Jane E. Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, is founder and Director
of the National Center for Digital Government, Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative, and Director of the Women in the Information Age Program. She is a senior researcher with the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing. Her research is focused at the intersection
of institutions, global information and communication
technologies, and governance.
Fountain is the author of Building
the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional
Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), which
was awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2002 by Choice, and has been translated into and published in Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese. Her current book project, Women in the Information Age (Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming), focuses on gender, institutions and technology. She has published
research on information and communication technology
and the development of networked forms of organization
and governance in Governance, Technology in Society, Science and Public Policy, The Communications of the
ACM, and other scholarly journals. Fountain has served
on several governing bodies convened to foster research
on information and communication technologies and
governance. She holds a double PhD from Yale University
in organizational behavior and in political science.
For information on Fountain's honors, awards and grants click here. A complete biography and CV are available here.
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Select papers for download:
JEF. “Central Issues in the Political Development of the Virtual State,” in Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso, eds. The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2006). [PDF]
JEF. Preface to the Chinese translation of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Renmin University Press, 2004). [PDF]
JEF, "Digital government and public health", In: Preventing Chronic Disease, 2004 October. [HTML]
JEF, Y. Arens, J. Callan, S. Dawes, E. Hovy and G. Marchionini, "Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Government," white paper written for the National Science Foundation CISE Directorate, June 2003. [PDF]
JEF, "Prospects for Improving the Regulatory Process using E-Rulemaking", in Communications of the ACM, special issue on digital government, edited by Lawrence E. Brandt, Gary Marchionini, and Hanan Samet, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2003. [PDF]
JEF. "Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government," monograph based on a national workshop organized by the author, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, August 2002. Available as Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper, RWP03-004, January 2003. [Available through Social Science Research Network]
JEF. "The Virtual State: Transforming American Government?" National Civic Review, vol. 90, no. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 241-252. [PDF]
JEF. Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001). Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title 2002. [Chapter 1 PDF]
JEF. "Constructing the Information Society: Women, Information Technology and Design," Technology in Society, 22, April 2000, pp. 45-62. [PDF]
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