[Air-L] CALL FOR CASES for a CASEBOOK

[Hakikur Rahman]

(My apologies, if you have received it more than once.)

CALL FOR CASES
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009
Full Case Submission Deadline: June 15, 2009
Cases on Adoption, Diffusion and Evaluation of Global E-Governance Systems:
Impact at the Grass Roots
A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman, ICMS, Bangladesh

To be published by IGI Global: 
<http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=598>http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=598

This publication is part of the Advances in 
Electronic Government Research (AEGR) Book Series 
found at <http://www.igi-global.com/aegr>http://www.igi-global.com/aegr

Introduction
Generally, e-government refers to the use of new 
ICTs by governments applied to the full range of 
government functions. In a broad sense, 
e-government is the use of information technology 
to provide citizens and organizations with more 
convenient access to government information and 
services, and offer delivery of public services 
to citizens, business partners, and others who 
are working in the public sector. E-governance is 
a network of organizations to incorporate 
government, non-government, profit, nonprofit, 
not-for-profit and private sector entities. In 
e-governance there are no distinct boundaries. 
The model for e-governance could be a one-stop 
portal, where citizens have access to a variety of information and services.

Overall Objective of the Book
Most of the e-government systems at the early 
stages are being built to exactly mimic the 
age-old conventional systems, and virtually 
computerize the traditional methods and 
procedures. Electronic solutions are merely 
implanted into government offices without looking 
into the transformational aspects (mental, 
organizational, physical, logical, cultural, 
working style, etc.) and are not providing the 
entire eco-system for long-term sustenance. This 
book will accommodate cases related to theories, 
issues and methodologies for designing, 
implementing and operating successful 
e-government systems. This book will cover a 
variety of services and applications across the 
globe that have been improving the overall 
governance of nations and economies. This book 
will be concise in synthesizing the theoretical 
analysis, focus more to pragmatic 
implementations, and emphasize on effective 
e-government systems for better implementation at the grass roots.

Target Audience
Being a casebook on e-government, this book will 
try to cover other aspects of the e-society, such 
as e-learning, e-business, e-procurement, 
e-commerce, e-payment, e-health, e-democracy, 
e-voting, e-police, and other e-applications and 
e-services. Therefore, this book will be useful 
to development partners, policy makers, 
government and non-government staffs, knowledge 
managers, researchers, academics and individuals.

Recommended topics for case studies include, but 
are not limited to, the following:
- Laws, jurisdictions, policy matters related to e-government
- Benchmarking of e-government system
- Designing of e-government systems
- Adoption of appropriate solutions and utilities
- Assessment of e-government policies and systems
- Comprehensive analysis of e-government implementations
- Performance and effectiveness measurement of e-government systems
- Incorporation of decision supports tools
- Learning and Knowledge development
- Economic empowerment, Social empowerment, and Sustainable development
- Recommendations on Benchmarking and its algorithms

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to 
submit on or before March 15, 2009, a 2-3 page 
case proposal clearly explaining the mission and 
concerns of his or her proposed case. Authors of 
accepted proposals will be notified by March 31, 
2009 about the status of their proposals and sent 
case guidelines. Full cases are expected to be 
submitted by June 15, 2009. All submitted cases 
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. 
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI 
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of 
the “Information Science Reference” (formerly 
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information 
Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” 
imprints. For additional information regarding 
the publisher, please visit 
<http://www.igi-pub.com>www.igi-global.com. This 
publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates:
March 15, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
March 31, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
June 15, 2009:               Full Case Submission
July 15, 2009:                Review Result Returned
August 31, 2009:           Final Case Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:
Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA
D.C. Misra, eGov Researcher and Consultant, India
Ken Stevens, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Dr. Hakikur Rahman
Institute of Computer Management & Science
Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh
Tel.: +880 2 803 4130  •  FAX: +880 2 901 4764   •  GSM: +351 960193872
Email: <mailto:email at hakik.org>email at hakik.org
Web: www.hakik.org