Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective

The 4th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2015, took place in Valencia, Spain from 1st to 3rd of September. The conference belongs to the 26th DEXA Conference Series. The international conference cycle EGOVIS focuses on information systems and ICT aspects of e-government. Information systems are a core enabler for e-government/governance in all its dimensions: e-administration, e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting. EGOVIS brought together experts from academia, public administrations, and industry to discuss e-government and e-democracy from different perspectives and disciplines, i.e. technology, policy and/or governance and public administration. This year OpenLaws workshop is organized as a related event, with focus on open innovation. The Program Committee accepted 26 papers from recent research fields like government cloud, identity management and e-government architectures, collaborative innovation, open government, open and linked data, intelligent systems and semantic technologies applications. Beyond theoretical contributions, papers cover e-government experiences from all over the world; cases are presented from Europe and South America. This proceeding is organized into 9 sections according to the conference sessions. We are honoured that EGOVIS 2015 keynote speech will be given by Prof. Ronald Traunmuller: he is one of the pioneers in e-government studies and has contributed for years to identify limits and opportunities in the field. Prof. Traunmuller's speech will discuss the previous 15 years of e-government research directions covered by DEXA and EGOVIS conference series. Chairs of the Program Committee wish to thank all the reviewers for their valuable work, the reviews raised several research questions to discuss in the conference. We would like to thank Gabriela Wagner for the administrative support and stimulating us in proper scheduling. We wish pleasant and beneficial learning experiences for the readers and we hope that the discussion will continue after the conference between the researchers and contribute to building a global community in the field of e-government.