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International conference on e-Gov to be held in Lahore in December

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New Delhi: Following its tremendous success in the previous two years, the Third International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG) is coming to Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan this year.

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Scheduled from 9th to 11th December , 2005, this is first time this highly successful international conference on e-governance is coming to Pakistan.

Pakistan PM, Shaukat Aziz, is expected to inaugurate the summit. The conference was organized by Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (India) in 2003 and by the University of Colombo, School of Computing (Sri Lanka) in 2004.

The ICEG conference in Pakistan will provide a platform for government officials, funding agencies, scientists and research students, from across the globe, to present and deliberate on their research findings, experiences, strategies, policies, technologies and case studies in the field of e-governance.

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The conference will deliberate on technology models, operational models, financial models, sustainability models and innovative change management techniques for successful adoption of IT in government.

Announcing the dates of the conference, Dr Syed Zahoor Hassan, Vice Chancellor of LUMS, said, "Our vision is to be a pre-eminent academic institution, serving as a catalyst for economic prosperity and social development with a focus on management of resources. Hosting the Third International Conference on e-Governance is a step in that direction," he said.

Oracle, the world's leading enterprise software company, will be a key sponsor and provider of resources in this year's conference as it did in the previous two conferences in 2003 and 2004.

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