Summary

The 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2014) took place in Guimarães, Portugal, from 27 to 30 October 2014, under the high patronage of His Excellency, the President of the Portuguese Republic. It was co-organized by the University of Minho, the Agency for Administrative Modernization and the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV). ICEGOV2014 featured a rich academic, capacity-building and network-building program of keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper tracks (that included tutorials, paper sessions and workshops), thematic sessions, invited sessions, a poster exhibition, and a doctoral colloquium, all built from submitted or invited contributions by researchers and experts from around the world. The conference engaged individuals from over 60 countries and economies as authors, reviewers, committee members and resource people.