E-Gov Track (HICSS-47) Call for Reviewers and Call for Papers

After an incredibly successful edition of the E-GOV Track at HICSS-46 (lowest acceptance rate of all tracks, third-largest attendance of all ten tracks, and great quality of papers), we are now organizing the E-GOV track’s next edition at this fine conference (HICSS-47, January 6-9, 2014; Hilton Waikoloa, Waikoloa, Big Island of Hawaii/USA).

Besides a total of 11 minitracks (one new and several refocused/renamed one) we will again conduct two all-day symposia, one on the impact of electronic government research on practice and the other one dedicated to detection and mitigation of insider threats.

Just like its predecessors the HICSS-47 Electronic Government track will be a hotbed for groundbreaking studies and new ideas in this particular research domain. Many studies first presented here were developed further and then turned into publications at top journals.

A short history of the e-Gov Track at HICSS can be found here: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss_history.html

Eleven minitracks cover the full spectrum of research avenues of electronic government including minitracks dedicated to emerging topics, open government, and social media and social networking, or, most recently, insider threats. The HICSS e-Government Track has assumed 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. In a recent study the E-Government Track has been ranked the top research conference on electronic government by scholars from around the world.

Minitracks are dedicated to the following topical areas:

Crisis, Disaster, and Catastrophe Management
* E-Government Education
* Emerging Topics
* Infrastructure Security
* Insider Threat Science, Measurement, Implementation, and Effect
* Open and Participatory Government
Open Data and Cloud Services
Policies & Governance for the Network Society 
* Services and Information
* Social Media and Social Networking
* Transformational Government

Please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss47/ for more information.

Symposium I (15 Years of Electronic Government Research: What is the impact on practice?)

Symposium II (Assessing Reliable Metrics and Measures of Effectiveness for Insider Threat Detection and Mitigation)

Important Deadlines

June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the Author Instructions.

All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June 15 – August 15).

August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal & travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.

September 15: Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.

October 2: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.

For more information, please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss47/

or  http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47tracks.htm#EGOV

2012 Record Year for E-Government-related Academic Productivity

Seattle, WA. Academic publishing on electronic government has reached an all-time high this year with 850 new peer-reviewed publications in the English language, which have been logged for the period of 12/15/2011 through 12/14/2012. Academic interest in this study domain has never been stronger before. References to the most recent publications can be found in the E-Government Reference Library (EGRL). This reference library is updated semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year.

E-Government Reference Library (EGRL) version 8.5 (12/15/2012)

We herewith make available version 8.5 (December 15, 2012) of the E-Government Reference Library (EGRL) in a ZIP file containing editions in BibTeX, EndNoteTM XML, a full EndNoteTM lib, a PDF, RTF, and txt formats.

Version 8.5 of the EGRL now contains 5,524 references of predominantly English language, peer-reviewed work. The number of qualifying references in the library has increased by 474, or 9.4 % over version 8.0 (June 15, 2012) and by 18.1 % over version 7.5 (December 15, 2011). This year 2012 has been a record year for e-Government-related publishing.

We can repeat what we stated earlier: The EGRL has developed into an indispensable tool for e-Gov scholars. In particular, preparing and reviewing paper submissions was reported to now heavily rely on this reference library.

In order to download the library, please register (or re-register, for repeat downloads) yourself and accept the GPL license agreement. As stated above we provide the references in various editions (BibTeX, EndNote, PDF, and RTF). We also provide a link to the Zotero version.

As an author or co-author please check all your own entries for completeness and correctness. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Download EGRL 8.5

Keynotes at German Pub Admin and Law Informatics Meeting

In mid March (03/13/ to 03/17), the newly founded Scientific Society Digital Government (WIDIGO) and the working groups Public Administration Informatics (FTVI) and Law Informatics (FTRI) of the German Society for Informatics met in Friedrichshafen/Germany. I had both the pleasure and the honor to deliver two keynotes to the audiences on “Good Electronic Government Research” and “Open Government.”