By V. Rodney Harrison, Jr.
NCPTT's Web Development Specialist, M.Ed., Ed.S., is currently enrolled in the Council for Excellence in Government e-Fellows Leadership program.
The e-Fellows Program is offered in cooperation with the NSF (National Science Foundation) and employs an assortment of benchmarks and training modules to measure excellence in government.
Harrison is taking part in a year-long series of learning activities designed to investigate and integrate up-and-coming technologies at NCPTT. Members of the e-Fellows group increase their individual expertise while working together on detailed results for their organizations.
The e-Fellows meet every six weeks to work on projects and attend benchmarking sessions with such organizations as Microsoft, National Science Foundation, JFK Institute of Technology at Harvard, and MIT. The technological module of the eFellows program includes expert level colloquiums, web-based training components, round-table discussions and involvement in technology- related conventions. A few of the subject matters covered in 2001- 2002 were Internet Technology, Information Assurance, e-Commerce, e-Government, Data Integration through Portals, and Internet Accessibility.
Harrison is currently working on two projects through the e-Fellows program dealing with cross platform data exchange portals throughout various agencies in cooperation with NCPTT. These projects will allow users to exchange and reproduce information from the primary website they are gathering data from, eliminating the need to manage from multiple websites.
If successful, these projects will allow the National Park Service and other agencies under the Department of Interior to use this work as a model for their agencies to trade vital information effectively. Statistical results should be available in the upcoming months.
V. Rodney Harrison, Jr. served as the NCPTT Web Development Specialist through the Spring of 2004.