New information technologies are being applied swiftly to all levels of government service: local, county, regional and even national and international. Information technology (IT) is being used to improve data management and data sharing, planning and decision support, service delivery, and more. Application areas affected by government mandates to improve e-government service include healthcare and safety; law enforcement, security, and justice; education; land use; and many others. Information technology is being used to increase public access to information, to provide more convenient and timely transaction services, and to increase citizen participation in the establishment of government regulations and other processes. DIGITAL GOVERNMENT: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation provides the field with a definitive, interdisciplinary, and understandable review of recent IT and related research of particular importance to digital government. The book also includes explorations of current and future policy implications, and case studies of successful applications in a variety of government settings.

The book has been organized into three parts: Unit 1 covers the international foundations of digital government and related social, public, and legal issues (such as privacy, confidentiality, trust and security) that are evolving from governments' new ways of doing business. Unit 2 examines current IT research that is impacting the advancement of digital government purposes and initiatives. In this section, a wide range of technologies are discussed with the objective of outlining a framework of state-of-the-art technologies showing the most promise for e-government initiatives. Unit 3 highlights case studies and applications of successful e-government initiatives from around the world which have wider lessons and implications. High impact projects are explored in detail, with a "lessons learned" discussion included witheach case study. Each chapter is accompanied by references, suggested additional readings, online resources, and questions for discussion.

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At last, a right up-to-the-minute volume on a topic of huge national and international importance. As governments around the world battle voter apathy, the need for new and modernized methods of involvement in the polity is becoming acute. This work provides information on advanced research and case studies that survey the field of digital government. Successful applications in a variety of government settings are delineated, while the authors also analyse the implications for current and future policy-making. Each chapter has been prepared and carefully edited within a structured format by a known expert on the individual topic.

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Foundations of Digital Government and Public Policy.- Foundations of Digital Government.- Discipline or Interdisciplinary Study Domain? Challenges and Promises in Electronic Government Research.- An Outline for the Foundations of Digital Government Research.- Lost In Competition? The State of the Art in E-Government Research.- E-Democracy and E-Participation Research in Europe.- to Digital Government Research in Public Policy and Management.- Privacy in an Electronic Government Context.- Accessibility of Federal Electronic Government.- The Current State of Electronic Voting in the United States.- E-Enabling the Mobile Legislator.- Information Technology Research.- History of Digital Government Research in the United States.- Data and Knowledge Integration for e-Government.- Ontologies in the Legal Domain.- Public Safety Information Sharing: An Ontological Perspective.- Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure for Transnational Digital Government.- Semantics-Based Threat Structure Mining for Homeland Security.- Identity Management for e-Government Services.- Feature Integration for Geospatial Information: A Review and Outlook.- Geoinformatics of Hotspot Detection and Prioritization for Digital Governance.- Geoinformation Technologies to Support Collaborative Emergency Management.- Sustainable Cross-Boundary Information Sharing.- Urbansim: Using Simulation to Inform Public Deliberation and Decision-Making.- Case Studies.- Taking Best Practice Forward.- Epetitioning in the Scottish Parliament.- Citizen Access to Government Statistical Information.- Infectious Disease Informatics and Syndromic Surveillance.- Supporting Domain-Specific Digital Libraries in Government: Two Case Studies.- Business-Technology Alignments in e-Government: A Large-Scale Taiwan Government Electronic Record Management Systems Study.- Research and Development of Key Technologies for e-Government: Case Studies in China.- New Zealand's 2006 Census Online: A Case Study.- Multidisciplinary e-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective Information Technology Transfer.- A Hybrid e-Government Model: Case Studies in Shanghai.