Track: Electronic Government
Minitrack: Emerging Topics in E-Government

Since e-Government is a nascent academic field, its structure is still evolving. While initial emphases wither, new directions of practice and research are forming. New topics and trends are emerging in e-Government, for which it may be difficult to locate a nurturing home in one of the existing minitracks within the e-Gov Track at HICSS. Whereas some new trends in technology and management cut across existing perspectives, other new topics may have the potential to become a subfield in their own right. Therefore, the e-Government Emerging Topics minitrack provides a home for incubating those new topics and trends. .

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* The conceptual and practice-based boundaries and foundations of the field of e-Government
* Agendas for e-Government research
* Research methodologies for the study of e-Government
* Inter- and multidisciplinary research designs in e-Government
* Differences and similarities between e-Government, PMIS and MIS research
* Mobile Government: Challenges, opportunities, standards, and protocols
* Mobile voice/data integration
* Mobile to legacy/non-mobile application integration
* Web 2.0 and 3.0 in government
* Ethics
* Data-driven public policy and decision -making
* e-Voting experience and issues
* Government's role in open-source
* Archiving and Preservation for small organizations
* IT, government, and an aging population
* Others as appropriate to the purposes of the mini-track

Co-chairs:
Theresa A. Pardo (Primary Contact)
Center for Technology in Government
University at Albany, SUNY
187 Wolf Road, Suite 301Albany, NY 12205, USA
Phone: +1-518-442-3892
Fax: +1-518-442-3886
Email: tpardo@ctg.albany.edu

Karine Barzilai-Nahon
Center for Information and Society
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA
Phone: +1-206-685-6668
Fax: +1-206-616-3152
Email: karineb@u.washington.edu

Lawrence E. Brandt
Digital Government Research
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, CISE Directorate
National Science Foundation, Suite 1125 Arlington VA 22230, USA
Phone: +1-703-292-8912
Fax: +1-703-292-9073
Email: lbrandt@nsf.gov

Bjoern Niehaves 
European Research Center for Information Systems,
University of Muenster, Germany
Leonardo-Campus 3
D-48149 Muenster, Germany
Phone: +49-251-833-8087
Email: bjoern.niehaves@ercis.uni-muenster.de