"This book compiles estimable research on the global trend toward the rapidly increasing use of information technology in the public sector, discussing such issues as e-government and e-commerce; project management and information technology evaluation; system design and data processing; security and protection; and privacy, access, and ethics of public information technology"--Provided by publisher.

Vol. 1. Section 1. E-Government and E-Commerce --
1. Key Issues in E-Government and Public Administration --
2. Government Web Sites as Public Forums --
3. Limitations of Evolutionary Approaches to E-Government --
4. Issues and Trends in Internet-Based Citizen Participation --
5. Public Sector Participation in Open Communities --
6. Community Informatics --
7. Public Wireless Internet --
8. The Current State and Future of E-Participation Research --
9. Blogging --
10. E-Government and SMEs --
11. EU E-Business and Innovation Policies for SMEs --
12. Exploitation of Public Sector Information in Europe --
13. Information Technology Among U.S. Local Governments --
14. Public Sector Human Resources Information Systems --
15. Digital Libraries --
16. An Exploratory Study of the E-Government Services in Greece --
17. e-Government's Barriers and Opportunities in Greece --
18. E-Lections in New Zealand Local Government --
19. E-Census 2006 in New Zealand --
20. Security Challenges in Distributed Web Based Transactions: An Overview on the Italian Employment Information System --
21. Interactive Personalized Catalogue for M-Commerce --
22. Trust Based E-Commerce Decisions --
23. Using Partial Least Squares in Digital Government Research. Section 2. Privacy, Access, Ethics, and Theory --
24. Privacy Issues in Public Web Sites --
25. A Framework for Accessible and Usable Web Applications --
26. Intelligent User-Centric Access to Public Information --
27. Open Access to Scholarly Publications and Public Policies --
28. The Digital Divide and Social Equity --
29. Africa and the Challenges of Bridging the Digital Divide --
30. Research Ethics in E-Public Administration --
31. Medical Ethical and Policy Issues Arising from RIA --
32. Social Capital and the Gendering of Differential IT Use --
33. Technology Diffusion in Public Administration --
34. Institutional Theory and E-Government Research --
35. Structuration Theory and Government IT. Section 3. Security and Protection --
36. Intelligence and Security Informatics --
37. Practical Measures for Securing Government Networks --
38. Digital Convergence and Cybersecurity Policy --
39. Bioterrorism Response and IT Strategies --
40. Federal Public-Key Infrastructure --
41. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology --
42. Roaming-Agent Protection for E-Commerce --
43. Integrity Protection of Mobile Agent Data. Vol. 2. 44. The Role of Data Mining in Intrusion Detection Technology. Section 4. System Design and Data Processing --
45. System Dynamics to Understand Public Information Technology --
46. Government Innovation Through Knowledge Management --
47. A Framework for Knowledge Management in E-Government --
48. Web Application Classification: A Maintenance/Evolution Perspective --
49. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures --
50. The Strategic Determinants of Shared Services --
51. Data Mining in Public Administration --
52. Categorization of Data Clustering Techniques --
53. Statistical Dissemination Systems and the Web --
54. Text Mining --
55. Statistical Data and Metadata Quality Assessment --
56. Probability Association Approach in Automatic Image Annotation --
57. Online Analytical Processing and Data-Cube Technologies. Section 5. Project Management and IT Evaluation --
58. Managing People and Information in Complex Organizations --
59. Human-Factors Design for Public Information Technology --
60. An Overview of IT Outsourcing in Public Sector Agencies --
61. E-Health, Local Governance, and Public-Private Partnering in Ontario --
62. Implementing a Sound Public Information Security Program --
63. Evaluation of E-Government Web Sites --
64. IT Evaluation Issues in Australian Public-Sector Organizations --
65. Performance and Accountability in E-Budgeting Projects --
66. A Model for Reengineering IT Job Classes in State Government. Section 6. Selected Readings --
67. Developing a Generic Framework for E-Government --
68. A Web Query System for Heterogeneous Government Data --
69. Digital Government Worldwide: An E-Government Assessment of Municipal Web Sites --
70. User Help and Service Navigation Features in Government Web Sites --
71. An Empirical Study on the Migration to OpenOffice.org in a Public Administration --
72. Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services: The Case of Britain's National Mapping Agency --
73. Public Administrators' Acceptance of the Practice of Digital Democracy: A Model Explaining the Utilization of Online Policy Forums in South Korea --
74. E-Mexico: Collaborative Structures in Mexican Public Administration --
75. The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence from Europe --
76. Adoption and Implementation of IT in Developing Nations: Experiences from Two Public Sector Enterprises in India.