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Researchers help keep Seattle ahead of the curve in e-Government
by Ann Beckmann
It takes visionaries to discover how government can be improved with mobile technology.
Over the past three years, the iSchool has combined forces with the City of Seattle Public Utilities to investigate forward-thinking approaches to digital government.
Funded by a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $498,000 that ends in October, the Fully Mobile City Government Project (mCity for short) was one of only 10 projects in 2005 to receive NSF funding in the field of digital government. According to Assistant Professor Jochen Scholl, the project’s principal investigator, it was the highest funded single project of its ...
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