[WSIS CS-Plenary] Second Call for Papers -- Congress 2009 - E-Government Track

[Bill McIver]

Call For Papers: E-Government Theme

2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of
e-Business  (Congress 2009)

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

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

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
Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands
Andrew Gaudes, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Michael Gurstein, CommunityInformatics.net, Canada
Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Alex Marland, Memorial University, Canada
Haidar Moukdad, Dalhousie University, Canada
Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA
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 3, 2009    Research Paper Submission 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



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WJM

-- 
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



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