Academic Conferences International

Mini Tracks – Calls for Papers Public Sector ICT & Innovation e-Democracy Privacy, Security & Trust e-Government around the world e-Procurement: Design & Evaluation

Mini track on Public Sector ICT & Innovation Co Chairs: Graham Orange, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Ah Lian Kor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Tony Elliman, Brunel University, UK This mini-track focuses on Innovation in the use of information and communication technologies within the public sector. Traditionally the public sector is conservative but that is no longer acceptable. After the massive investment to “get government online” by 2005 there is concern over the performance of public sector information systems. Thus, the agenda has now shifted to one that seeks Innovation to transform the way government works. This mini-track primarily seeks reports of experiences in fostering and achieving this shift in public sector thinking. However, this mini track is also open to theories that underpin public sector innovation. Areas that are of interest are: E-Innovation strategy, policies, programmes, practice in local and national governments Successful (and failed) models for the planning and implementation of innovation in local and national governments Best Practice in managing innovation in the public sector Evaluating and benchmarking innovation in the public sector (in terms of efficiency and effectiveness) Diffusion and adoption of innovation in the public sector Innovation and transformation of Government For mini track submission details, click here.	Graham Orange Ah Lian Kor Tony Elliman
Mini track on e-Democracy Chair: Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide, South Australia The tools of Web 2.0 are demonstrating how mobilisation and collaboration, for many different purposes and in diverse groups, can take place across communities, businesses of all sizes, and the education, research and training sectors. The dialogue between citizens across borders on issues of local and global concern is being improved by the ready access to specific research, the aggregation of expertise at all levels, and the greater transparency and accountability of public debate. Communication technologies such as blogging, wikis and live web events are being deployed in the search for innovative and collaborative solutions to problems humankind often shares, (for example, global warming, rise in sea-levels, air quality, water scarcity, industrial and human waste management, health management, emergency responses, governance of food standards, and security). But, what is happening in local and national governments around the world? How are e-government executives, e-government systems and elected politicians reacting to wider citizen access to information, to emerging forms of mobilised communicative power? How are they responding to expectations that there need to be different kinds of citizen-government interaction? Where are the successful Web 2.0 government and non-government responses to citizens’ concerns? Papers which discuss technology-assisted citizen-activism, the sharing of information and governance with or in government, or between governments, e-democracy pilots and case studies in issue-resolution, or theories of e-democracy, especially as it might emerge globally, are welcomed. Specific topics could include : the transformative features of e-participation on issues of local and global concern; access to the means of participation in minority or disadvantaged groups; accounts of grassroots online or mobile activism, and government responses; e-democracy agenda-setting at any level of government; effective peer-to-peer networks within government; online rule-making; designing for e-participation; unconventional government uses of delivery platforms; theorising the e-citizen; freedom of information; e-moderation; the civic potential of emerging distribution systems (e.g., digital community television, digital radio, mobiles, live-web events). For mini track submission details, click here.	Mary Griffiths
Mini track on Privacy, Security & Trust Chair: Lazlo Gabor, Budapest Tech, Hungary Nowadays we can learn about cyber crime, cyber terrorism, remote attacks against the infrastructure of a country and identity theft from the news. This mini-track focuses on privacy, security and trust, not only in relation to e-government, but also in connection to political websites in a broader landscape specifically integrating different perspectives. Online privacy is an issue for Internet users however in the aftermath of 9/11 governments are make greater efforts, based on antiterrorism legislation, to monitor their citizens’ activities, while simultaneously citizens demand a greater ability to monitor the activities of his or their government. How can we resolve this apparent contradiction? One of the aims of this mini track is to examine the factors which influence the willingness of citizens to provide sensitive personal information to the government bodies via Internet as well as to the political websites. It also attempts to take into account the social and technological process of changes that have occurred in recent years. (Social networks, peer-to-peer and Web 2.0 applications…) Mini-track invites practitioners, researchers to present their insights, papers, case studies, best practices dealing with the topics of privacy, security and trust issues in e-government. Topics included but not limited: Cyber terrorism, hacking, viruses Cyber freedom and threatens to it Identity theft Data retention policies and legislations Data sharing Security of infrastructure Social networks and politics Electoral and other political websites Transparency Closed vs. open source machines for e-voting Online campaigns participation Privacy Enhancing Technologies Anonymity vs. digital fingertip How can encourage the participation? For mini track submission details, click here.	Lazlo Gabor
Mini track on e-Government around the world: Does your position on the continuum matter? Chair: Ian Dennis, Whitehorse Strategic Group, Australia The promises of e-Government as the initiative that would drive the modernization and transformation of the public sector to meet the demands of the 21st century have not been realized. Why are all countries around the world struggling with business transformation and engaging citizens in an effort to overhaul the public service? And, how does this relate to the transactional success that has been experienced over the last decade? Does the position on the e-Government continuum affect progress in e-Government? What are the surprising similarities, disturbing differences, common cases, fatal flaws and research results for countries at different e-Government levels? How do we flatten out progress, share success and leap-frog solutions - After all, does one size fit all? Following on from the most interesting papers presented in this mini track in 2007, this session invites research papers and presentations on the differences in e-Government success and solutions around the world depending upon that point on the e-Government continuum. All topics that could mitigate problems and enhance success are welcome including the examination of strategic country-wide approaches, system development methodologies, business models, the weaknesses of sharing knowledge and experience across the divide and the hallway, technologically enabled solutions, and the organizational, technological and people triumvirate so vital in the 21st century. Your critical, practical and imaginative solutions and analysis, along with your participation, are key to proving that a country's position on the e-Government continuum around the world does, or does not matter. For mini track submission details, click here.	Ian Dennis
Mini track on e-Procurement: Design & Evaluation Chair: Saïd Assar, IS department at INT Evry, France Public e-procurement is the use of electronic means for publishing, processing, exchanging and storing all the information related to institutional purchases and provisioning in public organizations. Even if public e-procurement platforms are similar to B2B marketplaces used in the private sector, the underlying processes are complex and require sophisticated technological tools which must comply with legal and organizational constraints. The goal of this mini track is to gather researchers and practitioners and discuss all aspects related to the design and the evaluation of public e-procurement. The focus will be on managerial, organisational, technological and engineering aspects of public e-procurement. Topics included but not limited: public e-procurement platforms and G2B marketplaces modelling of public e-procurement processes empirical evaluation of public e-procurement processes and tools innovative approaches to public e-procurement design ROI and economical dimension of public e-procurement change management and organisational impact of public e-procurement success factors for implementing public e-procurement public e-procurement case studies ontology based approaches to public e-procurement collaboration dimension in public e-procurement implementations For mini track submission details, click here.	Saïd Assar
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Updated 8 April 2008