In 2013, IFIP WG 8.5’s working conferences EGOV and ePart will be held at the University of Koblenz-Landau. The beautiful city of Koblenz is located at the intersection of the rivers Mosel and Rhine. It is the northern end of the Upper Middle Rhine World Heritage area. 

The University Campus in Koblenz hosts four faculties, among which the Faculty of Computer Science has a strong focus on research in E-Government, E-Participation and Semantic Web. In the winter turn 2012/13, the Faculty of Computer Science introduced a new Master curriculum on E-Government – to date a unique study programme at German Universities.

In 2013, the Faculty also hosts the major German Computer Society’s conference: the Informatik 2013.

The twelfth IFIP EGOV and fourth IFIP ePart conferences will be co-located with Informatik 2013. The Faculty of Computer Science, and in particular the research group E-Government will be responsible for local arrangements of EGOV and ePart 2013.

To stimulate new research, the eighth PhD Colloquium will be held as well which is dedicated to learning and understanding from each other. It will host topical threads of both conferences. 

Please find the following information for EGOV 2013:

• Keynote presentations
• Call for papers
• Submission guidelines and review criteria
• Submission system
• PhD colloquium
• Organising chairs and PC members
• Deadlines
• Registration & fees
• Venue and local information
• Hotel information and booking

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:

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

The conference organisers.