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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">SWEG 2012 - 9th
Scandinavian Workshop on E-government</span></b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> The 9th Scandinavian
Workshop on E-government (SWEG 2012) is held at the Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark on February 9-10, 2012.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align:
justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Website:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbs.dk/sweg2012">http://www.cbs.dk/sweg2012</a></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The Scandinavian
Workshop on E-government is a forum for discussing current
e-government research issues. The workshop is dedicated to open
discussions about the current status of e-government research and
future directions. The focus is thus on informal discussion rather
than on formal conference presentations. SWEG is open for
contributions from any country; "Scandinavian" refers only to the
location. SWEG is held annually in one of the Scandinavian
countries.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The theme chosen for
SWEG 2012 is “user-centric e-government”. With the diffusion of
ICT in the public sector in countries across the world, and the
widespread inclusion of digitalization in government strategic
plans, it is now time for e-government research to shift its
focus to the citizen role in e-government processes. The
emergence of social media, the evolution of Web 2.0 platforms,
together with rising expectations from citizens as users of
digital services, highlight the need to adopt a user-centric
view of e-government design, management, and implementation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The focus of invited
submissions thus includes, but is not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> - Social media and
e-government services;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Citizen-centric
e-government maturity models;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- E-democracy and
e-participation;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Transparency and
openness in e-government services;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Engaging stakeholders
e-government research;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- User-driven
e-government design, management, and implementation;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Challenges of
open-source and open-standard solutions in e-government;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Methods and concepts
of participatory e-government processes;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">- Innovative design and
prototypes of e-government services.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">We welcome
contributions from a range of disciplines, such as public
administration, political science, information systems,
knowledge management, service management, economics, sociology,
and law. Research may range from empirical studies to pure
conceptual work.<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The workshop is
intended as a venue for discussion and feedback, so there will
be full research papers, work-in-progress, as well as shorter
position papers discussed. Each paper will be allocated time for
a short presentation, however discussion will be the main focus
of the allotted time for each paper.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Contributions with a
focus on Scandinavian countries are welcome, but the forum is
not limited to the Scandinavian research community, and aims at
including a wide variety of perspectives on e-government
research.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Similarly to previous
SWEG, instead of publishing proceedings formally, we will use
this workshop to prepare papers for publication in established
outlets. Consequently, material presented at SWEG will not be
copyright protected and can be submitted to other conferences or
journals without further questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">If
you wish to participate, contact Rony Medaglia at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rm.itm@cbs.dk">rm.itm@cbs.dk</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Local organizers </span></b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The 2012 workshop is
organized by the Department of IT Management, Copenhagen
Business School. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Local Organization
Chair: Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:rm.caict@cbs.dk">rm.itm@cbs.dk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Workshop co-chairs</span></b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Karin
Axelsson, Linköping University, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:karin.axelsson@liu.se">karin.axelsson@liu.se</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Arild
Jansen, University of Oslo, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:arildj@jus.uio.no">arildj@jus.uio.no</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Rony Medaglia,
Copenhagen Business School, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rm.caict@cbs.dk">rm.caict@cbs.dk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Samuli
Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:samuli.pekkola@tut.fi">samuli.pekkola@tut.fi</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">SWEG Founding fathers</span></b><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Kim
Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:andersen@cbs.dk">andersen@cbs.dk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Åke
Grönlund, Örebro University, Sweden, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se">ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Carl
E. Moe, University of Agder, Norway, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Carl.E.Moe@uia.no">Carl.E.Moe@uia.no</a></span></p>
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Rony Medaglia
Assistant Professor, PhD
Department of Information Technology Management (ITM)
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: +45 2479 4327
Skype: rony.medaglia
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cbs.dk/staff/rony_medaglia">www.cbs.dk/staff/rony_medaglia</a>
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