Jane Fountain, Professor

Center for Public Policy and Administration / Political Science
406 Thompson Hall    
(413) 545-3283    
fountain@polsci.umass.edu
website

Education: Ph.D. in Political Science and Organizational Behavior, Yale, 1990

Research Interests: Intersection of institutions, global information and communication technologies, governance

Jane E. Fountain is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. She is the founder and Director of the National Center for Digital Government and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative. She is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, principal investigator of the International Dimensions of Ethics in Science and Engineering project (IDEESE), principal investigator of the Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (ESENCe), and co-principal investigator of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE). 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 in 2002 by Choice and translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese. Fountain is currently a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on the Future of Government and the American Bar Association blue ribbon commission on the Future of e-Rulemaking.  She has served on several advisory bodies for organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the Internet Policy Institute, the National Science Foundation. She has given invited lectures and keynote addresses and worked with governments and research institutions including the World Bank, the European Commission, Knowledge Management Asia Pacific, Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Chile, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Courses Taught: PUBP&ADM  602 - Public Management; PUBP&ADM  697J Organization Theory & Design; PUBP&ADM  610 Capstone