|
Mini Tracks – Calls for Papers
|
|
|
|
e-Tax and e-Revenue
e-democracy
SMEs and e-Government
Legal, agency, trust
and governance issues in e-Government
|
Tell
a friend
|
|
|
Mini track on e-Tax and e-Revenue 
Chair: Margery Stapleton,
National Centre for Taxation Studies, University
of Limerick, Ireland
Taxation is a corner-stone of all political action. e-Tax and e-Revenue
encompass more than just the use of ICTs – the modality challenges the
way in which public sector Revenue departments interact with citizens, firms
and tax professionals. Government Revenue departments were in the vanguard in
adopting ICTs to enhance process, efficiency and productivity and e-filing is
expected to expand in most tax practices over the coming years. This
mini-track invites submissions of papers from both academics and
practitioners on both theory and advanced practice in respect of e-Tax and
e-Revenue. The conference to be held in Lausanne in June 2008 is also seeking case studies
and reports of relevant work-in-progress. The aim is to provide a space for
taxation academics and practitioners to reconnect with and extend their
response to the practices, challenges and problematics of e-Tax and
e-Revenue. A broad, indicative and non-exclusive list of topics and themes is
listed below that we hope might be included.
Contributions are welcome that extend and refine,
either empirically, analytically, theoretically or politically, analysis of:
§
The practice of e-Tax at Government level;
§
Tax mix in terms of scale, tax base, administration and enforcement
costs;
§
Maximising usage and benefits of e-Business for Revenue Departments;
§
Security and privacy concerns;
§
Legislative and legal issues;
§
e-Tax and the iPod generation - Communicating with tax payers in the
21st century;
§
Case studies on lessons learned and problems encountered;
§
Direct and indirect e-Taxation;
§
Ethical issues;
§
Environmental issues; the green agenda; carbon tax etc.;
§
Challenges to professional development programmes
For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.
|
Margery Stapleton
|
|
|
Mini track on e-Democracy
Chair: Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide, South Australia
The successful
development of e-democracy depends on the willingness of citizens to
participate; to interact with government and with each other in the vibrant
ways which are emerging in the wider public sphere of online political and
civic communication. Citizens now have more access to information, and to the
use of media technologies, than ever before. Participation in peer-to-peer
networks is increasing, resulting in a transformation of the range of
political activities, public agenda-setting and the mobilisation of debate.
Attracting and sustaining online public engagement has not proved to be a
problem in the non-government sector, as the users of social media sites have congregated in large numbers, for diverse
purposes, with the expectation of being able to be heard and of making a
difference. The CNN/YouTube debate run in July 2007 is the first time that
members of the public, as opposed to journalists, were allowed to help set
the political and media agenda by asking questions of US presidential
candidates. Power relations seem to be shifting. How are e-government
executives, e-government systems and elected politicians reacting to wider
citizen access to information, to mobilised communicative power, and to an
expectation that there will be new forms of citizen-government interaction?
Where are the successful examples of e-participation in action in government
and elsewhere?
Papers which discuss the technology-assisted sharing of power with or in
government, e-democracy pilots and case studies, or theories of e-democracy
are welcomed.
Topics could include : the transformative features of e-participation; access
to the means of participation in minority or disadvantaged groups; accounts
of grassroots online or mobile activism, and government responses;
e-democracy agenda-setting at any level of government; effective peer-to-peer
networks within government; the online responses to citizens' expectations of
government; designing for e-participation; unconventional government uses of
delivery platforms; theorising the e-citizen; freedom of information;
e-moderation; the civic potential of emerging distribution systems (e.g., digital community television,
digital radio, mobiles).
For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.
|
Mary Griffiths
|
|
|
Mini track on Legal, agency, trust and
governance issues in e-Government
Chair: Bruno de Vuyst, Associate
Professor, Vesalius
College, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
e-Government is meant
to include initiatives in the executive as well as the legislative, and the
judiciary branch. The executive branch is meant to include both
federal-national as legal-local government, as well as the NGO or
multilateral organization levels, e.g. entities such as Greenpeace, Amnesty
International or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the U.N.
specialized agencies, regional or other political groupings such as the
Organization for African Unity or the Group of Non-Aligned Countries, and
regional development institutions such as the Latin-American Development
Bank.
The track
welcomes papers including research models and methodological inputs, as well
as case studies and commentary on the issues of law, agency, trust and
governance in e-Government. These may include, without limitation,
submissions on the equilibrium between actors in e-Government transactions,
on issues of trust that may be expressed or understood between such actors,
on legal issues promoting or inhibiting the adoption of e-Government models
or measures, or on IP issues of Open Standards use in e-Government and their
consequences on applications built upon e-ID or other e-Government models,
such as in procurement. Good governance or best practice - oriented
submissions are also specifically invited.
|
Bruno de Vuyst
|
|
|
Mini-Track
on SMEs and E-Government
Co Chairs: Dr. Jyoti Choudrie and Dr. Janet Kirkham, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Small to Medium Sized
Enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to economies around the globe. Small and
medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, defined as companies with less than 250
employees, make up a very large proportion of Europe’s
economy and just as large companies, SMEs can have considerable impact on the
environment. This is not necessarily through individual pressure, but through
their combined total impact across sectors (although in some cases the
individual effects of SMEs on the environment can be very significant at
local or regional level) (Eurolex, 2007).
Taking the United Kingdom as an example, there are 4.3 million SMEs in the
UK, employing around 12 million people, this sector is vital to the UK
economy (BIBA, 2007). For this track the aim is to determine the impacts of
e-government upon SMEs and evaluate the impacts of e-government upon SMEs.
Therefore, there are social, political and economic aspects related to this
track.
The topics that this track will consider are:
- The Process Changes that are
brought within the SME sector by e-government
- The technological and
non-technological challenges that SMEs face with respect to e-gov
- Policy related issues of
e-gov and SMES (however, the policy issues are to be concerned with
information and communication technologies)
- Evaluating the impacts of
e-gov upon SMEs
- Modeling aspects of e-gov and
SMEs
- The adoption and usage of
e-gov within the context of SMEs
- Cultural aspects related to
SMEs and e-gov
- The strategic aspects related
to SMEs and e-gov
- Leadership and management
related issues of e-gov and SMES
- E-commerce and e-business
related issues in connection with SMEs and e-gov
- Website evaluation of SMEs
and e-gov
To determine the relevance or suitability of a topic, e-mails can be sent to
Dr. Jyoti Choudrie: j.choudrie@herts.ac.uk.
|
Jyoti Choudrie
Janet Kirkham
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
