Shannon Schelin Director, Center for Public Technology University of North Carolina School of Government Shannon Howle Schelin, PhD, is the director of the Center for Public Technology at the University of North Carolina’s School of Government. Dr. Schelin designed and implemented the first local government Chief Information Officers Certification program in the nation and successfully graduated the inaugural class in November 2005.She is the director of the Center for Public Technology at the University of North Carolina’s School of Government. Dr. Schelin has numerous publications on public sector information systems, including “Humanizing IT: Advice from the Experts”, with G. David Garson; “Training for Digital Government,” in Digital Government; and “E-Government: An Overview,” in Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues. Shannon received her Ph.D. in Public Administration with a concentration in Public Sector Information Systems from North Carolina State University in 2003. She received her M.P.A. from UNC Charlotte in 2000 and her B.A. from UNC at Chapel Hill in 1997.