the recent 2005 National Digital Government Conference, the authors suggest that DG research, a growing activity, involves many researchers beyond those associated with the NSF DG program. They advocate reaching out to this larger community of scholars to form a critical mass that will support a society, annual conference, and academic journal.