Sharon Dawes is Senior Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) and Professor Emerita of Public Administration and Policy and Informatics at the University at Albany, State University of New York. As the founding Director of CTG, from 1993-2007, she led the Center to international prominence in the field of digital government research. Her research interests are cross-boundary information sharing and collaboration, international digital government research, and government information strategy and management. A fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration, she was elected the first President of the Digital Government Society of North America in 2006. She serves on advisory committees for NSF, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST).