[AISWorld] Call for Papers : General EGOV Track at IFIP EGOV-EPART 2017

[Hans Jochen Scholl]

The GENERAL EGOV TRACK at the IFIP EGOV-EPART 2017 Conference

First Call for Papers

DATES: September 4 - 7, 2017

LOCAL HOSTS: St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), 9 Lomonosova St, St Petersburg, Russia, 191002

WEBSITE: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ifip.working.group.8.5/website/conference/#/

The General EGOV Track serves as an umbrella for all e-Government-related topics except the special-topics tracks of Open Government and Big Data, Policy Informatics and Policy Modeling, and Smart Governance, Smart Government, and Smart Cities. In particular, it also covers emerging and special topics in e-Government research.

Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

Foundations of e-Government and e-governance research including theories, standards of inquiry, methods and frameworks as well as multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to e-Government research
Innovation management, transformation and change management
Strategies and policies for ICT-enabled public administration overhaul
E-Government architectures (vertical, horizontal, and networked)
Public administration back and front offices overhaul (cases, practices, lessons learned)
Design approaches for ICT solutions in the public sector, including stakeholder engagement, citizen co-creation, and crowd sourcing
Information governance (strategies, information sharing practices, privacy practices)
Public-sector CIOs (roles, impact, span of control, issues, and challenges)
Public-sector COOs (roles, impact, span of control, issues, and challenges)
Public-sector ICT workforce (management, retention, compensation, etc.)
Public-sector information management (challenges and opportunities, cases)
Enterprise ICT management initiatives
Managing and upgrading public-sector legacy systems
Intergovernmental integration and interoperation
Safe public online access and online identity management
ICT portfolio management in the public sector
ICT insourcing versus outsourcing approaches
Data protection and privacy management in the public sphere
Social media use for G2B and G2C communications
Social media impact on public administration practices
Integration of online and inline services (opportunities, challenges, case)
Cross-jurisdictional alliances for online government services
ICT-enabled transnational government collaboration
Special topics (for example, disaster management, cybersecurity, etc.) and novel topics (for example, ICT4D, e-Justice, etc.)
ICT-enabled critical infrastructure management, risks, and policies
Public-asset risk management
Geographical information systems in government
EGOV project success and failure cases
ICT usage, acceptance, measurement, benchmarking, and benefit management
Online performance metrics for public services
Return on investment and sustainability of ICT investments in the public sector
IMPORTANT DATES:

— Submission of papers (completed and ongoing research): February 15, 2017
— Submission system closes (February 15th is a hard deadline with no exceptions) *

— Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions: March 15, 2017

— Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers, workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributionS: April 1, 2017

— Camera-ready papers of all types of papers: May 20, 2017
   (No extensions can be granted to ensure availability of proceedings at the conference)

* Due to the visa application process, the decisions need to be made early, so that accepted-paper authors can get their visas in due time.

TRACK CHAIRS:

Hans Jochen Scholl (lead), University of Washington, USA
Marijn Janssen, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

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