Electronic Goverment

EGOV 2007 was the sixth edition of this highly successful series of annual int- national conferences dedicated to electronic government research and practice. Like all its predecessors, EGOV 2007 achieved a remarkable number of paper submissions. Moreover, the quality of this year's submissions again superseded previous years' submissions. For the third year in a row, the conference was anteceded by a doctoral colloquium, with approximately 20 PhD projects d- cussed. The conference also provided a forum for academic work in progress, for practitioner reports, and for workshops on specialty topics. Along with the International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o)intheUSA andthe e-GovernmentTrackatthe HawaiiInternationalC- ference on System Sciences (HICSS), the EGOV series of conferences has est- lished itself as the leading annual conference on e-Government, e-Participation and e-Governance in Europe, with a global reach. Last year, the ?rst two professional societies were formed in North America 1 and Europe, the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA) and 2 the European EGOV Society (EGOV-S) . Both sister societies work closely - gether.Itisnoteworthythatbothsocietieshaveadoptedalmostidenticalmission statements. They both de?ne themselves as multi-disciplinary organizations of scholars and practitioners engaged in and committed to democratic digital g- ernment. Digital (or electronic) government fosters the use of information and technology to support and improve public policies and government operations, engage citizens, and provide comprehensive and timely government services.

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Research Foundations, Frameworks and Methods.- Developing an E-Government Research Roadmap: Method and Example from E-GovRTD2020.- Towards a Cumulative Tradition in E-Government Research: Going Beyond the Gs and Cs.- Innovation Processes in the Public Sector New Vistas for an Interdisciplinary Perspective on E-Government Research?.- 'Mind the Gap II': E-Government and E-Governance.- Action in Action Research Illustrations of What, Who, Why, Where, and When from an E-Government Project.- Process Design and Interoperability.- Towards a Methodology for Designing E-Government Control Procedures.- Domain Specific Process Modelling in Public Administrations The PICTURE-Approach.- Building a Local Administration Services Portal for Citizens and Businesses: Service Composition, Architecture and Back-Office Interoperability Issues.- Reference Models for E-Services Integration Based on Life-Events.- An Architecture of Active Life Event Portals: Generic Workflow Approach.- E-Government Services Composition Using Multi-faceted Metadata Classification Structures.- E-Government Field Force Automation: Promises, Challenges, and Stakeholders.- Electronic Services.- Where to Go in the Near Future: Diverging Perspectives on Online Public Service Delivery.- E-Services for Citizens: The Dutch Usage Case.- Agriculture Market Information E-Service in Bangladesh: A Stakeholder-Oriented Case Analysis.- Talking to, Not About, Citizens Experiences of Focus Groups in Public E-Service Development.- Selection of Appropriate Payment Methods for E-Government Model and Application.- A Case Study of Semantic Solutions for Citizen-Centered Web Portals in eGovernment: The Tecut Portal.- Inclusion in the E-Service Society Investigating Administrative Literacy Requirements forUsing E-Services.- Policies and Strategies.- Access Control in Federated Databases: How Legal Issues Shape Security.- Public Sector Partnerships to Deliver Local E-Government: A Social Network Study.- Diffusion of E-Government Innovations in the Dutch Public Sector: The Case of Digital Community Policing.- The Digital Divide Metaphor: Understanding Paths to IT Literacy.- Interpreting E-Government: Implementation as the Moment of Truth.- Assessment and Evaluation.- Website Evaluation Questionnaire: Development of a Research-Based Tool for Evaluating Informational Websites.- Analysing the Demand Side of E-Government: What Can We Learn From Slovenian Users?.- An Ontology for the Multi-perspective Evaluation of Quality in E-Government Services.- Towards a Network Government? A Critical Analysis of Current Assessment Methods for E-Government.- Reaching Communication Quality in Public E-Forms A Communicative Perspective on E-Form Design.- Participation and Democracy.- Assessing the Role of GIS in E-Government: A Tale of E-Participation in Two Cities.- A Trust-Centered Approach for Building E-Voting Systems.- E-Voting: Usability and Acceptance of Two-Stage Voting Procedures.- Design and Metrics of a 'Democratic Citizenship Community' in Support of Deliberative Decision-Making.- What Are the Future Possibilities of eDemocracy? A Discussion Paper.- Perspectives on E-Government.- The Development of the Local E-Administration: Empirical Evidences from the French Case.- What Matters in the Development of the E-Government in the EU?.- A European Perspective of E-Government Presence Where Do We Stand? The EU-10 Case.