The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Managing E-Government Development for Reducing Corruption via Effective Policymaking: Empirical Evidences from Cross-Country Analyses
Prakrit Silal, Ashutosh Jha, Debashis Saha

Towards a Smart City Blueprint Template
Christian Pfister, Stephan Haller, Eduard Klein

Analytics-Driven Digital Platform for Regional Growth and Development: A Case Study from Norway
Salah Uddin Ahmed, Steinar Aasnass, Fisnik Dalipi, Knut Hesten

Classifying Vehicles' Behaviors using Global Positioning Systems Information
Alessandro Silacci, Julien Tscherrig, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled

Innovation Policy Analytics for Economic Crisis
Euripidis Loukis, Spyros Arvanitis, Charalampos Alexopoulos

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Digital Interactions Strategy: A Public Sector Case
Samantha Papavasiliou, Carmen Reaiche, Peter Ricci

Quality of Life Index Analysis for the Case of Romanian Regions
Ilie Cristian Dorobăț, Octavian Rinciog, George Cristian Muraru, Vlad Posea

Unknown Territories: The Strategy of Social Media Usage by Law Enforcement Agencies
Azi Lev-On, Gal Yavetz

Cloud Computing in eGovernment: Benefits and Challenges
Frank Danielsen, Leif Skiftenes Flak, Alexander Ronzhyn

Challenges and Opportunities in e-Government Education
Demetrios Sarantis, Ben Dhaou Soumaya, Charalampos Alexopoulos, Euripidis Loukis