Section I: E-Government Strategies, Concepts, and Issues 1. The Paradigm of E-Commerce in E-Government and E-Democracy - Bernd Carsten Stahl 2. Implementing And Assessing Transparency in Digital Government: Some Issues in Project Management - Bryane Michael and Michael Bates 3. The Dimensions of Business Process Change in electronic Government - Hans J. Scholl 4. A Strategic Framework for a G2G E-Government Excellence Center - Roberto Evaristo and Beomsoo Kim 5. Access Control Model for Webservices E-Government Infrastructure - Kam Fai Wong and Matthew Ka Wing Tam 6. Online One-Stop Government: A Single Point of Access to Public Services - Efthimios Tambouris and Maria Wimmer 7. Privacy and Trust in E-Government - George Yee, Khalil El-Khatib, Larry Korba, Andrew S. Patrick, Ronggong Song and Yuefei Xu Section II: E-Government Implementations and Practices 8. A Comparative Study of Strategic Issues Digital Government Implementations Between Developed and Developing Countries - Yining Chen, Wayne Huang, D. Li, H.Z. Shen, P.Z. Zhang and Lori Klamo 9. Effectiveness of E-Government Online Services in Australia - Xuetao Guo and Jie Lu 10. Implementing Digital Government in the Finnish Parliament - Airi Salminen, Virpi Lyytikäinen, Pasi Tiitinen and Olli Mustajärvi 11. Participants'Expectations and the Success og Knowledge Networking in the Public Sector - Jing Zhang, Anthony M. Cresswell and Fiona Thompson 12. Shanghai's E-Government: Implementation Strategies and a Case Study - Hongmin Chen and Qing Zhang 13. E-Government: Implementation Policies and Best Practices from Singapore - Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam 14. Towards an E-Government Solution: A South African Perspective - Shwren Singh and Goonasagree Naidoo 15. Building the Network State - Dieter Spahni 16. Semiotic Analysis of E-Policing Strategies in the United Kingdom - Kecheng Liu and Michael Hu 17. Digital Government Development Strategies: Lessons for Policy Makers from a Comparative Perspective - Yu-Che Chen and Richard Knepper 18. E-Government Applications and User Acceptance in Taiwan - Shin-Yuan Hung, Cheng-Yuan Ku and Chia-Ming Chang