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. 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:

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. •Mobility and e-government transformation: Challenges and opportunities
   

10. •Web 2.0/3.0 in government
    

11. •Open data: Challenges, opportunities, standards, and protocols
    

12. •Data-driven public policy and decision making
    

13. •RFID-enabled smart government
    

14. •Government's role in open-source
    

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

16. •IT, government, and an aging population
    

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

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

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More co-chair information

Samuel Fosso Wamba, PhD, is a Senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT), University of Wollongong, Australia and an Invited Associate Professor at Rouen Business School, Rouen, France. He earned an MSc in mathematics, from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on business value of IT, inter-organisational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, e-government (e.g., emerging topics, open data) supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. He has published papers in a number of international conferences and journals including European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Information Systems Frontiers, Business Process Management Journal, Proceedings of the IEEE, HICSS, PACIS, and AMCIS. He is organizing special issues on RFID for the Business Process Management Journal, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Journal of Medical Systems.

Bjoern Niehaves, Dual PhD, is 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, and ICT & Aging.

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 CTGs 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. Theresa is also an active member of the digital government professional community serving regularly on national and international advisory committees, editorial boards, and conference committees.