
Affiliated Investigator
Professor, Natural Resources Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
Consortium Institution:
University of Massachusetts
Affiliations:
Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government
Co-Director and founder, UMass Amherst Open Source Laboratory
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Research Interests:
My research focus is on public sector information technology, environmental management and policy, and the intersection of these domains. More specifically, I am a social scientist working to understand Internet-based collective action and online commons-based peer production. Over the last decade, my research has focused largely on the study of open-source software communities, and the socio-technical systems and governance structures that support these systems of co-production