[ecrea] IJEG SI on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia

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following a number of author requests, the submissions deadline for the
IJEG special issue on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges
in Eurasia has been extended to May 10, 2015 (hard definitive deadline);
please find the special issue details and extended dates below
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The International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) is a
fully-refereed quarterly journal published by Inderscience, focusing on
research and practice of electronic governance worldwide. IJEG,
published since 2007 and currently in its 7th volume, is indexed by
Scopus, Google Scholar, the E-Government Reference Library and other
major databases. More details on the interdisciplinary subject coverage
of IJEG, submission guidelines as well as sample issues are available at
http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg.

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Special Issue of IJEG on Electronic Governance and Open Society:
Challenges in Eurasia
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Guest Editors
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Dr. Yuri Misnikov, Senior Researcher, e-Government Center, ITMO
University, Russia
email (yuri.misnikov /at/ gmail.com)
Dr. Christine Leitner, Senior Advisor, Centre for Economics and Public
Administration (CEPA), UK
email (christine.leitner /at/ cepanet.eu)
Dmitrii Trutnev, Deputy Director, e-Government Center, ITMO University,
Russia
email (trutnev /at/ egov-center.ru)

Description
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This special issue aims to examine e-Governance developments in the vast
Eurasian region that includes primarily the former communist countries
of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). While a broad range of
e-Governance issues will constitute the contents of the issue, its main
emphasis is placed on Open Governance; that is to say, how new digital
media can – or cannot for that matter – help making the post-communist
public governance not just effective and efficient under the traditional
e-Government paradigm, but also open, transparent and accountable as the
citizen-centric e-Democracy concept suggests. Since, in academic terms,
not much research from the Eurasian region has been published in
English, a major objective is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from other regions as well so as to make informed and
grounded comparisons of the state of play, the currently prevailing
trends and future prospects to better understand the complex
relationship between Electronic Governance and Open Society.

Subject Coverage
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The special issue welcomes literature and academic discourse based
position papers, research articles and field-level case studies
investigating electronic governance and open society challenges in
Eurasia, especially the relationship between efficiency and openness in
general and the post-communist context in particular.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the
following, with a focus on the Eurasian area context:
• Information Society and E-Governance Policies
• Open Government Prospects
• Convergence in E-Governance Services
• Citizen-Centric E-Government
• Participatory e-Governance
• Open Data
• E-Governance and Policy Modelling
• E-Governance and Eurasian Integration
• Social Media: Tools for Analysis, Participation and Impact on Public
Policies
• Building Smart Cities
• Smart Citizens, e-Inclusion and Quality of Life
• Disruptive E-Governance
• E-Government Infrastructures.


Notes for Prospective Authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B.
Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely
re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained
from any copyright holders of the original paper).
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. Please read the guidelines on
preparing and submitting articles at
http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_submit.php.

Important Dates
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- submission of manuscripts:        10 May 2015
- interim notification to authors:  10 July 2015
- revised versions due:             10 October 2015
- final notification to authors:    05 November 2015
- final camera-ready versions due:  15 November 2015

This special issue is scheduled for publication during 2015/2016.

Expression of interest and queries for the special issue can be directed
to the guest editors. For general inquiries regarding IJEG please
contact Dr. Dimitris Gouscos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, email
(gouscos /at/ media.uoa.gr), IJEG Editor-in-Chief.

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