CALL FOR PAPERS/extended abstracts

Pre-ICIS Workshop on eGov research

Sponsored by AIS SIG eGovernment (
http://sigegov.org <http://sigegov.org>)

*** Saturday 13th December, 2008 (One day workshop) Paris, France ***

You are invited to submit a paper for presentation and discussion at the pre-ICIS 2008 SIG eGovernment to be held from 08:30 to 17:00 on December 13, 2008, at ESCP-EAP.

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Submissions due: October 1, 2008
- Acceptance Notification: October 20

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE:

SIGeGov intends to bring together like-minded researchers, teachers, and practitioners currently dispersed over many disciplines such as IS, Informatics, political and organisational science and to provide a focal point for the debate of research issues in e-government. This workshop will explore and exchange ideas to improve research and the application of research results by drawing on the theoretical and empirical literature from the various fields involved and thus strengthen ties between the different disciplines.

The field of eGovernment has seen a rapid growth both in the amount of research done and the number of issues studied. We see a vast variety of research interests focusing on electronic services, administrative reform, e-participation, evaluation and measurement, standardization and convergence towards enterprise architectures for government sectors as well as for local governments, and many other things. SIG eGovernment is an interest organization for eGovernment researchers we invite you to submit a “white paper” or “position paper” on “What are the most important issues in eGovernment research and Practice today?” The paper should not only list and discuss some topic(s) but you should be very clear about the research issues, their relevance and rigor. Justify why this issue(s) is (are) important to eGovernment research and practice. What output can they yield? Why should researchers and/or governments be interested?

*Workshop format*.The focus of the workshop is informed discussion. The general objective of SIG eGovernment is to promote quality and relevance in eGovernment research, and this workshop is dedicated to discussing what the most important issues today are and different possible ways forward. Submissions should be between 2-4 pages. Papers can address one or two issues and should be designed to generate in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. For the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues.

Submission file format: Word

Review: Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer.

Workshop Co-chairs:

Åke Grönlund, Örebro University
<ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se> <mailto:ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se>

Maung Kyaw Sein, University of Agder
<maung.k.sein@hia.no> <mailto:maung.k.sein@hia.no>

Please contact the workshop co-chairs for additional workshop information.