Dates


04Dec2008Conference Ends
01Dec2008Conference Starts
24Nov2008Late Registration Due
03Nov2008Early Registration Due
06Oct2008Authors Registration Due
29Sep2008Sponsorships Notification
15Sep2008Sponsorships Close
01Sep2008Final Papers Due
01Sep2008Sponsorships Open
04Aug2008Acceptance Notice
16Jun2008Submission Deadline

Program


01 Dec 2008  Opening
   Tutorials
   Panels
02 Dec 2008  Invited Talks
   Sessions
   Invited Sessions
   Tutorials
   Panels
   Forum
03 Dec 2008  Invited Talks
   Paper Sessions
   Invited Sessions
   Panels
   Forum
04 Dec 2008  Invited Talks
   Workshops
   Awards and Closing



Contact


Email:icegov@icegov.org
URL:www.icegov.org

United Nations University IIST
Center for Electronic Governance

Visit:Casa Silva Mendes, Est. do Engenheiro Trigo No. 4 Macao SAR, China
Mail:P. O. Box 3058, Macao
Tel:+853 28712930
Fax:+853 28712940

Conference Venue


German University in Cairo

Visit:Al Tagamoa Al Khames 11835 New Cairo City Egypt
Tel:+20 2 27590682
Fax:+20 2 27581041

Awards

Best papers were awarded in two categories. The THEORY category was merged with THEORY AND PRACTICE category

MERITORIOUS PAPER: PRACTICE

The submission that presents the most innovative Electronic Governance initiative

TITLE

Metadata Standards for Semantic Interoperability in Electronic Government

AUTHORS

Jim Davies, Steve Harris, Charles Crichton, Aadya Shukla and Jeremy Gibbons (Oxford University, UK)

   
   

MERITORIOUS PAPER: THEORY-PRACTICE LINK

The submission that best links Electronic Governance theory and practice

TITLE

To Reinforce or To Mobilize? Tracing the Impact of Internet Use on Civic Engagement in Taiwan

AUTHORS

Don-Yun Chen and Chung-Pin Lee
(Taiwan e-Governance Research Center, NCCU, Taipei City, Taiwan)

   

Papers

NO TITLE - AUTHORS - ID PROGRAM
1 Computing Professionals in e-Governance: Policy Implications - Vigneswara Ilavarasan and C. M. Malish - 8 Session 2
2 Understanding the Drivers, Enablers, and Performance of Knowledge Management in Public Organizations - Loo Geok Pee and Atreyi Kankanhalli - 24 Session 12
3 Assessment of e-Governance Resource use in South-Western Nigeria - Michael Awoleye, Adeniran Oluwaranti, Willie Siyanbola and Rotimi Adagunodo - 25 Workshop 5
4 Measurement and Evaluating Frameworks in Electronic Government Quality Management - Seyed Kamal Vaezi - 36 Workshop 5
5 Proposing a Hybrid-Intelligent Framework to Secure e–Government Web Applications - Asaad Moosa and Eanas Alsaffar - 37 Workshop 2
6 Technological Integration: Evidence of Processes of Structuring in Governmental Organizations - Vassilis Meneklis and Christos Douligeris - 47 Workshop 1
7 Striving for Transparency and Efficiency in e-Government: Procurement Reform through e-Procurement - Jungwoo Lee - 48 Workshop 6
8 Utility Computing Based Framework for e-Governance - Jaijit Bhattacharya and Sushant Vashistha - 54 Session 6
9 Evaluating the Interoperability of Document Formats: ODF and OOXML as Examples - Rajiv Shah and Jay Kesan - 58 Session 1
10 The Operationalisation of e-Governance - Jamal Shahin and Matthias Finger - 59 Workshop 1
11 Implementing National Copyright Laws–A Jordanian Case Study - Fawzi Mulki - 82 Workshop 6
12 The Heterogeneous World of Proprietary and Open-Source Software - Stacy Baird - 84 Session 1
13 Goal-oriented Service Selection - Peter Salhofer and Bernd Stadlhofer - 85 Workshop 2
14 From Participation to e-Participation: The German Case - Peter A. Mambrey - 88 Session 8
15 Checking Assignments of Controls to Risks for Internal Control - Yasuhito Arimoto, Yuji Watanabe, Michiharu Kudoh and Kokichi Futatsugi - 90 Workshop 3
16 Sharing Information for Product Quality and Food Safety in China: Barriers and Enablers - Lei Zheng, Yuanfu Jiang, Tung-Mou Yang and Theresa Pardo - 96 Workshop 3
17 NCSec: A National Cyber Security Referential for the Development of a Code of Practice in National Cyber Security Management - Dafir Kettani and Taieb Debbagh - 98 Session 4
18 Measurement Framework for Evaluating e-Governance on Municipalities Websites - Rocio Andrea Rodriguez, Daniel Giulianelli, Leon Welicki and Pablo Martin Vera - 99 Session 9
19 e-Government Informatics - Majed Ayyad - 100 Workshop 1
20 Metadata Standards for Semantic Interoperability in Electronic Government - Jim Davies, Charles Crichton, Steve Harris and Aadya Shukla - 104 Workshop 2
21 Reference Model for Devolution in e-Governance - M. Kashif Farooq, Shafay Shamail and Awais Mian - 112 Workshop 4
22 Democratising Local e-Government: the Role of Virtual Dialogue - Leela Damodaran, Wendy Olphert and Panos Balatsoukas - 113 Session 9
23 Toward a Common Framework for Computing e-Government Index - Abebe Rorissa, Dawit Demissie and Theresa Pardo - 115 Session 10
24 Social Electronic Governance: Re-visiting the Redistribution Question through Coordinating Relations between Electronic Governance and Social Goals - Jason Musyoka - 120 Workshop 1
25 Strategic IT Planning as Change Specification - William S. Shu - 121 Workshop 4
26 Socio-Technical Design of Service Compositions: A Coordination View - Marijn Janssen and Ralph Feenstra - 125 Session 7
27 To Reinforce or to Mobilize? Tracing the Impact of Internet Use on Civic Engagement in Taiwan - Don-yun Chen and Chung-pin Lee - 126 Session 9
28 A Readiness Assessment Framework for e-Government Planning-Design and Application - Mohamed Shareef, Adegboyega Ojo and Tomasz Janowski - 130 Session 10
29 A Model for Policy Interventions in Support of Electronic Governance - Radha Chauhan, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski - 131 Workshop 6
30 Evolution of Readiness Indicators - Devendra Potnis and Theresa Pardo - 134 Session 10

Case Studies

NO TITLE - AUTHORS - ID PROGRAM
1 Use of Websites for Disseminating Health Information in Developing Countries: an Experience from Sri Lanka - Mahinda Kommalage and Anoj Thabrew - 2 Session 5
2 Setting SPI Practices in Latin America: An Exploratory Case Study in the Justice Area - Alejandra Cechich, Juan Luzuriaga and Rodolfo Martinez - 5 Workshop 5
3 A Policy Tool on Developing a National Strategic Framework on Bridging Digital Divide: A Malaysian Public Policy Perspective - Ramasamy Ramachandran - 15 Session 12
4 Outsourcing as a Strategy for IT Harmonization–A Public Sector Case Study Proposing an Approach in Independent Stakeholder Scenarios - Christian Sterba and Thomas Grechenig - 16 Session 2
5 e-Governance Initiatives in India - Shampa Paul and Kaushalesh Lal - 17 Session 3
6 "e-Grama": a Tool for Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural India - Rama Krushna Das, Manas Patra and Subash Chandra Mahapatra - 18 Session 8
7 IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Oman - Gonu Cyclone Lessons Learned - Ali Al-Badi, Rafi Ashrafi, Ali Al-Majeeni and Pam Mayhew - 22
8 Museum Collection Management On-Demand - Steven Wu and Philip Chua - 23 Session 6
9 e-Governance Initiatives in Bangladesh - Kawsar Ahmed and Mahbubul Alam - 28 Session 5
10 e-Governance in Community-Based Poverty Reduction Strategies - Sanjo Faniran and Kayode Olaniyan - 31 Workshop 4
11 Back Office Integration Issues in Developing Country Context: Lessons Learned from a Case Study in Morocco - Driss Kettani and Asmae El Mahdi - 39 Session 4
12 A Step-Wise Refinement Approach for Enhancing e-Voting Acceptance - Christos Manolopoulos, Polyxeni Nakou, Anastasia Panagiotaki, Dimitris Sofotassios, Paul Spirakis and Yannis Stamatiou - 50 Session 4
13 Measuring Government Innovation in EU - Apostolos Vontas, Androklis Mavridis, Adamantios Koumpis and Vasiliki Moumtzi - 52 Session 11
14 Building a Balanced Scorecard for Open Source Policy and Strategy: a Case Study of the Microsoft Experience - Bryan Kirschner - 61 Session 1
15 Interoperability Testing for e-Government Web Services - Giorgos Pentafronimos, Spyridon Papastergiou and Nineta Polemi - 63 Session 6
16 Human Aspects of the Environmental Information Management in Colombia - Myriam Dueñas - 65 Session 7
17 A Thin Client for Networked Access to a Central Register and Electronic Voting Terminals - Craig Burton - 68 Session 4
18 The Quality Framework of e-Government Development - W. Chutimaskul, S. Funilkul, V. Chongsuphajaisiddhi - 69 Workshop 3
19 How Political Mechanism Influences Digital Government - Comparative Case Study of United States and China - Wu Hao - 73 Workshop 6
20 e-Governance: Challenges and Opportunities - Kawsar Ahmed, Md. Ashraful Islam Sumon and Mahbubul Alam - 77 Session 3
21 Alternative Approach to the Ongoing Electronic Voter Registration in Bangladesh - Sazia Mahfuz - 87
22 TransEuropean Access to National Case Law: the Caselex Project - Sebastiano Faro and Roberta Nannucci - 89 Workshop 2
23 e-Governance in Rural India - Deepthi Shanker - 91 Session 3
24 The DYONIPOS Innovation Framework: Research and Practice Hand in Hand - Josef Makolm and Silke Weiß, Doris Ipsmiller - 92 Session 11
25 Lack of Equal Access to ICTs by Women: an e-Governance Issue - Johanna Awotwi and George Owusu - 93 Session 12
26 Interoperability in e-Tendering: The Case of the Virtual Company Dossier - Ansgar Mondorf and Maria A. Wimmer - 95 Workshop 3
27 A Case Study on Taxpayer Segmentation - Olivier Glassey - 97 Workshop 4
28 A Framework for Semantic Mapping between Thesauri - Enrico Francesconi, Sebastiano Faro and Elisabetta Marinai - 101 Session 2
29 Organizational Culture and Stakeholder Power: A Case Study of Postgraduate Initiatives in e-Government - Frances Slack and John Walton - 103 Session 7
30 Conceptual Framework for Introducing e–Governance in University Administration - Subrata K. Dey and M Abdus Sobhan - 106 Session 11
31 Electronic Environmental Governance in Ethiopia: Key Thrust Areas - Satishkumar Belliethathan, Yitbarek Weldesemaet and Araya Asfaw - 110 Workshop 5
32 Towards e-Governance: a Case Study of Employees Provident Fund of Nepal - Deepak Rauniar and Radha K. Pote - 111 Session 5
33 Web 2.0: A Basis for the Second Society? - Dennis De Kool and Johan Van Wamelen - 124 Session 8
34 Development and Implementation of e-Government Services in Turkey: Issues of Standardization, Inclusion, Citizen and Satisfaction - Asim Balci, Erhan Kumas, Hamza Tasdelen, Elif Süngü, Tolga Medeni and Tunç D. Medeni - 129 Session 7

Posters

NO TITLE - AUTHORS - ID PROGRAM
1 e-Revenue Administration in Nepal - Ganesh Adhikari - 11 Poster
2 Government Enterprise Architectures: Present Status of Bangladesh & Scope of Development - Muhammad Abul Kalam Azad, Md. Ashik Ali Khan and Mahbubul Alam - 30 Poster
3 Website Quality – A Prerequisite to Addressing Citizen Expectations in e-Governance - S.L. Sarnot, Umesh Nandwani and Ravi Sondhi - 40 Poster
4 e-Governance Initiatives in Mongolia - Uyanga Sambuu, Uranchimeg Tudevdagva and Ganbold Erdene - 43 Poster
5 Community Information Centres - Enabling e-Governance in India: Lessons Learnt - Shefali Dash and Nandita Chaudhri - 49 Poster
6 NLP Techniques in Enriching e-Governance - Sanghamitra Mohanty and Surendranath Nayak - 53 Poster
7 The Africa e-Governance Academy (AfeGA) - Pierre Dandjinou and Ben Akoh - 55 Poster
8 e-Governance and Digital Divide: A Case Study of Mainland China and Macao SAR - Lue Li - 74 Poster
9 Comparison of Website Content Measurement of Selected Mongolian Institutions - Ganbat Tsend - 75 Poster
10 Cross-Boundary Information Sharing in e-Governance Based on Third-Party Platform: A Case Study on iTowNet Public Service Platform - Wensheng Yang - 81 Poster
11 Bridging Digital Divide: Role of Telecommunication Sector - Muhammed Azam - 86 Poster
12 Implementation of e-Government in Nepal: Prospects, Opportunities and Threats - Kshitish Bhattarai and Manoj Gupta - 108 Poster
13 Critical Success Factors for Implementing Knowledge Based Models for Electronic Public Services (EPS) - Seyed Kamal Vaezi - 116 Poster