From zhengyp1222 at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 12:41:43 2011 From: zhengyp1222 at gmail.com (Yueping Zheng) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:41:43 -0000 Subject: [Sstig] Call for Volunteers - Fifth Global E-Governance Survey 2011(Second Call) Message-ID: Sub: Global E-Governance Survey 2011 Dear All, We are seeking volunteers for the Fifth Global E-Governance Survey, conducted by the E-Governance Institute at the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark. This study is conducted every two years. It represents a continued effort to evaluate digital governance in large municipalities throughout the world, which produces comparative analyses of e-governance and contributes to the e-governance literature. Surveyors will have the opportunity to learn about e-governance and related issues such as e-democracy, e-voting, e-bulletin boards, website usability and online citizen participation. In appreciation of your contribution, your participation will be credited in the published results. We are recruiting volunteers who read the following languages and would be willing to evaluate a city website, as part of the Global E-Governance Survey 2011. The languages include Arabic, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Marathi, Indonesian, Farsi, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Moldovan, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovene, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. If you are interested in participating in the survey, please email me at zhengyp1222 at gmail.com and I will send you further details. Thank you, Yueping Zheng [zhengyp1222 at gmail.com]