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CfP AMCIS 2010 / August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru

Minitrack: Open source and standards in electronic government

National governments increasingly promote the adoption of open standards 
and source software (OS) in their system integration efforts, development 
activities and procurement policies. OS is more and more appealing to 
public managers and politicians and a number of countries have started 
adopting OS for a wide variety of motives, including security, 
accessibility and cost reduction. Current policies and architectures are 
moving towards combining open source with proprietary code/components. 
These trends present two sets of problems: integration and development. 
The integration problem arises as open and proprietary components are 
developed to adhere to different standards, and sourced and customized 
differently. The development problem focuses upon the continuous 
development and supply of new OS components to meet the increasing demands 
of electronic services. Open sourcing electronic government requires 
creating and managing a diverse ecosystem across different institutions 
including private, public and third sectors, and across different levels 
of businesses, processes and operations and sounds policies supporting 
this. This minitrack solicits papers covering all aspects of OS, ranging 
from technology, organization to policy-making.



Topics include

•       Open source development methods

•       Problems and challenges

•       Benefits and risks of open source

•       OSS policy-making and strategies

•       Policy impacts

•       Open standards

•       Typologies of standards and open source

•       Adoption and diffusion of OSS

•       Open source applications and infrastructure

•       Open source community and community building

•       OSS ecosystems

•       Integration, open standards and open source software in 
architectures

•       OSS frameworks, quality aspects like reliability and security

•       OSS evaluation and decision-making

•       Cases and applications of open source and standards



Mini-track chairs



George Kuk (primary chair, point of contact)

Nottingham University Business School

Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG8 1BB,

United Kingdom

Tel. +44(115)8466611

Email: g.kuk@nottingham.ac.uk



Marijn Janssen

School of Technology, Policy and Management

Delft University of Technology

Jaffalaan 5, NL-2600 GA, Delft

The Netherlands

Tel. +31(15)2781140

Email: m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl



Stefan Koch

Bogazici University

Department of Management

34342 Bebek, Istanbul

Tele: +90(212)3596523

e-mail: stefan.koch@boun.edu.tr

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Stefan Koch
WU - Vienna University of Economics
 	and Business
Department of Information Systems
 	and Operations
Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (+43-1) 31336/5206
e-Mail: stefan.koch@wu.ac.at
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