Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:46:29 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://semantic-gov.org/images/logo.gif http://semantic-gov.org/ vagpits@uom.gr http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008) November 13-16, 2008 University of East London, London. UK Sponsored by IEEE Special Tracks eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad: how social software, SOAs and semantic technologies transform the citizen-state interaction Public administrations are considered the heaviest service industry worldwide. However, they are far from satisfying their constituents as they usually operate in an ineffective/inefficient way. EGovernment and eParticipation research aims to refocus the government business to its clients, being citizens and businesses and provide the models, technologies and tools for more effective and efficient public administration systems. This citizen-driven government: a) Provides to its users an electronic, one-stop and personalized access to the maze of public services (MyGov portal) and at the same time substantially improves its internal administrative efficiency and capacity (eGovernment). b) Facilitates and gives voice to the citizens/businesses to participate at the public policy formulation and at the design phase of the service provision while allowing later the evaluation of the implemented public policies and services by the users (eParticipation). Although a great progress can be reported during the last decade there are still important challenges to be addressed. The track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different subject areas including enterprise architectures, interoperability, semantic web, semantic web services, social software, and foster discussions about ongoing research and experience in the following indicative areas: * Service Oriented Architectures for public administration * Semantic Web and Semantic Web Service technologies * EGovernment strategies and national programmes * Social software for eParticipation * User generated content for eGovernment and eParticipation * Enterprise Architecture design and implementation in public organizations * Models and ontologies for eGovernment * Personalized and modular one-stop portals * Cross-agency service composition and monitoring * Semantic and organizational interoperability for eGovernment systems * Use of sensors and real-time data for decision systems (e.g. environmental, traffic systems) * Citizens’ feedback mechanisms * Social tagging for eGovernment/eParticipation * Assessment, evaluation and quality of e-services * Electronic ID, access control, security and trust * Pan-European eGovernment services Track co-Chairs Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland Galway, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland – vassilios.peristeras@deri.org Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece – kat@uom.gr Details can be found in http://www.icdim.org/st.php. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:46:29 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Transforming E-government and E-participation Public administrations are considered the heaviest service industry worldwide. However, they’re often far from satisfying their constituents because they usually don’t operate efficiently and effectively. E-government and e-participation research aims to refocus government on its customers—citizens and businesses—and to provide the models, technologies, and tools for more effective and efficient public-administration systems as well as more participatory decision processes. Toward this end, interest is growing in the benefits that emerging technologies (for example, the Semantic Web, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web 2.0, and social computing), tools, and applications might provide to this challenging domain. This interest is reflected in initiatives and projects in both Europe and the US. In Europe, through the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, a number of projects are trying to apply such technologies to e-government. In North America, the Digital Government Society (dg.o) and the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP), a joint initiative between industry, academia, and government, both support public agencies’ use of state-of-the-art technologies. Although such programs have produced significant progress and interesting results, important challenges remain. The special issue aims to bring together researchers from the previously mentioned technological fields and e-government and e-participation communities, covering areas of common interest. These include the following topics as they apply to e-government and e-participation: * enterprise architectures for government, * Model-Driven Architecture and service-oriented architectures, * Government 2.0, * application of Semantic Web and Semantic Web services technologies, * social software for e-participation, * user-generated content and social tagging, * requirements for intelligent e-government and e-participation systems, * case studies and system demos based on state-of-the-art technologies, * challenges in applying intelligent technologies to e-government and e- participation, * models and ontologies for e-government and e-participation, * rule-based, personalized, and modular one-stop portals, * cross-agency service composition and monitoring, * pan-European e-government services, and * interoperability for e-government systems. Important Dates Submissions due for review: 5 Mar. 2009 Notification of acceptance: 11 June 2009 Final version submitted: 25 June 2009 Issue publication: Sept. 2009 Submission Guidelines Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine’s style and presentation guidelines (see www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc/author.html).References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. Questions? Contact Guest Editors Vassilios Peristeras, vassilios.peristeras@deri.org; Gregoris Mentzas, gmentzas@mail.ntua.gr; Konstantinos Tarabanis, kat@uom.gr; or Andreas Abecker, abecker@fzi.de. Details can be found in IEEE Intelligent Systems Call for Papers. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:21:38 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:57:36 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=54 The 2nd Project Review of the SemanticGov will take place in Brussels on April 9, 2008. During the 2nd Project Review the consortium will present the progress of the work packages that were active during the second year of the project. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:24:07 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53 The European Journal of ePractice is a peer-reviewed online publication on eTransformation, launched in November 2007. The Journal belongs to the ePractice.eu community, is sponsored by the European Commission as part of its good practice exchange activity and is run by an independent Editorial Board. The publication promotes the diffusion and exchange of good practice in eGovernment, eHealth and eInlcusion and is open access, free of charge to all readers. The European Journal of ePractice is available at: http://www.epracticejournal.eu. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:40:40 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=52 ALTEC will participate in the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2007) that will be held in Macao on 10-13 December 2007. The paper that ALTEC will present relates with work carried out in the context of two European IST Projects namely SemanticGov (http://www.semantic-gov.org) and OneStopGov (http://www.onestopgov-project.org). Both projects aim at implementing innovative Web technologies for adoption in the European public sector to advance the level and expand the volume of e-Government solutions in EU. You can download from here the poster of the paper. Details for the conference can be found in http://www.icegov.org/. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:29:06 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:47:32 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49 6th Eastern European e-Gov Days April 23 – 25, 2008, Prague (CZ) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:03:17 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:42:27 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:53:30 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:24:22 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:50:08 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=44 The 6th plenary meeting of the SemanticGov Project will take place in Darmstadt on July 03-04. Various issues regarding the progress of the project will be discussed. The meeting will be hosted by Software AG. Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:06:06 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:25:12 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:23:14 +0300 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:49:49 +0200 http://semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39 An article presenting the SemanticGov project was published in the last issue of Ariadne Newsletter (ALTEC). To read this article please click here. 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