TY - JOUR
AU - Bannister, Frank
AB - Information Polity 12 (2007) 227–231 227 IOS Press The perspective of Janus: Reflecting on EGPA past and future Frank Bannister Trinity College, Dublin E-mail: fbnnistr@tcd.ie 1. Past The first EGPA conference that I attended was in Vaasa, Finland, in 2001. I had just completed my PhD during the course of which I had read a couple of dozen articles and papers originating from EGPA conferences over the preceding years. I had no idea what exactly what EGPA was nor how it worked and, if I was being honest, I was partially drawn to the conference in the hope of finally putting faces on names of people whose work I had read, scholars like Wim van de Donk, Ignace Snellen, John Taylor and Klaus Lenk, to name but a few. I was also hoping to connect with what, at that time, seemed to be a rather small group of European scholars working in the field of the application of information technology in government. The conference was something of a culture shock. For a start, the participants were predominantly from different sub-disciplines within the field of public administration. My own background was deep in computing and, although I had done my 
TI - The perspective of Janus: Reflecting on EGPA past and future
JF - Information Polity
DO - 10.3233/ip-2007-0125
DA - 2007-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/ios-press/the-perspective-of-janus-reflecting-on-egpa-past-and-future-UjlrmXRkrN
SP - 227
EP - 231
VL - 12
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -