[ecrea] Call for book chapter "Human-Centered System Design for Electronic Governance"

Call for Book Chapter
* Human-Centered System Design for Electronic Governance

Editors: *
Saqib Saeed, University of Siegen, Germany
Christopher G. Reddick, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

* Call for Chapters: *
Proposals Submission Deadline: January 30, 2012
Full Chapters Due: May 15, 2012
Submission Date: July 30, 2012

*Introduction*
E-Government projects are a huge undertaking and require serious 
political commitment, clear vision and robust long-term strategy. The 
successful realization of such projects in practice requires 
appropriately design technology infrastructure. Higher failure rate in 
technology adoption has highlighted that human factors are an important 
aspect when designing and implementing e-government projects. In order 
to foster successful usage, technologies need to be consistent with 
human practices. Failure to design e-government technologies properly 
can lead to project failure, which can represent a substantial cost for 
governments and loss of confidence by users in these systems.

*Objective of the Book*
The objectives of the proposed book are twofold: (i) to invite ideas, 
suggestions and recommendations and publish high quality contributions 
examining the inherent issues, technology design implications, user 
experiences and guidelines for technology appropriation and (ii) to 
invite case studies to publish and disseminate best practices employed 
by organizations, project managers and practitioners in the field of 
e-government. The aim is to provide opportunities for discussion of 
implications and dissemination of best practices that will be useful or 
of interest to academics from a range of fields including information 
systems, human computer interaction, computer supported cooperative 
work, organizational science, public administration, and political 
science as well as for government officials and governmental organizations.

*Target Audience*
The book will be helpful for students and researchers working in the 
domain of Information systems. Furthermore, government officials working 
to devise IT strategy and solutions for e- governance are also potential 
readers. This book will also be helpful for those that want to learn 
about the design of information systems in the context of e-government, 
from a human centric approach. University libraries will be especially 
interested in purchasing this textbook, since it will provide cutting 
edge research on the design of e-government systems for a user-centric 
perspective.

*Recommended Topics*
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

   . Case studies and user experiences with e-government infrastructures
   . Technology infrastructure and citizen engagement
   . ICTs and community empowerment
   . Digital divide and e-government adoption
   . E- government project management approaches
   . Best practices and opportunities for technology design
   . ICTs and e-democracy
   . Impact of ICT in governmental, nongovernmental and public
   communication
   . Technology management practices in government, nongovernmental and
   community settings
   . Limitations, challenges and barriers to ICT adoption for government
   . Enabling technologies for e-government implementation
   . Mobile technology and e-government
   . Web 2.0 (Blogs, wikis, social networking websites) and e-government
   . Digital divide and e- government adoption
   . Metrics and Benchmarking to measure e-government success
   . Economic, ethical, security, privacy and legal issues


*Submission Procedure*
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 
January, 30, 2012, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the 
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted 
proposals will be notified by February 15, 2012 about the status of 
their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected 
to be submitted by May 15, 2012. All submitted chapters will be reviewed 
on a double-blind review basis.

*Publisher*
This book is scheduled to be published in 2013 by IGI Global (formerly 
Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" 
(formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science 
Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science 
Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, 
please visit www.igi-global.com.

*Important Dates*
January 30, 2012:    Proposal Submission Deadline
February 15, 2012:    Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2012:        Full Chapter Submission
June 30, 2012:        Review Results Returned
July 30, 2012:        Final Chapter Submission
September 30, 2012:    Final Deadline

*Editorial Advisory Board Members:*
A Faiz M Ishaq, SZABIST Dubai, UAE
Abdul Wahid Hakmi, Altran GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Chia-Wen Tsai, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Irene Samanta, TEI Pireaus, Greece
Izzat Alsmadi, Yarmouk University, Jordon
P. Kyriazopoulos, TEI Pireaus, Greece
Pit Pichappan, University of Zululand, South Africa
Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Yu-Che Chen, Northern Illinois University, USA

* Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word 
document): *
Saqib Saeed
Department of Information Studies and New Media
University of Siegen, Germany
Tel.: +492713877006
E-mail: (saqib.saeed /at/ uni-siegen.de)