Outstanding paper awards categories and WINNERS

• 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.
  • ... and the winner is: Does the Answer to eGovernment Lie in Intermunicipal Collaboration? An Exploratory Italian Case Study by Maddalena Sorrentino, Enrico Ferro, Italy
• 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.
  • ... and the winner is: Paving the way to eGovernment Transformation_ Interoperability Registry Infrastructure Development by Aikaterini-Maria Sourouni, Fenareti Lampathaki, Spiros Mouzakitis, Yannis Charalabidis, Dimitris Askounis, Greece
• 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.
  • ... and the winner is: Managing benefits in the public sector: Surveying expectations and outcomes of benefits management in Norwegian government agencies by Leif Skiftenes Flak and Åke Grönlund, Norway, Sweden

Nominees for outstanding paper awards in the three categories

The following papers have been nominated for outstanding paper awards:

• Category 1 - The most interdisciplinary and innovative research contribution
  
  • Challenges of Government Enterprise Architecture Work – Stakeholders’ Views by Hannakaisa Isomäki, Katja Liimatainen, Finland
  • Does the Answer to eGovernment Lie in Intermunicipal Collaboration? An Exploratory Italian Case Study by Maddalena Sorrentino, Enrico Ferro, Italy
  • Implementation Challenges: Competing structures when New Public Management meets eGovernment by Andreas Ask, Åke Grönlund, Sweden
  • Transparent Complexity by Goals by Vytautas Čyras, Friedrich Lachmayer, Lithuania, Austria
• Category 2 - The most compelling, critical research reflection

• Unity in diversity: An analysis of inter-governmental cooperation in the field of geoICT by Walter T. de Vries, The Netherlands
• Paving the way to eGovernment Transformation_ Interoperability Registry Infrastructure Development by Aikaterini-Maria Sourouni, Fenareti Lampathaki, Spiros
  Mouzakitis, Yannis Charalabidis, Dimitris Askounis, Greece
• E-government project evaluation: an integrated framework by Jianwei Liu, Zsofia Derzsi, Marta Raus and Alexander Kipp, The
  Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany

• Category 3 - The most promising practical concept

• Managing benefits in the public sector: Surveying expectations and outcomes of benefits management in Norwegian government agencies by Leif Skiftenes Flak and Åke Grönlund, Norway, Sweden
• Using online public services: a measurement of citizens’ operational, formal, information and strategic skills by Alexander van Deursen, Jan van Dijk, The Netherlands

Selection process

Reviewers were asked to assess the papers along the review process in March/April 2008. The outstanding paper awards committee then reviewed the most named selections from the reviewers in the period June - July 2008. In August, the committee decided nominees in each category. The winners were chosen in a final round of the review committee.

Awards procedure

The best paper awards ceremony was held on Thursday 4th September 2008 at 12.30 o'clock.