********************* CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS *********************
Proposal Submission Due Date: December 1, 2013
FULL CHAPTER SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 28, 2014
Books Title: Information and Communication Technologies in Public
Administration: Innovations from Developed Countries
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
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A book edited by:
Christopher G. Reddick, University of San Antonio Texas, U.S.A.
and
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, Technological Education Institute of Thessaly,
Greece
INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE OF THE BOOK:
For more than two decades, governments in developed countries have used
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to change public sector
organizations. ICT has been used to improve the performance in delivering
effective or highly sophisticated public services; reengineering or
optimizing their internal organization and processes; engaging social
participation and dialogue; opening policy making and internal outcomes to
the public; and enhancing public sectors efficiency in general. These
efforts are mainly based on governments using ICT for strategic and program
planning by impacting citizens and businesses. These efforts have been
commonly branded as electronic government (e-Government). Time showed that
these government acts have evolved from e to connected, then to
transforming and now to open [Government], and this evolution keeps
going.
Public administration and ICT efforts have dramatically changed the way
governments interact with citizens and businesses. This book aims to explore
the impact of this evolution via examining intra-organizational results with
regards to internal public sector change management; inter-organizational
affects with regard to cross-border developments, supra-national or
international collaboration and affairs changes; social outcomes concerning
service delivery improvements, adoption and engagement, trust and privacy;
business outcomes with regard to ICT industry engagement in this arena; and
academic involvement with regard to innovative technological developments.
In this order, the aim of this book is to illustrate the theoretical
context, the existing state and current issues and trends, accompanied by
innovative and forthcoming developments (norms, policies, and standards) in
public administration with regard to the ICT. More specifically, it will not
just examine e-Government domain, but it will depict innovative solutions
with added value and impact to the public administration through ICT. In
this order, theoretical chapters, empirical evidence and selected case
studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the
big picture of public administration and ICT in developed countries will
be examined in this book.
STATEMENT OF AIMS:
This book aims to illustrate recent and innovative issues in regards to
public administration and ICT. In order to capture the big picture, facts
and trends from the developed world will be requested and address the
following research questions:
1) How Has Public Administration and ICT Evolved? Theoretical Perspectives
Chapters will deal with recent ICT trends in the public administration, such
as adoption and user satisfaction, big and linked data management in the
public sector, social media utilization for a more effective democracy,
standardization and ontologies, inclusion and participation, and so forth.
Literature reviews would also be welcome in order to explore the existing
major schools of thought in ICT and public administration and their recent
perspectives to this domain. Additionally, criticisms with regard to
existing failures in meeting citizen expectations and project effective
management will be analyzed. For instance, governments have not succeeded in
solving existing human problems effectively (i.e., poverty and peace), why
should we expect them to succeed in e-Government missions?
2) Who perform best? Cases from the Developed Countries
Chapters with respective successful cases from the developed countries will
be requested to illustrate how the academy and industry have succeeded in
meeting government ICT in local and central government as well as
supranational and international affairs in this context. Moreover,
frameworks and data regarding standardization and performance measurement at
national, supranational and international levels will be welcome in this
books part and show how ICT in public administration has progressed and
what findings are extracted.
3) Whats coming up next? Trends and Innovative Prospects
Chapters with innovative approaches and ideas that can lead to the next
generation of ICT solutions in public administration will be presented.
Cutting edge research projects will be also welcome in this books part.
Moreover, solutions with regard to recent crucial issues such as electronic
identification (eID), privacy protection and customized/personalized service
delivery will be especially welcome.
AUDIENCE FOR THE BOOK
The audience for this book is students, researchers, public sector
professionals and managers in public administration/management programs
across the developed world, with a focus on North America, Europe,
Australia, and Japan. There will be a third market of information systems
students that are interested in the technologies needed to create more
efficient and effective governments. On the other hand, professionals and
managers from both the private and public sectors are expected to be
interested in this book due to the continuous analysis of existing and
forthcoming e-strategies (i.e., recent European Digital Agenda and Horizon
2020 planning, management and implementation).
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this book include (but are not limited to) the
following:
PART A: How Has Public Administration and ICT Evolved? Theoretical
Perspectives
Schools of thought and challenges to e-Government theory
Skepticism with regard to existing achievements compared to
expectations from ICT in public administration: analysis of failures and
proposed solutions
Social media. How the power of masses impact governments and public
administration?
Big and linked data management
Openness (policies, openness, transparency, open data, open source,
open innovation, etc.)
Transformation, personalization, interconnection and future promises
Rising challenges and threats in ICT and public administration
PART B: Who perform best? Cases from the Developed Countries
Innovations in Developed counties
Case study of Public Administration and ICT issues in the U.S.
Case study of Innovations in Public Administration and ICT in Europe
Comparative case study of experiences in U.S., U.K., Europe, and
Australia
Asian Innovations in Public Administration and ICT
PART C: Whats coming up next? Trends and Innovative Prospects
Research Innovations and trends
Innovative ideas that attract scientific attention (i.e., big,
linked and open/next data management)
Social media and social networking capitalization exemplars and
platforms that enhance citizen engagement, establish e-service execution,
etc.
The role of the cloud services in public administration
Approaches to recent public administration challenges (i.e., eID,
privacy, security, transparency, cross-government affairs etc.)
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Prospective authors should email
chris.reddick@utsa.edu and
lanthopo@teilar.gr a copy of a 250 word proposed chapter abstract on or
before December 1, 2013. Their chapter proposal should clearly outline the
topic that the author(s) would like to examine and how the topic relates to
one of the three themes noted above. Author(s) of accepted chapter proposals
will be notified by December 15, 2013.
Full chapters for this book on Information and Communication Technologies in
Public Administration: Innovations from Developed Countries must be
submitted on or before February 28, 2014. All submissions must be original
and may not be under review by another publication. Results of the peer
reviews will be announced to authors by June 1, 2014. The final copy of
their chapter will be due by August 1, 2014.
INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE PUBLISHERs GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT
SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.crcpress.com/resources/authors. All submitted
chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis.
PUBLISHER:
CRC PRESS, Taylor & Francis Group.
Important Dates
Chapter Proposals Due: December 1,
2013
Notification of Accepted Chapter Proposals: December 15, 2013
Full Chapters Due: February 28,
2014
Peer Review Results: June 1, 2014
Final Revised Chapters Due: August 1, 2014
Inquiries and submissions should be emailed to
Christopher G. Reddick, University of San Antonio Texas, U.S.A.
E-mail:
chris.reddick@utsa.edu
and
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, Technological Education Institute of Thessaly,
Greece
E-mail:
lanthopo@teilar.gr
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