ECEG 2013 - 13th European Conference on e-Government

As governments seek to remodel and restyle their services, e-Government continues to stir interest and attention. New dynamic issues such as e-democracy, e-citizenship, interoperability, e-identity and e-voting have become core elements in the development of public sector delivery. The multi-tier nature of e-Government, relevant at local, regional, and central government but also at the supranational level such as the European Union, makes it of importance to academics and practitioners alike. Vital questions are posed which link technological development and a streamlining of government services to more social based values of inclusion, accessibility and power relationship ratios.
e-Government encompasses more than just technology ? it challenges the way in which public sector service providers and citizens interact. Democratic renewal, the transformation of service delivery, community leadership and citizenship integration are all key elements of this fascinating subject. e-Government is tightly related to legal, economical and organisational fields and as such holds a strong interdisciplinary status. You can see a full list of the conference and journal accreditations by clicking the star in the right hand side bar.
Publication opportunity
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. The proceedings have an ISBN and ECEG proceedings are listed and/or rated by multiple organisations worldwide. Selected papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Government. The latest issue is now available on the journal website. In addition selected papers will be published in the Journal of E-Government Studies and Best Practices
The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Academic research papers, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited. You can find full details in the submission types document (.pdf format).
Submission details are given below. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-
§ Applications of e-Government: New ideas for improving the public service efficiency and effectiveness; the case for e-Government; comparison case studies in developing versus developed nations; e-Government for young people; G2G applications; back-office implementation and internal adoption; EU e-Government policy; e-Government in different fields ? e-justice, e-health.
§ Challenges to e-Government: Cyber terrorism; technological limitations of citizenry; language issues, identity management ? including authentication trust and privacy; how to increase take-up of e-Government services; e-Government project failure; the transition to e-Government for local governments; semantics of transactions in e-Government, definitions and implementations.
§ Interoperability: Enterprise architecture; dimensions of interoperability ? technical, semantic, organizational; governance of interoperability; maturity models, barriers to implementation and key success factors; interoperability frameworks; interoperability strategies.
§ e-Government 2.0: impacts of Web 2.0 in e-Government, its implications in e-Government, success and failure stories and reasons, e-Government "mashups", citizen empowerment, evaluations and challenges for the future; open access and e-Government; open data and e-Government.
§ e-Democracy/e-Participation: How technology can improve the democratic process; post-modern campaigning; ICT and the case of deliberative democracy; using blogs and wikis to enhance participation; e-Government as an enabler of
public sector reform; setting an e-Democracy agenda at government level; citizens' wider access to ICTs, and the skills and means to generate and distribute content; citizen trust in online participation and dialogue; the design of audience-specific consultative processes; conceptualising public value; deciding the correct balance between online and offline citizen/government, citizen/citizen interactions; exploiting the learning and communicative potential of emerging online tools and new media forms (games, blogs, wiki, G3 mobile communications).
§ Measuring e-Government/Economics of e-Government: The case for e-Government - can benchmarking indicators be effective; what are the benefits and economics of e-Government?; e-Government success factors and inhibitors; methodologies, tools and metrics for assessing the effectiveness of e-Government; ; the role of e-Government in social and economic development; attaining social value from electronic government; political accountability; measuring e-Government ? what benchmarks should be used?; payback periods; web-based information quality.
§ Legal, agency, trust and governance issues in e-Government: The equilibrium between actors in e-Government transactions, on issues of trust that may be expressed or understood between such actors, on legal issues promoting or inhibiting the adoption of e-Government models or measures, or on IP issues of open standards use in e-Government and their consequences on applications built upon e-ID or other e-Government models, such as in procurement; trust charters in e-service delivery.
§ Additional topics: Entrepreneurial processes in the information society; knowledge management/intellectual capital in local/national government; e-I - intelligent use of systems in government; penetration/use of open-source solutions in public sector; leading change in public service organisations; shared services in public service delivery - the way forward; multi-Agency/partnership working; information management strategies within the public sector; scenario building; decision support systems; single European information space; strategic leadership; document management systems; hierarchical government processes; can e-Government learn from e-Business?; mobile Government; e-procurement; the role of the CIO in promoting e-Government; smart cities.