Symposium: Global Electronic Government Research and Practice
------------------Community (full-day)
Leaders: Valerie Gregg, Tomasz Janowski, Marijn Janssen, Björn
-------------Niehaves, Scott Robertson, and Jochen Scholl

The purpose of this full-day symposium is to engage the community of international e-Government/Digital Government scholars and practitioners in an exchange of mutually interesting research topics. The symposium comprises two parts: First, it presents the meritorious groundbreaking papers in e-Government research published in 2008. Second, the symposium includes a strategic planning workshop to explore 'grand challenges' in E-government research and practice. The symposium complements the paper sessions of the HICSS E-Government Track.

Valerie Gregg is a Government Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is past-Secretary of North American Chapter of the Digital Government Society and currently serves on the board. She is Co-PI on a National Science Foundation funded 4-year award entitled "Building and Sustaining an International Digital Government Research Community of Practice". Prior to working in academia, she had a 30-year government career at the Federal level. For eight years, she was Program Manager for the Digital Government Research in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

For more information, please email vgregg@mac.com