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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">11</span><sup><span style="color: windowtext; ">th</span></sup><span style="color: windowtext; "> IFIP Electronic Government Conference (IFIP EGOV 2012)</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">September 3 to 6, 2012; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">(Co-located with the 4</span><sup><span style="color: windowtext; ">th</span></sup><span style="color: windowtext; "> IFIP ePart conference)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "><a href="http://www.egov-conference.org/">http://www.egov-conference.org</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">3rd CALL FOR PAPERS – we kindly ask for your understanding in case of receiving multiple postings of this call.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> The annual international IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) conference is the European core conference in the study domain, which presents the state
of the art in e-government and e-governance organized under the auspices of the IFIP Working Group 8.5 (information systems in public administration). Since its beginnings in 2001, the EGOV conference has provided important guidance for research and development
in this fast-moving domain of study.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> The IFIP EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and from a number of disciplines. Over the years, the interest
in this domain of study has steadily increased. In 2011, along with the co-located IFIP ePart conference on electronic participation, the two conferences attracted more than 160 participants from all continents including developing countries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> E-government research has demonstrated its relevance to practice and, consequently, has influenced and shaped government strategies and implementations. Conversely,
e-government practice has inspired e-government research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention. In recent years, the assessment and evaluation of e-government projects, the foundations of e-government as a research discipline, integration
and interoperation in government, transformation, organizational change, citizens at the center, open data, adoption and diffusion, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among leading topics on the research agenda.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> For the 11<sup>th</sup> IFIP EGOV conference we seek contributions that include but are not limited to:</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Foundations of e-government, open government and e-governance research</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Future directions in research and practice of ICT in the public sector</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Research theories and frameworks for public sector modernization with the
support of ICT</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Research methods, method integration and techniques</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Designing and assessing systems for the public sector: innovative cases and
systems</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">ICT usage, acceptance and performance of technology-supported public sector
activities: methods and contemporary case analyses</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Transformative government</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Open government, transparency, and collaboration</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Approaches and solutions in open data and linked open government data</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Participative governance and (agent-based) policy modeling</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Digital and social divide</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Universal access as well as equity of access to information and services</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Social media, web 2.0 and social networking in the public sector</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Trust, security and privacy in e-government</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Stakeholders collaboration in government modernization</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Stakeholder-oriented public-sector redesign</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Open innovation, innovation management, transformation and change management,
and complexity management in shaping public sector advancements</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.5in; ">
<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Evaluation, measurement, benchmarking and benefits management</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Law enforcement, compliance and criminal justice</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Legal compliance, legal shaping and legal impact of innovative government
services provision</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Mobile services and methods in government</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Cloud computing in the public sector</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Outsourcing, insourcing, crowdsourcing, shared services, and other alternatives</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Interoperability, architectures and standards in a networked government</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Information infrastructure, information preservation, information management,
and information access</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Open source and free software</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Knowledge management, information sharing, semantics, ontologies and web
3.0</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Emergency and disaster response management</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Retaining public sector experiences, developing countries</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Education, human resources, training courses, and curricula</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> In 2012, the IFIP e-government conference hosts four distinct formats of contributions:</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Completed research papers (max 12 pages, published in LNCS Springer)</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Ongoing research and innovative projects (max 8 pages, published in Trauner
or similar)</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">Workshops and panels on pertinent issues</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; "><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; ">PhD colloquium submission</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research approaches, work in progress, and
studies of practical e-government or e-governance projects along with reports on system implementations. Prior to the conference (Sunday, Sep 2, 2012), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing an international forum for doctoral students under the guidance
of senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> We seek innovative and scholarly sound contributions. Accepted papers of completed research will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Ongoing research and project papers will be published in Trauner proceedings (or similar). Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the conference website:</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 66, 159); "><a href="file:///C/Users/wimmer/AppData/Local/Temp/htttp/--www.egov-conference.org-egov-2012-">htttp://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2012/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> IFIP EGOV 2012 will be co-located with IFIP ePart, the fourth International Conference on electronic participation, which is dedicated to topics on e-participation
and e-democracy. IFIP ePart will only slightly overlap with the IFIP EGOV conference at the same venue. Participants registering for one conference can also attend the other conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> IMPORTANT DATES:</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span> Submission of papers: 4 March 2012</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Submission of workshop/panel proposals: 15 April 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Submissions to PhD colloquium: 15 May 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Notification of acceptance for papers: 30 April 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels: 15 May 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Camera-ready papers of completed research: 31 May 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Camera-ready papers of ongoing research: 15 June 2012</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> CONFERENCE CHAIRS:</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Leif Skiftenes Flak, University of Agder, Norway</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "><span> </span>Carl Erik Moe, University of Agder, Norway</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> </span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> CHAIRS OF PHD COLLOQUIUM</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, USA</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> Ramon Gi-Garcia, CIDE, Mexico</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Björn Niehaves, European Research Center for Information Systems, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: windowtext; "> Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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