(keitai-l) 16 special sessions at the EURO mGOV conference

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*** Paper submissions: 25 February 2005
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The First Euro Conference on Mobile Government
              The EURO mGOV, 2005
10-12 July 2005, Sussex University, Brighton,The United Kingdom
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http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euro.html

*** Organiser/Sponsors:
NOKIA, (www.nokia.com )  mGCI, (www.mgovernment.org), IUJ Business School
(www.ibs.iuj.ac.jp) and www.mGovLab.org

*** Covering all aspects of mobile business, technologies and  e-government
*** exhibitions and demos and research, practice and policy presentations

FROM e-GOVERNMENT TO M-GOVERNMENT
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Combining e-government and mobility, The First Euro Conference on Mobile
Government (EURO mGOV 2005) aims  to attract Representatives from the Public
Sector, Academia, and IT and Telecom Companies, to establish a  forum and
networking platform for discussion and dissemination of knowledge on all
aspects of Mobile Government including research, policy, implementation
issues and impact on
the government organizations  and the society.  More information can be
found at http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org

** 16 SPECIAL SESSIONS: http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/Sessions.html
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In addition to Tutorials, Plenary Sessions, exhibitions and Demos, The EURO
mGOV 2005 contains 16 special sessions organized by various researchers and
practitioners. You are invited to submit to following  sessions:

** Supporting mobile government workers
Chair: Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth, UK

** mCities
Chair: Olov Östberg, The Swedish Agency for Public Management, Sweden

** mCare
Chair: Claus Nielsen, (LGDK) Local Government Denmark

** Mobile Government Country Case: Some Applications from Germany
Chairs: Bernhard Thalheim, Peggy Schmidt, Gunar Fiedler, Kiel University,
Information Systems Engineering

Research Group, Germany.

** Impact and Return on Investment (ROI) of Mobile Government
Chair: H. Michael Chung , California State University, Long Beach, USA

** Mobile Government Country Case: reporting from Taiwan
Chair: Ta-Yi Lin, Harvard University, USA

** M-Democracy
Chair:  Mary Griffiths, University of Waikato, N. Zealand

** Mobile Technologies for Digital Government
Chair: Q B. Chung,  Villanova University, USA

** Mobile eHealth
Chair: Dr. Norm Archer, DeGroote School of Business McMaster University,
Canada

** Think Mobile: Best Practices for Delivering Mobile Services to the Mass
Market
Chair: Tom Hume,  Futureplatforms, Brighton, UK

** mGovernment: Value added public services
Chairs: Heide Bruecher & Petra Baumberger, Competence Center eGovernment,
University for Applied Sciences, Berne, Switzerland

** Social Services and mGovernment
Chair: Riikka Vuokko, University of Turku, Finland

** M-Government Customer Experience
Chair: Otto Petrovic, Evolaris, Austria

** m-Security: Security Issues for Mobile Government
Chair: Levent Ertaul, California State University, Hayward, USA

** Mobile Government and the Back Office: Cases, Lessons Learned, and
Breakthroughs
Chair: Hans J Scholl, The Information School, University of Washington, USA

** Aspects of Mobility:  user behaviour and their impact on governments
Chair:  Klas Roggenkamp,  Berlin,  Germany


** Submissions to the Special sessions
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All interested authors should initially send a page-long paper proposal to
the session chairs to see the suitability of their paper for the session.

All full paper submissions are subject to EURO mGOV submission and review
procedures as outlined at http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/Submissions.htm.
Please send your full paper submissions to submissions@mgovernment.org *and*
copy (Cc) ing to the session chairs before the full paper submission
deadline (February, 25, 2005) indicating "special session" on the subject
line *and*  the title of the session at the top of the first page of the
paper. Please download CFP of the each special sessions at the
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/Sessions.html and for more on the conference
and participation please visit
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/Participation.html

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Ibrahim Kushchu, MBA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor, International University of Japan
Yamato-machi, Minami Uonuma-gun
Niigata 949-7277  JAPAN
Tel   +81 257 791464   Fax +81 257 791187

http://www.iuj.ac.jp/faculty/ik/INDEX.HTML
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