Initially, e-Government was considered a technical phenomenon. However, more recently, research on this topic clearly showed its multidimensional nature and identified the importance of strategic, political, managerial, organizational, legal and external relationship factors to understand and explain the ICT-enabled transformation of government. This mini-track examines the complexity of effectively managing e-Government and its transformational potential. Increasingly, this involves inter-organizational collaboration, multi-sector networks, and the management of relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

This mini-track welcomes papers that focus on the transformational aspects of e-Government as well as their implications for government, citizens and society. It looks for empirical, theoretical or conceptual contributions that show the importance of strategic, political, institutional, managerial, organizational, and democratic factors in managing e-Government.

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

1. -Strategies for e-Government and transformational government
   

2. -Strategies for the design, development, implementation, maintenance, performance, and evaluation of public sector information systems
   

3. -Theoretical premises and development for transformational government
   

4. -Value foundations for transformational government
   

5. -E-Government impact on organizational transformation
   

6. -Transformational outcomes of e-Government initiatives and their implications
   

7. -Increasing - efficiency and/or effectiveness through e-Government initiatives
   

8. -Inter-organizational collaboration, public-private partnerships, and other collaborative arrangements in the public sector
   

9. -Collaboration between government agencies and external stakeholders (e.g. citizens, businesses, NGOs)
   

10. -Cross-government information sharing, regional, national and transnational information-sharing networks, and information integration
    

11. -Methods and frameworks for e-Government evaluation and performance assessment
    

12. -Innovation management, benchmarking, and trend monitoring in e-Government
    

13. -Transformation and change management in e-Government initiatives
    

14. -Transformational aspects of e-engagement and e-participation initiatives
    

15. -E-Government business models and benefits realization from e-Government initiatives
    

16. -Stakeholder collaboration and management in e-Government
    

17. -Increasing e-Government uptake
    

18. -User-centric e-Government
    

19. -Government front office and/or back-office integration
    

20. -Service transformation and multi-channel service delivery
    

21. -EAM - e-Government Architecture Management
    

22. -IT/IS Planning and Management in Government
    

23. -Knowledge management in Government
    

24. -Accountability and Governance of e-Government initiatives
    

25. -Political, economic, legal, and social aspects of e-Government
    

26. -Citizens, businesses and other stakeholders as e-Government users
    

More co-chair information

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and the Director of the Data Center for Applied Research in Social Sciences at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.  Ramon is the author or co-author of articles in The International Public Management Journal, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Government Information, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Public Finance and Management, International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce, among others.  His research interests include collaborative electronic government, inter-organizational information integration, adoption and implementation of emergent technologies, digital divide policies, education policy, new public management, public policy evaluation, and multi-method research approaches. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar.

Miriam Lips,  PhD, is the first Professor of e-Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Her Chair is sponsored by Datacom systems Limited, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, FX Networks Limited and Microsoft NZ. For more information on Professor Lips' activities please visit her website at http://e-government.vuw.ac.nz/index.aspx.

Leif Skiftenes Flak, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at University of Agder, Norway. His research interests are on e-Government in general with emphasis on interoperability, eParticipation, stakeholder related issues, and benefits management in particular. His work has been published in information systems and e-Government journals like Communication of AIS, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, TG:PPP and Government Information Quarterly. Flak is active within the international e-Government research community. He is member of the AIS SIG eGov and IFIP 8.5 and is involved in various e-Government research and practice projects in Norway. Flak is currently involved in program committees for a number of conferences and is currently on the editorial advisory boards for the International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) and Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TG:PPP).