CfP: E-Government and E-Services - IFIP WCC 2010

[Sonja Zaplata]

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Call for Papers

E-GOVERNMENT and E-SERVICES (EGES):

Challenges, Techniques, Opportunities and the Road Ahead

for deatils see: http://www.wcc2010.com/eges

a conference at the IFIP 50th anniversary World Computer Congress (WCC)

20-23 September 2010, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia   

Submission of papers:      February 15, 2010
Notification to authors:        April 23, 2010
Camera-ready copies:         May 15, 2010

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The EGES conference at WCC 2010 is a cooperation of a number of groups
that already have well-established activities in the field of
e-government, e-governance, e-business, e-tcetera. Notably, IFIP
working group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration) and
IFIP working group 6.11 (Communication Aspects of E-Business,
E-services and E-society) and the CSI SIG on E-Governance (Computer
Society of India Special Interest Group on E-Governance) have joined
forces as the program co-chairs to make this stream of the IFIP World
Computer Congress indeed outstanding and challenging. A “must attend”
meeting opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policymakers
where contributions from all three angles will lead to new perspectives
and a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that
come with developing and implementing e-government services and
applications.

Conference topics
Papers offering research contributions as well as papers providing
practical cases, in any aspect of e-government and e-services are
solicited for submission to the conference. Papers will be selected on
criteria such as novelty, soundness and technical quality, interest to
the participants, etcetera. Papers may present applications, service
infrastructures, theory, or practical experiences on topics including
but not limited to:

E-Government & Applications
E-government application areas – including
  Govt. to Citizen, Govt. to Business, Govt. to Govt., Govt. to Employee
projects   
Digital cities and regions
E-Democracy and e-Governance
E-Inclusion to information society
E-Health and e-Education
Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises
Citizen Identity Cards for multi-purpose uses
Private Sector projects for public services
One-stop government service integration
Governance / financing issues
Portfolio management, Alignment
Adoption and diffusions
Multimedia and multi-linguism
International dimension of e-Government

E-Government Infrastructure
E-Services for e-Government
Infrastructure for e-government - including
 Wide Area Networks, Wireless networks, Citizen Service Centres, Kiosks
Shared services, service-oriented government
Managing and orchestrating service networks
Mobile public services
Interoperability of different applications
Performance management and evaluation
Accessibility
Privacy and security
Open source software and standards, FLOSS
National / international standards

Legal societal and cultural issues
Communities
Web 2.0, wiki’s, user-involvement
Open content, open access
Digital culture and digital divide
Public-private partnerships
Success factors
Leadership, organization and policies
Participative policy-making
Acceptance issues
Disaster and crises management

Instructions for paper submission
Papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or are simultaneously submitted to a journal or another
conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English; they
should be at most 14 pages in total, including bibliography and
well-marked appendices. Papers should be intelligible without
appendices, if any.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in
the IFIP AICT (Advances in Information and Communication Technology)
Series by Springer. Submitted and accepted papers must follow the
publisher’s guidelines for the IFIP AICT Series
(www.springer.com/series/6102,
author templates, manuscript preparation in Word). At least one author
of each accepted paper must register to the conference and present the
paper.
All papers must be submitted in electronic form through the web via
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eges2010 by the deadline indicated
below.
Papers submitted after this deadline will be discarded without review.