International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG)

The IJEG is a fully refereed inter-disciplinary research journal covering the theory, applications and impact of using the internet, the world-wide web and digital communication media as governance channels. The journal focuses on the use of electronic and information technologies in deliberation over democratic policy and decision making processes, community governance as well as governance in non-political domains such as corporate, open project, online community and social network contexts. IJEG also explores the relations between electronic governance, digital communication and digital inclusion, novel technologies for electronic governance such as governance games and simulations, and the political, organisational, social, psychological and cognitive aspects of electronic governance.

IJEG aims to help researchers and practitioners, academic educators and policy makers to contribute, disseminate knowledge and learn from each others’ work through cutting-edge thinking in electronic governance, and emphasises the international dimension in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and respond to accelerating technological and global change. With the objective of becoming an outstanding forum where electronic governance research and practice can take a shape of its own and results can be shared across institutions, governments, academia, research and the practitioner community, IJEG seeks

• up-to-date, leading research reports to help readers stay ahead and maintain a competitive edge best practice in electronic governance 
• practical guidance reports on ways to achieve greater openness and innovation in the development and implementation of electronic governance 
• in-depth analysis and interpretation that advances understanding and provides a framework for further study of electronic governance 
• international coverage that allows the sharing of information, knowledge and insight on a worldwide scale.

• Electronic rule making and public policy formulation at all levels, from trans-national and national to regional, local and community policies 
• Electronic democratic processes at all levels, including hard and soft voting and electoral processes, as well as novel forms of political discussion and mobilisation 
• Digital citizenship, electronic deliberation, digital consensus building 
• Digital inclusion in the policy making and democratic governance process 
• Digital communication for policy making and electronic governance 
• Electronic governance, digital communication and the democratic deficit 
• Manifestations of electronic governance outside the political domain 
• Electronic corporate governance, electronic corporate diplomacy, electronic governance of virtual organisations 
• Multi-level and multi-national electronic governance in the public and corporate domain 
• Self-governed electronic collaboration and self-governed projects 
• Self-regulated online communities and social networks 
• Open, peer-to-peer, self-regulated electronic governance models 
• Cross-domain theories for electronic governance 
• Electronic governance platforms 
• Communication, content, interaction and cognitive technologies for electronic governance 
• Electronic governance simulations, serious gaming for electronic governance 
• Training for electronic governance 
• Communal, political and institutional legitimisation of electronic governance 
• Organisational, legal and financial aspects of electronic governance 
• Social aspects of electronic governance, virtual social behaviour and community building 
• Psychological and cognitive aspects of electronic governance, virtual cognition and awareness, virtual self-consciousness and identity building, the personal electronic governance experience 

Audience: The target audience of IJEG includes researchers, academics, professionals, managers, policy makers and non-profit organisations with an interest in the design and development of electronic governance.

• eParticipation Systems and Services in Converging Regions (forthcoming)
• Delivering Electronic Government (forthcoming)
• Users and Uses of Electronic Governance (paper submission by 30/9/08)