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Stakeholders, Technologies and Creativity as potential drivers in supporting E-participation in Developing Countries
Openness in e-government
If you would be interested in preparing and chairing a mini track, please contact the Conference Director, Sue Nugus outlining your suggested topic. For further details read the Author Guidelines
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Mini Track on Stakeholders, Technologies and Creativity as potential drivers in supporting E-participation in Developing Countries
Track Co-Chairs: Gabriella Spinelli, Brunel Business School, UK Francesco Bof, Bocconi School of Management, Italy | 
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Gabriella Spinelli
Francesco Bof
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| e-Participation is progressively making its appearance in the western world, contributing to shape the relationship between citizens and the public sphere. However, the social and economic context of developing countries may not readily accommodate models of e-Participation that we have seen established in developed countries. This track aims to generate a discussion about modalities of e-Participation that may be feasible in the developing world because they are supported by unusual technologies (e.g. telephony, kiosks), promoted by unconventional stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, Sports Associations, social networks) or because they draw shared social values from domains that may not be linked directly to governance (e,g. entertainment, industry). Can e-Participation, hence governance, capitalise on catalysts with a socio-economic potential such as sport or public-private initiatives that have already acclaimed popularity, focused attention on global needs and stimulated public debate and engagement? |
| Research issues as follows are of special interest: - Analysis of failure in e-government and e-participation systems
| - User-needs analysis for e-government strategies in developing countries
| - Public Process Management
| - Examples of Public-Private Partnerships to establish e-participation platforms
| - The use of technologies to stimulate and foster citizen engagement
| - e-participation evaluation
| For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page |
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Mini Track on Openness in e-government
Track Chair: Gabor Laszlo, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary |
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Gabor Laszlo
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| This mini-track aims to draw attention to the different perspectives regarding openness within the public sector. It also attempts to highlight the social implications of changes that have occurred in recent years as a result of the transparency and accountability of government and how software usage can influence digital inclusion, trust and privacy and possible strategies to eliminate the digital divide. The Global (financial) crisis has resulted in reduced IT budgets in governmental projects and focused attention on open source software. Free/Libre/Open Source software and the emerging technologies, such as cloud computing and SaaS have also raised security considerations. W3C eGovernment Interest Group announced a "Guidelines for Publishing Open Government Data", a first draft of Publishing Open Government Data, which provides step-by-step guidelines for putting government data on the Web. Sharing data according to these guidelines enables greater transparency; delivers more efficient public services; and encourages greater public and commercial use and re-use of government information. This idea also shows the complexity and inter-connectivity of the openness domain. Beyond the technology - openness involves transparency and accountability that are not new phenomena in e-government. This trend was enhanced last year, when both the Obama administration in the US and the UK government announced their Open Government Initiatives and data portals. This mini-track invites submissions from both academics and practitioners. We are particularly interested in encouraging submissions from those working in administrations on a range of topics that address common problems across administrations to show the practice beyond the academic research. |
| Research issues as follows are of special interest: | | | - Growth and development of FLOSS-based e-government solutions
| - Free/Libre/Open Source Software in public sector
| - Participation encouragement
| | - Freedom of information (legislation)
| | | | | For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page |
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| Publication Opportunity Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. | Conference and Journal Accreditations | 
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| | The ICEG conference proceedings are: | | · listed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings) | | · listed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Index t o Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP) | | · listed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings). | | · indexed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK. · listed in the EBSCO database of Conference Proceedings | | | | | | The Electronic Journal of E-Government (EJEG) is: | 
| | | · rated level 1 in the Danish Government bibliometric lists. | | · listed in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory | | · listed in the Norwegian Social Science Data Services | | · listed in the Open Access Journals database | | · listed in the EBSCO database of electronic Journals | | · listed in the Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities | | · indexed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK. | 
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| | | | | | | | | | Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Government The latest issue is now available online.
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