[WSIS CS-Plenary] Submission Deadline Extended -- Congress 2009 - E-Government Track

[Bill McIver]

** The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 15th, 2009. **


Call For Papers: E-Government Theme

2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of
e-Business (Congress 2009) http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/congress2009/

August 25 – 27, 2009, Saint John,New Brunswick, Canada


We are pleased to announce that the annual World Congress on the
Management of e-Business conference organized by McMaster University’s
eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) and the annual Privacy, Security and
Trust conference (PST) organized by the University of New Brunswick
(UNB) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada
Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) are coming together in
2009. This joint event will operate as the 2009 World Congress on
Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business and the
conference will take place August 25 – 27, 2009, in Saint John, New
Brunswick, Canada.

E-Government Theme

The roles of E-Government include, among its various definitions, the
application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to the
operation of government, including, but not limited to, its civil,
political, and administrative aspects. Priority topics for this theme
for 2009 are the following:

Civic intelligence
Internet Governance
Disability issues
Support for independent living and governance for an aging population
Open standards for e-Government
Radio, television, and telecommunications
New technologies for inclusion in governance
Human-computer interaction issues
Assistive technologies
Privacy
Implementations
Technologies to support and analyse policy-making
E-Government technology and research roadmaps
Next-generation technologies to support public services

The themes for this track are not limited to the above. We welcome
high-quality papers on other topics related to E-Government.

Paper Submission

High-quality papers not under review or previously accepted or published
elsewhere are solicited. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper
awards. Paper submissions should be in the IEEE format, with the first
page bearing authors’ affiliations, names and contact details. Accepted
papers will be published in joint proceedings by IEEE in hard copy and
online. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB).

E-Government Theme Chair

William McIver, Jr., National Research Council Canada,
Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

E-Government Theme Program Committee

Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK
Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia
Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada
Divina Frau-Meigs, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne, France
Andrew Gaudes, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Michael Gurstein, CommunityInformatics.net, Canada
Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA
Alex Marland, Memorial University, Canada
Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands
Haidar Moukdad, Dalhousie University, Canada
Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government / University at
Albany, USA
Mamadou Tadiou Koné, Laval University , Canada
Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Important Dates

April 15, 2009 Research Paper Submission Deadline *** New Deadline ***
June 5, 2009 Research Paper Notification of Acceptance
June 15, 2009 Practitioner Paper Submission Deadline
July 3, 2009 Final Research Manuscript Due

General Co-Chairs

Dr. Khaled Hassanein, McMaster eBusiness Research Centre, Canada
Dr. Mark McIntyre, DRDC Atlantic/RDDC Atlantique, Canada

Honorary Conference Chair

Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/congress2009




-- 
William McIver, Jr, PhD (Bill)
Senior Research Officer, National Research Council Canada
Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick
Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  / +1 (506) 444-0387