Advances In Digital Government presents a collection of in-depth
articles that addresses a representative cross-section of the matrix of
issues involved in implementing digital government systems. These
articles constitute a survey of both the technical and policy dimensions
related to the design, planning and deployment of digital government
systems. The research and development projects within the technical
dimension represent a wide range of governmental functions, including
the provisioning of health and human services, management of energy
information, multi-agency integration, and criminal justice
applications. The technical issues dealt with in these projects include
database and ontology integration, distributed architectures,
scalability, and security and privacy. The human factors research
emphasizes compliance with access standards for the disabled and the
policy articles contain both conceptual models for developing digital
government systems as well as real management experiences and results in
deploying them.
Advances In Digital Government presents digital government issues from
the perspectives of different communities and societies. This geographic
and social diversity illuminates a unique array of policy and social
perspectives, exposing practitioners to new and useful ways of thinking
about digital government.