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The public administration program will host Aroon Manoharan, assistant professor of public administration at Kent State University, for the lecture "Digital Governance Success Factors and Transparency" on Monday, May 19, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in Classroom Building C122. (Please note the change in time.)

Manoharan received his Ph.D. from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark and his M.P.A. from Kansas State University. His primary research interest is in the use of information technology in government and politics, with particular attention to e-governance in local governments. He is also interested in strategic planning, public performance reporting, and public management. ??As associate director of the E-Governance Institute at Rutgers-Newark, he directed major initiatives including the implementation of the Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide Surveys, which evaluated the e-governance performance at the municipal level globally. He also directed the U.S. States E-Governance Survey and U.S. Municipalities E-Governance Survey.

As senior research associate of the National Center for Public Performance, he assessed the performance reporting strategies of transit and parks agencies and related public advocacy groups. He is a recipient of the John Carlin Scholarship in Public Administration and a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for public administration.

His talk is funded by the Grant Allocation Committee and is free and open to everyone.