The international EGOV conference 2009, organized within the DEXA conference cluster, presents the state of eGovernment and eGovernance research and practice, providing valuable guidance in this fast-developing sector.

The EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. The 2008 conference attracted some 130 participants from more than 30 countries from all over the world including developing countries.

The eighth EGOV conference includes, but is not limited to the following topics around eGovernment and eGovernance and other fields of ICT application in the public sector:

• Research theories and frameworks for public sector modernization with the support of ICT;
• Research methods, method integration and technique;
• Analysing and assessing contemporary research in eGovernment and eGovernance;
• Designing systems for the public sector: innovative cases and systems;
• Studying ICT usage, acceptance and performance of technology-supported public sector activities: methods and contemporary case analyses;
• Future directions in research and practice of ICT in the public sector;
• Innovation management, change management and complexity management in shaping public sector advancements;
• Transformation, customer-driven public sector reengineering and change management;
• Mass collaboration of stakeholders in government modernization: participative governance, simulation, animation, gaming and policy modeling;
• Customer-driven public sector reengineering;
• New ways of innovative developments: crowd sourcing, grid computing, social software etc;
• Economics, evaluation and stakeholders;
• Theories, concepts and solutions to deal with specific challenging topics in the application field: complexity, system dynamics, evolution, change management, mobile technologies, information preservation, trust and privacy, information management, ICT4D, information quality, adaptability and agility, integration and interoperation, systems and enterprise architecture, domain-specific social networking cases and solutions, semantic technologies, etc;
• Crises management, emergency and disaster response, public-private cooperation, transnational government;
• Education, training courses, and curricula.

The EGOV Conference Series is open to all and free of charge. The conference also includes a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.

Moreover in 2009, EGOV Confence will be co-located for first time with the International Conference on eParticipation – ePart09, which will be dedicated to topics on eParticipation and eDemocracy.

Event email: office@dexa.org