E-Government ICT Conference

The recent conference E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry-Oriented Conferences, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy) is of interest to those involved with ICT in government and eGovernment in general (although the conference is rather EU-centred).
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Of interest:

• Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved?
  
• E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations
  
• A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework
  
• IT skill requirements in Public Administration
  
• How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis

Search: "open source":

• Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study
  
• The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Operation, Trends:

  "The selected software to develop the dashboard has been Pentaho suite, which is an open source application. It better fits all the project needs that can be summarized by the following drivers:
  • Low license costs. It has no license costs.
  • Low impact on current systems architecture. It does not need a complex integration with source systems.
  • Availability of “off the shelf” features (reporting and KPIs analysis). It has rich libraries of graphical objects and reports to better show indicators.
  • Short Time to Delivery. The Dashboard has been delivered in three months including a tuning phase in which some new features had been added."

  
  

Table of Contents:

• A Model for Rating and Certifying Competences in the EUCIP Framework. Andrea Violetti, Susanna Daddi, Stefano Hajek.
  
• A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework. Andrea Maggipinto, Ezio Visconti.
  
• Business Process Design: Towards Service- Based Green Information Systems. Barbara Pernici, Danilo Ardagna, Cinzia Cappiello.
  
• Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study. Giorgio Rimini, Paolo Roberti.
  
• Compliance Requirements for Business-process driven SOAs. Michael P. Papazoglou.
  
• Dealing with Availability in an international Service Management scenario. Flavio Gaj, Giovanni Umberto Germani.
  
• E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations. Walter Castelnovo.
  
• EUCIP Driving the IT-Professional Competence in Norway .Renny Bakke Amundsen.
  
• European Standardisation Process .Noel Geoffrey McMullen, John O’Sullivan.
  
• European Universities and the ICT Industry .Vasile Baltac.
  
• Explaining the Evolving Web - Mixing Technology with Pleasure .Robert I. Benjamin, Rolf T. Wigand, Johanna L. H. Birkland.
  
• How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis .Franco Patini.
  
• ICT Portfolio: Mapping Business and ICT Services .Giovanni Pignatelli, Gianmario Motta, Giovanni Umberto Germani.
  
• International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) - Overview . Charles Hughes.
  
• IP3 - National Societies’ Roles and Responsibilities. Roger G. Johnson.
  
• IT and Professionalism in Developing Countries. Moira de Roche.
  
• IT Professional role today and tomorrow. Colin Thompson.
  
• IT skill requirements in Public Administration. Pietro Paolo Trimarchi.
  
• Knowledge Representation and Management for E-Government Documents. Flora Amato, Antonino Mazzeo, Antonio Penta, Antonio Picariello.
  
• Reengineering Lead to Cash - Process and Organization. Giorgio Rimini, Paolo Roberti.
  
• Service level and Value to Customer as key business drivers: a case studying a leader truck industry. Maximiliano Cascini, Manuela Maini, Thiago Barroero.
  
• SIFET-CBA Project. Mario A. Bochicchio, Antonella Longo, Federica Longo, Antonio Bernardo.
  
• Strategic Modelling of Enterprise Information Requirements. Gianmario Motta, Giovanni Pignatelli.
  
• The Accounting System of Central State Administrations. Francesco Cancellaro.
  
• The Emergence of Software Engineering Professionalism. Stephen B. Seidman.
  
• The Emerging ISO International Standard for Certification of Software Engineering Professionals. Juan Garbajosa.
  
• The EUCIP Scheme in the Italian University System. Marco Ferretti.
  
• The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Operation, Trends. Danilo Broggil.
  
• The need for a standard qualification of ICT-professional competences. Paolo Schgör.
  
• Value-Aware Service Model Driven Architecture and Methodology. Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang.
  
• Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved?. Fugini Mariagrazia, Maggiolini Piercarlo, Nanini Krysnaia, Boselli Roberto, Cesarini Mirko, Mezzanzanica Mario.