Digital Government Advance Research and Case Studies

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation provides the field with a definitive, interdisciplinary, and understandable work that surveys the field of digital government in terms of key research, case studies of successful applications in a variety of government settings, along with discussions of current and future policy implications. Each chapter will be prepared and carefully edited within a structured format by a known expert on the chapter topic. The editors'who are also writing chapters themselves'and the authors are well-known researchers and practitioners in digital government. They have all been on the forefront of the IT and digital government research initiatives. Together the editors and expert chapter authors have developed a definitive textbook that can be used by researchers, practitioners and students across the discipline domains, of Information Systems, Information Science, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Public Policy and Business. The book will be organized into four parts: (1) Part I will cover the international foundations of digital government. This unit will answer questions as to why electronic government is being used and what are its benefits? (2) Part II will examine the current IT research that is impacting the advancement of digital government purposes and initiatives. In this section, a wide range of technologies will be discussed with the objective of outlining a framework of state-of-the-art technologies which show the most promise for e-government initiatives. Part III will present the related social, public, and legal issues that will evolve from governments' new ways of doing business, for example privacy and confidentiality, trust, and security issues. Key issues will be raised and discussed in this section, including: How democracy is be served? Are governments more accountable and their processes more transparent? Will our societies benefit? What are the measures that will quantify success? Etc. Part IV will highlight case studies and applications of successful e-government initiatives which have wider lessons and implications. High impact US and international digital government projects will be explored in detail, with a "lesson learned" discussion included with each case study application.Chen, Hsinchun is the author of 'Digital Government Advance Research and Case Studies', published 2007 under ISBN 9780387716107 and ISBN 0387716106.