Workshop for E-government via Software Services (WeGovS2 2009)

E-government is a strategic direction to reduce administrative burden and make government more efficient and service-directed. Despite recent achievements in research and actual implementation of e-government in practice, numerous questions still remain on how to achieve full interoperability and dynamic reconfiguration of e-government services, with better accessibility, more transparency and manageability. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm provides the necessary theoretical and technological support for the desired electronic government systems to become a reality. It satisfies the demand for a highly distributed heterogeneous environment with a large number of autonomous services and their providers together with users with their own goals and preferences. Therefore, the combination of the e-government domain and SOA appears to be natural, as SOA provides an ideal platform to achieve the goal of a citizen-oriented and citizen-centric government organization. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss how the SOA paradigm may facilitate further advances in e-government research as well as best practice examples of already implemented and applied solutions in the context of e-government. We plan to have both formal and informal presentations on theoretical, technical and implementation aspects of the application of SOA for e-government challenges and issues.