[Air-l] 2nd CfP: Interoperability and Integration in e-Government (IJEGR vol 2, iss 2 )

Jochen Scholl jscholl at u.washington.edu
Tue Feb 1 23:27:29 PST 2005


Apologies for inevitable double postings!

Second Call for Papers

INTEROPERABILITY and INTEGRATION have become top items on today's
e-Government research and practice agendas. We invite you to join us in
helping understand and shape these important worldwide foci in e-Government
by submitting your respective research papers to the:


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT RESEARCH


Editors-In-Chief
Patricia Diamond Fletcher (pfletcher at umbc.edu)
Donald F. Norris (norris at umbc.edu)

Published: Quarterly (pint & electronic)

ISSN: 1548-3886 eISSN: 1548-3894


Special Issue Co-Editors

Ralf Klischewski and Hans J (Jochen) Scholl


The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is
soliciting high quality papers for a special issue of the journal on
E-Government Interoperability and Integration to be published as Volume 2,
Issue No. 2, April-June 2006.  We encourage the academic and practitioner
community to submit articles related to the mission of IJEGR.



The paper submission deadline for this special issue V2(2) is May 1, 2005.



Mission:

The mission of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research
is to publish the very best original scholarly research on the subject of
electronic government, broadly defined, and to publish top quality articles
about electronic government from the practice. To this end, we invite
submission of papers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The
members of the Editorial Board represent this international and
multidisciplinary perspective.



Special Issue-related Research Orientations:

Papers may address any aspect of e-Gov interoperability and integration
including but not limited to the following topical orientations:

(1)  The technological (hardware, software, and middleware) dimension

-      The development, implementation, maintenance, and overhaul of
government transaction processing and information systems (IS)

-      The integration of IS (legacy and e-Gov IS) to support
inter-organizational components of e-Government

-      Scope and limitations of inter- and intra-governmental IS

-      Interoperability standards & frameworks (technical perspective)

-      Public key infrastructures

-      Web services for public administration

-      Semantic web for e-Gov applications

-      Specific infrastructural requirements for interoperability

(2)  The organizational, managerial, legal, and social dimensions

-      Infrastructure alignment & interoperability setup strategies
(organizational perspective)

-      Internal effectiveness and efficiency (IEE) and increased
responsiveness through interoperability

-      The various dimensions (vertical and/or horizontal; inter-agency,
intra-agency, inter-governmental, and intra-governmental) of e-Gov
interoperability and integration

-      challenges of dual-mode operations (traditional and e-Gov-based) in
government

-      Operational interoperability (formal and informal networks) versus
technical interoperability (software and hardware compatibility)

-      Infrastructure/interoperability performance and improvement
evaluation

-      Legal and constitutional limits to interoperability and integration

(3)  The interaction and interdependency between (1) and (2)

-      Barriers to interoperability (privacy, ambiguity about statutory
authority, openness to public scrutiny, trust, lack of experience,
hardware/software incompatibility, data sharing standards and a lack of
awareness of opportunities to share)

-      Strategies and innovative approaches to enhancing interoperability
(managerial and technical solutions)

-      Inter-organizational process management, information management, and
security/rights management

-      Constituents' resistance and recalcitrance



This special issue is especially interested in papers that make substantial
theoretical and/or empirical contributions to knowledge in the field. It
seeks to systematically describe the phenomenon of e-Gov interoperability
and integration. It also attempts to help government practice improve
current interoperability methods and modes of integrated operation.



We welcome submissions that employ either quantitative or qualitative
methodologies or both. For all empirical manuscripts authors must clearly
and concisely describe their research methods, data or evidence, and
analytical techniques, particularly for less standardized methods such as
action research, case studies, and current practices reports.



Following the academic tradition, all manuscripts must be grounded in prior
research and scholarly literature relevant to the subjects being
investigated. Manuscripts that are essentially speculative in nature, that
lack a theoretical or empirical base, or that are not grounded in prior
research will not be considered.



Coverage:

The coverage of IJEGR is international and focused on original research in
electronic government applications, management, and policy. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to the following:

    * Best practices in e-Government
    * Electronic government applications
    * Governance and electronic democracy
    * Impacts of electronic Government
    * Information policy
    * Information security
    * Information privacy
    * Information access
    * Internal government processes and intranets
    * Measurement of performance
    * Strategic management of electronic government
    * Technology adoption and diffusion



Review Process:

A double-blind review is applied to all submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts
for this call must be received, in electronic format (WORD), no later than
May 1, 2005. All manuscripts must be sent directly to the editors at
ijegr at umbc.edu. Authors will be notified by June 15, 2005 of the outcome of
the review process. Final manuscripts will be expected no later than August
15, 2005. Any question relating to the submission and acceptance process
should be directed to the journal's editors. Please familiarize yourself
with submission guidelines by visiting www.idea-group.com/ijegr.



For more information on submitting to the International Journal of
Electronic Government Research, please visit our Web page at
www.idea-group.com/ijegr.

Please visit our web site for more information about the journal and its
Editorial Board.



Publisher:

The International Journal of Electronic Government Research is published by
Idea Group Inc., publisher of "Idea Group Publishing", "Information Science
Publishing", "IRM Press", "CyberTech" and "Idea Group Reference" imprints.
For additional information about the publisher, please visit their Web site
at www.idea-group.com.

A copy of this cfp can also be found under
http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/Cfp_IJEGR_IOO.html





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