Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective

The 5th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2016, took place in Porto, Portugal from 5th to 8th of September. The conference belongs to the 27th 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. The Program Committee accepted 22 papers from recent research fields such as open data and government cloud, identity management and e-government architectures, innovation, open government, 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 eight sections according to the conference sessions. We are honoured that the keynote speeches, hosted this year by EGOVIS, were given by three leaders in the e-government field from the academia and the public sector. In particular Prof. Ronald Traunmuller of the University of Linz, one of the pioneers in e-government studies, discussed about the information system perspective in e-government research and development. Attila Péterfalvi, President of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Hungary gave an overview about the transparency of public functions and public funds in Hungary. Finally, Prof. András Gábor from the Corvinus University in Budapest addressed the problem of security governance, in particular for public sector services, in relations to the socio-components of the trust. 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.