The third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008, sponsored by IEEE) takes place 13-16 November 2008 in London, UK. The special track “eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad” brings together researchers and practitioners from different subject areas including enterprise architectures, interoperability, semantic web, semantic web services and social software. It fosters discussions about ongoing research and investigates how social software, SOAs and semantic technologies transform the citizen-state interaction.