<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
h3
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 3 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.Heading3Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 3 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 3";
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;
font-weight:bold;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:1640262183;
mso-list-template-ids:771143980;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:36.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:72.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:108.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:144.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:180.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:216.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:252.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:288.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:324.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We would like to invite you to submit your work for possible publication in <b><i>Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy </i>(TGPPP)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Transforming Government</span></em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> publishes leading scholarly and practitioner research on the subject of transforming Government through its people, processes and policy. Unique and progressive in its approach, the journal seeks to recognise both the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of e-Government, and welcomes both pure and applied research that impacts central and local Government. International perspectives are also welcome. The journal is also interested in exploring how research carried out in the private sector can be applied to the public sector as a means of improving efficiency and effectiveness. The journal is in its sixth year of publication.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Coverage:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Coverage of TGPPP is international and focused on original research in e-Government ICT, service chain issues, public sector management, policy implications of developing an e-Government environment, and organisational and human resource issues. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Electronic Government Applications: Government to citizen; Government to business; Government to Government; and Government to employees </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Process management and integration </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Governance and electronic democracy </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Benefits, barriers and risks of e-Government </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Information Policy </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Electronic Information Security Management </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Information Privacy </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Information Access </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Information Systems </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Internal Government Processes and Intranets </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Technology Adoption and Diffusion </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Service Chain Management </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Submission Process and Authors Guidelines:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Submissions should be made through the online submission system as: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=tg">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=tg</a><br><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the editor. We would like to thank you in advance for your interest and contribution to the TGPPP. We look forward to hearing from you soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Ph.D.<br>Senior Lecturer in Information Systems & E-Business<br>Doctoral Programme Admissions Coordinator<br>School of Business and Economics<br>Room #123, Haldane Building<br>Swansea University, Singleton Park<br>Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK.<br>TEL (Office): +44 (0) 1792 602340<br>FAX (Office): +44 (0) 1792 295626<br>Email: <a href="mailto:y.k.dwivedi@swansea.ac.uk" target="_blank">y.k.dwivedi@swansea.ac.uk</a> ; <a href="mailto:ykdwivedi@gmail.com" target="_blank">ykdwivedi@gmail.com</a><br>Home page: <a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/BusinessEconomics/dwivediy/" target="_blank">http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/BusinessEconomics/dwivediy/</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>