Apologies for inevitable double postings! First Call for Papers INTEROPERABILITY and INTEGRATION have become top items on today's e-Government research and practice agendas. We invite you to join us in helping understand and shape these important worldwide foci in e-Government by submitting your respective research papers to the: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT RESEARCH Editors-In-Chief Patricia Diamond Fletcher (pfletcher@umbc.edu) Donald F. Norris (norris@umbc.edu) Published: Quarterly (pint & electronic) ISSN: 1548-3886 eISSN: 1548-3894 Special Issue Co-Editors Ralf Klischewski and Hans J (Jochen) Scholl The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is soliciting high quality papers for a special issue of the journal on E-Government Interoperability and Integration to be published as Volume 2, Issue No. 2, April-June 2006. We encourage the academic and practitioner community to submit articles related to the mission of IJEGR. The paper submission deadline for this special issue V2(2) is May 1, 2005. Mission: The mission of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research is to publish the very best original scholarly research on the subject of electronic government, broadly defined, and to publish top quality articles about electronic government from the practice. To this end, we invite submission of papers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The members of the Editorial Board represent this international and multidisciplinary perspective. Special Issue-related Research Orientations: Papers may address any aspect of e-Gov interoperability and integration including but not limited to the following topical orientations: (1) The technological (hardware, software, and middleware) dimension - The development, implementation, maintenance, and overhaul of government transaction processing and information systems (IS) - The integration of IS (legacy and e-Gov IS) to support inter-organizational components of e-Government - Scope and limitations of inter- and intra-governmental IS - Interoperability standards & frameworks (technical perspective) - Public key infrastructures - Web services for public administration - Semantic web for e-Gov applications - Specific infrastructural requirements for interoperability (2) The organizational, managerial, legal, and social dimensions - Infrastructure alignment & interoperability setup strategies (organizational perspective) - Internal effectiveness and efficiency (IEE) and increased responsiveness through interoperability - The various dimensions (vertical and/or horizontal; inter-agency, intra-agency, inter-governmental, and intra-governmental) of e-Gov interoperability and integration - challenges of dual-mode operations (traditional and e-Gov-based) in government - Operational interoperability (formal and informal networks) versus technical interoperability (software and hardware compatibility) - Infrastructure/interoperability performance and improvement evaluation - Legal and constitutional limits to interoperability and integration (3) The interaction and interdependency between (1) and (2) - Barriers to interoperability (privacy, ambiguity about statutory authority, openness to public scrutiny, trust, lack of experience, hardware/software incompatibility, data sharing standards and a lack of awareness of opportunities to share) - Strategies and innovative approaches to enhancing interoperability (managerial and technical solutions) - Inter-organizational process management, information management, and security/rights management - Constituents' resistance and recalcitrance This special issue is especially interested in papers that make substantial theoretical and/or empirical contributions to knowledge in the field. It seeks to systematically describe the phenomenon of e-Gov interoperability and integration. It also attempts to help government practice improve current interoperability methods and modes of integrated operation. We welcome submissions that employ either quantitative or qualitative methodologies or both. For all empirical manuscripts authors must clearly and concisely describe their research methods, data or evidence, and analytical techniques, particularly for less standardized methods such as action research, case studies, and current practices reports. Following the academic tradition, all manuscripts must be grounded in prior research and scholarly literature relevant to the subjects being investigated. Manuscripts that are essentially speculative in nature, that lack a theoretical or empirical base, or that are not grounded in prior research will not be considered. Coverage: The coverage of IJEGR is international and focused on original research in electronic government applications, management, and policy. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Best practices in e-government * Electronic government applications * Governance and electronic democracy * Impacts of electronic government * Information policy * Information security * Information privacy * Information access * Internal government processes and intranets * Measurement of performance * Strategic management of electronic government * Technology adoption and diffusion Review Process: A double-blind review is applied to all submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts for this call must be received, in electronic format (WORD), no later than May 1, 2005. All manuscripts must be sent directly to the editors at ijegr@umbc.edu. Authors will be notified by June 15, 2005 of the outcome of the review process. Final manuscripts will be expected no later than August 15, 2005. Any question relating to the submission and acceptance process should be directed to the journal's editors. Please familiarize yourself with submission guidelines by visiting www.idea-group.com/ijegr. For more information on submitting to the International Journal of Electronic Government Research, please visit our Web page at www.idea-group.com/ijegr. Please visit our web site for more information about the journal and its Editorial Board. Publisher: The International Journal of Electronic Government Research is published by Idea Group Inc., publisher of "Idea Group Publishing", "Information Science Publishing", "IRM Press", "CyberTech" and "Idea Group Reference" imprints. For additional information about the publisher, please visit their Web site at www.idea-group.com. The cfp can also be found under http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/Cfp_IJEGR_IOO.html