PI Fabro Steibel Presentation in ICEGOV 2012

Principal Investigator Fabro Stebel recently presented at The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) 2012 which was held on 22-25 October in Albany, New York, USA. The conference was initiated by the Center for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST (where his Collaborator Elsa Estevez is based in) in 2007 in Macao, and the event was 6th of its series.

ICEGOV is a prestigious venue that brings together an extraordinary number of international scholars (both from developing and developed countries), as well as top representatives from international agencies (such as Word Bank and UN), and also groups members of private companies such as IBM and Microsoft. The conference was a 4-days event, starting with a key speaker plenary, followed by parallel academic-oriented paper sections, lunch break, another set of parallel paper section (more practitioner-oriented) and a closing plenary composed by around four key speakers in the field.

Fabro presented his paper in an academic-oriented panel section on digital governance, presenting preliminary findings of his SIRCA project  on the use of web 2.0 tools for drafting legislation online. Feedback received during the paper section was very productive, and it also geared  excellent networking opportunities afterwards. At the end not only had he shared his research with many others, but also he found key research partners for future projects. As a result of that, he said, “I certainly consider ICEGOV as one of the yearly conferences I will always aim to attend.”