The first, edited by Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes, Sehl Mellouli, and John Carlo Bertot, focuses on Open Government, Open Data, and Digital Government. Papers in this special issue were competitively selected from the 2012 Digital Government Society's International Conference on Digital Government.  

The second, edited by Sharon Strover and Stephen McDowell, focuses on Broadband Policy and Deployment. Articles in this special issue focus on international efforts, policies, and approaches to broadband deployment to further national competitiveness and build digitally inclusive communities. 

The full issue therefore presents a number of perspectives on e-government -- from infrastructure deployment that is essential for e-government to innovative practices and considerations for leveraging open data to foster more open government. The issue also offers leading research perspectives on e-government research sustainability, transformative government, and assessment. The issue begins with an editorial on the impacts of a government shutdown on e-government. As we learned in the US during our near three-week shutdown in Fall 2013, e-government requires a government whose doors are open. Specific information on the issue's contents is below.

  
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1. Editorial: E-government without government

Pages 1-3
John A. Shuler, Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001287
 
Special Issue 2012 Digital Government Society Conference
Special Issue Articles

2. Open Government, Open Data and Digital Government

Pages 4-5
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes, John C. Bertot, Sehl Mellouli
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001238
 

3. Enhancing the government service experience through QR codes on mobile platforms

Pages 6-16
David Lorenzi, Jaideep Vaidya, Soon Chun, Basit Shafiq, Vijayalakshmi Atluri
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001238   

 

4. Open data policies, their implementation and impact: A framework for comparison

Pages 17-29
Anneke Zuiderwijk, Marijn Janssen

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001202
 
5. (Hyper) local news aggregation: Designing for social affordances

Pages 30-41
Andrea Kavanaugh, Ankit Ahuja, Samah Gad, Sloane Neidig, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Naren Ramakrishnan, John Tedesco
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001251 
 
6. e-Government legislation: Implementation issues for programs for low-income people

Pages 42-49
Susan Copeland Wilson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001196 
 

Broadband Special Issue

7. Broadband Redux: 2013

Pages 50-52
Sharon Strover, Stephen McDowell
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001317  
 
8. Public broadband investment priorities in the United States: an analysis of the broadband technology opportunities program

Pages 53-64
Robert LaRose, Johannes M. Bauer, Kurt DeMaagd, Han Ei Chew, Wenjuan Ma, Yumi Jung
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000439 
 
9. Rethinking localism in the broadband era: A participatory community development approach

Pages 65-77
Martha Fuentes-Bautista
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000427
 
10. Persistence of the middle mile problem for rural local exchange carriers

Pages 78-83
Victor Glass, Joseph Prinzivalli, Stela Stefanova
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000452
 
11. Zero-based budgeting: Does it make sense for universal service reform?

Pages 84-89
Victor Glass, Stela Stefanova, Joseph Prinzivalli
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000841
 
12. Should next generation access networks fall within the scope of universal service? A European union perspective

Pages 90-99
Alberto Nucciarelli, Bert M. Sadowski, Ernst-Olav Ruhle
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000853
 
13. Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor

Original Research Article
Pages 100-107
Seamus Simpson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13000440
 

Regular Articles

14. E-government and organisational transformation of government: Black box revisited?

Pages 108-118
Janja Nograšek, Mirko Vintar
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001275 
 
15. ICT, public values and transformative government: A framework and programme for research

Pages 119-128
Frank Bannister, Regina Connolly
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001184
 
16. E-government research in the United States

Pages 129-136
John T. Snead, Elisabeth Wright
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001172
 
17. Future-oriented eGovernance: The sustainability concept in eGov research, and ways forward

Pages 137-149
Hannu Larsson, Åke Grönlund
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001160

18. Protecting personal data in E-government: A cross-country study

Pages 150-159
Yuehua Wu
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001159  
 
19. Does e-government reduce the administrative burden of businesses? An assessment of business-to-government systems usage in the Netherlands

Pages 160-169
Rex Arendsen, Oscar Peters, Marc ter Hedde, Jan van Dijk
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001214
 
20. Measuring ICT usage quality for information society building

Pages 170-184
Bjarne Rerup Schlichter, Lesya Danylchenko
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001226
 
21. e-Cognocracy and the design of public policies

Pages 185-194
José María Moreno-Jiménez, Cristina Pérez-Espés, Manuela Velázquez
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X1300124X

22. Towards a heuristic frame for transferring e-government technology

Pages 195-207
Gabriel Marcuzzo do Canto Cavalheiro, Luiz Antonio Joia
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X13001263
 
Book and Web Review Articles

Regulating code: Good governance and better regulation in the information age, Ian Brown, Christopher T. Marsden (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2013)

Page 208
Debbie L. Rabina
 
The network society, Jan Van Dijk. Sage, London (2012), ISBN: 978-1446248966

Pages 208-209
Emily Keller

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Page 209
Julia Proctor
 
The dynamic internet: How technology, users, and business are transforming the network, Christopher Yoo. AEI Press, Washington, D.C. (2012), ISBN: 978-0844772271

Page 210
Jesse Silva