Electronic government systems have an unprecedented potential to improve the responsiveness of governments to the needs of the people that they are designed to serve. To this day, this potential is barely beginning to be exploited. Significant barriers hinder the effective integration of information technologies into government practices and their adoption by the public.
Government agencies often find themselves in a disadvantaged
position to compete with the private sector for information
technology workers, a workforce whose shortage at a national
level is well recognized. The need to abide by rigid procurement
practices makes it virtually impossible for agencies to keep
their technology infrastructure up to date with the fast pace of
technological advances.
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Research Projects |
This proposal contains a series of research and education activities expected to generate significant original contributions in Electronic Government Systems, Distributed Database Systems, Information Retrieval Systems and Social Trust of Technology.
More specifically the proposal will conduct research in
the following areas:
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Multi-lingual information
archiving and retrieval of governmental repositories
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Automatic representation
and extraction of semantic information from government
documents
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Wide-area secure
collaborative government-government databases
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Economic and social barriers to
technology adoption by common citizens
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Demos |
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multilingual Information Discovery System
exploiting Automatic Document Categori-zation
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Latest Publications |
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Posters of the 2nd Puerto Rico Digital Government Congress
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Consideraciones tecno-sociales en la implementación de iniciativas de gobierno electrónico
by Walter Díaz, Mario Núñez, Grace M. Cruz-Martínez, Jonathan Vale
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AWS-Net Traveler- Autonomic Web Services Framework for Autonomic Business
by Hillary Caituiro-Monge and Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
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FT-Net Traveler- Fault-Tolerant and Scalable Web Service Broker Architecture
by Hillary Caituiro-Monge and Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
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Net Traveler: A Framework for Autonomic Web Services Collaboration, Orchestration and Choreography in E-Government Information Systems
by Hillary Caituiro-Monge and Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
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Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Digital Governments as a Catalyst for Effective Information Technology Transfer to Regional Governments
by Bienvenido Velez, Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez, Pedro I. Rivera-Vega, et.al.
**To appear at 5th National Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2004) Seattle Washington USA May 2004
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