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eGovernment Workshop 2006 (eGOV06)
September
11 2006
Brunel University, West London UB8
3PH, United Kingdom |
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Electronic Government (eGovernment)
deals with the use of information and communication
technology (ICT) in public administrations combined with
organisational change and new skills in order to improve
public services and democratic processes and strengthen
support to public policies.
In line with new public management objectives, eGovernment
aims to achieve a user-centred public sectors that is
inclusive to all citizens, that is transparent, open to
democratic involvement as well as and scrutiny. In short, a
more efficient and productive public sectors that that
delivers maximum return of investment for taxpayer's money.
In accordance with the government's directive to have all
government services online by the end of 2005, many public
sector bodies struggle to establish, maintain or enhance a
competitive edge.
This workshop offers both practitioners and the academic
community the opportunity to share the latest ideas in the
application of Information Systems practice to electronic
government. The applications of eGovernment systems
discussed will address the sets of interacting problems
faced by public sectors ICT managers of all kinds, and at
all levels, every working day - ranging from the technical
to the organizational, from social to political,
incorporating concerns about the environment, society,
information management and the role of organizations and the
motivation of individuals.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Shaun Topham
Co-ordinator of EU IST
Projects for Sheffield City Council. UK.
Shaun, read
Economics at Cambridge University and European Studies at
the University of Bradford where he was a Research Fellow.
Taught for the Open University. Researcher at UK Parliament.
For ten years was a politician sitting on Calderdale
Metropolitan Council. Led the project PDWeb, developing
“public access for the unskilled” to the information
society, which was awarded the EU “e.Government label” at
the EU Ministerial e.Government Conference of
2001.Co-ordinated a Group of fellow “e.Government label”
winners which led to further co-operation with other
recognised Best Practice cities such as Bremen, Tampere,
Torino, Bologna etc. Sheffield again won the award in 2003
for the world’s largest online election, using smartcards.
Joint winners with rest of S.Yorkshire with EASY CONNECTS in
2005.
Responsible for co-ordinating Sheffield’s EU IST Projects,
including six current the eTen Projects and Interreg project
Hanse Passage. Represented Sheffield on National Smartcard
Project and Smartcities Interest group. On Board of eForum,
disseminating European Best Practise. Founding Director of
the European Centre for SmartMedia and eInclusion currently
being established in the city. Committee member of World eID
Conference and of UK Cabinet Office Smartcard Working Group.
Senior Advisor to EU-China IST Project.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr.
Stuart W. Shulman
Editor in Chief: Journal of Information
Technology & Politics
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman received
a Bachelors degree from Boston University (Political Science
and English) in 1989 and a Ph.D. from the University of
Oregon (Political Science) in 1999. He is now an Assistant
Professor with a joint appointment in the School of
Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is
also a Senior Research Associate at Pitt’s University Center
for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) and in the Université
de Genève-, European University Institute-, and Oxford
Internet Institute-based E-Democracy Centre.
Dr. Shulman is the founder
(2005) and Director of UCSUR’s Qualitative Data Analysis
Program (QDAP), which is a fee-for-service coding lab
currently working on projects funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
and other U.S. funding agencies. He has been the Principal
Investigator and Project Director on related National
Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on
electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, digital
citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United
States.
Dr. Shulman was the organizer
and chair for federal agency-level electronic rulemaking
workshops funded by the NSF and held at the Council for
Excellence in Government (2001), the National Defense
University (2002), the National Science Foundation (2003),
and The George Washington University (2004). In November of
2006, he will chair a NSF-funded workshop at Pitt titled
“Coding across the Disciplines,” which will bring social and
computer scientists together to discuss annotation science
in support of IT-enhanced research.
For three years, Dr. Shulman
served on the Program Committee for the NSF’s National
Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). He was the
dg.o 2006 Workshop and Tutorial Chair and also the Chair of
the inaugural Digital Government Society Election Committee.
Dr. Shulman has reviewed individual NSF proposals from
multiple cross-cutting NSF divisions and sat on a NSF
proposal review panel.
In May 2006, Dr. Shulman was
named the next Editor of the international Journal of
E-Government, which has since been re-named the Journal of
Information Technology & Politics. He was the 2004-2005
President of the American Political Science Association's
organized section on Information Technology & Politics and
he is the current editor of the section newsletter, The ITP
News. “Stu” is a former Oregon Tilth certified organic
farmer who teaches courses on American national government,
environmental policy, sprawl, information technology,
digital citizenship, governance, and service-learning.
Keynote Speaker:
Mr.
Paul Canning
Web Development Officer, Cambridge City Council
Mr. Paul Canning is the Web
Development Officer for Cambridge City Council. He is
speaking in a personal capacity. Paul has over a decade's
experience in developing websites. He worked in Australia
for many years, mainly developing sites for NGOs, community
organisations and media. Through the dotcom boom he worked
in London for a number of large companies such as IPC Media
and Harrods. More recently he’s worked for small business.
Paul also has a background in marketing and journalism, in
particular their online flavours. He joined local government
recently.
[Link to presentation]
