Conference sessions will cover such topics as “e-Participation”, “Diffusion”, “Implementation”, “Innovative Applications”, “Development and Electronic Governance”, “Rural Electronic Governance”, “Cases in Electronic Governance” and “Research and Applications”.

The conference will also host tutorials and workshops focusing on “Formal Engineering Methods for Electronic Governance”, “Interoperability for Electronic Governance”, “Knowledge Management and Electronic Governance”, “Electronic Government and Organizational Transformation”, “Policy Development for Electronic Governance” and “Economics for Electronic Governance”, and panel discussion on “Case Studies and Innovation in Electronic Government”, “Education and Capacity Building for Electronic Governance”, “Research and Applications in Electronic Governance”, “Socio-Economic Development and Electronic Governance”, “Participation through Electronic Governance” and “Coordination and Cooperation for Electronic Governance”. In addition, the conference will host the inauguration meeting of the Pan-Asian Society for Research and Practice on Electronic Governance (a sister society for Digital Government Societies for North America and Europe).

For more information about the conference, visit the conference website at http://www.icegov.org.

To participate in the conference or learn more about the various Electronic Governance initiatives of UNU-IIST-EGOV please contact Dr. Tomasz Janowski (tel: +853 29712930; mobile: +853 66652305, e-mail: ).

* Event: 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance — ICEGOV 2007

* Date: 10–13 December 2007

* Venue: Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China

* Co-organizers: Center for Electronic Governance at United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST-EGOV); University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY); and UN Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT)