Submitting a Paper

• Call For Papers 
• Topics 
• Paper Submission 
• Proceedings 
• Copyright 

Call For Papers

The ICEGOV2007 Program Committee invited unpublished, original contributions describing ongoing or completed work, originating from:

• Academia - Foundations of Electronic Governance, including development, validation and implementation of relevant theories, models and specifications.
• Industry and Non Governmental Organizations - Technologies, methods and tools upon which concrete solutions for Electronic Governance systems, processes, services and organizations can be built.
• Government - Experiences, case studies and lessons learnt, both theoretical and practical, when planning, developing, executing and evaluating Electronic Governance initiatives.

ICEGOV2007 particularly recieved submissions from:

• Cross-sector papers that aim to establish connections between research, solutions and practice of Electronic Governance, and succeeded 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.
• Papers on one or more of practice, solutions or research aspects of Electronic Governance.
• Papers that were multidisciplinary and covering topics relevant to Information Technology, Computing, Public Administration, Political Science, Linguistics, Law, Economics, Sociology, Business Administration, etc.

Topics

The main topics presented during the conference included:

Paper Submission

All submissions underwent a three-stage preparation process:

1. Abstract - One-page abstracts were submitted by 30 July 2007. They were reviewed by the Program Committee to establish suitability of the topics for the conference. Confirmation of acceptance was informed to the authors by 3 August 2007.
2. Full Paper - Were submitted for review by the Program Committee by 27 August 2007 for the final assessment and for preparation of the final papers. Full papers adhered to ACM formatting requirements (Word Template), the requirement being; not to exceed 10 pages and not to contain any information about authors. A double-blind review was carried out and acceptance notifications were sent to the authors by 17 October 2007.
3. Final Paper - All accepted papers were revised to address review comments and to follow ACM formatting requirements (Word Template). The due date for the papers was 2 November 2007.

Abstracts and papers were submitted through the conference submission website( http://www.easychair.org/ICEGOV2007 ) and by email (icegov@iist.unu.edu).

Proceedings

Conference proceedings were 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 appeared in both printed and electronic conference proceedings, provided at least one author registered for the conference before registration deadline and presented the paper at the conference. In general, the papers whose authors registered late appeared in the electronic proceedings only, provided an author presented the paper at the conference. Also in general, papers that were not presented by one of authors at the conference were neither published in the printed proceedings, nor by the ACM Digital Library.

Copyright

Upon acceptance of papers, authors were required to complete and sign a Copyright Form available here; see the ACM Copyright Policy. Completed forms were scanned and sent by e-mail to icegov@iist.unu.edu.