6 University scholars from Greece in the top-50 Electronic Government Researchers Globally

In a paper presented during the annual IFIP International Electronic Government Conference, held in Trinity College Dublin, Hans J. Scholl analysed the status of research in the electronic government domain. The paper, that is already published and available by Springer, is titled "The EGOV Research Community: An Update on Where We Stand" and contains findings from tracking and analysing the eGov research publications for more than a decade.

The  Electronic Government Reference Library (EGRL) is an ongoing project at the University of Washington to create and maintain a comprehensive reference library dedicated to academic electronic government literature. From its first public release in 2006, the number of entries in the  reference library has grown rapidly to thousands of references. With the release of version 10 in April 2014, the EGRL has reached a volume of more than 6,500 references and 9,000 researchers - authors.

Based on the H.J. Scholl recent paper, among the top-50 scholars in this domain there are 6 university professors from Greece, in the following rankings:

Rank  Name                    University

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#08   Yannis Charalabidis     University of the Aegean, Samos

#17   Efthimios Tambouris     University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

#20   Konstantinos Tarabanis  University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

#22   Dimitrios Askounis      National Technical University of Athens

#24   Euripidis Loukis        University of the Aegean, Samos

#45   Gregoris Mentzas        National Technical University of Athens

The countries with more than 2 representatives in the top-50 scholars list are the following:



United States of America - 12 

Greece                   -  6

United Kingdom           -  6

Netherlands              -  5

Mexico                   -  3

Germany                  -  3

Denmark                  -  3



Below is an extract of the list of the top-50 scholars in the eGovernment domain.

The full paper from Hans J. Scholl "The EGOV Research Community: An Update on Where We Stand" can be found at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-44426-9_1



The latest version of the Electronic Government Reference Library (EGRL) can be downloaded from: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/egrl/index.php

University of the Aegean visits Ege University

During August 2014 I had the pleasure to visit Ege University in Ismir, on behalf of the Information Systems Laboratory of the Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department of the University of the Aegean.  My colleague Prof. Serdal Temel welcomed me in EBILTEM Technology Transfer Office, within the University campus.

Ege University Science and Technology Centre - Technology Transfer Office (EBILTEM-TTO) is a regional and national expertise organization on innovation management, R&D, technology transfer and triple helix cooperation. The Centre is located in Izmir, Turkey and is within the organizational structure of Ege University which is a 55-year old State University.

Ege University and University of the Aegean have signed a collaboration protocol since 2012, to further strengthen their collaboration on academic issues.

The potential for collaboration between EBILTEM/Ege University and IS-LAB/University of the Aegean spans in three axes:

Alignment of activities in the areas of university startup incubation programmes and youth entrepreneurship.

Joined participation in R&D proposals, under the HORIZON 2020 research programme or Greece - Turkey bilateral research programmes.

Students collaboration and other focused initiatives to promote collaboration among the two university units.

With Serdal Temel in EBILTEM

Further collaboration activities among the to Universities, as well as exchange of visits to Samos and Izmir are being planned in the coming months.