Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-

§ Applications of e-Government: New ideas for improving the public service efficiency and effectiveness; the case for e-Government; comparison case studies in developing versus developed nations; e-Government for young people; G2G applications; back-office implementation and internal adoption; EU e-Government policy; e-Government in different fields – e-justice, e-health.
§ Challenges to e-Government: Cyber terrorism; technological limitations of citizenry; language issues, identity management – including authentication trust and privacy; how to increase take-up of e-Government services; e-Government project failure; the transition to e-Government for local governments; semantics of transactions in e-Government, definitions and implementations.
§ Interoperability: Enterprise architecture; dimensions of interoperability – technical, semantic, organizational; governance of interoperability; maturity models, barriers to implementation and key success factors; interoperability frameworks; interoperability strategies.
§ e-Government 2.0: impacts of Web 2.0 in e-Government, its implications in e-Government, success and failure stories and reasons, e-Government "mashups", citizen empowerment, evaluations and challenges for the future; open access and e-Government; open data and e-Government.
§ e-Democracy/e-Participation: How technology can improve the democratic process; post-modern campaigning; ICT and the case of deliberative democracy; using blogs and wikis to enhance participation; e-Government as an enabler of
public sector reform; setting an e-Democracy agenda at government level; citizens' wider access to ICTs, and the skills and means to generate and distribute content; citizen trust in online participation and dialogue; the design of audience-specific consultative processes; conceptualising public value; deciding the correct balance between online and offline citizen/government, citizen/citizen interactions; exploiting the learning and communicative potential of emerging online tools and new media forms (games, blogs, wiki, G3 mobile communications).
§ Measuring e-Government/Economics of e-Government: The case for e-Government - can benchmarking indicators be effective; what are the benefits and economics of e-Government?; e-Government success factors and inhibitors; methodologies, tools and metrics for assessing the effectiveness of e-Government; ; the role of e-Government in social and economic development; attaining social value from electronic government; political accountability; measuring e-Government – what benchmarks should be used?; payback periods; web-based information quality.
§ Legal, agency, trust and governance issues in e-Government: The equilibrium between actors in e-Government transactions, on issues of trust that may be expressed or understood between such actors, on legal issues promoting or inhibiting the adoption of e-Government models or measures, or on IP issues of open standards use in e-Government and their consequences on applications built upon e-ID or other e-Government models, such as in procurement; trust charters in e-service delivery.
§ Additional topics: Entrepreneurial processes in the information society; knowledge management/intellectual capital in local/national government; e-I - intelligent use of systems in government; penetration/use of open-source solutions in public sector; leading change in public service organisations; shared services in public service delivery - the way forward; multi-Agency/partnership working; information management strategies within the public sector; scenario building; decision support systems; single European information space; strategic leadership; document management systems; hierarchical government processes; can e-Government learn from e-Business?; mobile Government; e-procurement; the role of the CIO in promoting e-Government; smart cities.