is the Director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government’s Center for Public Technology

Shannon Howle Tufts, Albert and Gladys Coates Distinguished Term Assistant Professor of Public Law and Government, is the Director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government’s Center for Public Technology. She works with local IT directors and staff on a variety of technologyrelated issues, including designing and instructing in the first local and state government-specific CIO Certification Programs in the nation.