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PATRICIA FLETCHER |
Pattee Fletcher is Associate Professor of Public Policy. She has a doctorate in information science from Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. She also received her M.L.S. from Syracuse University. Pattee’s research interest is U.S. government information policy, specifically electronic government policy and applications. She has extensive research experience in both government information policy as well as information management in all three levels of government. Her work on national research projects at state and county levels of government was seminal and set the stage for later studies.
Pattee’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Council on Library and Information Science, BellSouth, EDS, IBM, US West, and other information industry companies. She has also been a consultant to a range of governments and organizations including the government of Italy, the U.S. General Services Administration, U.S. Department of Treasury, city and county governments, EDS, BellSouth, Freddie Mac, and others.
In the electronic government arena, Pattee was part of the original research group that advised and ultimately co-developed the National Science Foundation’s Digital Government grants program. This academic-NSF partnership began in 1997 at an invited conference, A Step beyond Research: Fostering IT Innovations in Government sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Center for Technology in Government, State University of New York at Albany. This work continued annually with NSF sponsored conferences which Pattee served on as coordinating committee member and in 2001, as co-chair of an NSF sponsored national workshop in Electronic Government in U.S. Cities held in Chicago at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Pattee was co-editor of the International Journal for Electronic Government Research in its inaugural year. She is a past Associate Editor for the The Journal of Global Information Management and has been editor for special editions of numerous journals which focused on government information policy and electronic government. She has also served on the editorial board for Government Information Quarterly. Her publications include the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Government Information Quarterly, Social Science Computing Review, Public Policy and Management Review, Library Trends, Journal of Information, Infrastructure and Policy, and International Journal of Public Administration. She has co-authored a book, World Libraries on the Information Highway: An International Agenda. Pattee has further contributed chapters to more than a dozen books.
In 2001-2002, Pattee was an Academic Fellow on the IT Team at the U.S. General Accounting Office where she had the lead two projects requested by Senator Lieberman, Committee on Governmental Affairs. Her reports on the Governmentwide Strategic IRM Plan and Management of Personal Information in Federal Agency Databases can be accessed at the GAO website.
Pattee teaches courses on Federal Information Policy, Strategic Management of Public Organizations, Electronic Government, Government Information Management, and Theories of Public Administration.