-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CF: E-Government and E-Services (EGES) as part of IFIP WCC Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:29:05 +0100 Von: Janssen, Marijn M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

[ apologies for multiple postings ] ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers

E-GOVERNMENT and E-SERVICES (EGES): Challenges, Techniques, Opportunities and the Road Ahead

for details 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: January 31, 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.