Building and Sustaining a Digital Government Research Center: A Director's Perspective

This panel provides participants a chance to interact with five digital government research center directors about their experiences in building sustainable digital government research centers. Panelists, selected to provide regional representation, will discuss their experiences and share lessons learned. Topics to be covered building a research agenda, building mutually beneficial partnerships, fund raising, finding and developing talent and engaging with university, funding, and other institutional partners. Following the formal remarks participants will be invited to raise additional topics of interest for discussion with the Directors on the panel.