The e-Government Emerging Topics minitrack provides a home for incubating new topics and trends in e-Government research.  E-Government as an academic field is evolving; new directions of research and practice are emerging while others are becoming accepted as foundational. However, the foundations of the field still need to be spelled out more explicitly and rigorously than they are currently. The E-Government Emerging Topics MT seeks submissions that contribute to the evolution of e-Government research and to the clarification of the field. Submissions to this minitrack should speak specifically to how the research presented contributes to our understanding of this emerging field. Topics and research areas include but are not limited to:

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 in government
   

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

11. •Cloud Computing
    

12. •RFID-enabled smart government
    

13. •Government’s role in open-source
    

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

15. •IT, government, and an aging population
    

16. •Societal challenges and e-Government, for instance, engaging citizens through technology.
    

17. •Others as appropriate to the purposes of the mini-track
    

More co-chair information

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.

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.

Samuel Fosso Wamba (PhD, Industrial Engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada) focuses on business value of IT, inter-organizational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. He published in the European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) and Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)..