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Special Issue on E-government interoperability, enterprise architecture
and strategies
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Guest editors; Marijn Janssen, Yannis Charalabidis, George Kuk and Tony
Cresswell
In the digital era public organizations are changing their strategies
and structures and processes to fully benefit from the promises of ICT.
Departments and institutions collaborate and interoperate across
organizational boundaries. Whilst e-government was initially driven by
adopting e-commerce ideas. in the last decade, it has emerged as a new
genre of research. Similar to e-commerce, e-government requires
multi-agency collaboration and integration of their disparate business
processes and information systems. The unique characteristics of
e-governme nt including accountability, transparency and equal access
have played a major role and produced a different kind of e-commerce in
meeting the broader expectations of society.
A key prerequisite for collaboration is interoperability, which can be
defined as the ability of systems to work together seamlessly and are
able to adapt in time, achieving one-stop, automated service provision
for citizens and businesses. Therefore, the design and operation of
interoperable systems require a range of consideration including
governance, organizational, strategic, social and technical issues.
Interoperability not only presents organizations with technical
challenge but also requires a shift in strategies and change in
organizational structures and business models. Traditional bureaucratic
organizations governed by command and control mechanisms are replaced
by different kind of organizational structures, aiming to build
horizontal relationships and network governance.
All these e fforts need to be facilitated by a next generation
infrastructure (NGI) enabling interoperability and reuse by sharing
services. The basic digital government infrastructure has evolved over
time.The development towards the next generation of digital government
infrastructure (NGI) based on new technologies is under development.
Yet, the siloed and fragmented nature, the lack in insight among the
dependencies among organizational and technical aspects can hamper
progress. Government enterprise architectures (GEA) or information�s
architectures are used as an instrument to facilitate these
developments by outlining the vision, providing models for technology
inclusion and integration supported by standards and principles.
Whereas infrastructure refers to the actual implementation, GEA has a
conceptual nature. Often there is no overarching framework helping to
provide guidance for ensuring interoperability, facilitating reuse and
meeting other objectives of open, inclusive and productive governance.
Interoperability, architecture and strategies are important to all
types of government activities, including policy making, services
delivery, law enforc ement, and crisis response within the pubic sector.
This special issue is aimed at contributing to the understanding
formulation and elaboration of the issues involved in e-government
interoperability, enterprise architectures, and solutions and
strategies for governments, based on a combination of sound theoretical
basis and empirical research.
Papers preferably combine theory and empirical research. The special
issue seeks scholarly manuscripts that explore the following topics in
relation to e-government interoperability, architecture and strategies:
- Example and (best) practices of changing strategies and business
models underpinned by theories
- Architecture for facilitating strategies and technologies
- Public-private architectures frameworks, collaboration in networks
- G overnment 2.0
- Government-to-citizens, government-to-business,
government-to-government
- Innovations, process redesign and technologies
- Enterprise architecture standards, prin ciples and frameworks
- Free and open source software development and utilization
- Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services,
service orchestration and composition
- System, data- and process-based integration and transformation
- Identity management, privacy, security, public values
- Information reuse, information quality, ontologies and semantics
- Process, data and semantic modeling
- Next generation infrastructure, grid computing, cloud computing,
ICT-(shared) services, and scalability issues
- Public values, evaluation of innovations
- Software as service, utility computing, platform as service, service
providers
- Infrastructure, interoperability and enterprise architecture
planning, and alignment
- Evolution, impact analys es and cost/benefit analysis
- Policies, strategies and governance
About JTAER
The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
(JTAER) has been created to allow researchers, acade micians and other
professionals an agile and flexible channel of communication in which
to share and debate new ideas and emerging technologies concerned with
this rapidly evolving field. The Journal of Theoretical and Applied
Electronic Commerce Research is published quarterly. The intended
audience includes academicians, researchers and professionals in
computer science, information management, telecommunications, business
administration, sociology, law, financial services, as well as
specialists in the field of electronic commerce. More info:
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IMPORTANT DATES
-Full Script Submission: 30 July 2010
-Author Notification: 30 September 2010
-Revisions due by: 15 November 2010
-Final acceptance notification 15 December 2010
-C amera ready version: 15 January 2011
-Publication: 15 April 2011
SUBMISSION
We are soliciting for original works capturing aspect of business and
information technology, both theoretical and appli ed. Manuscript
capturing the e-government specific aspects and the edge of new
technology and organizations are preferred. Author guidelines can be
found at: http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc. All submission
will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions should be
directed by email to m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl.
GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management
Email: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl
Dr. Yannis Charalabidis
Information Systems Laboratory
University of the Aegean
Email: yannisx@aegean.gr
Dr. George Kuk
Nottingham University Business School
E-mail: g.kuk@nottingham.ac.uk
Dr. Tony Cresswell
Center for Technology in Govern ment (CTG)
University at Albany
E-Mail: tcresswell@ctg.albany.edu
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