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Subject: Workshop: e-Government



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The 4th Social Study of IT workshop at the LSE=20

22-23 March 2004

e-Government

In March 2004 the Department of Information Systems at the London School
of Economics and Political Science will once again be hosting its 4th
workshop on the Social Study of ICT. The workshop will take place on 22
and 23 March 2004 at the LSE campus in London, U.K.. Successful SSIT
workshops in the past three years have addressed issues of
infrastructure, network society, globalisation and organising with
knowledge. For SSIT4 our theme is e-Government.

The workshop will provide a timely opportunity to reflect on one of the
most significant and potentially important new directions for the
deployment of ICTs. Within information systems this is perhaps most
explicit in the rapid growth of research activity in the field, with the
search for appropriate theoretical and strategic understanding of the
topic backed by increasing empirical research.

The workshop promises stimulating presentations, provocative panels and
lively debate. It will explore e-government by drawing on contributions
 from within the IS field, from other social science disciplines, from
policy makers and from practitioners. Following the successful format
established in the earlier SSIT workshops, the programme will mix
presentations from members of the Department, LSE colleagues from other
Departments and distinguished invited speakers. The aim is to provide a
valuable opportunity for a multidisciplinary group to debate their
research and to be exposed to various theoretical and practical
perspectives.=20

We expect that the workshop will start at 9.30 a.m. on Monday 22 March
and finish at lunch time on Tuesday 23 March. We expect to have 6 or 7
speakers making presentations, as well as one or two panel sessions.
There will be a linked event on the afternoon of 23 March - a roundtable
that will focus on open source software initiatives and e-Government.=20

Speakers

Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Professor of Political Science and Public
Policy at LSE

Professor Jane Fountain, Associate Professor of Public Policy and
Director of the National Center for Digital Government at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Professor Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of American Government,
Michigan State University

Further speakers and a draft programme will be announced shortly at
http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/ssit4/

Booking

Places are free but numbers are limited. Please reserve your place by
completing the attendance form - in word format
http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/ssit4/SSIT_attendance_form.doc (can be filled
in on-line)=20
or in pdf format
http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/ssit4/SSIT_attendance_form.pdf (to printout
and return by fax) - and returning it to the Event Administrator, Emma
Peel: mailto:[log in to unmask]

Tel: 00 44 (0) 207 955 6398=20
Fax: 00 44 (0) 207 955 7385


Mike Cushman   [ mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Information Manager
Department of Information Systems
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London       WC2A 2AE
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7426      Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7385
http://is.lse.ac.uk/




Booking

Places are free but numbers are limited. Please reserve your place by
completing the attendance form - in word format (can be filled in
on-line) or in pdf format (to printout and return by fax) - and
returning it to the Event Administrator, Emma Peel: [log in to unmask]

Tel: 00 44 (0) 207 955 6398=20
Fax: 00 44 (0) 207 955 7385
  

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