Public organizations are joining-up and collaborating in constellations of organizations. These efforts require vertical and horizontal interoperability, which are supported  by information infrastructures. In this way data and information can be opened, shared and exchanged. The creation of an interoperable government faces challenges at the technical, organizational, managerial and strategic level.

Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together. Infrastructures are open facilities facilitating organizational collaborating, service provisioning and utility computing. Cloud infrastructures are a new way of providing and using ICT based on virtualized resources meeting security and scalability requirements. Clouds provide the opportunity to share resources and provide services over the Internet.

This minitrack is aimed at discussing theories, methodologies, experience reports, literature and case studies in e-government infrastructures and interoperability. We solicit for papers covering a variety of aspects and combining theory and practice. Papers in the field of e-government induced data-and process-based integration, information exchange, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, ICT-(shared) services and Software as a Service (SaaS) are strongly encouraged. We promote a diversity of research methods to study the challenges of this multifaceted discipline focusing on various aspects of interoperability and also theoretical papers and papers from developing countries.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:

1. -Development, implementation, maintenance of projects, system and enterprise architectures and infrastructures
   

2. -System, data- and process-based integration
   

3. -Information infrastructures, cloud infrastructures, reuse, quality
   

4. -Semantic ontologies, web services and modeling
   

5. -Cloud computing, infrastructures, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility
   

6. -Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, platform as service, shared services, service providers
   

7. -Cross-organizational modeling and visualization ranging from the organizational to technical level
   

8. -Infrastructure, interoperability and enterprise architecture planning, alignment, strategies and governance
   

9. -Technical, semantic, organizational, managerial aspects of interoperability
   

10. -Organizational and/or policy perspectives on the dynamics of the infrastructure and interoperability process and barriers to interoperability
    

11. -Theoretical contributions and contributions from developing countries
    

12. -Interoperability and architecture standards, principles and frameworks
    

13. -Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services, web service orchestration and composition
    

14. -Best practices and case studies at all levels of government, including local and transnational government
    

15. -Longitudinal studies that span over generations of e-Government implementations
    

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More co-chair information

Yannis Charalabidis is an assistant professor in the University of Aegean, in the area of eGovernment Information Systems, while also heading eGovernment & eBusiness Research in the Decision Support Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), coordinating policy making, research and pilot application projects for governments and enterprises worldwide. A computer engineer with a PhD in complex information systems, he has been employed for 8 years as an executive director in Singular IT Group, leading software development and company expansion in Eastern Europe. He writes and teaches on eGovernment Information Systems, Interoperability and Standardization, eParticipation and Government Transformation in NTUA and the University of Aegean. He has published more the 100 papers in international journal and conferences. He is the Best Paper Award winner of the EGOV 2008 Conference, Best e-government Paper Nominee in the 42nd HICSS Conference and 1st Prize Nominee in the 2009 European eGovernment Awards.

Marijn Janssen is Director of the interdisciplinary Systems Engineering, Policy Analyses and Management Master program, manages the Toptech executive programme “IT and Business Architectures” and is an Associate Professor within the Information and Communication Technology section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. He conducted and managed a large number of research projects and published over 180 refereed publications and serves on several editorial boards and conferences in the area of e-government and service engineering. For more information, visit www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj.

Olivier Glassey is an assistant professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) where he is in charge of the research and teaching unit "Digital Governance". Within the Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN), Olivier Glassey teaches public management, quantitative research methods, and management of information systems. His current research topics are public registers' harmonization and data governance of population registers, identity and privacy management, open access and transparency, and more generally eGovernment and eParticipation.