*** Apologies for Cross postings *** The EURO mGOV 2008 ------------------------------------- The Third European Conference & Exhibitions on Mobile Government 15 - 16 September 2008 Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey ------------------------------------- ** http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ ** Submissions Deadline : 1 May 2008 Featuring mGovernment Summit ---------------------------- Prominent Representatives from European Public Sector will be invited to share their experiences, and discuss implemenation of mGovernment services and applications, the lessons learned, and the future of the mGovernment revolution. Special invitation to public sector professionals.. --------------------------------------------- If you are a public sector professional with key responsibilities and experience in mGovernment, mGCI may support your participation to the conference. To take advantage of this special invitation, please contact the conference secretariat... Mobile Government ------------------ mGov involves revolutionary approaches to the modernization of public sector via utilization of networked mobile technologies in the local or central government organizations. It aims to enhance the businesses of the public sector by bringing new opportunities for providing services to the citizens and improving business processes in public organizations. mGovernment is now a recognized field of practice and research, and constitutes the next evolutionary step of the progresses in eGovernment. The Euro mGOV Conference series establish a forum and provide a showcase for the developments on the public administration and mobile Internet technologies, services and business models, and tie them to the existing and future m-government applications and government business models. The series will present evidences of applications and trends in mobile government implementations from various parts of the world. The conferecne is a prime platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services in the field of mGovernment among three essential constituents: public and private sector professionals and the researchers. Euro mGov conference organization cordially invites researchers and practitioners from academia, public sector, IT and Telecom Industry to participate and contribute to this largest gathering of the mobile government professionals. Who will attend? ----------------- *** Public sector professionals such as policy and decision makers, managers of departments developing or implementing mobile technologies, politicians and representatives of civil society organisations and NGOs. *** Private Sector professionals from, for example, mobile telco`s, infrastructure, hardware, content, applications and service providers to the public sector. *** Researchers from academia and other research organizations. Conference Format ------------------ The conference will have two major streams: Research and Practice streams. The research stream will promote discussions and exchange of ideas on significant and recent research on Mobile Government. The Practice stream will have various practice talks, exhibition and demo of Mobile government IT solutions, applications and services. The Research Sessions: These session aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, promote discussions and support wider reach of mobile government issues. There will be a number of high quality keynote, case study, policy and research presentations. Practice Sessions:The industry/exhibition/demo session aims to get public or private sector professionals to exhibit current developments in mobile IT solutions, and demo of mobile government applications and services. Various industry participants and government units will gather to create a showcase of the most recent mobile government solutions facilitating e-government and other public administration. The EURO mGOV Conference also invites proposals for panels, posters, demos, tutarial, special sessions and exhibitions. Further information ------------------- for topics, committees, submissions, participation, partnership, sponsorship and exhibitions.... Please visit wwww.mgovernment.org/events/ Conference Secretariat: mgov2008@mgovernment.org Organized and Supported by --------------------------- -- The Mobile Government Consortium International, UK -- Department of Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey