Call for Papers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 1, 2010 --

The GTEC 2010 conference is pleased to announce it will now accept presentation summaries from leaders and presenters within industry, government, the educational community, associations and the public sector. Presentation abstracts from potential speakers are due on, or before, April 09, 2010.

Background - Subject Matter and Broad Themes

The GTEC conference is the annual meeting place for federal, provincial, municipal, and regional leaders, from Canada and around the world, to share information, knowledge and professional experiences in serving citizens better with the use of information and communications technologies.

2010 Theme -- High Performance Government

There is pressure on governments world-wide to provide more and better services and to do so within diminishing budgets; doing more with less, while not a new phrase is an accurate one. Doing more with less requires optimal performance. GTEC has traditionally explored the use of IM and IT to enable service delivery, this year we will consider these but look at them within the context of optimal performance.

At GTEC 2010, we'll ask the following broad questions:

What do high performance governments look like to the citizens they serve, the people who work within them, and their political leaders?

We will consider the characteristics of high performing organizations: What does their enabling infrastructure look like, i.e. their technology, their data/information, their people, their HR practices -- recruiting, developing, retaining; their organizational structures and decision-making processes; their service delivery partners; their policy framework?

Through our keynotes, seminars and workshops, we'll also explore 5 basic approaches to high performance in government:

1. How technology enables high performance - How is technology leveraged at each phase of the management cycle: from planning, to execution, measurement, monitoring, talent management, and procurement?
2. How information enables better decisions - Governments must manage information and data horizontally across departments and between jurisdictions. How must governments address the issues of open data, security and privacy, to make more informed decisions?
3. High performance work cultures -- High performing organizations require creativity and leadership from people at every level. What role should the CIO play as an advocate of high performance, and how can the IT/IM communities become agents of change?
4. What makes organizational transformation work -- How can people and technology create new organizational structures that permit adaptability and change?
5. How to mitigate risk -- If leveraged strategically, IM/IT can be a valuable tool for the public sector to evaluate and mitigate risk. If technologies can lead to better informed policy and service delivery strategies, then how do high performing governments quantify and measure risk?

History has already shown that technology can enable better service delivery, but high performance governments in the web 2.0 world must find new ways to address the human and organizational dimensions of public sector service delivery.

Notes to Private Sector Submissions:

No presentation will be selected unless it relates directly to the conference theme. While private sector presentations are encouraged, all submissions should be presented in a vendor-neutral context. Cases, research and reference models should be featured in the presentation abstract to ensure the presentation clearly addresses the theme in a product agnostic tone.

Presentations that do not meet the criteria for the conference can be presented in the workshop program at the GTEC Exhibition. For further information, please contact Terry Horsman at 613-599-8880 ext. 105 ( )

Deadline for Submissions: April 09, 2010. For further information, contact Madeleine Saikaley at 613-599-8880 Ext. 104 or by email at .

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