Since e-Government is a nascent academic field, its structure is still evolving. While initial emphases wither, new directions of practice and research are forming. Whereas some new trends in technology and management cut across existing perspectives, other new topics may have the potential to become a subfield in their own right. Furthermore, the research foundations of the field still need to be spelled out more explicitly and rigorously. New data is badly needed. More new topics and trends are emerging in e-Government, for which it may be difficult to locate a nurturing home in one of the existing minitracks within the e-Gov Track at HICSS. Therefore, the e-Government Emerging Topics minitrack provides a home for incubating those new topics and trends.

Topics and research areas include but are not limited to:

1. •The conceptual and practice-based boundaries and foundations of the field of e-Government
   

2. •Agendas for e-Government research
   

3. •Foundations and research methodologies for the study of e-Government
   

4. •The nature of inter and multidisciplinary research designs in e-Government
   

5. •Natural disaster management & e-government policy
   

6. •Mobile Government: Challenges, opportunities, standards, and protocols
   

7. •Mobile voice/data integration
   

8. •Mobile to legacy/non-mobile application integration
   

9. •Web 2.0 and 3.0 in government
   

10. •Data-driven public policy and decision-making
    

11. •Cloud Computing
    

12. •Government’s role in open-source
    

13. •Archiving and Preservation of government records in digital form, in particular for small organizations
    

14. •IT, government, and an aging population
    

15. •Societal challenges and e-Government, for instance, societal aging
    

16. •Other topics as appropriate to the purposes of this mini-track
    

More co-chair information

Bjoern Niehaves, Dual PhD, is Visiting Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Schumpeter Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation and heads the public sector research unit at the European Research Center for Information Systems, Muenster University, Germany. After the completion of his PhD studies in Information Systems (2006) and in Political Science (2008), Bjoern’s research interests now revolve around Design Science, Business Process Management, E-Government, Network Theories, and ICT & Aging. In 2006 (Best Dissertation Award of Muenster University), 2007 (Best Paper Award at EGOV), 2008 (Best Paper Award at E-SOCIETY), and 2009 (e|Gov Innovation Award) his work has received additional recognition.

Theresa A. Pardo, PhD, is the director of the Center of Technology in Government at the University at Albany/SUNY. She is responsible for overall strategic management at the Center along with building and nurturing CTG’s research programs, applied projects, and public-private-academic partnerships. Theresa is also an Associate Research Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany. She is one of the developers of UAlbany's Government Information Strategy and Management curriculum in public administration. The academic program focuses on the policy, management and technology dimensions of information and technology use in the design and delivery of government programs. Theresa is currently a Co-Principal Investigator in three Center research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation: Knowledge Networking in the Public Sector, Turning to Digital Government in a Crisis, and Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration.

Akemi Takeoka Chatfield (PhD, Business Administration/MIS, Texas Tech University) is Head, E-Government & E-Governance research group at the University of Wollongong in Australia, and adjunct professor at Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute.  She researches the adoption, use, and impacts of frontier information technologies such as GIS and radio frequency identification (RFID) in natural disaster management as an integral part of e-government policy and capability development.  Akemi has published 35 articles in scholarly journals, such as Journal of Management Information Systems and European Journal of Information Systems, as well as in international conference proceedings.