2012 - Call for Chapters - E-Procurement Management for Successful Electronic Government Systems

Editors:
Dr. Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
University of Oviedo, Spain
Dr Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle
University of Oviedo, Spain
Dr Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
University of Oviedo, Spain
Dr Robert Tennyson
University of Minnesota, USA
Call for Chapters:
Introduction
Basically E-Government is about using the tools and systems made possible by Information and Communication Technologies, to provide better public services to citizens and businesses. However E-Government involves much more than just the tools. Effective E-Government also involves rethinking organizations and processes, and changing behaviour so that public services are delivered more efficiently to the people who need to use them. When it is well implemented, E-Government will enable all citizens, enterprises and organizations to carry out their business with government more easily, more quickly and at lower cost (European Commission, Information Society).
Governments seek to remodel and restyle their services and the field of E-Government attracts continuous interest and attention from public administrations, politicians, academics and citizens. New dynamic topics such as e-democracy, e-citizenship, e-identity, e-procurement and e-voting have become core elements in the development of public sector delivery
Additionally the implementation of E-procurement systems helps companies and institutions to organize its interactions with its strategic suppliers. It provides those who use it with a set of built-in monitoring tools to help control costs and assure maximum supplier performance. It offers an organized way to keep an open line of communication with potential suppliers during a business process. And finally E-Procurement helps with the decision-making process by keeping relevant information neatly organized and time-stamped.
This proposed book aims to bridge academia, industry and government with new ideas and fresh research in the broad area of e-government.
The subject area is a combination of E-Government, E-Democracy, E-identity, E-Procurement Management, E-Voting, Information Systems, Public Services, Web Semantic and Web Services.

Objective of the Book
In the Ministerial Declaration of E-Government on November 18, 2009 , it was declared that “E-Government has not only become mainstream in national policies but has also reached beyond national boundaries to become an important enabler to deliver European-wide policy goals across different sectors, from justice to social security, to trading business services and beyond. […] better public services need to be delivered with fewer resources, and that the potential of E-Government can be increased by promoting a common culture of collaboration and by improving the conditions for interoperability of our administrations” (p. 1).

Another interesting topic is E-Procurement. The concept is more than just a system for making purchases online as it encompasses the management of correspondence, bids, questions and answers, previous pricing, and multiple emails sent to multiple participants.
Therefore Information and Communication Technology systems are now at the heart of government processes, but efforts are still needed to ensure they continue to improve the delivery of government services.
The proposed book wants to be an international platform to bring together academics, researchers, lecturers, and persons in decision making positions, policy makers and practitioners from different backgrounds to share new theories, research findings and case studies, enhancing understanding and collaboration in e-government and the role of information technologies in supporting the development of better services for citizens. The book will analyze recent developments in theory and practice.
Recommended topics
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Architecture for facilitating strategies and technologies
Benchmarking and assessment of e-Government projects
Blogs and wikis and e-government
Case studies and best practices
Citizen-centric e-government
Cloud computing
Collaborative e-procurement
Cyberterrorism
Delivery channels for e-government
Economics of e-government
E-Democracy
e-Government trends in Asia, EU, Africa and America
E-procurement (Solutions, strategies, software, systems)
EU and E-Government
E-voting
Evaluation of innovations
Free and open source software development and utilization
Government 2.0
Government-to-citizens, government-to-business, government-to-government
Human Resource Management in the Public Sector
Identity Management (Authentication, Trust and Privacy)
Impact assessment of e-Government projects
Information reuse and information quality
Innovations, process redesign and technologies
Military e-procurement
Mobile Government applications
E-government Ontologies and semantics
Open access and e-government
Open Solutions for Public Administration
Process, data and semantic modelling
Public sector e-procurement
Public-private architectures frameworks, collaboration in networks
Relationship between e-procurement expectation and real life experiences
Semantic web services
Service sector e-procurement
Service-oriented architectures
Software as service
Standards for e-Government Applications
Strategic procurement
System, data- and process-based integration and transformation
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 15, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 30, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012.
Important Dates
October 15, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 30, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
November 15, 2012: Full Chapter Submission
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
Dr. Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos
University of Oviedo, Spain
E-mail: patriop-AT-uniovi.es
With CC to:
Dr Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle
University of Oviedo, Spain
Email: jmcueva-AT-telecable.es

Dr José Emilio Labra
University of Oviedo, Spain
Email: labra-AT-uniovi.es
Dr Robert Tennyson
University of Minnesota, USA
rdtennyson-AT-gmail.com