The international EGOV conference series gives annual state of the art overviews in eGovernment and eGovernance research, implementation and application. Thereby, the conferences provide important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study.

The annual EGOV conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously. The 2006 conference attracted about 130 participants from 28 countries all over the world including developing countries, with 30 contributions in outstanding research, 30 contributions in ongoing research, 15 projects contributions and 5 workshops. Hence the EGOV Conferences have become a reunion for academics and professionals as well as an important ground for networking.

The EGOV Conference Series hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers (distinguishing between completed reserach and ongoing research); project presentations, and workshops. These encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the field, but also welcome innovative research work in progress, and studies of practical eGovernment projects and systems implementation.

The conference also includes a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with a forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.

Over the years, organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained influence on practice. Conversely, eGovernment practice has influenced and inspired eGovernment research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention over the years. In recent years, the assessment of eGovernment efforts, the prospects of eGovernment as a research discipline, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among the top topics on the research agenda. For the sixth series of EGOV conferences, hence, the list of topics includes the following:

• Strategies and frameworks, motivators, contextual biases
  • Frameworks and guidelines for eGovernment and eGovernance
  • eGovernment policies, strategies and implementation
  • Legal, societal and cultural aspects of eGovernment
  • Public awareness of eServices availability
• eDemocracy and eParticipation challenges
  • Research challenges and frameworks
  • eParticipation tools and technologies
  • eParticipation socio-technical research concepts and solutions
  • Applications and cases of eParticipation solutions
  • Social networking and communities to foster political debates
  • The role of local communities in eParticipation
• Assessment of eGovernment and eParticipation
  • Methods and tools for assessment
  • Experiences from assessment trials
  • Analysis of values for eGovernment stakeholders
  • Public value generation through eGovernment
  • Cross-national comparative studies
• eGovernment and development (ICT4D)
  • International and regional projects, case studies and best practice
  • International dimensions: cooperation, comparisons, networks
  • The role of eGovenment in development (ICT4D)
• eGovernment research
  • Methods and tools of eGovernment research
  • Inter- and multidisciplinary research - issues and examples
  • Bridging single discipline research towards multidisciplinarity
  • Issues demarcating the eGovernment domain of study
• Training courses and teaching eGovernment
  • Teaching eGovernment
  • eSkills development: training courses and eLearning solutions for public sector employees
  • eSkills development: how to train the citizens?
  • Syllabus for teaching and training eGovernment and eParticipation
• Conceptual design and frames
  • Administrative process design and change, collaborative activities, legal interpretation
  • Knowledge management, public information, decision process support
  • eGovernment ontologies
  • Change management and new organisational arrangements: public-private- partnerships, virtual teams
  • Enterprise architectures and other whole-government approaches
• Implementation aspects
  • One-stop government, electronic service delivery, mobile services
  • Interoperability and standards, semantic standardisation
  • Trust and security: provisions and instruments
• mGovernment and emerging technologies for eGovernment and eParticipation
  • Mobile technologies
  • Media integration, media convergence, e.g. integration of VoIP and mobile phones with eGov services
  • Digital TV as a means to reach the citizen?
  • Semantic web technologies