Call for Attendance: Electronic Government Track at HICSS45.

Some facts to know about HICSS:

(1) HICSS is one of the truly interdisciplinary and integrated conferences, which focuses on the use of information technology in organizations. HICSS clusters 10 research tracks and a number of research themes, which cut across those tracks (for example, security).

(2) HICSS has a long and amazing academic tradition–its 45th occurrence in 43 years makes this conference unique. Over 75,000 pages of proceedings have been accumulated over those years and belong to the treasures of the IEEE library. HICSS has a reputation to present research frontiers, or cutting edge research as some like to say. Many new developments have been discussed at HICSS for the first time. On average, one of two HICSS papers develop into a journal paper. HICSS is the highest ranked interdisciplinary conference in information and systems sciences. The HICSS proceedings are in the top 2 percent of hits and downloads of all 8,600 IEEE conferences.

(3) The HICSS e-Government Track has an excellent reputation among e-Government scholars. Several times it has been ranked the academically most rigorous research conference on e-Government in the world. The E-Government Track is in the top 2 HICSS tracks with the lowest acceptance rate and the highest average per-session attendance. Having a paper accepted at the e-Gov Track at HICSS means something. See a short history of the e-Gov track at HICCS.

(4) For the fifth time in a row, HICSS will give the e-Government community the opportunity to conduct a full day symposium. The symposium is developing into a major community event at the very beginning of each calendar year. Here is where the community celebrates the best papers of the past year from around the world. Here the community presents and discusses new trends in its study domain.