Transnational digital government research project highlights

ABSTRACT

Transnational digital government relies on collaborative government processes that use information technology to address problems of regional or global nature. The broad context of the research done in this project is the ongoing process of transnational counter-narcotics cooperation among all Western Hemisphere governments whose goal is to reduce illicit drug production, traffic and consumption. The process is coordinated by CICAD - the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission - which is a technical body of the Organization of American States (OAS), and composed of 34 member states. This project conducts research that has broad applicability to processes that require countries to monitor, share, analyze and integrate data and information on activities related to illegal drugs and other criminal activities. Broadly stated, research challenges on technology and tools for the collection, processing, exchange and integration of information needed by transnational digital government include:• Spoken dialogue systems for data collection, training and learning;• Data management and security techniques for role-based data sharing and filtering;• Machine translation technology for sharing documents across different languages and countries;• Middleware for transnational (heterogeneous) information grids that enable private, secure and dependable automation of collaboration processes and policies, and the delivery of computing services through Internet portals; and• Network behavior modeling and optimization for delivery of acceptable quality of service.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Computing in government

  • Enterprise computing

• Computing methodologies

• Information systems

• Social and professional topics

  • Computing / technology policy

    • Government technology policy