May 17-20, 2010, Puebla, Mexico

The Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with  support from the US National Science Foundation, presents the 11th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2010) on May 17-20, 2010 in Puebla, Mexico.

The dg.o meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion and demonstration of interdisciplinary digital government research, technology innovation and applications. Each year the conference combines:

• Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.
• Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Puebla, Mexico, is located in the Valley of Puebla, surrounded by volcanoes and snow-capped mountains, 68 miles southeast of Mexico City. Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla and one of Mexico's oldest Spanish cities, founded on April 16, 1531.  The city is famous for Cinco de Mayo, a festival commemorating the May 5, 1862 defeat of a French expeditionary army by Mexican general Ignacio Zaragoza. Some of the city's main attractions are the colonial district (downtown Puebla), the home of authentic Talavera pottery and art, cultural attractions such as local galleries and museums as well as traditional festivals, historical sites and monuments. The main sessions of the conference will take place at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, located in the Puebla metropolitan area and about a kilometer from one of the oldest pyramids in Mexico (the Pyramid of Cholula). Puebla's historic center has been declared a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).