• Channel Choice: A Literature Review
• Conceptualising the Digital Public in Government Crowdsourcing: Social Media and the Imagined Audience
• Steering the Digital Agenda at Arm?s Length. All Wobble, No Spin: The Contextual Lens
• E-government Systems Design and Implementation in Developed and Developing Countries: Comparative Analysis and Lessons Learned
• Theoretical Support for Social Media Research: A Scientometric Analysis
• Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) to Create Smart Cities and Citizens: Insights from Smart Energy and Mobility Cases
• Open Innovation Contests for Improving Healthcare? An Explorative Case Study Focusing on Challenges in a Testbed Initiative
• Public Accountability ICT Support: A Detailed Account of Public Accountability Process and Tasks
• Mediating Citizen-Sourcing of Open Government Applications? A Design Science Approach
• Processing Linked Open Data Cubes
• Scrutinizing Open Government Data to Understand Patterns in eGovernment Uptake
• Advancing E-Government Using the Internet of Things: A Systematic Review of Benefits
• Understanding Public-Private Collaboration Configurations for International Information Infrastructures
• Inter-organizational Public E-service Development: Emerging Lessons from an Inside-Out Perspective
• What is This Thing Called e-Service?. Interoperability Challenges in e-Service Modelling
• Removing the Blinkers: What a Process View Learns about G2G Information Systems in Flanders
• Makers and Shapers or Users and Choosers
• Participatory Practices in Digitalization of Public Sector
• Why Realization Mismatches Expectations of E-Government Project Benefits? Towards Benefit Realization Planning
• Electronic Data Safes as an Infrastructure for Transformational Government? A Case Study
• An Ontology of eGovernment
• Privacy in Digital Identity Systems: Models, Assessment and User Adoption.-Comparing Local e-Government Websites in Canada and the UK
• Evaluating a Passive Social Media Citizensourcing Innovation
• Three Positives Make One Negative: Public Sector IS Procurement
• Proactivity Postponed??Capturing? Records Created in the Context of eGovernment? A Literary Warrant Analysis of the Plans for a National eArchive Service in Sweden.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: foundations; open and smart government; services, processes and infrastructure; and application areas and evaluation.

• Security
• Privacy
• E-governance
• E-government applications
• virtualizations
• Politics
• Legislation: European initiatives.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Trust in a Digital World, e-Democracy 2013, held in Athens, Greece, December 2013. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security, privacy; e-governance; e-government applications, virtualizations; politics, legislation: European initiatives.

• The EGOV Research Community: An Update on Where We Stand.- The Development in Leading e-Government Articles 2001-2010: Definitions, Perspectives, Scope, Research Philosophies, Methods and Recommendations - An Update of Heeks and Bailur.- An Online Transparency for Accountability Maturity Model.- Towards an Evaluation Model for Open Government: A Preliminary Proposal.- Contextual Factors Influencing Health Information Systems Implementation in Public Sector - Investigating the Explanatory Power of Critical Success Factors.- PA Meets IS Research: Analysing Failure of Intergovernmental Information Systems via IS Adoption and Success Models.- Interconnecting Governments, Businesses and Citizens - A Comparison of Two Digital Infrastructures.- The Role of Trust in the Prioritization of Channel Choices.- Identifying a Public Sector Information Systems (PSIS) for E-service: A Case of Land Records E-service in Bangladesh.- Source and Channel Choices in Business-to-Government Service Interactions: A Vignette Study.- Connecting People: Semantic-Conceptual Modeling for Laws and Regulations.- Modelling Process Intensive Scenarios for the Smart City.- Shared Services: Maverick or Originator?.- Assessing Policy Making for ICT Innovation: A Decision Support Research Agenda.- Open Government Data: Facilitating and Motivating Factors for Coping with Potential Barriers in the Brazilian Context.- Analyzing Stakeholders in Complex E-Government Projects: Towards a Stakeholder Interaction Model.- LAN House* Implementation and Sustainability in Brazil: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective.- Bridging the Digital Divide at the Regional Level? The Effect of Regional and National Policies on Broadband Access in Europe's Regions.- Designing a Second Generation of Open Data Platforms: Integrating Open Data and Social Media.- Categorization of Brazilian Internet Users and Its Impacts on the Use of Electronic Government Services.- A Decision Model for Data Sharing.- Policy, Process, People and Public Data.- Is the Public Motivated to Engage in Open Data Innovation?.- Dialectics and Contradictions in Public Procurement of Information Systems.- Strategic Aspects for Successful E-government Systems Design: Insights from a Survey in Germany.- Proposing an Entrepreneurial Process for the Co-creation of IT Value.- Developing Value-Centric Business Models for Mobile Government.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: foundations; services and interoperability; policy and stakeholders; open data; and design and values.
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• Identity management in e-government.- e-participation.- Intelligent systems in e-government.- Semantic technologies in e-government.- e-government cases.- Open government data and G-cloud.- Privacy and security in e-government.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014, in conjunction with DEXA 2014. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: identity management in e-government; e-participation; intelligent systems in e-government; semantic technologies in e-government; e-government cases; open government data and G-cloud; and privacy and security in e-government.
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• Research Foundations. Electronic Government Research: Topical Directions and Preferences / Hans J. Scholl
• Territorial Governance, E-Government and Sustainable Development Policy: A System Dynamics Approach / Diego Navarra and Carmine Bianchi
• Open Government Data and Transparency. Political Will and Strategic Use of YouTube to Advancing Government Transparency: An Analysis of Jakarta Government-Generated YouTube Videos / Akemi Takeoka Chatfield and Uuf Brajawidagda
• A Coordination Theory Perspective to Improve the Use of Open Data in Policy-Making / Anneke Zuiderwijk and Marijn Janssen
• Opening Moves -- Drivers, Enablers and Barriers of Open Data in a Semi-public Organization / Anne Fleur van Veenstra and Tijs A. van den Broek
• Open Government Portals Assessment: A Transparency for Accountability Perspective / Rui Pedro Lourenço
• A Guide to Implement Open Data in Public Agencies / Mauricio Solar, Luis Meijueiro and Fernando Daniels.

• Participatory Data Gathering for Public Sector Reuse: Lessons Learned from Traditional Initiatives / Nathalie Stembert [and others]
• Linked Open Government Data Analytics / Evangelos Kalampokis, Efthimios Tambouris and Konstantinos Tarabanis
• How to Support (Political) Decisions? Presentation of a Micro-simulation Model to Assess the Implications of EU-wide Tax Reforms / Stefan Hohls
• Participation in Discussion Spaces of Health Informatics in Brazil / Marcelo Fornazin and Luiz Antonio Joia
• Service Design and Improvement. Government Architecture: Concepts, Use and Impact / Marijn Janssen, Leif Skiftenes Flak and Øystein Sæbø
• Strategic Framework for Designing E-Government in Developing Countries / Catherine G. Mkude and Maria A. Wimmer
• Performance Management of IT in Public Administrations: A Literature Review on Driving Forces, Barriers and Influencing Factors / Vanessa Greger, Petra Wolf and Helmut Krcmar.

• Value Proposition in Mobile Government / Chien-Chih Yu
• A Framework for Interoperability Testing in Pan-European Public Service Provision / Ansgar Mondorf, Maria A. Wimmer and Daniel Reiser
• Representational Practices in Demands Driven Development of Public Sector / Johanna Sefyrin [and others]
• Process Management Challenges in Swedish Public Sector: A Bottom Up Initiative / Carl-Mikael Lönn and Elin Uppström
• Business Processes and Standard Operating Procedures: Two Coins with Similar Sides / Gertraud Peinel and Thomas Rose
• Stakeholder Salience Changes in an e-Government Implementation Project / Karin Axelsson, Ulf Melin and Ida Lindgren
• Adoption and Service Evaluation. Facilitating Adoption of International Information Infrastructures: A Living Labs Approach / Bram Klievink and Inge Lucassen.

• Examining Sources of Resistance to the Implementation of a Patent Management System in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Case Study of the Brazilian Patent Office / Gabriel Marcuzzo do Canto Cavalheiro and Luiz Antonio Joia
• Modular Architecture for Adaptable Signature-Creation Tools / Vesna Krnjic [and others]
• Organizational Resistance to E-Invoicing -- Results from an Empirical Investigation among SMEs / Steffi Haag [and others]
• The Influence of Social Context and Targeted Communication on e-Government Service Adoption / Michael Räckers, Sara Hofmann and Jörg Becker
• Social Media and Social Network Analysis. Social Media and Government Responsiveness: The Case of the UK Food Standards Agency / Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, Julie Barnett and Laurence Brooks
• Online Forums vs. Social Networks: Two Case Studies to Support eGovernment with Topic Opinion Analysis / Timo Wandhöfer [and others].

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: research foundations; open government data and transparency; service design and improvement; adoption and service evaluation; and social media and social network analysis.

• Research Directions. Mobile Participation: Exploring Mobile Tools in E-Participation / Maria A. Wimmer ... et al.
• Targeted Policy Making by Transforming Social Networks / Efthimios Tambouris
• Crisis, Innovation and e-Participation: Towards a Framework for Comparative Research / Joachim Åström ... et al.
• E-Participation among American Local Governments / Donald F. Norris, Christopher G. Reddick
• Modeling the German Legal Latitude Principles / Stephan Neumann ... et al.
• Social Media and E-Participation. Social Media Participation and Local Politics: A Case Study of the Enschede Council in the Netherlands / Robin Effing, Jos van Hillegersberg, Theo W.C. Huibers
• How, Why and with Whom Do Local Politicians Engage on Facebook? / Eirik Rustad, Øystein Sæbø
• "Let Us Talk to People, Not to Computers": Obstacles for Establishing Relationships and Trust in Social Workers' Online Communities of Practice / Azi Lev-On, Odelia Adler
• Analyzing the Centralised Use of Multiple Social Media by Government from Innovations Diffusion Theory Perspective / Enrico Ferro ... et al.
• Online Deliberation. Approaches to Assessing Public Concerns: Building Linked Data for Public Goals and Criteria Extracted from Textual Content / Shun Shiramatsu, Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani
• Online Political Debate: Motivating Factors and Impact on Political Engagement / Asbjørn Følstad, Marika Lüders
• You Say "Yes", I Say "No": Capturing and Measuring 'Public Opinion' through Citizens' Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform) / Yuri Misnikov
• Experimenting LiquidFeedback for Online Deliberation in Civic Contexts / Fiorella De Cindio, Stefano Stortone.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. They have been organized in the following topical sections: research directions, social media and eParticipation, and online deliberation.
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• Scaling Privacy Guarantees in Code-Verification Elections
• On the Specification and Verification of Voting Schemes
• Formal Model-based Validation for Tally Systems
• Vote Casting In Any Preferred Constituency: A New Voting Channel
• Attacking the Verification Code Mechanism in the Norwegian Internet Voting System.-A Formal Model for the Requirement of Verifiability in Electronic Voting by means of a Bulletin Board
• Analysis of an Electronic Boardroom Voting System
• Dispute Resolution in Accessible Voting Systems: The Design and Use of Audiotegrity
• Mental Models of Verifiability in Voting
• Towards a Practical Internet Voting Scheme Based on Malleable Proofs
• A Practical Coercion Resistant Voting Scheme Revisited.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Voting and Identity, VoteID 2013, held in Guildford, UK, during July 17-19, 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions. The papers include a range of works on end-to-end verifiable election systems, verifiably correct complex tallying algorithms, human perceptions of verifiability, formal models of verifiability and, of course, attacks on systems formerly advertised as verifiable.

• Identity Management in E-Government. Digital Identity into Practice: The Case of UniCam / Damiano Falcioni [and others]
• Trust-Service Status List Based Signature Verification / Klaus Stranacher, Thomas Lenz and Konrad Lanz
• Towards a Federated Identity as a Service Model / Bernd Zwattendorfer, Klaus Stranacher and Arne Tauber
• Intelligent Systems in E-Government. Ontology-Based Compliance Checking on Higher Education Processes / Katalin Ternai, Ildikó Szabó and Krisztián Varga
• Managing Emergent Processes with Information-Based Agents / John Debenham
• E-Government Cases. Understanding E-Government Development Barriers in CIS Countries and Exploring Mechanisms for Regional Cooperation / Lyudmila Bershadskaya, Andrei Chugunov and Zamira Dzhusupova
• The Synchronized Functional Project (SFP) of Public Administration / Iván Futó
• Transparency and Social Control via the Citizen's Portal: A Case Study with the Use of Triangulation / Lislaine Krupek Braz de Oliveira and Cristiano Maciel
• Mobile Government. Assessing the Suitability of Current Smartphone Platforms for Mobile Government / Thomas Zefferer, Sandra Kreuzhuber and Peter Teufl
• Towards Mobile Government: Verification of Electronic Signatures on Smartphones / Thomas Zefferer, Fabian Golser and Thomas Lenz
• Open Government Data. Open Government Data Catalogs: Current Approaches and Quality Perspective / Jan Kučera, Dušan Chlapek and Martin Nečaský
• Open Government Data -- A Key Element in the Digital Society / Henning Sten Hansen, Line Hvingel and Lise Schrøder
• Cloud Computing in E-Government across Europe / Bernd Zwattendorfer [and others]
• Towards a Linked Geospatial Data Infrastructure / Sonya Abbas and Adegboyega Ojo
• E-Participation. On the Duality of E-Participation -- Towards a Foundation for Citizen-Led Participation / Lukasz Porwol, Adegbojega Ojo and John Breslin
• Policy Making Improvement through Social Learning / Andrea Kő, András Gábor and Zoltán Szabó
• Allowing Non-identifying Information Disclosure in Citizen Opinion Evaluation / Francesco Buccafurri, Lidia Fotia and Gianluca Lax.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, and Electronic Democracy, EGOVIS/EDEM 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013, in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They focus on the currently most sensitive areas in the field, such as identity management as a core component in any e-government or participation system, open data, mobile government applications as well as intelligent and learning systems.The papers are organized in the following topical sections: identity management in e-government; intelligent systems in e-government; e-government cases; mobile government; open government data; and e-participation.
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• Intro; Title; Preface; Organization; Table of Contents; Foundations; Diversity and Diffusion of Theories, Models, and Theoretical Constructs in eGovernment Research; Introduction; Methodology; Findings; Discussion; Conclusions; Limitations and Future Research Directions; References; Building Theoretical Foundations for Electronic Governance Benchmarking; Introduction; Related Work; Research-Oriented Conceptualizations; Practice-Oriented Conceptualizations; Observations; Methodology; Theoretical Framework
• Activity Theory; Activity Theory-Based EGOV Benchmarking

• Activity Theory-Based Generic Benchmarking ModelActivity Theory-Based Interpretation of EGOV Benchmarking; Activity Theory-Based EGOV Benchmarking Model; Operationalizing Activity Theory-Based EGOV Benchmarking Model; Validating Activity Theory-Based EGOV Benchmarking Model; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Connecting eGovernment to Real Government
• The Failure of the UN eParticipation Index; Introduction; Method; Theory: Indexes Measuring Democracy and Participation; Results: The UN eParticipation Index Vs. Other Indices of Government Qualities; Conclusions; References

• Explaining History of eGovernment Implementation in Developing Countries: An Analytical FrameworkIntroduction; General Systems Theory; Institutional Theory; Explaining e-Government Implementation Using GST and Institutional Theory: An Analytical Framework; Scenario
• 1: Mechanistic Systems, Coercive, Techno-Centric, Accepters; Scenario
• 2: Organic Systems, Normative, Organization-Centric, Improvers; Scenario
• 3: Colonial Systems, Mimetic, Community-Centric, Transformers; Concluding Remarks; References; Paving the Way for Future Research in ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling; Introduction

• MethodologyBackground; State of Play; Visionary Scenarios; Gap Analysis; Crossroad Grand Challenges; Model-Based Governance; Data-Powered Collective Intelligence and Action; Government Service Utility; Science Base of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling; Conclusions; References; Acceptance and Diffusion; The Relative Importance of Intermediaries in eGovernment Adoption: A Study of Saudi Arabia; Introduction; Theoretical Background; Conceptual Model and Research Hypothesis of E-Government Adoption in Saudi Arabia; Research Approach; Data Analysis; Descriptive Statistics

• Reliability AnalysisDiscussions and Conclusions; References; User Acceptance of SMS-Based eGovernment Services; Introduction; Research Methodology; Formulation of a Research Model; Empirical Validation; Developing the Measures; Samples; Measurement; Results and Discussion; Conclusions; References; Components of Trust Influencing eGovernment Adoption in Germany; Introduction; Literature Review; Methodology; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Public Sector IS Maturity Models: Legal Pluralism Invades Public Schools; Introduction; Analytical Framework

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference, EGOV 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, acceptance and diffusion, governance, openess and institutions, architecture, security and interoperability, transformation, values and change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Overview on Remote Electronic Voting.- The Development of Remote E-Voting Around the World: A Review of Roads and Directions.- Remote Voting Schemes: A Comparative Analysis.- Internet-Voting: Opportunity or Threat for Democracy?.- Evaluation of Electronic Voting Systems.- Assessing Procedural Risks and Threats in e-Voting: Challenges and an Approach.- Compliance of RIES to the Proposed e-Voting Protection Profile.- Compliance of POLYAS with the BSI Protection Profile - Basic Requirements for Remote Electronic Voting Systems.- Electronic Voting in Different Countries.- Electronic Voting in Belgium: Past and Future.- The Digital Voting Pen at the Hamburg Elections
• 2008: Electronic Voting Closest to Conventional Voting.- The Security Analysis of e-Voting in Japan.- E-Voting and Trust.- Bingo Voting: Secure and Coercion-Free Voting Using a Trusted Random Number Generator.- Enhancing the Trust and Perceived Security in e-Cognocracy.- Improvements/Extensions of Existing Approaches.- Simulation-Based Analysis of E2E Voting Systems.- A Simple Technique for Safely Using Punchscan and Pret a Voter in Mail-In Elections.- Threat Analysis of a Practical Voting Scheme with Receipts.- Code Voting.- Secure Internet Voting with Code Sheets.- CodeVoting Protection Against Automatic Vote Manipulation in an Uncontrolled Environment.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Of interest to both researchers and professionals, this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the first International Conference on E-Voting and Identity, VOTE-ID 2007, held in Germany in 2007. The 16 revised full papers here were reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in sections that include, among many others, remote electronic voting, evaluation of electronic voting systems, and electronic voting in different countries.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)