Outstanding paper awards categories

Three types of paper awards are used. These are loosely aligned with the types of papers the EGOV2009 conference is looking for:

• Category 1 - The most interdisciplinary and innovative research contribution. Awards the interdisciplinary paper with the most out-of-the-box and forward-looking idea and concept. Relevance is more important than rigor.
• Category 2 - The most compelling, critical research reflection . Awards the paper with the most compelling reflection on and discussion of eGovernment research. A critical view is more important than relevance or rigor.
• Category 3 - The most promising practical concept. Awards the paper delivering a concept or solution with the highest potential to have a high impact in eGovernment implementations and applications.

Selection process

Step 1: Reviewers were asked along the review process whether the paper is a candidate for an award.

Step 2: The outstanding paper awards committee then reviewed the camera-ready papers of the most often nominated (by reviewers) and highest ranked (overall review assessment) papers per awards category.

Step 3: The paper awards committee proposed a short list per category (three nominations per category).

Step 4: The awards committee decided at the conference, which paper per category was awarded.

Awards nominees

• Category 1 - The most interdisciplinary and innovative research contribution
  
  • Refinement, Validation and Benchmarking of a Model for eGovernment Service Quality by Babis Magoutas and Gregoris Mentzas, Greece
  • eGovernment Implementation Evaluation: Opening the Black Box by Maddalena Sorrentino, Raffaella Naggi and Pietro Luca Agostini, Italy
  • Caste Structures and eGovernance in a Developing Country by Rahul De', India
     
• Category 2 - The most compelling, critical research reflection
  • eGovernment Implementation Evaluation: Opening the Black Box by Maddalena Sorrentino, Raffaella Naggi and Pietro Luca Agostini, Italy
  • Mapping the e-Government Research with Social Network Analysis by Nuša Erman and Ljupco Todorovski, Slovenia
  • Caste Structures and eGovernance in a Developing Country by Rahul De', India
     
• Category 3 - The most promising practical concept
  •  A Framework to Analyze Data Governance of Swiss Population Registers by Olivier Glassey, Switzerland
  • From National to Supranational Government Inter-organizational Systems: An extended Typology by Boriana Rukanova, Rolf Wigand and Yao-Hua Tan, Netherlands and USA

Awards ceremony and winners

 The best paper awards ceremony took place on 3rd September 2009 in the session at 16.00 after the invited talk of Maria Geronymaki of the European Commission.

We congratulate to the following winners:

• Category 1 - The most interdisciplinary and innovative research contribution
  
  • Caste Structures and eGovernance in a Developing Country by Rahul De', India
     
• Category 2 - The most compelling, critical research reflection
  • Mapping the e-Government Research with Social Network Analysis by Nuša Erman and Ljupco Todorovski, Slovenia
     
• Category 3 - The most promising practical concept
  •  A Framework to Analyze Data Governance of Swiss Population Registers by Olivier Glassey, Switzerland