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Track Chairs:

Lemuria Carter, North Carolina A&T State University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Track Description:

For over a decade governments around the world have looked for ways to take advantage of the developments in the Internet and associated information and communication technologies. Emerging from e-business ideas in the late 1990s, e-government is seen as a concept that is focused on fully exploiting these advancements unlike any other initiative seen before in the public sector. Initially viewed as an alternative service delivery mechanism, e-government is now considered as a key enabler of public sector transformation for effective governance, transparency and accountability and citizen participation in democratic processes and policy making. E-government influences every aspect of daily life and covers a broad range of topics from service delivery to constituent participation and technology adoption to electronic governance. While many countries have implemented exemplary strategies that have enabled them to realize such benefits, others have struggled to cope with the diversity and complexity of implementation as well as adoption and diffusion challenges that e-government presents to the public sector. Although acknowledged as one of the most significant research themes to have emerged in the last decade, e-government has at times struggled to find its own niche in terms of theoretical relevance. It is often viewed as stemming from the IS field and in this respect, e-government has continued to have a major impact on IS theory and practice. 

The e-government track is soliciting mini-track proposals that broadly encapsulate implementation, adoption and diffusion of e-government and related services as well as how open government, social media, cloud technologies, private-public ecosystems and smart cities influence the way e-government is implemented and exploited by the public sector around the world. Please submit a 1-2 page document indicating the importance of your proposed mini-track to the field of e-government research and practice.  The proposals must include potential topics to be addressed in the mini-track.

 
Mini-Tracks:



E-Government: Past, Present, and Future

Vikas Jain, University of Tampa, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

E-Government is an emerging paradigm to deliver government services to citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders through the use of Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Over years, e-Government development has transitioned from cataloguing, transaction processing to vertical and horizontal integration in both developed and developing nations. The development of e-Government has not been uniform across the world. Most nations are still struggling with their e-Government programs. Despite their tremendous transformational potential, the evidence about the success of e-Government efforts across various countries is mostly sporadic and diffused.

The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for discussion of original research highlighting current issues related to technical, organizational, managerial and socio-economic aspects of e-Government adoption, evolution, implementation and impact. We seek to invite papers that address various aspects of e-Government projects from a theoretical, conceptual, or empirical perspective to set the stage for future research direction in e-Government.


Social Media in the Public Sector

Laurence Brooks, Brunel University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

During the last few years, public sector organizations have experimented with the broad spectrum of social media applications. Social networking sites, blogging, microblogging, wikis and other tools that have been deployed to support the work of public administration and enhance the creation and delivery of value to the public. These tools have been considered as a source of significant innovation that can even enable new types of relationships with citizens and other government stakeholders. The objectives and value proposition of social media in the public sector seem to be dynamically evolving along the social and technical characteristics of tools themselves.

This mini-track invites papers that use case studies, surveys or other methods that can advance our understanding of social media in the public sector. In particular, we welcome papers that attempt to provide new insights through theories, models or online research data collection methods and social media analytics.