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.

This book provides the field with a definitive, interdisciplinary, and understandable work that surveys the field of digital government in terms of key research, case studies of successful applications in a variety of government settings, along with discussions of current and future policy implications. Each chapter is prepared and carefully edited within a structured format by a known expert on the chapter topic. The editors and the authors are well-known researchers and practitioners in digital government. They have all been on the forefront of the IT and digital government research initiatives. Together the editors and expert chapter authors have developed a definitive textbook that can be used by researchers, practitioners and students across the discipline domains, of Information Systems, Information Science, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Public Policy and Business.

Information technology - as it has with so many aspects of our business and everyday lives - is dramatically changing the way government manages data, shares data, plans, provides decision support and delivers services. At the core of all these changes is digital government or e-government. This is the first systematic survey treatment of the area written by those individuals who are at the leading edge of the field Given the support and interest in digital government initiatives worldwide, this book will fill a vacuum for a survey textbook treatment on the topic that can be used in variety of practical and academic settings in Information Systems, Computer Science, Policy Studies/Political Science and Business

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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.