Dr. Genie Stowers

Dr. Genie Stowers is Professor of Public Administration at San Francisco State University. Her current research interests are online service delivery by cities and data visualization and mining in the public sector.

The Use of Data Visualization in Government

The concept of visualization recalls a pivotal scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind which showed the protagonist, mathematician John Nash, looking at an expansive table of numbers. Slowly, certain numbers seemed to glow, suggesting that Nash was perceiving a pattern among them, though no other researcher had been able to draw any meaning from the table.

Commerce Comes to Government on the Desktop: E-Commerce Applications in the Public Sector

This report examines electronic commerce and other World Wide Web technologies currently available in the private and public sector. The study provides insights into how government can enhance its delivery of services online. The report aims to spark creativity and innovation in the use of technology in the public sector, and to leverage private sector uses of technology in the public sector. Technology and E-Government

Measuring the Performance in E-Government

This project proposes to find and track current government use of performance measures for monitoring e-government performance at the local, state and federal levels. This information can then be used by other jurisdictions to aid in their own performance measurement efforts-- to the benefit of all e-government activities. minnesota, mississippi, texas, virginia Technology and E-Government

The State of Federal Websites: The Pursuit of Excellence

This report discusses the legal and policy context of federal website implementation and some of the major issues that have faced federal web managers. These issues include the need to assess web content after September 11th to ensure security, provide security against hackers, and protect citizens' privacy. Technology and E-Government

Professor, Public Administration Program
San Francisco State University
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Dr. Genie Stowers is Professor of Public Administration at San Francisco State University. Her current research interests are online service delivery by cities and data visualization and mining in the public sector.

She has published in Public Productivity and Management Review, Government Information Quarterly, Public Budgeting and Finance, and Journal of Public Affairs Education, among others and was among the first in public administration to conduct research on e-government activities. She is completing work on a book about urban service delivery via digital government in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Stowers teaches budgeting, statistics, and information management (data, information, and knowledge management) in the SF State MPA program, and government, budgeting and financial management in the University’s interdisciplinary Ed.D in Educational Leadership.

Dr. Stowers has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was also a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she directed the Women’s Studies Program. Dr. Stowers received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. from Florida State University.