The eleventh conference on electronic government will be held in Kristiansand, Norway. This conference brings together the top of the scientific research community in e‐government and e-governance from all over the world. The conference provides a highly interactive and professional forum for exchanging research concepts, progress and results.

As in the past, IFIP EGOV will feature refereed paper presentations, invited keynote presentations, high‐level discussion panels, workshops and a PhD Colloquium.

Please find the following information for EGOV 2012:

• Call for papers - submission deadline extended till 19th March 2012
• Submission guidelines
• Review criteria
• Deadlines
• Organising comittee and PC

In 2012, the IFIP e-government conference is colocated with ePart, the International Conference on eParticipation, which is dedicated to topics on eParticipation and eDemocracy. ePart is held in parallel tracks to the IFIP e-government conference .

A PhD Colloquium will be held as well.

We experience another year of successful discussion and networking among eGovernment and eParticipation researchers and practitioners.

Announcements of future conferences of IFIP's WG 8.5:

Next year's conferences will take place in Koblenz, Germany. The tentative date is third week of September, 2013. The conference will be co-located with the Informatik 2013, the German Society for Informatics' major annual conference (in German).

We are pleased to announce future tentative locations of the IFIP e-government conference, together with the ePart conference as follows:  a Greek Island, Dublin (Ireland), Egypt. The order of the latter locations is not yet settled.

The conference organisers.