Electronic Government, an International Journal  (EG)
ISSN (Online): 1740-7508  -  ISSN (Print): 1740-7494

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   Objectives

EG is dedicated to design, development, management, implementation, technology, and application issues in e-government. EG aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each others' work through cutting-edge thinking in e-government. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. EG is an outstanding outlet where e-government research can take a shape of its own and results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, as well as industry.

• Up-to-date, leading edge research to keep readers ahead and maintain a competitive edge best practice in e-government
• Practical guidance on ways to achieve great effectiveness and efficiency in e-government development and implementation.
• In-depth analysis and interpretation to advance our understanding and provide a framework for further study of e-government.
• International coverage that allows us to share information, knowledge and insight on a worldwide scale.

   Readership

Professionals, academics, researchers, managers, policy makers, and non-profit organisations.

   Contents

EG publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries, and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.

• High quality papers to keep readers at the forefront of the latest thinking and research in e-government.
• Case studies and practical applications to illustrate e-government design, development, management and implementation.

   Subject Coverage

Although the possible set of topics for papers is large and we encourage submission on any area within the scope of e-government, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive):

• Cultural, social and political issues in e-government
• Digital divide on e-government
• E-government and social exclusion
• E-government impacts on efficiencies, effectiveness, and transparency
• E-government in small sized local governments
• Digital government
• E-government and homeland defense and homeland security
• E-government: security and trust
• E-government and e-democracy
• Democracy, inclusion, voting and participation facilitated by e-government
• E-voting and e-election
• E-governance development
• ERP in e-government
• Supply chain and value chain in e-government
• E-government and e-markets
• E-payments and e-government
• Public procurement and e-government
• E-government procurement
• Accounting service in e-government
• E-taxation and online tax systems
• Reengineering government administrative process via e-government
• Adoption of semantic technologies in e-government
• RFID and e-government
• E-government usability
• Usable application development for government employees in various job functions
• E-government web design
• Service-oriented data aggregation in e-government
• Data warehouse and data mining in e-government
• Technical aspects on knowledge flow in e-government
• Knowledge management in public sector
• Group decision support systems (GDSS) and e-government
• Infrastructure, integration, and interoperability of e-government
• Public information infrastructure
• Interactive e-government study
• Municipally owned information city
• Ontology for e-government
• Rural e-government applications
• Poverty alleviation with e-government
• E-government: strategy and implementation
• Assessment of the benefits of usable e-government solutions in multiple contexts
• E-readiness of citizens and business
• E-government business models (B2G, G2B, G2C, C2G, and G2G)
• Critical success factors for m-government, and u-government diffusion
• E-government, m-government, and u-government comparison study
• M-cities and m-society
• Universal access of e-government portals and web sites
• Human computer interactions in m-government and u-government
• Visions of e-government in the future
• Case studies
• Any other interdisciplinary research relevant to e-government

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Dr. June Wei

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Dr. June Wei
Associate Professor
University of West Florida
Department of Management and Management Information Systems
College of Business
Building 76 Room 116, 11000 University Parkway
Pensacola FL 32514
USA
jwei@uwf.edu

Senior Editor

Prof. Dr. Sang M. Lee
Eminent Scholar and Department Chair
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Management Department
209 CBA
Lincoln NE 68588-0491
USA

Associate Editors

Prof. Dr. Reggie Davidrajuh
University of Stavanger
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
PO Box 8002
N-4036 Stavanger
NORWAY

Prof. Lai C. Liu
Associate Professor
University of Texas – Pan American
Department of Computer Information Systems & Quantitative Methods
College of Business Administration
1201 West University Drive
Edinburg, TX 78539
USA

Dr. Ant Ozok
Associate Professor & Director of Research
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Information Systems
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
USA

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Ari-Veikko AnttiroikoAr
Adjunct Professor
University of Tampere
Department of Regional Studies
FIN-33014 Tampere
FINLAND

Dr. Pornthep AnussornnitisarnPo
Kasetsart University
Department of Industrial Engineering
50 Phaholyothin Road
Bangkok 10900
THAILAND

Dr. Sharif N. As-SaberSh
Monash University
Department of Management
Clayton Campus
Wellington Road
Clayton, VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Dr. Stuart J. BarnesSt
Chair in Management
University of East Anglia
School of Management
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK

Dr. Rachid BenlamriRa
Associate Professor and Chair of Department
Lakehead University
Department of Software Engineering
955 Oliver Rd
Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1
CANADA

Prof. Dr. Štefan BojnecŠt
Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Economics, Full Research Professor
Koper University of Primorska
Faculty of Management
Cankarjeva 5
SI-6104 Koper
SLOVENIA

Prof. Dr. Ye-Sho ChenYe
Professor of MIS and Associate Director of International Franchise Forum
Louisiana State University
College of Business Administration
3193 CEBA
Baton Rouge LA 70803
USA

Dr. Alina ChircuAl
Associate Professor
Bentley College
Information and Process Management Department
Smith Technology Center, Room 300
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452-4705
USA

Dr. Jyoti ChoudrieJy
Reader in Information Systems
University of Hertfordshire
Management, Learning and Organisation
Business School
DeHavilland Campus
Hatfield AL10 9AB
UK

Prof. Dr. Brian DetlorBr
School of Business
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
MGD-419
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4
CANADA

Dr. Yogesh Kumar DwivediYo
Swansea University
School of Business & Economics
Haldane Building
Swansea, SA2 8PP
UK

Dr. Xiaowen FangXi
Associate Professor
DePaul University
School of Computing
College of Computing and Digital Media
243 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60604
USA

Prof. Dr. Willie GoldenWi
Dept of Accounting and Finance
National University of Ireland Galway
Galway
IRELAND

Prof. Thomas R. GulledgeTh
President
Enterprise Integration, Inc.
5971 Kingstowne Village Parkway
Suite 110
Alexandria, VA 22315 USA
USA

Prof. Dr. Shi-Ming HuangSh
Chair
National Chung Cheng University
Department of Accounting and Information Technology
168 University Road
Min-Shiung, Chiayi
TAIWAN, ROC

Prof. Dr. Luiz Antonio JoiaLu
Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration
Getulio Vargas Foundation and Rio de Janeiro State University
Rua Presidence Carlos de Campus
115/503, BL 02, Laranjeiras
Rio de Janeiro RJ 22231-080
BRAZIL

Prof. Dr. Dušan LesjakDu
University of Primorska
Faculty of Management
Cankarjeva 5
6000 Koper
SLOVENIA

Prof. Dr. Binshan LinBi
BellSouth Corporation Professor
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Department of Management and Marketing
BE321, College of Business Administration
One University Place
Shreveport LA 71115
USA

Dr. Miltiadis LytrasMi
University of Patras
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute and
Computer Engineering and Informatics Department
Patras
GREECE

Dr. Richard Alan McMahonRi
Assistant Professor
University of Houston - Downtown
FACIS Dept
Suite 1077 North, 1 Main Street
Houston TX 77002
USA

Dr. Gregoris MentzasGr
National Technical University of Athens
9, Iroon Polytechnious Str.
15773 Zografou, Athens
GREECE

Prof. Alok MishraAl
Associate Professor
Atilim University
Department of Computer Engineering
Incek 06836, Ankara
TURKEY

Dr. Christopher G. ReddickCh
Associate Professor and Chair
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Department of Public Administration
501 West Durango Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78207
USA

Prof. Bruno S. SergiBr
University of Messina
DESMaS “V. Pareto"
Faculty of Political Science
Via T. Cannizzaro, 278
98122 Messina
ITALY

Dr. Mehdi S. TehraniMe
Associate Professor of Business Information Technology
Minot State University
College of Business
500 University Avenue West
Minot, ND 58707
USA

Dr. Silvana TrimiSi
Associate Professor of MIS
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Management
276 CBA
1240 & R St.
Lincoln NE 68588-0491
USA

Prof. Dr. Jiaqin YangJi
Professor of Management
Georgia College & State University
Management Department
Campus Box 11
Milledgeville, GA 31061
USA

Prof. Dr. Ming-Hsien YangMi
Dean
Fu Jen Catholic University
College of Management
510 Chungcheng Road
Hsinchuang, Taipei County 24205
TAIWAN, ROC

Dr. Jun ZhuoJu
Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering
Zhejiang University
School of Management
Zi Jing Gang Campus
Hang Zhou, Zhejiang Province 310058
P.R. CHINA

Prof. Dr. Vladimir ZwassVl
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and MIS
Fairleigh Dickinson University
19 Warewoods Road
Saddle River
NJ 07458
USA

Prof. Željko ŠeviæŽe
Head of Division
Glasgow Caledonian University
Division of Accounting, Finance and Risk
Caledonian Business School
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow G4 0BA
UK