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eGovernment Research 'Falls Between Funding Areas'.

E-Government Research 'Falls Between Funding Areas'. E-government research across Europe has been losing out incompetition for European Commission research cash because it fallsbetween mainstream funding areas, according to an academic leading anew project to try to correct the problem."People are rejecting proposals because they do not fit into 'technical'or 'socio-economic' [categories].

E-government is multidisciplinary,"Maria Wimmer, professor of e-government at Koblenz-LandauUniversity in Germany, told E-Government Bulletin.Wimmer is leading 'eGovRTD2020'( http://www.egovrtd2020.org/ ), a commission-funded project to survey government IT managers,policymakers, academics and industry representatives on the predictedstate of e-government in 2020 in areas such as use of technology,communication with citizens and public sector organisational structure.

The next step, said Wimmer, will be to conduct a 'research gapanalysis' to discover which areas require new research, followed by a"roadmap for research" to be presented to the European Commissionnext year in the project's final report."Many countries lack funding for research in e-government," Wimmersaid. "Policies are short-sighted and do not look ahead to futuredevelopments and needs - we need to change minds; we need toimpact policymaking."The research team is drawn from institutions in Australia, France,Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovenia and the US.


What about eGovernment Research in the Arab world.
eGovernment researchers in the Arab world should wait for Godot.

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