---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: EM: CfP -- eGovernment Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:20:16 +0200 From: Lucia.Pavlikova@UNISG.CH To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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Call for Papers

Focus Theme: eGovernment

Dear Colleagues:

EM - Electronic Markets is a key forum for advancing the understanding and practice of electronic markets and commerce (http://www.electronicmarkets.org).

Guest Editors: Klaus Lenk, University of Oldenburg Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz

With eCommerce having achieved striking success, eGovernment is presenting another challenge, especially in the fields of Electronic Public Services Delivery, of Government-to-Government and Government-to-Business cooperation, and of Electronic Democracy. Yet eGovernment is a huge field, and careful investigation into specific aspects of governance is needed. Complex processes of decision and policy making as well as multipolar relationships with stakeholders in the production of public goods require advanced types of IT support which will often go beyond achievements in the private sector.

It is indispensable now to define the role of eGovernment. It has the potential of becoming the key for modernising and indeed for reformatting and reinventing government in all its aspects, provided that we do not conceptualise it in too simplistic a way. Public governance in the 21st century can profit enormously, as IT and the Internet are becoming prime drivers of New Public Management reforms, inspiring new visions, ventures, and exciting activities. In a not too distant future, institutions, structures and activities of governance in the Public Sector may change dramatically.

This special issue intends to break new ground in understanding the revolutionary aspects of eGovernment as well the continuous and laborious way evolution proceeds. So our editorial view is to encourage papers in both directions: Making explicit the design options and the fundamental traits of eGovernment as well offering a view on the various construction sites of eGovernment where so much exciting progress under way deserves special attention.

A list of relevant topics includes yet is not limited to the following:

1.) eGovernment strategies, implementation policies and best practice

2.) Funding policies and business models for sustainable eGovernment

3.) Critical distinctions between eCommerce and eGovernment

4.) Intergovernmental and international cooperation for developing eGovernment

5.) The future role of local government with regard to eGovernment

6.) "Single-window" access to public, non-profit as well as commercial services combined with multichannel distribution schemes

7.) Citizen information systems and communication with citizens

8.) Providing equal access and avoiding discrimination in using eGovernment services

9.) Redesigning cooperative processes within and between agencies

10.) Reorganisation of business processes "outside-in"

11.) Public Sector portals

12.) Platforms for secure online transactions with a multitude of back offices

13.) Integrating back office services; "Seamless Government"

14.) Standards for secure transactions, information interchange and process-related data formats

15.) Legal requirements concerning online transactions; data protection, freedom of information, and consumer protection

16.) Infrastructures for trusted communication

17.) eProcurement

18.) Support of mobile government field services (e.g. forest rangers, customs, social workers, emergency management)

19.) Support of policy making, Roundtables, negotiation and mediation processes, citizen participation in public affairs and democratic deliberation and voting

20.) Knowledge management in Public Sector organisations

21.) Advanced tools for decision support, data mining, simulation and Augmented Reality

22.) New forms of social and technical networking: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships

23.) Organisational implementation and management of change

EM accepts short papers up to 2500 words, or long papers up to 5000 words. Please refer to the Contributors Section at http://www.electronicmarkets.org for our templates and additional specifications.

Important Deadlines:

Submission: 21 January Acceptance Decision: 25 February Publication: Fall 2002

If you have any questions regarding acceptable topics, please contact: Klaus Lenk at: lenk@mailsrv1.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de or Roland Traunmüller at: traunm@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at

For questions regarding the journal, the review process, or to submit your paper: em.editors@netacademy.org

Sincerely,

Klaus Lenk Roland Traunmüller Beat F. Schmid and Lucia Pavlikova

EM - Electronic Markets Editorial Office:

mcm institute for Media and Communications Management University of St.Gallen Blumenbergplatz 9 CH-9000 St.Gallen Switzerland

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Beat F. Schmid Executive Editor: Lucia Pavlikova

Phone +41 71 224 27 74 Fax +41 71 224 30 78

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