Belarus Authorities’ Counter-Revolutionary ICTs Tactics: 2001-2010

Volodymyr Lysenko (University of Washington) and I have a paper accepted in Europe-Asia Studies. Belarus authorities’ counter-revolutionary tactics related to information and communication technologies in 2001-2010: lessons learned Information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled revolutionary tactics play an important role in uprisings against non-democratic regimes worldwide. Up to now, a critical understanding of how authorities in those […]

Our Fragile Emerging Megacities: A Focus on Resilience

I recently authored an article for Planetizen. Unless you have been hibernating, you have heard about urbanization trends and have spent time reflecting on what this might hold for the future of communities, cities, nations, and the planet as a whole. The world’s total urban area is expected to triple between 2000 and 2030—urban populations are […]

Realizing the Promise of Big Data – IBM Center for the Business of Government

Realizing the Promise of Big Data: Implementing Big Data Projects was published today by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Big data is a new frontier for the public sector. It has captured the attention of public managers across the globe. Agencies realize that their datasets represent critical resources that need to be managed and […]

Intelligent City Chapter for Atlas of Cities

My chapter on Intelligent Cities will appear in the Atlas of Cities (Princeton University Press) edited by Paul L. Knox (Virginia Tech). A city, like any organization, thrives or fails depending on its ability to process signals from its environment. Cities have long been subject to shocks because the information systems designed to signal impending events […]

National Science Foundation Grant – Hybrid Challenge Platforms to Promote Innovation

Along with my colleagues at Arizona State University, I have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Hybrid Challenge Platforms to Promote Innovation To be practical and sustainable tools for innovation, the coming generation of community-engagement and crowd-sourcing platforms need to improve the user experience of participants, while simultaneously providing a reliable mechanism […]

What Kind of a Consultant Are You?

My blog post on management consultants (Nov. 2010), was featured in the Summer Issue of the Management and Consulting Association’s monthly strategy newsletter, The Consultant. 

Plenary Address at the Western Intergovernmental Audit Forum

I will be delivering a plenary address at the 2013 Western Intergovernmental Audit Forum. The meeting will take place at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Arizona, Sept 12-13, 2013. My talk titled, Emerging Technologies and the Future of Governance, will explore how technological innovations are changing how we design, implement, and manage, our governance mechanisms […]

Two Papers in the JASIST Virtual Issue on Knowledge Management

It has been a while since I wrote a paper on knowledge management systems, so it was a pleasant surprise hearing that the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology has chosen two of my papers for their virtual issue on knowledge management. The two papers are: Desouza, K. C., Awazu, Y., & […]

Conference on Economic Resilience, Braga, Portugal

I am heading to Portugal for the Conference on Economic Resilience. I co-organized this event along with two colleagues, Isabel Ramos (University of Minho) and James R. Martin, II (Clemson University). The conference will be held at Largo do Paço – Rectorate. Attendees at the event include: Norio Okada, Director of Disaster Recovery Governance Research Institute, […]