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  Tomasz Janowski, Theresa A. Pardo (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2008, Cairo, Egypt, December 1-4, 2008. ACM 2008 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 351 ISBN 978-1-60558-386-0

Invited talks

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  Ahmed M. Darwish: Egypt: from e-government to e-governance the road to fast pace development. 1-3
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  Roland Traunmüller, Christine Leitner: e-government: state and perspectives. 4-7
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  Mario Apostolov: Good governance and the concept of electronic single window for international trade. 8-9

Theory

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  Rahul De': Electronic governance theory. 11-15
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  Vassilis Meneklis, Christos Douligeris: Technological integration: evidence of processes of structuring in governmental organizations. 16-23
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  Jamal Shahin, Matthias Finger: The operationalisation of e-governance. 24-30
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  Majed Ayyad: e-government informatics. 31-38
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  Jason Musyoka: Social electronic governance: re-visiting the redistribution question through coordinating relations between electronic governance and social goals. 39-43

Technology

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  Steve Harris, Jeremy Gibbons, Jim Davies, Andrew Tsui, Charles Crichton: Semantic technologies in electronic government. 45-51
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  Asaad Moosa, Eanas Muhsen Alsaffar: Proposing a hybrid-intelligent framework to secure e-government web applications. 52-59
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  Peter Salhofer, Gerald Tretter, Bernd Stadlhofer: Goal-oriented service selection. 60-66
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  Jim Davies, Steve Harris, Charles Crichton, Aadya Shukla, Jeremy Gibbons: Metadata standards for semantic interoperability in electronic government. 67-75
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  Sebastiano Faro, Roberta Nannucci: Trans-European access to national case law: the Caselex project. 76-81

Information

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  Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, Yuanfu Jiang: A holistic framework for understanding government information access initiatives. 83-89
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  Lei Zheng, Yuanfu Jiang, Tung-Mou Yang, Theresa A. Pardo: Sharing information for product quality and food safety in China: barriers and enablers. 90-97
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  Yasuhito Arimoto, Michiharu Kudo, Yuji Watanabe, Kokichi Futatsugi: Checking assignments of controls to risks for internal control. 98-104
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  Wichian Chutimaskul, Suree Funilkul, Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi: The quality framework of e-government development. 105-109
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  Ansgar Mondorf, Maria Wimmer: Interoperability in e-tendering: the case of the virtual company dossier. 110-116

Transformation

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  Marijn Janssen, William S. Shu: Transformational government: basics and key issues. 117-122
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  Muhammad Kashif Farooq, Shafay Shamail, Mian M. Awais: Reference model for devolution in e-governance. 123-129
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  Olivier Glassey: A case study on taxpayer segmentation. 130-135
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  William S. Shu: Strategic IT planning as change specification. 136-143
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  Sanjo O. Faniran, Kayode M. Olaniyan: e-governance in community-based poverty reduction strategies. 144-148

Value

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  Wojciech Cellary: Strategic impact of e-government on economy and society. 149-153
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  Michael Awoleye, Adeniran Isola Oluwaranti, Willie Siyanbola, Emmanuel Rotimi Adagunodo: Assessment of e-governance resource use in south-western Nigeria. 154-159
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  Seyed Kamal Vaezi: Measurement and evaluating frameworks in electronic government quality management. 160-165
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  Satishkumar Belliethathan, Yitbarek Weldesemaet, Araya Asfaw: Electronic environmental governance in Ethiopia: key thrust areas. 166-171
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  Juan M. Luzuriaga, Rodolfo Martínez, Alejandra Cechich: Setting SPI practices in Latin America: an exploratory case study in the justice area. 172-177

Policy

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  Jay P. Kesan, Rajiv C. Shah: Open standards in electronic governance: promises and pitfalls. 179-182
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  Jungwoo Lee, Kang-Tak Oh, Hun Yeong Kwon: Striving for transparency and efficiency in e-government: procurement reform through e-procurement. 183-190
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  Fawzi Mulki: Implementing national copyright laws: a Jordanian case study. 191-198
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  Radha Chauhan, Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski: A model for policy interventions in support of electronic governance. 199-205
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  Wu Hao: How political mechanism influences digital government: comparative case study of United States and China. 206-210

Vertical tutorials

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  Toshio Obi: Current topics in the discussion on the relationship between e-governance and education. 211-215
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  Lalanath de Silva: Environmental e-governance. 216-218

Open source

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  Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan: Evaluating the interoperability of document formats: ODF and OOXML as examples. 219-225
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  Bryan Kirschner: Building a balanced scorecard for open source policy and strategy: a case study of the Microsoft experience. 226-231
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  Stacy Avery Baird: The heterogeneous world of proprietary and open-source software. 232-238

Sourcing and networks

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  P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, C. M. Malish: Computing professionals in e-governance: policy implications. 239-244
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  Christian Sterba, Thomas Grechenig, Martin Pazderka: Outsourcing as a strategy for IT harmonization: a public sector case study proposing an approach in independent stakeholder scenarios. 245-250
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  Enrico Francesconi, Sebastiano Faro, Elisabetta Marinai: A framework for semantic mapping between thesauri. 251-257

Development and challenges in practice

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  Shampa Paul, Kaushalesh Lal: e-governance initiatives in India. 259-263
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  Mahbubul Alam, Kawsar Ahmed, Md. Ashraful Islam: e-governance: challenges and opportunities. 264-267
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  Deepthi Shanker: e-governance in rural India. 268-273

e-voting

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  Christos Manolopoulos, Dimitris Sofotassios, Polyxeni Nakou, Yannis C. Stamatiou, Anastasia Panagiotaki, Paul G. Spirakis: A step-wise refinement approach for enhancing e-voting acceptance. 275-280
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  Craig A. Burton: A thin client for networked access to a central register and electronic voting terminal. 281-286

Electronic governance in practice

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  Mahinda Kommalage, Anoj Thabrew: Use of websites for disseminating health information in developing countries: an experience from Sri Lanka. 287-290
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  Mahbubul Alam, Kawsar Ahmed: e-governance initiatives in Bangladesh. 291-295
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  Deepak Rauniar, Radha Krishna Pote: Towards e-governance: a case study of employees provident fund of Nepal. 296-301

Software as service and business process reengineering

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  Jaijit Bhattacharya, Sushant Vashistha: Utility computing-based framework for e-governance. 303-309
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  Steven Wu, Philip Chua: Museum collection management on-demand. 310-315
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  Giorgos Pentafronimos, Spyridon Papastergiou, Nineta Polemi: Interoperability testing for e-government web services. 316-321

Organization and implementation

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  Marijn Janssen, Ralph Feenstra: Socio-technical design of service compositions: a coordination view. 323-330
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  Frances Slack, John Walton: Organizational culture and stakeholder power: a case study of postgraduate initiatives in e-government. 331-336
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  Asim Balci, Erhan Kumas, Hamza Tasdelen, Elif Süngü, Tolga Medeni, Tunç D. Medeni: Development and implementation of e-government services in Turkey: issues of standardization, inclusion, citizen and satisfaction. 337-342
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  Myriam Cecilia Dueñas Parada: Human aspects of the environmental information management in Colombia. 343-348

Participation and web 2.0

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  Johan van Wamelen, Dennis de Kool: Web 2.0: a basis for the second society? 349-354
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  Peter Mambrey: From participation to e-participation: the German case. 355-360
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  Rama Krushna Das, Manas Ranjan Patra, Subash Chandra Mahapatra: e-grama: a tool for bridging the digital divide in rural India. 361-366

Infrastructure

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  Driss Kettani, Asmae El Mahdi: Back office integration issues in developing country context: lessons learned from a case study in Morocco. 367-372
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  Mohamed Dâfir Ech-cherif El Kettani, Taieb Debbagh: NCSec: a national cyber security referential for the development of a code of practice in national cyber security management. 373-380

Website evaluation and impact

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  Rocío Andrea Rodríguez, León Welicki, Daniel Alberto Giulianelli, Pablo Martín Vera: Measurement framework for evaluating e-governance on municipalities websites. 381-387
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  Leela Damodaran, C. Wendy Olphert, Panos Balatsoukas: Democratizing local e-government: the role of virtual dialogue. 388-393
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  Don-Yun Chen, Chung-Pin Lee: To reinforce or to mobilize?: tracing the impact of internet use on civic engagement in Taiwan. 394-401

Readiness

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  Mohamed Shareef, Adegboyega K. Ojo, Tomasz Janowski: A readiness assessment framework for e-government planning: design and application. 403-410
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  Abebe Rorissa, Dawit Demissie, Theresa A. Pardo: Toward a common framework for computing e-government index. 411-416
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  Devendra Potnis, Theresa A. Pardo: Evolution of readiness indicators. 417-422

Innovation

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  Apostolos Vontas, Androklis Mavridis, Adamantios Koumpis, Vasiliki Moumtzi: Measuring government innovation in EU. 423-427
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  Josef Makolm, Silke Weiß, Doris Ipsmiller: The DYONIPOS innovation framework: research and practice hand in hand. 428-432
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  Subrata Kumar Dey, M. Abdus Sobhan: Conceptual framework for introducing e-governance in university administration. 433-438

Policy making

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  Loo Geok Pee, Atreyi Kankanhalli: Understanding the drivers, enablers, and performance of knowledge management in public organizations. 439-466
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  Ramasamy Ramachandran: A policy tool on developing a national strategic framework on bridging digital divide: a Malaysian public policy perspective. 447-451
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  Johanna Ekua Awotwi, George Owusu: Lack of equal access to ICTs by women: an e-governance issue. 452-457

Posters

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  Muhammad Abul Kalam Azad, Md. Ashik Ali Khan, Mahbubul Alam: Government enterprise architectures: present status of Bangladesh and scope of development. 459-460
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  Wensheng Yang: Cross-boundary information sharing in e-governance based on third-party platform: a case study on iTowNet public service platform. 461-462
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  Sanghamitra Mohanty, Surendranath Nayak: NLP techniques in enriching e-governance. 463-464
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  Ganbat Tsend: Comparison of website content measurement of selected Mongolian institutions. 465-466
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  Ganesh Prasad Adhikari: e-revenue administration in Nepal. 467-468
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  S. L. Sarnot, U. K. Nandwani, R. P. Sondhi: Website quality: a prerequisite to addressing citizen expectations in e-governance. 469-470
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  Seyed Kamal Vaezi: Critical success factors for implementing knowledge based models for electronic public services (EPS). 471-473
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  Uyanga Sambuu, Uranchimeg Tudevdagva, Ganbold Erdene: e-governance initiatives in Mongolia. 474-477
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  Shefali S. Dash, Nandita Chaudhri: Community information centres---enabling e-governance in India: lessons learnt. 478-479
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  Pierre Dandjinou, Ben Akoh: The Africa e-governance academy (AfeGA). 480-482
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  Kshitish Bhattarai, Manoj Kumar Gupta: Implementation of e-government in Nepal: prospects, opportunities and threats. 483-484
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  Lue Li: e-governance and digital divide: a case study of mainland China and Macao SAR. 485-486
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  Muhammed Azam: Bridging digital divide: role of telecommunication sector. 487-488

Discussion panels

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  Young-Sik Kim, Saleem Zoughbi: Electronic governance in post-conflict countries. 489
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  Alejandra Cechich, Lorenzo Madrid, Jeremy Gibbons, Jay P. Kesan: Interoperability frameworks for electronic governance. 490-491
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  Robert Schware: Electronic governance and rural communities. 492-493
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  Ethan Katsh: Dispute resolution and e-government. 494-495
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  Madeleine Siösteen-Thiel, Urban Funered: Electronic governance in Europe. 496-497
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  Kishor Pradhan: Electronic governance and citizen journalism. 498-499