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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dear Colleagues</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Transforming Government</span></em><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> 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 seventh year of publication.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'> <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";color:black'>Coverage:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Electronic Government Applications: Government to citizen; Government to business; Government to Government; and Government to employees </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Process management and integration </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Governance and electronic democracy </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Benefits, barriers and risks of e-Government </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Information Policy </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Electronic Information Security Management </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Information Privacy </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Information Access </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Information Systems </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Internal Government Processes and Intranets </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Technology Adoption and Diffusion </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Service Chain Management </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Submission Process and Authors Guidelines:</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Submissions should be made through the online submission system as: <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=tg#1" target="_blank">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=tg#1</a> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><br> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Kind Regard</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>s</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Kamal</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#17365D'>-----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Dr Muhammad Mustafa Kamal (PhD, MSc, MCS, OCP 'DBA', BBA)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Research Fellow, Brunel Business School</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>BBS Coordinator for Ahlia University PhD without Residence (PwR) Programme</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Tel: +44 (01895) 267728 </span><span style='color:black'>| </span><span style='color:#404040'>Fax: +44 (01895) 269775</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Email: <a href="mailto:Muhammad.Kamal@brunel.ac.uk"><span style='color:#404040'>Muhammad.Kamal@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#404040'>Webpage: <a href="http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/bbs/bbsstaff/bm_staff/muhammadkamal" target="_blank"><span style='color:#404040'>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/bbs/bbsstaff/bm_staff/muhammadkamal</span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#404040'>Editorial Assistant: Journal of Enterprise Information Management </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#404040'>Editorial Advisory Board Member: International Journal of Electronic Government Research </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#404040'>Editorial Advisory Board Member: Journal of Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>