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General Chair David Perry, Director Great Cities Institute University of Illinois at Chicago Program Co-Chairs L. Vaughn Blankenship University of Illinois at Chicago Lvaughn@uic.edu Patricia Diamond Fletcher University of Maryland, Baltimore County fletcher@umbc.edu Workshop Organizing Committee John Bertot Florida State University mjcbertot@lis.fsu.edu Ugo Buy University of Illinois at Chicago Jim Danziger University of California-Irvine Sharon Dawes State University at Albany, NY Paul Dresler U.S. Dept. of the Interior Robert Hollebeek University of Pennsylvania William Huxhold University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Christopher Lee City of Mobile, Alabama Joe J. Mambretti Northwestern University Richard O. Mason Southern Methodist University John McCarthy U.S. Dept. of Commerce Randall Murphy Lake County, Illinois Albert Schorsch, III University of Illinois at Chicago Wim Wiewel University of Illinois at Chicago Joiwind Williams Ronan Council for Excellence in Government	CALL FOR PAPERS Foundations of Electronic Government in America's Cities: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the *Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, in cooperation with the eighteen universities of the Great Cities Universities Consortium,* March 8 and 9, 2001, in Chicago, Illinois Papers Due00000000000001/05/01 Acceptance Notice oooo001/29/01 Final Copy Due 000000oo02/28/01 The focus of this workshop is on digital government in urban environments. Digital government concerns applications of technologies and process in support of seamless government administration, information provision, and service delivery. This workshop will expand and build upon previous NSF sponsored digital government workshops by identifying and prioritizing research issues of critical importance to public administration and policy making with related computer science research in urban environments. The primary objective of the workshop is to identify concrete research-theoretical and experimental projects that will lead to the development and implementation of successful urban digital government applications in the coming years. 00000000000000Tracks · Policy & Governance -> law, guidance, management structure and operating procedures that influence the implementation of e-gov · Functional Areas of E-Government -> applications in transportation, parks, health, social service and other local government functions · Human Computer Interaction -> how the public can interface government from home, work, or public space; accessibility concerns · Citizen Trust -> security, privacy, and governance concerns 000000000000Instructions to Authors Submit 8 ~12 page (double-spaced with brief references at the end) discussion paper addressing one of the above topic areas. The paper should make a case for the diffusion and use of an application, originality of the e-gov idea, or implications of legal/critical issues. Three electronic copies are to be submitted to the Workshop Co-Chairs and John Bertot by 01/05/01. More information.

Foundations of Electronic Government in America's Cities: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop