---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICEGOV 2007 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance 10-13 December 2007, Macao SAR, China www.icegov.org SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission Deadline - 30 July 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A - Rationale B - Conference C - Participants D - Contributions E - Events F - Call for Papers G - Topics H - Submission I - Proceedings J - Copyright K - Awards L - Registration M - Sponsorship N - Important Dates O - People P - Institutions Q - Contact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A - Rationale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several years after the acceptance of Electronic Government by governments worldwide as part of their reform initiatives, there is a growing recognition that over-reliance on technology, insufficient collaboration in government, lack of emphasis on building human capacity and inadequate public consultation all limit possible benefits of such initiatives. As a result, the focus has been shifting from technology-enabled improvements in government operations (Electronic Government) to improvements in interactions between government, non-government and civil society stakeholders (Electronic Governance). Under the new focus, it is no longer acceptable to let technical or organizational issues drive Electronic Governance initiatives alone. Instead, a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder and community-oriented approach is required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B - Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2007) will take place in Macao during 10-13 December 2007. The conference will bring together practitioners, developers and researchers from government, academia, industry and non-governmental organizations to share the latest findings in the theory and practice of Electronic Governance. In a diverse international setting for networking and community-building, ICEGOV2007 will foster a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach to addressing the challenges of Electronic Governance. The conference and the future annual series will establish the state-of-the-art in practice, technology and research on various aspects of Electronic Governance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C - Participants ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference will provide a unique opportunity for close interactions between the three categories of participants: 1) From Government - Government participants will describe concrete initiatives, lessons learnt and the remaining challenges. In return, they will learn about the latest research results, and how such results are implemented by industry, non-governmental organizations and other governments to address the challenges they face. 2) From Industry and Non-Governmental Organizations- Industry and non-governmental participants will demonstrate concrete technological, organizational and societal solutions for governments. In return, they will learn about the real challenges governments face and the latest research findings available for their use in crafting solutions. 3) From Academia - Academic participants will present models, theories and frameworks which extend the understanding of Electronic Governance and upon which concrete solutions for governments can be built. In turn, they will learn about problems faced by governments, gain access to concrete cases, and identify opportunities to implement and deploy research prototypes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D - Contributions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICEGOV2007 will encompass five formats of contributions: tutorials, invited talks, panels and workshops (by invitation) and regular papers (by submission). It will also include a series of social events for networking and community building. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E - EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited talks: 1) Electronic Governance from Academic Perspective Dr. Sharon Dawes Director, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY President, Digital Government Society of North America 2) Electronic Governance from Government Perspective Dr. Olu Agunloye Executive Vice Chairman National eGovernemnt Strategies (NeGSt) Limited, Nigeria 3) Electronic Governance from Non-Government Perspective Dr. Guido Bertucci Director Division for Public Administration and Development Management, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations As part of the ICEGOV2007 Conference, six pairs of tutorial-workshop events will be organized as follows: 1) Formal Engineering Methods for Electronic Governance Prof. Jim Davies, Oxford University, United Kingdom Dr. Tomasz Janowski, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Macao 2) Collaborative Networks for Electronic Government Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Prof. Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 3) Interoperability in Electronic Government Dr. Marijn Janssen, TU Delft, Netherlands Dr. Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, United States 4) Organizational Aspects of Electronic Government Dr. Theresa Pardo, CTG, University at Albany, SUNY, United States 5) Policy Development for Electronic Government To be announced 6) Knowledge Management in Public Administration Prof. Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany Tutorials are designed to provide the audience with general foundations and basic understanding of the area, while the workshops will address state-of-the-art research and applications in the respective areas. Each tutorial-workshop event will take half a day (about 3 hours), with tutorials presenting introductions to the area for non-specialists and workshop offering state-of-the-art presentations basically for experts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F - Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICEGOV2007 Program Committee invites unpublished, original contributions describing ongoing or completed work, originating from: 1) Academia - Foundations of Electronic Governance, including development, validation and implementation of relevant theories, models and specifications. 2) Industry and Non-Governmental Organizations - Technologies, methods and tools upon which concrete solutions for Electronic Governance - systems, processes, services and organizations - can be built. 3) Government - Experiences, case studies and lessons learnt, both theoretical and practical, when planning, developing, executing and evaluating Electronic Governance initiatives. ICEGOV2007 particularly welcomes: 1) Cross-sector papers that aim to establish connections between research, solutions and practice of Electronic Governance, and succeed in effectively communicating their findings to different audiences: from researchers to solution providers, from solution providers to public managers, and from public managers to researchers. 2) Papers that cross the borders of the relevant disciplines - Information Technology, Computing, Public Administration, Political Science, Linguistics, Law, Economics, Sociology, Business Administration, etc. 3) Papers on one or more of the practice, solutions or research aspects of Electronic Governance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- G - TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 1) Practice Planning Programs Organizational Initiatives Training and Development Assessment Programs Legislative Frameworks Technology Adoption Society Inclusion Initiatives Public Services for Rural Areas Citizen Engagement and Participation Public-Private Partnership Cases Digital Divide Programs Stakeholder Management Public Benefits Management Integration Management Public Communications Management 2) Solutions Change Management Solutions Assessment Toolkits Security and Privacy Infrastructures Identity Management Solutions Mobile and Ubiquitous Services Content Management Solutions Business Process Reengineering Developing Electronic Public Services (EPS) Software Infrastructure for EPS EPS Development Environments Semantic Web Applications Open Source for Electronic Government Standards and Interoperability Interoperability Frameworks Web 2.0 and Blogs 3) Research Foundations for Electronic Government Models for Electronic Public Services (EPS) Government Collaboration Patterns Methods for EPS Development Models for Citizen Engagement Measurement Frameworks Public Service Discovery Public Service Composition Government Enterprise Architectures Virtual Government Organizations Innovation Patterns in Government Models for Outsourcing Public Policy Development Models for Public Service Delivery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- H - SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All submissions will undergo a three-stage preparation process: 1) Abstract - One-page abstracts must be submitted by 30 July 2007. They will be reviewed by the Program Committee to establish suitability of the topics for the conference. Acceptance notifications will be sent to the authors by 3 August 2007. 2) Full Paper - Must not exceed 10 pages and must be submitted for review by the Program Committee by 27 August 2007 as a basis for the final assessment and, if accepted, for the preparation of the final papers. Acceptance notifications will be sent to the authors by 8 October 2007. 3) Final Paper - All accepted papers should be revised to address review comments and to follow formatting requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Final papers are due by 22 October 2007. Abstracts and papers should be submitted, adhering to ACM formatting requirements, through the conference submission website available at http://www.easychair.org/ICEGOV2007. A double-blind review will be carried out by the Program Committee throughout the whole process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I - PROCEEDINGS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library, collected into a book with an ISBN number, and distributed to all participants of the conference. All accepted final papers will appear in both printed and electronic conference proceedings, provided at least one author registers for the conference before registration deadline and presents the paper at the conference. The papers whose authors register late will only appear in the electronic proceedings, provided an author presents the paper at the conference. Papers that are not presented by one of authors at the conference shall neither be published in the printed proceedings, nor by the ACM Digital Library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- J - Copyright ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upon acceptance of papers, authors will be required to complete and sign a Copyright Form available at http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html; see the ACM Copyright Policy at http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/. Completed forms should be scanned and send by e-mail to icegov@iist.unu.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- K - AWARDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Best papers will be selected in several categories including cross-sector and thematic contributions. The award committee will also seek to award the paper that makes the most notable contribution to showing how different countries can cooperate in Electronic Governance development. An overall best paper award will be made as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L - REGISTRATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Early registrations are due by 5 November 2007. The fee is 250USD per person for the whole conference. Late registrations will be accepted from 6 November 2007 until the conference, subject to the availability of seats. The fee for late registration is 300USD per person for the whole conference. Registration is generally not transferrable. The registration covers: 1) Access to all conference events 2) One copy of the conference proceedings book 3) Registration pack - conference program, tourism information, notepad and pen 4) One buffet lunch for every day of the conference (including vegetarian) 5) Four coffee breaks including snacks every day 6) Refreshments provided throughout the conference Additional sets of proceedings can be purchased at 30USD each. Registration fees can be paid online via credit card (Master Card or Visa) or through bank transfer, bank draft or cheque (for residents of Hong Kong or Macao only). According to the conference cancellations policy, registration and hotel fees will be reimbursed at: 80% if a cancellation request is received before 6 November 2007 and 50% if a cancellation request is received between 6 and 26 November 2007. No refund shall be provided for cancellation requests received after 26 November. Registration will be open soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M - SPONSORSHIP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors of accepted papers will be able to apply for sponsorship to partially cover the costs of attending the conference - registration, hotel or both - with preference given to citizens of developing countries. No more than one sponsorship will be offered per paper. Sponsorship applications will be received from 9 to 15 October 2007. The applicants will be notified about decisions by 22 October 2007. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N - IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission 30 July 2007 Abstract acceptance notice 03 August 2007 Full paper submission 27 August 2007 Full paper acceptance notice 08 October 2007 Sponsorship applications open 09 October 2007 Sponsorship applications close 15 October 2007 Sponsorship decision notice 22 October 2007 Final paper submission 22 October 2007 Early registration deadline 05 November 2007 Conference 10 - 13 December 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O - PEOPLE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Conference Committee Dawes, Sharon, CTG, General Co-Chair Estevez, Elsa, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Publicity Chair Friedrich, Bernd, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Organization Chair Janowski, Tomasz, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Program Co-Chair Ojo, Adegboyega, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Events Chair Pardo, Theresa, CTG, Program Co-Chair Reed, Mike, UNU-IIST, General Co-Chair 2) Advisory Committee Agunloye, Olu, NEGST, Nigeria Bertucci, Guido, UNDESA, United States Breul, Jonathan D, IBM, United States Cheung, David, HKU, Hong Kong Choi, Chang-Hank, PGCID, South Korea Gregg, Valerie, DGRC/USC, United States Janowski, Tomasz, UNU-IIST-EGOV, Macau Rhee, Hyeun-Suk, UN/APCICT, South Korea Robertson, Tom, Microsoft, United States Spio-Garbath, Ekwow, CTO, United Kingdom 3) Program Committee Afsarmanesh, Hamideh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Biuk-Aghai, Robert, University of Macau, Macau Camarinha-Matos, Luis, UNINOVA, Portugal Cechich, Alejandra, University of Camahue, Argentina Cellary, Wojciech, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Charbonneau, Monique, CEFRIO, Canada Contractor, Noshir, University of Illinois at UC, United States Davies, Jim, Oxford University, United Kingdom Diamond, Lester, US Social Security Administration, United States Fugini, Mariagrazia, Politechnic of Milan, Italy Han, Yanbo, ICT Institute, CAS, China Heeks, Richard, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Hinnant, Chris, US General Accountability Office, United States Janssen, Marijn, TU Delft, Netherlands Kim, Young Sik, KOICA/NITC, South Korea Ko, Yoon-Seok, PCGID, South Korea Krishnan, Paddy, Bond University, Australia Kwon, Hun-Yeong, NIA, South Korea Lee, Jimmy, CUHK, Hong Kong Maslyn, Robert, US General Services Administor, United States Matar, Muna, Bethlehem University, Palestine Millard, Jeremy, Danish Technology Institute, Denmark Mohanty, Hrushikesha, University of Hyderabad, India Nath, Vikas, South Centre, Switzerland Nyamkhuu, Ts, ICTA, Mongolia Obi, Toshio, Waseda University, Japan Osofisan, Adenike, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Peristeras, Vasillios, DERI, Ireland Ramusack, Randy, Microsoft, United States Rana, Vivek S., AAC Inc., Nepal Schmidt, Philipp, Univ. of Western Cape, South Africa Scholl, Jochen, University of Washington, United States Schware, Robert, GLP, United States Schweik, Charlie, UMass Amherst, United States Sorrentino, Maddalena, University of Milan, Italy Thiel, Madeleine, VINNOVA, Sweden Tjoa, A Min, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Wimmer, Maria, University of Koblenz, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P - Institutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patron: The Government of Macao SAR, China Organizers: 1) Center for Electronic Governance at United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology (www.egov.iist.unu.edu). 2) Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York (www.ctg.albany.edu) 3) Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (www.unapcict.org) Sponsors: 1) Macao Polytechnic Institute 2) etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P - CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Center for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST Mailing - P.O.Box 3058, Macao S.A.R, China Visiting - Casa Silva Mendes, Est. do Engenheiro Trigo No. 4, Macao Tel - +853 28712930 Fax - +853 28712940 Email - icegov@iist.unu.edu URL - www.icegov.org Timezone - GMT+8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------