[AISWorld] Special Issue of IJEG on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government

[Dimitris Gouscos]

[ apologies for cross-postings ]

The International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) is a 
fully-refereed quarterly journal published by Inderscience, focusing on 
research and practice of electronic governance worldwide. IJEG, 
published since 2007 and currently in its 7th volume, is indexed by 
Scopus, Google Scholar, the E-Government Reference Library and other 
major databases. More details on the interdisciplinary subject coverage 
of IJEG, submission guidelines as well as sample issues are available at 
http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg.

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Special Issue of IJEG on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling 
e-Government
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Guest Editors
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Dr. Barbara Re, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Division, School 
of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy
email barbara.re at unicam.it
Dr. Marino Miculan, Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Models & 
Applications of Distributed Systems, Department of Mathematics and 
Informatics, University of Udine, Italy
email marino.miculan at uniud.it

Description
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Public administrations made great effort to provide more sophisticated 
E-Government services, for example offering one-stop services and 
supporting personalization. While strategies, methodologies and 
realization of E-Government services vary significantly between the 
various actors and stakeholders, the alignment of IT with the processes 
and objectives of the service providers plays an increasing role in 
service management.
Major critical factors for success of E-Government services, in this 
context, include methodologies, technologies and tools. Methodologies 
play an increasingly important role in the management and definition of 
e-government initiatives. Technologies improve their efficiency and 
effectiveness while tools allow new specific services and 
functionalities. The alignment of methodologies, technologies and tools 
plays an increasing role to enhance the dissemination, accessibility and 
acceptance of E-Government by citizens and companies.
The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of 
selected papers presented at the 8th International Conference on 
Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government 
(http://conferences.cs.unicam.it/metteg14/), but we also strongly 
encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit 
articles for this call.

Subject Coverage
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Topics of interest to this special issue include, but are not limited 
to, the following:
• Methodologies for E-Government, such as Smart Cities and Smart 
Communities; One-Stop Government and Services Integration; Better 
Distributed Services Provision; Enterprise Architectures; Business-IT 
Alignment Modeling; Agility and Reaction on Change; E-Participation; 
Pro-Activeness; Greening Government; Open Government and Transparency; 
Governance and Policy Modeling; Smart and Personalized Inclusion; Legal 
Informatics and Legal Documents Management.
• Technologies for E-Government, such as Mobile Public Services; Cloud 
Computing; Service Oriented Architecture; Semantic Web Technologies; 
E-Government Ontology and Metadata; Interoperability and Standards; 
Knowledge Management and Decision Process Support; Business Processes 
Management; Web 2.0 for E-Government; Identity Management and Trust; 
Data and Network Security; PKI Systems; GIS Technologies; Emerging 
Technologies.
• Tools for E-Government, such as Web Portals; E-ID Systems; Electronic 
Document Management Systems; E-Voting; E-Procurement; E-Learning; 
Workflow Management Systems; Open Source Applications; Practices and 
Experiences; Examples of Public On-Line Services.


Notes for Prospective Authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be 
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. 
Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely 
re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained 
from any copyright holders of the original paper).
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. Please read the guidelines on 
preparing and submitting articles at 
http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_submit.php.

Important Dates
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- submission of manuscripts:        31 January 2015
- interim notification to authors:  30 April 2015
- revised versions due:             30 June 2015
- final notification to authors:    31 July 2015
- final camera-ready versions due:  31 August 2015

This special issue is scheduled for publication during 2015/2016.

Expression of interest and queries for the special issue can be directed 
to the guest editors. For general inquiries regarding IJEG please 
contact Dr. Dimitris Gouscos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of 
Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, email 
gouscos at media.uoa.gr, IJEG Editor-in-Chief.

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