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Comparative E-Government Integrated Series in Information Systems Volume 25, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3 Chapters involving Canada: Digital Government in North America: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Program Priorities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States E-government Maturity over 10 Years: A Comparative Analysis of E-government Maturity in Select Countries Around the World  E-government and Federalism in Italy and Canada—A Comparative Assessment Adoption of Web 2.0 by Canadian and US Governments

Volume 6267: Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective . First International Conference, EGOVIS 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 31. September 2, 2010. [NB: Behind paywall] Stakeholders’ Views on Government Enterprise Architecture: Strategic Goals and New Public Services . Katja Penttinen, Hannakaisa Isomäki An Investigation into Critical Determinants of e-Government Implementation in the Context of a Developing Nation . Nahid Rashid, Shams Rahman “What We Cannot Speak about We Must Pass over in Silence” – (In)correctly Arguing and Comparing the Costs of IT Investments in Public Sector . Samuli Pekkola, Kimmo Wideroos Small-Area Population Projections - A Key Element in Knowledge Based e-Governance . Henning Sten Hansen From Policy-Making Statements to First-Order Logic . Adam Wyner, Tom Engers, Kiavash Bahreini A Fuzzy Recommender System for eElections . Luis Terán, Andreas Meier Web 2.0 Creates a New Government . Roland Traunmüller Elements of Comprehensive Assessments...

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). Note the content is behind a pay-wall, so you can't read the articles unless you belong to an institution that has a subscription or you have one yourself. 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, Opera...

Linked Open Data (LOD) Camp - The year open data went worldwide , by Tim Berners-Lee - Open data deployments in electronic Government , by Sandro Hawke - Linked data: What about privacy? , by Thomas Roessler - Linked Open Data: What about Applications? , by Ivan Herman - Selection of Topics of Discussion for the afternoon sessions Afternoon lightning talks subjects: Linked Open Drug Data eGov opportunities Health Care/Life Sciences opportunities Financial and Business Data Crawling the LOD with ldspider Wiki

The Canadian government's House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has released a press release describing a consultation which is looking for submissions from various sectors and regions in the following areas: Science advice to government; Commercialization, venture capital and intellectual property; Federally funded research performed in government and higher education; and “Big science” projects and Canada’s position in global science and technology. Submissions must less than 5 pages in length, and emailed in by April 18 2008. No indication of what file formats are accepted.