From E-Government to Good Governance and from Good Governance to Development... The Arab world in the global E-Government readiness report 2005 Arab E-government

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The EGOV Conference Series intends to assess the state of the art in eGovernment and eGovernance and to provide guidance for research and development in this fast-moving field. The annual conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously: the 2005 conference saw more than hundred accepted contributions and over 150 participants coming from more than 30 countries, also including several developing countries. Hence the EGOV Conferences have become a reunion for academics and professionals as well as an important ground for networking.
The EGOV Conference Series hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers, project presentations, workshops, and panel discussions. They encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the field, but also welcome innovative research work in progress, and studies of practical eGovernment projects and systems implementation. Following the success of last year's pilot, the series also includes a PhD student colloquium, which provides doctoral students with a forum for presenting their work, with networking opportunities as well as with cross-disciplinary inspiration.
Over the years, the organizers have witnessed that organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained importance in practice. Also, while many topics have remained high attention and relevancy over the years, nowadays also the issues of assessment of eGov efforts, the role of eGov, and ICT in general, for development have made it to the top of the agenda. However, these new topics have not yet thoroughly researched. For the fourth series of EGOV conferences, hence, the list of topics includes the following:
The eGovernment environment
Frameworks and guidelines for eGovernment and eGovernance
eGovernment policies, strategies and implementation
Legal, societal and cultural aspects of eGovernment
eGovernment implementation
Participation, eDemocracy and eVoting
One-stop government, electronic service delivery, mobile services
Interoperability and standards, semantic standardisation
Trust and security: provisions and instruments
Conceptual design and frame for eGovernment
Administrative process design and change, collaborative activities, legal interpretation
Knowledge management, public information, decision process support
Change management and new organisational arrangements: public-private- partnerships, virtual teams
Enterprise architectures and other whole-government approaches
Assessment of eGovernment
Methods and tools for assessment
Experiences from assessment trials
Analysis of values for eGovernment stakeholders
Public value generation through eGovernment
Emerging technologies in eGovernment
Mobile technologies
Media integration, e.g. integration of VoIP and mobile phones with eGov services
Web services
Semantic web technologies
eGov ontologies
eGovernment and development
International and regional projects, case studies and best practice
International dimensions: cooperation, comparisons, networks
The role of eGovenment in development (ICT4D)
eGovernment research and learning
Teaching eGovernment
Methods and tools for eGovernment research
Exemplars of inter- and multidisciplinary research

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