Track: Electronic Government
Minitrack: E-Government Infrastructure and Interoperability

E-Government efforts have facilitated the information and services available on the Web, and have been fueling the information sharing and collaborations across governmental units and organizations. The sharing and collaboration requires vertical and horizontal interoperability and integration of government operations and services at all layers of government. Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The ability of information and service harvesting, discovery, sharing, dissemination, management, preservation, can be facilitated with the interoperability infrastructure. Creating interoperability faces many technical, organizational, managerial, and strategic challenges.

This minitrack will provide e-Government researchers to exchange theories, methodologies, experience reports, literature studies, and case studies in infrastructure and interoperability. Interoperability research ranging from the technical to organizational, policy, and strategic levels are solicited. Papers in the field of e-Government-induced data-and-process-based integration and transformation, which are also beneficial to practitioners, or have a strong relationship with practical problems and case studies, are strongly encouraged. We promote a diversity of research methods to study the challenges of this multifaceted discipline focusing on various aspects of interoperability.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Development, implementation, maintenance of projects, architectures and infrastructures
* System, data- and process-based integration
* Information reuse, information quality, ontologies and semantic modeling
* Cross-organizational modeling and visualization ranging from the organizational to technical level
* Infrastructure and enterprise architecture planning, alignment, strategies and governance
* Infrastructure facilities and interorganizational development projects
* Technical, semantic, organizational, managerial aspects of interoperability
* Design and application of architectures and infrastructures for interoperability
* Organizational and/or policy perspectives on the dynamics of the infrastructure and interoperability process
* Barriers to interoperability
* Interoperability standards, principles and frameworks
* Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services, web service orchestration and composition
* Best practices and case studies at all levels of government, including local and transnational government
* Longitudinal studies that span over generations of e-Government implementations

Co-chairs:
Marijn Janssen (Primary Contact)
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 5 NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-15-2781-140
Email: m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl

Soon Ae Chun
Department of Business
City University of New York
College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd, 3N, Rm 226
Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
Phone: +1-718-982-2931
Email: chun@mail.csi.cuny.edu

George Kuk
Nottingham University
Business School
Jubilee Campus
Nottingham, NG8 1BB, United Kingdom
Phone: +44-0-115-8466611
E-mail:  George.Kuk@nottingham.ac.uk