This minitrack explores the creation and implementation of public policies and laws to support, facilitate, and promote e-Government, as well as how these technologies impact and influence governance systems and public institutions. It will also explore challenges and solutions in emerging models of governance in relation to ICTs and ethical issues arising in e-governance in the public sector.

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

1. -The role of ICTs in public administration at the local, state, and national level
   

2. -Public policy/e-policy issues in relation to e-Government
   

3. -Legal and ethical implications of the expanding use of ICTs in the public sector 
   

4. -Legal and policy implications of inter-organizational and public-private sector systems for government service delivery
   

5. -Legal, policy, and ethical implications of government ICT regulation and management
   

6. -The impact of ICTs on broader ethical issues in public administration
   

7. -E-policy and e-governance challenges arising from public sector ICT deployment in developing countries
   

More co-chair information

Kenneth R. Fleischmann, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He holds degrees in computer science, anthropology, and science and technology studies from Case Western Reserve University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received his Ph.D. His research explores the ethical implications of the role of values in the design, management, and use of information technology. His current NSF-funded research projects include the design and evaluation of an educational simulation for computing and information ethics, a comparative field study of the role of values in different computational modeling research laboratories, and the development of automated detection and classification systems for human values in the telecommunications policy discourse. He has published in journals such as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Communications of the ACM, Telecommunications Policy, and The Information Society.

Rowena Cullen, PhD, is professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration  at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Professor in the School of Information Management. Her research interests and publications extend across the fields of e-government, e-health and the evaluation of information systems and services. She is author of over 100 articles, conference papers and book chapters, author of Health Information on the Internet, and co-author with Peter Hernon and Dan Relyea, of Comparative Perspectives on E-Government. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of IT and Politics, Health Information and Libraries, the Journal of Academic Librarianship, and a member of the scientific programme committees of several conferences in related fields.

Frank Bannister, PhD, is Head of the Information System Discipline in Trinity College,  Dublin.  His research interests are e-government, e-democracy and on-line privacy and trust, particularly as they relate to ICT in the public sector.  He is co-convener of the permanent study on e-government in the European Group for Public Administration and editor of the Electronic Journal of e-Government.  Frank is a fellow of the university,  a fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.