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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Paper: CADSCOM 2021 Virtual Conference
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Paper: CADSCOM 2021 Virtual Conference Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:54:06 +0000 From: Jin, Simon <simon.jin(a)metrostate.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The 3rd Colloquium on Analytics, Data Science and Computing (CADSCOM 2021) https://www.twincitiesacm.org/services/ The 3rd Colloquium on Analytics, Data Science and Computing (CADSCOM) will be held virtually on Saturday, March 20, 2021. CADSCOM provides an excellent opportunity for faculty, students, and professionals to share their original research in data science, analytics, and computing. The submissions are peer-reviewed and double-blind reviewed. The colloquium will feature prominent keynotes, industry-faculty panels, and peer-reviewed papers. Opportunities to fast track CADSCOM papers for journal publications (e.g., Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS)) are also available. CADSCOM 20201 has been approved by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as a chapter conference. We are proud to partner with the Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence, Metropolitan State University, and Minnesota State University Mankato to host CADSCOM 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CADSCOM 2021 will be held virtually via video conferencing. Topics Organizations are seeking to harness data to improve decision-making, foment innovation, and discover insights. The purpose of CADSCOM is to promote and disseminate novel and cutting-edge ideas that can improve the understanding of concepts, challenges, opportunities, and technology related to real-world data projects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data Infrastructure and Computing: cloud and high-performance computing, big data systems and programming models, software techniques and architecture for grid, parallel, graph, and in-memory computing, containerization, data stream processing. * Data Management: data modeling, relational and NoSQL databases, distributed databases, best practices in data collection, ingestion, extraction, integration, and cleaning, data governance frameworks, data strategy. * Data Analytics: concepts and techniques of data visualization, statistical theories and applications, predictive models and applications, geo-spatial analytics. * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning models, transfer learning, text and social media analytics, natural language processing, deep learning algorithms and architectures, image and speech recognition, ML model deployment, ML as a Service. * Data Ethics and Security: privacy and ethical issues and solutions, best practices in data security, data encryption algorithms and techniques, social impact and implications for big data analytics. * Big Data Applications: novel applications of big data in sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, healthcare, retail, finance, education, manufacturing, transportation, and other domains. * Emerging Technologies: blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, etc. * Business Management and Strategy-making: Applications of advanced business analytics in management and governance. Submission Type * Full paper submission: The full papers should not exceed single-spaced 6 pages, including all content and references. All submissions must be in PDF format and formatted according to the format guidelines. * Research-in-progress submission: The research-in-progress papers are either abstracts or a summary of initial results of an in-progress study. The research-in-progress submission must not exceed single-spaced 2 pages including all contents and references. * Research poster submission: A 2-page abstract (including all content and references) is required for digital posters. If approved, the authors will present their work through a digital poster during the online poster session. We do not provide a poster template. The poster size and layout are left to the discretion of the author(s). Submission Directions Submit the full paper to EasyChair<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>. All submissions must be in PDF format and formatted according to the format guidelines. DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE DOCUMENT to facilitate a double-blind review, and we will track submissions using a submission record number. You can download the submission template from here: CADSOM2021 Submission Template<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twinc… ostate.edu%7Cc9d17caf93ed48314a6a08d8b101454b%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637453966294100869%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Z6JQ%2FET4sUCLnU8yHamNPK0%2BhAvJnn9jA3SPGHUN1gU%3D&reserved=0> Once your paper is accepted, you will be added to the Colloquium program. All submissions need to be original work that are not published anywhere else. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for and attend the Colloquium to present the paper. Key Dates Deadline for paper submissions: February 14, 2021 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2021 Conference date: March 20, 2021 For additional information, please visit https://www.twincitiesacm.org/services/. All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Simon Jin, program chair at Simon.Jin(a)metrostate.edu<mailto:Simon.Jin@metrostate.edu> Simon Sincerely, Simon Sung Jin, Ph.D. Department Chair Associate Professor of Management Information Systems College of Management Metropolitan State University 1501 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis MN 55403-1897 Office: (612) 659-7232 Simon.Jin(a)metrostate.edu<mailto:Simon.Jin@metrostate.edu> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd Call for Papers—"General EGOV Track" at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021, Granada, Spain
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd Call for Papers—"General EGOV Track" at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021, Granada, Spain Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:55:27 +0000 From: Jochen Scholl <jscholl(a)uw.edu> To: aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The multi-track EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021 conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working Group (Information Systems in Public Administration) Conference Location: University of Granada, Spain Conference Dates: September 7-9, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: March 19, 2021 General E-Government and E-Governance Track The track serves as an umbrella for all E-Government (EGOV) and E-Governance-related topics except the dedicated-topic tracks. E-Government research, also increasingly referred to as Digital Government Research, has developed over the past decades into a mature domain of multidisciplinary study with its own identity and profile. In this track, EGOV foundations and theories are explored. Moreover, the track puts special emphasis on studying a multitude of topics and areas of practice related to EGOV. We solicit high-quality submissions representing a variety of research approaches. This track also covers several special topics in E-Government/Digital Government research. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: Foundations of E-Government and E-Governance research E-Government theories, views, methods and frameworks Interdisciplinary approaches (e.g. intersection with other disciplines such as Information Science, Information Systems Research, Computer Science, Public Administration, and Political Science among others) Digital government strategies Strategies and policies for ICT-enabled public administration overhaul Public administration back and front-office overhaul (cases, practices, and lessons learned) Stakeholder and change management in government Digital Transformation in the public sector Innovation management and transformational government Smart Government and Smart Governance Smart Governance as enabler of transformation Management of public-private partnerships E-Government project success and failure Public information governance (strategies, information sharing practices, privacy practices) Policies and decision-making in the context of E-Government Data-driven decision and policy making Public records management (challenges, opportunities, and cases) Public sector information management (challenges and opportunities, and cases) Detection of and protection against misinformation and disinformation (for example, rumor control) Intergovernmental integration and interoperation Crisis and emergency management in the context of E-Government Crisis Information Management Systems and their uses Emergency Operations and governmental coordination ICT interoperability and ICT integration in government Government-sponsored and/or operated public alert systems (pandemic and other alerts) Post-Covid-19 lessons from the use of and with regard to government ICTs Pandemic-induced innovations in the public sector Safe public online access, inclusion, privacy and online identity management ICT portfolio management in the public sector ICT insourcing versus outsourcing approaches Public sector CIOs and/or COOs (roles, impact, span of control, issues, and challenges) Public sector ICT workforce (management, recruitment, retention, compensation, etc.) E-Government architectures (vertical, horizontal, and networked) Enterprise ICT management initiatives Managing and upgrading public sector legacy systems Integration of online and inline services (opportunities, challenges, and cases) Disruptive technologies in the public sector (e.g Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Ledger Technology/Blockchain, and the Internet of Things) Cross-jurisdictional alliances for online government services ICT-enabled transnational government collaboration Special topics (for example, ICT-related legislation, ICT4D, e-Justice, e-Rule-making, etc.) Geographical information systems in government Design approaches for ICT solutions in the public sector ICT usage, acceptance, measurement, benchmarking, and benefit management Online performance metrics for public services Return on investment and sustainability of ICT investments Track Chairs Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA (lead) Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria Important Dates (Hard) deadline for submissions: March 19, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2021 PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: May 1, 2021 Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready) May 15, 2021 Poster acceptance May 31, 2021 Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: June 15, 2021 PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021 PhD Colloquium: September 6, 2021 Submission guidelines and other information can be found at the conference website. Pandemic-related Precautions We will take all measures necessary to provide health-related safety and security at the premises. We expect that by late summer of 2021 vaccinations have become available and have been widely administered, which will provide effective protection to conference attendees. Before that backdrop we are fairly optimistic that we will hold the conference on site as planned. The beautiful and history-rich conference location will be an unforgettable venue. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: ICALT2021 Track 6. Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics, deadline Jan. 29, 2021
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: ICALT2021 Track 6. Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics, deadline Jan. 29, 2021 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:37:47 +0100 From: Jelena Jovanovic <jeljov(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org The 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT21) will be held on July 12-15, 2021 online: https://tc.computer.org/tclt/icalt2021/. Track 6 is on "Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA)". More information on this track is available at: https://tc.computer.org/tclt/icalt-2021-track-6-bdela/ ***SUBMISSION TYPES*** All papers will be double-blindly peer-reviewed. Author guidelines and formatting templates can be accessed at ICALT Author guidelines webpage. Complete papers are required to be reviewed. The expected types of submissions include: Full paper: 5 pages Short paper: 3 pages Discussion paper: 2 pages Proceedings accepted in Xplore are available to indexing partners, including EI, Scopus, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index; these indexing partners have final say on what they include and the process can take anywhere between 4 and 12 months, depending on how busy the indexing partner is at the time. ***IMPORTANT DATES*** January 29, 2021 (Friday): Submissions of papers (Full paper, Short paper, Discussion paper) April 16, 2021 (Friday): Authors’ Notification on the review process results May 14, 2021 (Friday): Author’s registration deadline May 14, 2021 (Friday): Final Camera-Ready Manuscript and IEEE Copyright Form submission June 4, 2021 (Friday): Non-authors’ early bird registration deadline July 12-15, 2021: ICALT 2021 Conference ***Track description and topics of interest*** The analysis and discovery of relations characterizing human learning, and contextual factors that influence these relations have been one of the contemporary and critical global challenges faced by researchers in a number of areas, particularly in Education, Psychology, Sociology, Information Systems, and Computing. These relations typically focus on learners’ achievements and the overall learning experience, and the effectiveness of learning environments. Be it the assessment mark distribution in a classroom context or the mined patterns of best practices in an apprenticeship context, analysis and discovery have always addressed the elusive causal question about the need to best serve learners’ learning efficiency, learning effectiveness, as well as the overall quality of the learning experience, and the need to make informed choices on improving learning environments. Significant advances have been made in a number of areas from educational psychology to artificial intelligence in education, which explored factors contributing to learners’ proactive role in the learning process and instructional effectiveness. With the advent of new technologies such as eye-tracking, activity monitoring, video analysis, content analysis, sentiment analysis, immersive worlds, social network analysis and interaction analysis, new possibilities arise to study these factors in a data-intensive context. This very notion is what is currently being explored at the intersection of big data and learning analytics, which includes related areas such as learning process analytics, institutional effectiveness, academic analytics, text/web analytics and information visualization. BDELA explores monitoring of learner progress and tracing of skill development of individual learners as well as learning groups, both within and across programs and institutions. It will discuss issues concerning evaluation of achievements resulting from institutional educational practices to gauge alignment with strategic plans at different levels. It will examine assessment frameworks of academic productivity to measure impact of teaching. It will discuss concerns such as quality of instruction, attrition, and measurement of curricular outcomes using big data and associated methods and techniques as the premise. Topics include but are not limited to: - Big data theory, science and technology for education and learning - security, privacy, inclusivity, fairness and ethics of big data analytics - veracity in big data - scalability of machine learning and data mining algorithms for big data - computing infrastructure for big data – cloud, grid, autonomic, stream, mobile, high performance computing - search in big data - artificial intelligence in big data analytics - uncertainty handling in big data - IoT and big data analytics - Applications of big data in education and learning analytics - detecting student’s approach to learning - analytics in academic administration - data-informed learning and instructional design - gaming analytics and sports analytics - evidence-driven instruction in inter and individual disciplines - analytics in academic strategic planning - cultural analytics - large-scale social networks - educational data literacy - technological literacy and analytics - human literacy and analytics - Techniques of big data in education, knowledge and learning analytics - emerging standards in learning analytics - analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data - sentiment analysis - social network analysis - multimodal learning analytics - large-scale productivity analysis - big data infrastructure for academic institutions and SMEs - scalable knowledge management - observational research methods for analytics _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP- Cognitive Research in IS Track (SIG CORE) Track @ AMCIS 2021
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP- Cognitive Research in IS Track (SIG CORE) Track @ AMCIS 2021 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:18:00 -0500 From: Jia Shen <jiashen05(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Call for Papers – AMCIS 2021 *Track: Cognitive Research in IS (SIG CORE)* *AMCIS 2021* (Virtual Conference -- August 9-13, 2021) Human cognition deals with how we know and make decisions, through processes including reasoning, perception, and judgment. The future of the Information Systems discipline will continue to involve human cognition as systems are increasingly used to meet social and business needs in innovative settings. Understanding human cognition is a critical component to the successful design, implementation, and use of information systems. The questions of interest relevant to this track focus on IS problems in terms of the processes of knowing and making decisions. This track solicits research investigating the widest variety of cognition, including but not limited to: situated, shared, social, distributed, and team cognition; group and individual decision support systems; cognitive aspects of business analytics and intelligence; problem-solving; knowledge-sharing & -management; cognitive perspectives on IS design, use, and development; human-computer interaction or human factors; and research methods to investigate cognitive issues in IS. We welcome qualitative, quantitative, experimental, and case study research and research-in-progress. *Mini-tracks:* *1- Human-Centered IS Design* Luca Iandoli (*iandolil(a)stjohns.edu <iandolil(a)stjohns.edu>)* Dr. Ivana Quinto (ivana.quinto(a)unina.it) *2- Human-Robot Interactions in Information Systems * Sangseok You (you(a)hec.fr) Lionel Robert (lprobert(a)umich.edu) *More information of the SIG CORE track and mini-tracks*: https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-5 *Important Dates:* January 6, 2021: Manuscript submissions begin March 1, 2021: Completed research and ERF submissions are due at 5 p.m. EST April 21, 2021: Workshop, panel, TREO and PDS submissions are due at 5 p.m. EST *Submission Guidelines:* https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/ *Track Chairs:* Jia Shen, Rider University (jiashen(a)rider.edu) Emre Yetgin, Rider University (eyetgin(a)rider.edu) Cindy Riemenschneier, Baylor University (c.riemenschneider(a)baylor.edu) Bob Otondo, Mississippi State University (rotondo(a)business.msstate.edu) -- Jia Shen, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair Department of Information Systems, Analytics, and Supply Chain Management Norm Brodsky College of Business Rider University Phone: (609) 895-5535 Email: jiashen(a)rider.edu _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Cfp: Responsible AI and Analytics for an Ethical and Inclusive Digitised Society
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Cfp: Responsible AI and Analytics for an Ethical and Inclusive Digitised Society Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:38:25 +0000 From: Dennehy, Denis <denis.dennehy(a)nuigalway.ie> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> The 20th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society I3E2021 Responsible AI and Analytics for an Ethical and Inclusive Digitised Society 1st – 3rd September 2021 NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland www.I3E2021.com<http://www.i3e2021.com/> AI, analytics, and ICT in general, create opportunities and unintended or negative consequences for individuals and society (cf. Ransbotham et al., 2016; Majchrzak et al., 2016). These opportunities and consequences have not been evenly distributed. Despite the many personal, economic, and societal benefits offered by AI and analytics, its use raises a variety of ethical concerns. Ethics permeates the entire analytics process, from what data to use, to how to represent the extracted knowledge and exploit the insights to create economic and social value. Ethical concerns (i.e. illegitimate surveillance, invasion of privacy, unemployment, malicious use etc.) are frequently used to portray AI and analytics as ‘a danger to humanity’. These concerns warrant the attention of the academic community who are in a privileged position within society to raise awareness about the responsible design, implementation and use of AI, analytics, and ICT. At the same time, AI and analytics has opened new domains of exclusion and privilege for some, leaving some individuals and communities excluded from the digitised society. For example, digital exclusion is part of the overall challenge of exclusion, a growing phenomenon which carries with it a series of deteriorations in life paths (i.e. poor lifelong earnings and an increased risk of marginalisation). There are many who are currently excluded for reasons of low income and education, location, culture, trust and confidence levels or various disabilities (European Commission). Success in the increasingly digitised society requires a comprehensive approach to fostering an ethical and inclusive society. The 20th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society aims to bring together contributions from a variety of perspectives, disciplines and communities for the advancement of knowledge regarding Responsible AI and Analytics for an Ethical and Inclusive Digitised Society. To this end, we invite scholars, practitioners and research students to submit and present their papers and findings to the 20th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society to be held in September 2021 at NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland. Theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed. Submission Guidelines Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Special Issues (SI) Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper for fast track review and publication with the following ABS ranked journals (see website for cfp). * Information Systems Frontiers * International Journal of Information Management * Journal of Decision Systems Important Dates: * Submission date: 28th February 2021 * Notification to authors: 31st March 2021 * Camera ready submission: 30th April 2021 * Early bird registration: 10th May 2021 Conference Chairs * Denis Dennehy, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Anastasia Griva, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Conference Co-Chairs * Yogesh, K Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK * Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland * Ilias Pappas, University of Agder & NTNU, Norway * Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Pre-Conference Doctoral Symposium (31st August) PhD candidates can submit a brief proposal (max 5 pages) to the Doctoral Symposium. No extra fees included. Details available on the conference website. Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs * Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece * Cleopatra Bardaki, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Program Co-chairs and Co-editors of Conference Proceedings * Denis Dennehy, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Anastasia Griva, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece * Yogesh K Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK * Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland * Ilias Pappas, University of Agder & NTNU, Norway Topics of Submission Papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed. Areas of interest include, amongst others, the following themes: General Conference Theme * Societal impact of AI, analytics and current or emerging technologies or technological trends, e.g. IoT, robotics, smart cities, blockchain * Dark-side of AI and analytics * Innovations in AI and analytics * AI and the future of work * Ethical issues related to AI and analytics * The role of AI and analytics in social inclusion/exclusion and educational (in)equality * Strategies (e.g. best practices, policies, and governance mechanisms) for addressing the unintended consequences of AI and analytics * Implications of collaborative analytics in a digitised society Information Systems * Sentiment analytics * Software analytics * Social media analytics * Big data analytics * ICTs for enabling smart cities * Ethics and CSR issues related to AI and analytics * Smart infrastructure management * National digital and Internet policy * Cyber security * Blockchain * Digital ecosystems * Public policy for digital transformation * Inter-organisation information systems * Application of AI and analytics to address societal challenges * Leveraging AI and analytics for social innovation and entrepreneurship * Organisational learning and innovation from AI and analytics * Human computer interaction (HCI) * Smart AI, analytics, and ICT adoption studies * Smart transportation and mobility * Smart urbanisation and living * Supply chain management * Information dissemination * Analysis of user generated content * Open data initiatives * Digital inclusion * Business Intelligence * Learning analytics * e-Learning organisational issues * Gamification * Educational systems design * Virtual learning environments Ransbotham, S., Fichman, R.G., Gopal, R. and Gupta, A., 2016. Special section introduction—ubiquitous IT and digital vulnerabilities. Information Systems Research, 27(4), pp.834-847. Majchrzak, A., Markus, M.L. and Wareham, J., 2016. Designing for digital transformation: Lessons for information systems research from the study of ICT and societal challenges. MIS Quarterly, 40(2), pp.267-277. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - AMCIS 2020 Minitrack: Disruptive Start-ups and Traditional Companies
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - AMCIS 2020 Minitrack: Disruptive Start-ups and Traditional Companies Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:01:14 +0000 From: Wagner, Heinz-Theo <Heinz-Theo.Wagner(a)hnu.de> To: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS 2021, August 9-13 MINI-TRACK: Disruptive Start-ups vs. Traditional Companies TRACK: Organizational Transformation @ Information Systems (SIG OSRA) DESCRIPTION The opportunities provided by digital technology and lower entry barriers to markets gave rise to large numbers and diversity of start-ups that confront incumbent firms with fast changing competitive landscape and the disruption of their traditional businesses. Especially in traditional service industries like Financial Services, Legal Services and Health Services, new competitors -referred to as Fintechs, Legaltechs and Healthtechs- start to mix up competition. This trend continues and stretches far beyond the mentioned industries. Incumbent companies struggle to compete with these new entities due to the differences in business logics entailing, e.g., speed, agility, and customer-centricity. Also, these start-ups specifically target weak spots in the value chain of the traditional businesses. This makes them both a pain and a gain for the traditional companies: A pain, as they take business away. A gain, as successful collaboration or integration can elevate the competitive position of the traditional business. Topics of interest for this mintrack include * New business logic and advanced business models * Value co-creation and value appropriation * New forms of digital collaboration and co-opetition * Forms and mechanisms of collaboration * Development and governance of digital ecosystem * New forms of organizing such as network organization * Lessons learned from integrating start-ups into incumbent firms * Knowledge integration and re-combination across firm boundaries * Case studies from Fintech, Legaltech, Healthtech and other startup industries * International aspects of start-ups and their interaction with traditional businesses IMPORTANT DATES January 6, 2021: Manuscript submissions begin March 1, 2021: Completed research submissions are due at 5 p.m. EST MINI-TRACK CHAIRS Prof. Dr. Heiko Gewald heiko.gewald(a)hnu.de<mailto:heiko.gewald@hnu.de> Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Heinz-Theo Wagner Heinz-theo.wagner(a)hnu.de<mailto:Heinz-theo.wagner@hnu.de> Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences Ass. Prof. Dr. Daniel Gozman daniel.gozman(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:daniel.gozman@sydney.edu.au> The University of Sydney Business School _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] FW: dg.o 2021 will be fully online and the updated CFP
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] FW: dg.o 2021 will be fully online and the updated CFP Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:05:12 +0000 From: Luna-Reyes, Luis F <lluna-reyes(a)albany.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> ======================================================== Luis F. Luna-Reyes Associate Professor, University at Albany Department of Public Administration and Policy and Information Science President of the Digital Government Society Ph. (518) 442-5297 Email. lluna-reyes(a)albany.edu<mailto:lluna-reyes@albany.edu> From: Yu-Che Chen <ychen(a)unomaha.edu> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 9:50 AM To: Luna-Reyes, Luis F <lluna-reyes(a)albany.edu> Subject: dg.o 2021 will be fully online and the updated CFP Dear Luis, Could you help with forwarding the message below to Assoc. of Information Systems (aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld@lists.aisnet.org>) and American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST-L) asis-l(a)asis.org<mailto:asis-l@asis.org>? Thanks very much. Dear Digital Government Colleagues, The dg.o 2021 conference will take place fully online. This decision was made by the Board of the Digital Government Society, after careful consideration of the state of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world and with invaluable input from our members and the dg.o 2021 organization committee. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our top priority. We also hope that the online format facilitates conference participation. Call for Papers/Proposals dg.o 2021: 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska June 9-11, 2021 Announcement on January 15, 2021: dg.o 2021 will be fully online Conference Website: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ Due January 20, 2021: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels Submission preparation guidelines and ACM submission templates: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/submission-types-and-formats/ Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2021, with a special focus on the theme " Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community". the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab, the School of Public Administration, the Center for Public Affairs Research, and the College of Public Affairs and Community Service, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska on June 9-11, 2021. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to rigor of theory and relevance of practice, their focus on important and timely topics and the quality of their writing. THEME & TRACK TOPICS: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) will feature the main theme of "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community." Public values - such as efficiency, equity, transparency, privacy, security, trust, etc. -- serve as the compass and goals for the development and implementation of digital innovations for public service. Recent developments in digital innovations - such as artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, social networking platforms, 5G, etc.- offer strategic opportunities for public value creation. These digital innovations are tools for us to solve monumental challenges facing our society such as pandemics, climate change, and sustainable development. More importantly, there is a return to focus on societal needs and values to guide digital innovations and to move away from technology push only for the sake of innovations. Specifically, the conference aims to advance research and practice of public value creation via digital innovations by leveraging collaboration and community-oriented solutions in an inclusive manner. Collaboration can span the boundaries of individuals, organizations, sectors (public, private, and voluntary), and national borders in such forms as data and technology collaboratives, public-private partnership, and regional or global technology standards and policies. Communities can take on a virtual, physical, or blended form with a local, national, or global reach such as people's local communities and our global community of the Digital Government Society (DGS). Community is also about taking a holistic (community-as-a-whole) approach to integrating digital innovations such as smart city and intelligent government. Inclusivity is about bridging socioeconomic and digital divides in governance such as inclusive civic engagement and e-participation. Inclusivity also entails openness, transparency, and leveraging digital means to engage community members for public value creation. IMPORTANT DATES * January 20, 2021: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due * March 1, 2021: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium * March 31, 2021: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) * April 1, 2021: Doctoral colloquium notification * April 15, 2021: Posters and demo proposals due * April 24, 2021: Poster/demo author notifications * April 25, 2021: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair * May 1, 2021: Early registration begins * May 20, 2021: Early registration closes TRACK 1. Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms for Future Governments Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli, Marijn Janssen, Adegboyega Ojo Artificial intelligence (AI) can be viewed as the way to simulate human behavior by machines. It is based on a set of algorithms and techniques such as deep learning, neural networks, expert systems, or probabilistic models. Even if it is a new technology, it is attracting more and more attention with the huge amount of data made available by new technologies and users. Government is one the areas that is paying attention to AI to tackle the amount of data it has. In fact, AI provides new tools and techniques for governments to exploit the vast amount of data they have. Governments are not only looking for new applications based on AI, for automated decisions, and improving policy-making, but also at the impacts that AI can have on different levels of government. The purpose of this track is to investigate how AI can be implemented and adopted by governments at different levels and what AI can add to government. TRACK 2. Social Media and Government Track chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh, Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, and J. Ignacio Criado Social media is used by government at all levels and by its constituents to communicate civic and political information, to engage in democratic and collaborative practices, and to innovate on public service delivery, routinely and during the recent turbulent times of COVID. For this year's theme "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community" we especially welcome papers related to the adoption and use of social media with a focus on the impact of that use on public values, such as efficiency, equity, efficacy, transparency, participation, collaboration, innovation, privacy, security, and trust. This track expects to attract the attention of ongoing work in the field of social media and government, including interesting research questions, rigorous empirical studies, and in-depth case studies, with the aim of enriching the theories, research methods, data, and available cases in this research area. We welcome papers on traditional and emerging issues related to the conference theme, including: public values reflected or disrupted by social media, social media use and users, political polarization and mobilization, political expression and sentiment analysis, verification and fake news, chatbots and artificial intelligence-based systems in governments, instant messaging apps, civic use of media content sharing platforms (i.e. YouTube, Instagram or Tik Tok), and social media use for emergency management. TRACK 3. Digital Sovereignty in the Era of Smart Cities Track chairs: Bettina Distel, Robert Krimmer, and Hendrik Scholta In the digital age, the transformation of a city to a smart city is in great motion. Governments around the world are investing in the interconnection of virtual and non-virtual spaces, services are being increasingly provided digitally and proactively, and internal processes are often executed automatically. While advocates of these developments highlight positive effects on public value creation, the fast developments call critics to the scene. The pace with which new possibilities are evaluated and oftentimes put into practice, casts shadows on the idea of smart cities, sometimes turning it into dark dystopian image. The creation of a smart city hence risks becoming a technocratic frenzy where a citizen can lose what we call digital sovereignty-citizen's authority and control over personal data. The divulgence of personal data to private companies and public institutions increases convenience and efficiency, but opens space for controversies. Meanwhile, a sacrifice in digital sovereignty is inherent to implementing a smart city. The balancing of creating public value through digital innovation on the one hand and the protection and strengthening of citizens' digital sovereignty on the other hand thus becomes a major challenge for both researchers and practitioners. TRACK 4. Opening Government: Open Data-driven Innovation and Collaboration for a better Public Value Track chairs: Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti and Grace Walsh Technology has enabled our world to become increasingly connected, traditional physical boundaries either at a national level or an organizational level are becoming increasingly transcended in the digital world. The public value potential that can be garnered from collaboration far outweigh the competitive advantage outcomes emerging as a result of siloed competition. Opening government and the concept of open data encapsulates much more than freely available information; it signifies an innovative, collaborative, and progressive government; indicating transparency and trustworthiness. Structural changes, including system architecture, technology infrastructure and organizational structures, may be needed to allow institutions, governments, organizations, and communities to collaborate and co-create beyond traditional boundaries. This systematic change enables open data to mature and contribute to public value creation. However, for open data to unlock its full potential it needs to facilitate collaborative initiatives, engaging open data as the foundation upon which to build innovative solutions and contribute to public value. This track examines the challenges, opportunities, and potential outcomes emerging from the use of open data, data technologies, and infrastructures as a means for collaboration to deliver increased public value. TRACK 5. Security and AI Ethics for the Next Wave of Data-driven Society Track chairs: Kwon Hun-Yeong, Kim Mi-Ryang, Ko Yoon-Seok This track seeks to hold comprehensive discussion on the role of the government and human resources, required expertise, legal frameworks and policies needed to deal with ethical and data security issues arising from the use of data and AI to build a safe intelligent information society which may become the goal of public value. In today's society, technologies such as data and AI have become the enablers of innovation and also have become an intrinsic part of our civilization everywhere. In order to create public value when we cannot see with our eyes the achievements of such effort, we need to innovate not only the related law and regulations but also the role of the government and its human resource as well as strengthen its expertise. In particular, diverse discussions on the various regulations for data security and ethical issues related to AI are already prevalent as such issues will very likely manifest themselves unseen. In the near future in our intelligent information society, technology and ethical awareness will become standards or code of conduct and develop into some form of regulation or law based on broader consensus thus deepening their relationship to each other. The topics of this track are, but not limited to: data security, privacy protection, cybersecurity, data ethics, AI ethics, professional ethics, ethical standards and frameworks, etc. TRACK 6. Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory Online Politics and the Future of E-democracy Track chairs: Zach Bastick and Alois Paulin The "Beyond Bureaucracy" track explores innovations in e-government and e-democracy that place the citizen at the center of governance. While traditional lines of inquiry at the intersection of politics and technology focus on enhancing or supporting existing political institutions, there is an underexplored opportunity for citizens to use technology to control government more directly. Internet optimists have long anticipated new, digital models of self-governance, including representative, direct, liquid, anarchic models. Critics have argued that technology cannot safely or desirably support greater citizen involvement. This track covers all aspects of direct, futuristic, radical, exploratory, and critical approaches to digital governance. These include the (un)desirability of using technology to support citizen self-governance; challenges to self-governance through technology; theoretical and empirical proposals; assessments of technologies to support models of governance (AI, IoT, blockchain, 5G, platforms); the impact of developing digital phenomena on self-governance (misinformation, bots, digital collective intelligence); and the ethical, technological, social, and political implications of existing and potential future models of public governance. The "Beyond Bureaucracy" serves as a platform for pro/contra deliberations on the near and distant potentials of e-democracy. TRACK 7. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, Dongwook Kim, and Soon Ae Chun This year we have witnessed the unprecedented public health, social justice issues ingrained in the society, and natural disasters that affected citizens around the world. Smart Cities should consider not only smart growth, social coherence, and industrial transformation of cities by adopting cutting edge technologies, but also resilience, efficiency and competitiveness, to lessen social discriminations and to improve local quality of life. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities should ensure that key smart city innovations support infrastructure to enhance citizens' equal access to public and utility services considering their diversity, digital readiness and resource limitations, while it can generate early alerts and enable disaster monitoring, epidemic surveillance and infrastructure redundancy to respond and recover quickly. This track invites research and practices in inclusive and resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as enhancing diverse digital skills toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces resilient to adverse events. TRACK 8. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines Track chairs: Helen K. Liu, Benjamin Clark, and Lisa Schmidthuber The collaborative intelligence track aims to investigate how human, crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance public services and policies, such as healthcare services, citizen-government communication, bias and discretion reduction, smart city planning, etc. Moreover, crowdsourcing has been recently adopted for generating information, providing public services, and resolving public problems, and artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of learning, classifying, and detecting data sources and inputs. However, while the adoption of AI may enhance the citizens' participation experience, there are potential ethical issues and implementation challenges in designing an optimal collaborative intelligence that includes both human collective intelligence and artificial intelligence. The collaborative intelligence track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly papers that explore the interactions of human, crowd, and/or machine. Possible topics include strategies for collaborative intelligence or platforms in the public sector, designs for machine and human interaction in public services or policy making, comparisons of outputs and bias from AI, experts, and/or collective intelligence, values in collaborative intelligence management and governance, best practices of collaborative intelligence in the public sector, ethical concerns or guidelines for applying collective intelligence, or other similar topics and relevant approaches. TRACK 9. Digital Transformation in Subnational Governments Track chairs: Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Thiago José Tavares Ávila, and Maria Alexandra Cunha Digital transformation has become an essential part of the government's strategic agenda, both at national and sub-national levels. However, digital transformation initiatives at the sub-national level tend to present specific aspects when compared to national initiatives. On the one hand, this track highlights the particular challenges faced by subnational digital transformation initiatives. On the other hand, it seeks to understand the capacities supporting the digital transformation at the subnational level. The track's objectives are: a) to identify real-world examples/cases of digital transformation projects at the subnational levels; b) seek to explain this cases in the context of existing or new theoretical frameworks, and, c) create actionable recommendations for researchers, professional developers, and digital government practitioners at the sub-national level. Possible topics include but not limited to: citizen's digital and secure identification; protection of users' personal data; transparency, openness and sharing of governmental data; new technologies such as artificial intelligence or blockchain; co-creation of digital services; social participation mechanisms; collaborative governance. TRACK 10. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts Track Chairs: Jing Zhang, Chris Hinnant, and Lei Zheng The adoption and implementation of new ICTs by public organizations have been influenced by organizational factors such as the availability of resources (i.e. funding, infrastructure, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust, stakeholder involvement, organization's structure and culture, as well as inter-organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICTs in government and society has generated important impacts on the organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations, as well as the smartness of the government and the society. This track solicits research that examines the organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation, and impact of new and emerging innovative technologies such as smart city, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, open data, social media, citizen-centric technologies, and other novel technologies that rely on open and large data sets. Furthermore, this track seek research on the adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to facilitate the strategic use of various ICTs by public organizations. TRACK 11. Cyber-physical Innovations for Public Policy and Service Track chairs: Sukumar Ganapati, Michael Ahn, and Chengyu (Victor) Huang This track welcomes contributions to cyber-physical systems' (CPS) innovations that transform public policies and service. CPS are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components. Cyber-physical technologies include the type and collection of data (e.g. big data from IoT sensors), connectivity (e.g. 5G network and mobile devices), infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure and distributed computing), unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones), autonomous vehicles (AVs), artificial intelligence for intelligent decision-making, and sharing economy platforms. The track's primary aim is to examine these technologies through the lens of public values such as efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and ethics. Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to evidence based policy-making, cyberinfrastructure for scientific innovations, innovative uses of UAS and AVs for public service, civic innovations, online community engagement, cross-sector collaboration, ethical use of CPS in governance, equitable public service delivery, and knowledge representation for policy analysis. This track invites submission of theoretical as well as empirical research papers of how CPS impact governance mechanisms. TRACK 12. Automation of Public Services - Concepts, Practice, Implications and Emerging Perspectives Track chairs: Ida Lindgren, Christian Østergaard Madsen, and Ulf Melin The scope of what we can automate has widened; processes that have previously been considered as 'cognitive', and thus in need of human involvement or discretion can now be performed, at least theoretically, by machines. However, what automation entails for public service, conceptually and empirically, is still unclear. On the technical level, automation is used to denote systems of various complexity, e.g., systems integration, RPA, and AI. Similarly, these technologies can be used to automate a large variety of different public service activities and processes. In addition, many technical and legal issues related to data sharing that have previously hindered automation are slowly being resolved, resulting in new venues for automation. Looking at the wide spread of potential application areas for automation in public service, we lack a nuanced language in the digital government community to further our understanding of the nature and implications of automation of public service. In this track, we seek conceptual and empirical papers that can deepen our understanding of what increased automation of public service will bring for public organizations, and society at large. TRACK 13. Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals Track Chairs: Rony Medaglia and Gianluca Misuraca The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including public opinion, policy, and research. Digital government can act as an enabler to sustainability, equity and social inclusion that represents a cross-cutting objective across several SDGs at both sectoral and horizontal level, with a crucial importance in particular for the goal 16 that aims to ´Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels´. This track invites contributions focusing on the potential benefits and challenges of digital government in supporting the achievement of SDGs and the role of digital technologies to sustain policy developments at both horizontal and sectoral level, including in particular the impact on democratic innovation and institutional reforms of governance systems. We invite studies on the design, management and evaluation of policies and implementation of digital government strategies in relation to the UN SDGs at global, national and local level. Papers that can combine methodological rigour with practical relevance and policy implications are particularly welcome. TRACK 14. Blockchain-based applications for e-Government Track Chairs: Jolien Ubacht, Svein Ølnes, Lemuria Carter, and Ramzi El-Haddadeh In the past years, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the potential of Blockchain (BC) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to revolutionize government processes. Transactions and information exchange between governmental organizations (G2G), between business and government (B2G) as well as between governments and citizens (G2C) can be transformed by using blockchain-based applications. These applications can improve the efficiency of information exchanges (e.g. leading to less fraud and less mistakes than paper-based registrations) and can contribute to an inclusive society (e.g. by means of digital identities). However, due to its characteristics of peer to peer information exchange, its distributed nature and the still developing technology, the implementation of blockchain-based applications requires solid analysis of the entire information chain, including the involved stakeholders and extant information architectures. In addition, blockchain initiatives have implications for citizen trust, privacy, inclusion and participation that need to be addressed in the design of the blockchain based applications. This track invites research that explores the impact and potential of blockchain based applications in G2G, B2G and C2G processes that illustrate their contribution to public services and the creation of public values. We welcome a diversity in research designs, approaches and methodologies. TRACK 15. Legal Informatics Track Chairs: Peter Parycek, Charalabidis Yannis, and Anna-Sophie Novak The application of ICT technologies in the administrative and legal field pose great challenges for both technicians and legal professionals. Additionally, there is the question of how these applied technologies can and/or must be legally regulated. Many of these technologies rely on the use of large amounts of data. In this context, questions arise as to how data usage might be regulated in order to generate the greatest possible benefit for society. With these challenges in mind, we invite papers on the legal, technical, ethical, theoretical and practical questions that arise within the multidisciplinary field of legal informatics. This track invites research and practices concerning the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the legal domain, legal implications of big data applications (challenges to privacy, autonomy, governance, equity, and fairness), a legislative framework for legal informatics on a European and national level and better regulation. Specific interest areas include the field of privacy (policies, regulations, strategies, recommendations), models of legal and ethical knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values, procedures and society models, legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions and applications and use cases (implementations of legal informatics systems under realistic conditions). Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials dg.o workshops are half- or full-day facilitated discussions. Discussions are typically stimulated by short presentations by workshop participants. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations or hands-on experiences offering deeper insight into the scientific or government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experiences of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Panels Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that put a spotlight on practice and application. Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring experiences with, perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are encouraged. Individuals interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the panel co-chairs about their ideas prior to developing their submissions. Posters and System Demonstrations The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. Doctoral Colloquium The doctoral colloquium is a full-day and highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government. PUBLICATIONS All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue. There will be several special issues related to the conference, including: * Government Information Quarterly * Digital Government: Research and Practice * Transforming Government: People, Process, Policy * International Journal of E-Government Research * Information Polity * International Journal of E-Planning Research * International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age BEST PAPER AWARDS Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers, Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the main theme of the conference, Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community, will be preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience. SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS * Research papers * Management, Case Study, or Policy papers * Panel descriptions * Posters * System demonstrations * Pre-Conference tutorial proposals * Pre-Conference workshop proposals * Doctoral colloquium application Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o conference. Detailed instruction and ACM conference proceedings template will be available on conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ under "submission guidelines". Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review process. All other submissions should use ACM proceedings submission template but include author names. At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work. All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered for the conference for it to be included in the conference proceedings. The authors of more than two papers can register for and present at most two co-authored papers. Third paper on, some other coauthor registration and presentation are required. Research papers - blind review: These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. (Limit of approximately 8,000 words) Management, case study, or policy papers - blind review: These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. (Limit of approximately 5,000 words) Panels: Proposals should include information about the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Posters: Summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the conference should measure 36" x 48". Each poster station is provided with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) System Demonstrations: System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 1-2 page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. Each station is provided with a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Tutorials: dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer deeper insight into e-government research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as social media, and other insights into e-government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Workshops: We invite workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration of a particular subject. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Doctoral Colloquium: The doctoral colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers describing their planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal idea and preliminary findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from feedback on their work and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information on the colloquium and how to submit an application. Material provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo. (10 pages, not including references, tables and figures) CONFERENCE CHAIRS - Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Luis Luna-Reyes, University of Albany, USA - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands PROGRAM CHAIRS - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria - Sungsoo Hwang, Yeungnam University, Korea TRACK CHAIRS -Michael Ahn, University of Massachusetts Boston, US - Thiago José Tavares Ávila, Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas, Brazil -Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece -Zach Bastick, European School of Political Science, France -Lemuria Carter, University of New South Wales, Australia - Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil -Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US - Benjamin Clark, University of Oregon, US - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Bettina Distel, University of Münster, Germany -Ramzi El-Haddadeh, Qatar University, Qatar - Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, US - Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US - Chengyu (Victor) Huang, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA -Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US -Dongwook Kim, Seoul National University, Korea - Kim Mi-Ryang, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea - Ko Yoon-Seok, National Information Society Agency, South Korea - Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Kwon Hun-Yeong, Korea University, South Korea - Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Universidade Federal do Paraná & IDB, Brazil - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan R.O.C. - Christian Østergaard Madsen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden. - Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada - Gianluca Misuraca, Danube University Krems, Austria - Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria -Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Svein Ølnes, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway - Peter Parycek, Frauenhofer Fokus, Germany - Alois Paulin, Siemens, Austria - Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Hendrik Scholta, University of Münster, Germany - Lisa Schmidthuber, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria -Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - Grace Walsh, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Maynooth University, Ireland -Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Charalabidis Yannis, University of the Aegean, Greece -Jing Zhang, Clark University, US -Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China PANELS CHAIRS - David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALs CHAIRS - Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, U.S.A. - Changsoo Song, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA POSTERS AND DEMOS CHAIRS - Djoko Sayogo, University of Muhammadiyah at Malang (UMM), Indonesia DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS - J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria COMMUNICATION AND WEB CHAIRS - Julian Villodre, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS - Sehl Mellouli, University Laval, Canada - Josie Schafer, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA LIAISON AND OUTREACH CHAIRS - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands REGISTRATION CHAIRS -Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Catherine Dumas, Simmons University, USA FINANCE CHAIR -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, USA Best Regards, Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D. Conference Chair, dg.o 2021 (http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/) Isaacson Professor Director, Digital Governance and Analytics Lab School of Public Administration College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha [UNO-logo-signature]

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call For Papers - 3rd Symposium on Smart and Connected Health Symposium (with IEEE COMPSAC 2021) - Deadline January 30, 2021
by Gustaf Neumann 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call For Papers - 3rd Symposium on Smart and Connected Health Symposium (with IEEE COMPSAC 2021) - Deadline January 30, 2021 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:06:51 +0000 From: Hossain Shahriar <hshahria(a)kennesaw.edu> To: ' (AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org)' <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org>, mycolleagues <mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br>, cse-cfp <cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca>, ai-sges <ai-sges(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP -- Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Symposium @ COMPSAC 2021, Virtual; Paper Submissions Due: January 30, 2021 https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2021/sch/ The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) symposium is to provide an international forum connecting data, people and systems towards the development and integration of innovative computer, software and applications supporting the transformation of health and medicine. Advances in communications, computer, and medical technology have facilitated the practice of personalized health, which utilizes sensory computational communication systems to support improved and more personalized healthcare and healthy lifestyle choices. The proliferation of broadband wireless services, along with more powerful and convenient handheld devices, is helping to introduce real-time monitoring and guidance for a wide array of patients. Research community and industry are now connecting medical care with technology developers, vendors of wireless and sensing hardware systems, network service providers, and data management communities. The symposium encourages research and breakthrough ideas in areas of smart and connected health such as networking, pervasive computing, analytics, sensor integration, privacy and security, socio-behavioral models, and cognitive processes and system and process modeling. The forum will increase more awareness of the constraints arising from clinical and medical needs, barriers to change, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyber physical systems and an aging population. The SCH symposium seeks inter-disciplinary collaborative research that lead to new fundamental insights; and encourages empirical validation of new concepts through research prototypes, ranging from specific components to entire systems. It will open collaborations between academic, industry, and other organizations to establish better linkages between fundamental science, medicine and healthcare practice and technology development, deployment and use. Submissions could consist of theoretical/applied research in topics including, but not limited to: * Smart intervention for prevention of diseases * Smart and Connected Health –Wellness and Prevention to Acute and Chronic Care * Smart and Connected health for various care such as palliative and cancer * Security and privacy in Smart and Connected health * Telemedicine and mobile health for Smart and ConnectedHealth * Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Practice Guidelines * Data Analytics in Smart and Connected Health * Ethics, privacy, and research regulations in Smart and Connected Health * Smart and wearable systems to support mobility impaired children * Non-invasive and wearable diagnosis of health conditions such as sepsis * Wearable devices for in home monitoring of heart failure * Smart systems for prediction and assessment of health conditions such as acute respiratory distress symptoms * Intelligent clinical decision support systems * Personalize evidence-based medicine * Smart systems for reducing obesity * Privacy preserving data analytics * Smart and connected environmental public health * Post operative health management * Trauma treatment * Patient-centric home * Cognitive haptic based rehabilitation system * Privacy preserving computation in genomic data * Personalized drug delivery * Monitoring of health conditions such as joint kinematics * Mining for smart healthcare such as drug-drug interaction from Health Record Databases * Patient similarity learning from massive clinical database * Computer guided training systems in healthcare such as laparoscopy Important Dates: Deadline for paper submission: January 30, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2021 Camera-ready and registration due: May 15, 2021 Paper format and template: https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2021/information-for-authors/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] dg.o 2021 will be fully online Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:06:56 +0000 From: Luis Felipe Luna Reyes <luisf.luna(a)udlap.mx> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Colleagues, The dg.o 2021 conference will take place fully online. This decision was made by the Board of the Digital Government Society, after careful consideration of the state of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world and with invaluable input from our members and the dg.o 2021 organization committee. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our top priority. We also hope that the online format facilitates conference participation. Call for Papers/Proposals dg.o 2021: 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska June 9-11, 2021 Announcement on January 15, 2021: dg.o 2021 will be fully online Conference Website: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ Due January 20, 2021: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels Submission preparation guidelines and ACM submission templates: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/submission-types-and-formats/ Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2021, with a special focus on the theme " Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community". the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab, the School of Public Administration, the Center for Public Affairs Research, and the College of Public Affairs and Community Service, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska on June 9-11, 2021. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to rigor of theory and relevance of practice, their focus on important and timely topics and the quality of their writing. THEME & TRACK TOPICS: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) will feature the main theme of "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community." Public values - such as efficiency, equity, transparency, privacy, security, trust, etc. -- serve as the compass and goals for the development and implementation of digital innovations for public service. Recent developments in digital innovations - such as artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, social networking platforms, 5G, etc.- offer strategic opportunities for public value creation. These digital innovations are tools for us to solve monumental challenges facing our society such as pandemics, climate change, and sustainable development. More importantly, there is a return to focus on societal needs and values to guide digital innovations and to move away from technology push only for the sake of innovations. Specifically, the conference aims to advance research and practice of public value creation via digital innovations by leveraging collaboration and community-oriented solutions in an inclusive manner. Collaboration can span the boundaries of individuals, organizations, sectors (public, private, and voluntary), and national borders in such forms as data and technology collaboratives, public-private partnership, and regional or global technology standards and policies. Communities can take on a virtual, physical, or blended form with a local, national, or global reach such as people's local communities and our global community of the Digital Government Society (DGS). Community is also about taking a holistic (community-as-a-whole) approach to integrating digital innovations such as smart city and intelligent government. Inclusivity is about bridging socioeconomic and digital divides in governance such as inclusive civic engagement and e-participation. Inclusivity also entails openness, transparency, and leveraging digital means to engage community members for public value creation. IMPORTANT DATES * January 20, 2021: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due * March 1, 2021: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium * March 31, 2021: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) * April 1, 2021: Doctoral colloquium notification * April 15, 2021: Posters and demo proposals due * April 24, 2021: Poster/demo author notifications * April 25, 2021: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair * May 1, 2021: Early registration begins * May 20, 2021: Early registration closes TRACK 1. Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms for Future Governments Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli, Marijn Janssen, Adegboyega Ojo Artificial intelligence (AI) can be viewed as the way to simulate human behavior by machines. It is based on a set of algorithms and techniques such as deep learning, neural networks, expert systems, or probabilistic models. Even if it is a new technology, it is attracting more and more attention with the huge amount of data made available by new technologies and users. Government is one the areas that is paying attention to AI to tackle the amount of data it has. In fact, AI provides new tools and techniques for governments to exploit the vast amount of data they have. Governments are not only looking for new applications based on AI, for automated decisions, and improving policy-making, but also at the impacts that AI can have on different levels of government. The purpose of this track is to investigate how AI can be implemented and adopted by governments at different levels and what AI can add to government. TRACK 2. Social Media and Government Track chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh, Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, and J. Ignacio Criado Social media is used by government at all levels and by its constituents to communicate civic and political information, to engage in democratic and collaborative practices, and to innovate on public service delivery, routinely and during the recent turbulent times of COVID. For this year's theme "Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community" we especially welcome papers related to the adoption and use of social media with a focus on the impact of that use on public values, such as efficiency, equity, efficacy, transparency, participation, collaboration, innovation, privacy, security, and trust. This track expects to attract the attention of ongoing work in the field of social media and government, including interesting research questions, rigorous empirical studies, and in-depth case studies, with the aim of enriching the theories, research methods, data, and available cases in this research area. We welcome papers on traditional and emerging issues related to the conference theme, including: public values reflected or disrupted by social media, social media use and users, political polarization and mobilization, political expression and sentiment analysis, verification and fake news, chatbots and artificial intelligence-based systems in governments, instant messaging apps, civic use of media content sharing platforms (i.e. YouTube, Instagram or Tik Tok), and social media use for emergency management. TRACK 3. Digital Sovereignty in the Era of Smart Cities Track chairs: Bettina Distel, Robert Krimmer, and Hendrik Scholta In the digital age, the transformation of a city to a smart city is in great motion. Governments around the world are investing in the interconnection of virtual and non-virtual spaces, services are being increasingly provided digitally and proactively, and internal processes are often executed automatically. While advocates of these developments highlight positive effects on public value creation, the fast developments call critics to the scene. The pace with which new possibilities are evaluated and oftentimes put into practice, casts shadows on the idea of smart cities, sometimes turning it into dark dystopian image. The creation of a smart city hence risks becoming a technocratic frenzy where a citizen can lose what we call digital sovereignty-citizen's authority and control over personal data. The divulgence of personal data to private companies and public institutions increases convenience and efficiency, but opens space for controversies. Meanwhile, a sacrifice in digital sovereignty is inherent to implementing a smart city. The balancing of creating public value through digital innovation on the one hand and the protection and strengthening of citizens' digital sovereignty on the other hand thus becomes a major challenge for both researchers and practitioners. TRACK 4. Opening Government: Open Data-driven Innovation and Collaboration for a better Public Value Track chairs: Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti and Grace Walsh Technology has enabled our world to become increasingly connected, traditional physical boundaries either at a national level or an organizational level are becoming increasingly transcended in the digital world. The public value potential that can be garnered from collaboration far outweigh the competitive advantage outcomes emerging as a result of siloed competition. Opening government and the concept of open data encapsulates much more than freely available information; it signifies an innovative, collaborative, and progressive government; indicating transparency and trustworthiness. Structural changes, including system architecture, technology infrastructure and organizational structures, may be needed to allow institutions, governments, organizations, and communities to collaborate and co-create beyond traditional boundaries. This systematic change enables open data to mature and contribute to public value creation. However, for open data to unlock its full potential it needs to facilitate collaborative initiatives, engaging open data as the foundation upon which to build innovative solutions and contribute to public value. This track examines the challenges, opportunities, and potential outcomes emerging from the use of open data, data technologies, and infrastructures as a means for collaboration to deliver increased public value. TRACK 5. Security and AI Ethics for the Next Wave of Data-driven Society Track chairs: Kwon Hun-Yeong, Kim Mi-Ryang, Ko Yoon-Seok This track seeks to hold comprehensive discussion on the role of the government and human resources, required expertise, legal frameworks and policies needed to deal with ethical and data security issues arising from the use of data and AI to build a safe intelligent information society which may become the goal of public value. In today's society, technologies such as data and AI have become the enablers of innovation and also have become an intrinsic part of our civilization everywhere. In order to create public value when we cannot see with our eyes the achievements of such effort, we need to innovate not only the related law and regulations but also the role of the government and its human resource as well as strengthen its expertise. In particular, diverse discussions on the various regulations for data security and ethical issues related to AI are already prevalent as such issues will very likely manifest themselves unseen. In the near future in our intelligent information society, technology and ethical awareness will become standards or code of conduct and develop into some form of regulation or law based on broader consensus thus deepening their relationship to each other. The topics of this track are, but not limited to: data security, privacy protection, cybersecurity, data ethics, AI ethics, professional ethics, ethical standards and frameworks, etc. TRACK 6. Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory Online Politics and the Future of E-democracy Track chairs: Zach Bastick and Alois Paulin The "Beyond Bureaucracy" track explores innovations in e-government and e-democracy that place the citizen at the center of governance. While traditional lines of inquiry at the intersection of politics and technology focus on enhancing or supporting existing political institutions, there is an underexplored opportunity for citizens to use technology to control government more directly. Internet optimists have long anticipated new, digital models of self-governance, including representative, direct, liquid, anarchic models. Critics have argued that technology cannot safely or desirably support greater citizen involvement. This track covers all aspects of direct, futuristic, radical, exploratory, and critical approaches to digital governance. These include the (un)desirability of using technology to support citizen self-governance; challenges to self-governance through technology; theoretical and empirical proposals; assessments of technologies to support models of governance (AI, IoT, blockchain, 5G, platforms); the impact of developing digital phenomena on self-governance (misinformation, bots, digital collective intelligence); and the ethical, technological, social, and political implications of existing and potential future models of public governance. The "Beyond Bureaucracy" serves as a platform for pro/contra deliberations on the near and distant potentials of e-democracy. TRACK 7. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, Dongwook Kim, and Soon Ae Chun This year we have witnessed the unprecedented public health, social justice issues ingrained in the society, and natural disasters that affected citizens around the world. Smart Cities should consider not only smart growth, social coherence, and industrial transformation of cities by adopting cutting edge technologies, but also resilience, efficiency and competitiveness, to lessen social discriminations and to improve local quality of life. Inclusive and Resilient Smart Cities should ensure that key smart city innovations support infrastructure to enhance citizens' equal access to public and utility services considering their diversity, digital readiness and resource limitations, while it can generate early alerts and enable disaster monitoring, epidemic surveillance and infrastructure redundancy to respond and recover quickly. This track invites research and practices in inclusive and resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as enhancing diverse digital skills toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces resilient to adverse events. TRACK 8. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines Track chairs: Helen K. Liu, Benjamin Clark, and Lisa Schmidthuber The collaborative intelligence track aims to investigate how human, crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance public services and policies, such as healthcare services, citizen-government communication, bias and discretion reduction, smart city planning, etc. Moreover, crowdsourcing has been recently adopted for generating information, providing public services, and resolving public problems, and artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of learning, classifying, and detecting data sources and inputs. However, while the adoption of AI may enhance the citizens' participation experience, there are potential ethical issues and implementation challenges in designing an optimal collaborative intelligence that includes both human collective intelligence and artificial intelligence. The collaborative intelligence track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly papers that explore the interactions of human, crowd, and/or machine. Possible topics include strategies for collaborative intelligence or platforms in the public sector, designs for machine and human interaction in public services or policy making, comparisons of outputs and bias from AI, experts, and/or collective intelligence, values in collaborative intelligence management and governance, best practices of collaborative intelligence in the public sector, ethical concerns or guidelines for applying collective intelligence, or other similar topics and relevant approaches. TRACK 9. Digital Transformation in Subnational Governments Track chairs: Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Thiago José Tavares Ávila, and Maria Alexandra Cunha Digital transformation has become an essential part of the government's strategic agenda, both at national and sub-national levels. However, digital transformation initiatives at the sub-national level tend to present specific aspects when compared to national initiatives. On the one hand, this track highlights the particular challenges faced by subnational digital transformation initiatives. On the other hand, it seeks to understand the capacities supporting the digital transformation at the subnational level. The track's objectives are: a) to identify real-world examples/cases of digital transformation projects at the subnational levels; b) seek to explain this cases in the context of existing or new theoretical frameworks, and, c) create actionable recommendations for researchers, professional developers, and digital government practitioners at the sub-national level. Possible topics include but not limited to: citizen's digital and secure identification; protection of users' personal data; transparency, openness and sharing of governmental data; new technologies such as artificial intelligence or blockchain; co-creation of digital services; social participation mechanisms; collaborative governance. TRACK 10. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts Track Chairs: Jing Zhang, Chris Hinnant, and Lei Zheng The adoption and implementation of new ICTs by public organizations have been influenced by organizational factors such as the availability of resources (i.e. funding, infrastructure, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust, stakeholder involvement, organization's structure and culture, as well as inter-organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICTs in government and society has generated important impacts on the organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations, as well as the smartness of the government and the society. This track solicits research that examines the organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation, and impact of new and emerging innovative technologies such as smart city, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, open data, social media, citizen-centric technologies, and other novel technologies that rely on open and large data sets. Furthermore, this track seek research on the adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to facilitate the strategic use of various ICTs by public organizations. TRACK 11. Cyber-physical Innovations for Public Policy and Service Track chairs: Sukumar Ganapati, Michael Ahn, and Chengyu (Victor) Huang This track welcomes contributions to cyber-physical systems' (CPS) innovations that transform public policies and service. CPS are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components. Cyber-physical technologies include the type and collection of data (e.g. big data from IoT sensors), connectivity (e.g. 5G network and mobile devices), infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure and distributed computing), unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones), autonomous vehicles (AVs), artificial intelligence for intelligent decision-making, and sharing economy platforms. The track's primary aim is to examine these technologies through the lens of public values such as efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and ethics. Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to evidence based policy-making, cyberinfrastructure for scientific innovations, innovative uses of UAS and AVs for public service, civic innovations, online community engagement, cross-sector collaboration, ethical use of CPS in governance, equitable public service delivery, and knowledge representation for policy analysis. This track invites submission of theoretical as well as empirical research papers of how CPS impact governance mechanisms. TRACK 12. Automation of Public Services - Concepts, Practice, Implications and Emerging Perspectives Track chairs: Ida Lindgren, Christian Østergaard Madsen, and Ulf Melin The scope of what we can automate has widened; processes that have previously been considered as 'cognitive', and thus in need of human involvement or discretion can now be performed, at least theoretically, by machines. However, what automation entails for public service, conceptually and empirically, is still unclear. On the technical level, automation is used to denote systems of various complexity, e.g., systems integration, RPA, and AI. Similarly, these technologies can be used to automate a large variety of different public service activities and processes. In addition, many technical and legal issues related to data sharing that have previously hindered automation are slowly being resolved, resulting in new venues for automation. Looking at the wide spread of potential application areas for automation in public service, we lack a nuanced language in the digital government community to further our understanding of the nature and implications of automation of public service. In this track, we seek conceptual and empirical papers that can deepen our understanding of what increased automation of public service will bring for public organizations, and society at large. TRACK 13. Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals Track Chairs: Rony Medaglia and Gianluca Misuraca The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including public opinion, policy, and research. Digital government can act as an enabler to sustainability, equity and social inclusion that represents a cross-cutting objective across several SDGs at both sectoral and horizontal level, with a crucial importance in particular for the goal 16 that aims to ´Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels´. This track invites contributions focusing on the potential benefits and challenges of digital government in supporting the achievement of SDGs and the role of digital technologies to sustain policy developments at both horizontal and sectoral level, including in particular the impact on democratic innovation and institutional reforms of governance systems. We invite studies on the design, management and evaluation of policies and implementation of digital government strategies in relation to the UN SDGs at global, national and local level. Papers that can combine methodological rigour with practical relevance and policy implications are particularly welcome. TRACK 14. Blockchain-based applications for e-Government Track Chairs: Jolien Ubacht, Svein Ølnes, Lemuria Carter, and Ramzi El-Haddadeh In the past years, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the potential of Blockchain (BC) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to revolutionize government processes. Transactions and information exchange between governmental organizations (G2G), between business and government (B2G) as well as between governments and citizens (G2C) can be transformed by using blockchain-based applications. These applications can improve the efficiency of information exchanges (e.g. leading to less fraud and less mistakes than paper-based registrations) and can contribute to an inclusive society (e.g. by means of digital identities). However, due to its characteristics of peer to peer information exchange, its distributed nature and the still developing technology, the implementation of blockchain-based applications requires solid analysis of the entire information chain, including the involved stakeholders and extant information architectures. In addition, blockchain initiatives have implications for citizen trust, privacy, inclusion and participation that need to be addressed in the design of the blockchain based applications. This track invites research that explores the impact and potential of blockchain based applications in G2G, B2G and C2G processes that illustrate their contribution to public services and the creation of public values. We welcome a diversity in research designs, approaches and methodologies. TRACK 15. Legal Informatics Track Chairs: Peter Parycek, Charalabidis Yannis, and Anna-Sophie Novak The application of ICT technologies in the administrative and legal field pose great challenges for both technicians and legal professionals. Additionally, there is the question of how these applied technologies can and/or must be legally regulated. Many of these technologies rely on the use of large amounts of data. In this context, questions arise as to how data usage might be regulated in order to generate the greatest possible benefit for society. With these challenges in mind, we invite papers on the legal, technical, ethical, theoretical and practical questions that arise within the multidisciplinary field of legal informatics. This track invites research and practices concerning the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the legal domain, legal implications of big data applications (challenges to privacy, autonomy, governance, equity, and fairness), a legislative framework for legal informatics on a European and national level and better regulation. Specific interest areas include the field of privacy (policies, regulations, strategies, recommendations), models of legal and ethical knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values, procedures and society models, legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions and applications and use cases (implementations of legal informatics systems under realistic conditions). Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials dg.o workshops are half- or full-day facilitated discussions. Discussions are typically stimulated by short presentations by workshop participants. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations or hands-on experiences offering deeper insight into the scientific or government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experiences of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Panels Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that put a spotlight on practice and application. Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring experiences with, perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are encouraged. Individuals interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the panel co-chairs about their ideas prior to developing their submissions. Posters and System Demonstrations The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. Doctoral Colloquium The doctoral colloquium is a full-day and highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government. PUBLICATIONS All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue. There will be several special issues related to the conference, including: * Government Information Quarterly * Digital Government: Research and Practice * Transforming Government: People, Process, Policy * International Journal of E-Government Research * Information Polity * International Journal of E-Planning Research * International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age BEST PAPER AWARDS Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers, Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the main theme of the conference, Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community, will be preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience. SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS * Research papers * Management, Case Study, or Policy papers * Panel descriptions * Posters * System demonstrations * Pre-Conference tutorial proposals * Pre-Conference workshop proposals * Doctoral colloquium application Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2021 Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o conference. Detailed instruction and ACM conference proceedings template will be available on conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ under "submission guidelines". Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review process. All other submissions should use ACM proceedings submission template but include author names. At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work. All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered for the conference for it to be included in the conference proceedings. The authors of more than two papers can register for and present at most two co-authored papers. Third paper on, some other coauthor registration and presentation are required. Research papers - blind review: These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. (Limit of approximately 8,000 words) Management, case study, or policy papers - blind review: These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. (Limit of approximately 5,000 words) Panels: Proposals should include information about the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Posters: Summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the conference should measure 36" x 48". Each poster station is provided with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) System Demonstrations: System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 1-2 page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. Each station is provided with a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Tutorials: dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer deeper insight into e-government research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as social media, and other insights into e-government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Pre-conference Workshops: We invite workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration of a particular subject. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) Doctoral Colloquium: The doctoral colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers describing their planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal idea and preliminary findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from feedback on their work and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information on the colloquium and how to submit an application. Material provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo. (10 pages, not including references, tables and figures) CONFERENCE CHAIRS - Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Luis Luna-Reyes, University of Albany, USA - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands PROGRAM CHAIRS - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria - Sungsoo Hwang, Yeungnam University, Korea TRACK CHAIRS -Michael Ahn, University of Massachusetts Boston, US - Thiago José Tavares Ávila, Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas, Brazil -Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece -Zach Bastick, European School of Political Science, France -Lemuria Carter, University of New South Wales, Australia - Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil -Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US - Benjamin Clark, University of Oregon, US - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Bettina Distel, University of Münster, Germany -Ramzi El-Haddadeh, Qatar University, Qatar - Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, US - Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US - Chengyu (Victor) Huang, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA -Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US -Dongwook Kim, Seoul National University, Korea - Kim Mi-Ryang, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea - Ko Yoon-Seok, National Information Society Agency, South Korea - Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Kwon Hun-Yeong, Korea University, South Korea - Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, Universidade Federal do Paraná & IDB, Brazil - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan R.O.C. - Christian Østergaard Madsen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden. - Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada - Gianluca Misuraca, Danube University Krems, Austria - Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria -Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Svein Ølnes, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway - Peter Parycek, Frauenhofer Fokus, Germany - Alois Paulin, Siemens, Austria - Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Hendrik Scholta, University of Münster, Germany - Lisa Schmidthuber, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria -Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - Grace Walsh, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Maynooth University, Ireland -Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Charalabidis Yannis, University of the Aegean, Greece -Jing Zhang, Clark University, US -Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China PANELS CHAIRS - David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico - Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALs CHAIRS - Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, U.S.A. - Changsoo Song, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA POSTERS AND DEMOS CHAIRS - Djoko Sayogo, University of Muhammadiyah at Malang (UMM), Indonesia DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS - J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA - Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria COMMUNICATION AND WEB CHAIRS - Julian Villodre, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS - Sehl Mellouli, University Laval, Canada - Josie Schafer, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA LIAISON AND OUTREACH CHAIRS - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands REGISTRATION CHAIRS -Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland -Catherine Dumas, Simmons University, USA FINANCE CHAIR -Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, USA Best Regards, Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D. Conference Chair, dg.o 2021 (http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/) Isaacson Professor Director, Digital Governance and Analytics Lab School of Public Administration College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha [UNO-logo-signature]

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: 1st IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference – Resilient ICT4D
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: 1st IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference – Resilient ICT4D Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:21:44 +0000 From: Petter Nielsen <pnielsen(a)ifi.uio.no> To: 'aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org' <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> 1st IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference – Resilient ICT4D The COVID-19 emergency has posed a heavy burden on health infrastructures in the developing world. As an unprecedented crisis, the pandemic has had severe social, redistributional and economic impacts on vulnerable groups, affecting the development processes that the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development has traditionally dealt with. With the new disease posing a development challenge for all nations, a global development paradigm (Oldenkop et al., 2020) emerged in studying responses to it. In the spirit of “making a better world” with ICTs that characterises the ethos of ICT4D (Walsham, 2012), engagements with such responses have interested our research during the pandemic. At the same time, ICT4D research on topics different from the ongoing crisis is itself influenced by the pandemic in diverse ways. Planning and conducting fieldwork in the forms we knew it became impracticable, with researchers having to resort to alternative ways to access respondents and field sites. Conferencing, and with it the interactions that are crucial to our academic growth have abruptly moved to the digital world, with new affordances (such as abating barriers of cost and travel) but also new constraints, connected to the digital recreation of a traditionally physical world. Resilience, seen with Heeks and Ospina (2019) as the ability of systems to cope with external shocks and trends, became crucial to us as ICT4D colleagues, both in the conduct of research and in the interactional aspects of our lives as academic community. Against this backdrop, a Resilient ICT4D is what has emerged from the COVID-19 crisis, and the theme inspiring our Virtual IFIP 9.4 Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development to take place on 26-28 May 2021. While pertaining to themes of ICT4D research in and beyond the pandemic, the tracks in the conference are underpinned by the need for a resilient attitude that, in the face of one of the greatest shocks ever suffered by humanity, keeps alive the spirit of “making a better world” with ICTs. :: Papers for IFIP 9.4 2021 Papers for the IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference should be formatted according to the template for submissions to IFIP 9.4 conferences. Please note the word limits for full research papers (5000 words for text excluding abstract, diagrams, tables and references) and for research in progress/practitioner reports of experience and reflection (2500 words for text excluding abstract, diagrams, tables and references). Submissions should be sent to ifip94conference(a)gmail.com by the deadline of 30 March 2021. Please indicate “IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference” in the subject line, and please ensure the email text specifies names, contact emails and affiliations for all authors, as well as the track to which the paper is submitted. :: Tracks for IFIP 9.4 2021: - ICT and Resilience Building: Climate Change, Pandemic, and Other Stressors - Digital Platforms in, from and in-between the Global South and North - Data Science in Public Health - ICT4D and Data Justice - Our Digital Lives (IFIP 9.5 Track) - Digital Social Enterprises & COVID-19: Enablers, Sustainability & Pathways - Feminist and Queer approaches to Information Systems in Developing Countries - Displacements, ICTs, and #NewNormal - Digital Authoritarianism and Fundamentalism: Problems and Solutions - The Role of ICT in Achieving Social Justice (ICT4SJ) - General Track :: Conference website: http://ifiptc9.org/wg94/ :: Conference Chairs: Silvia Masiero (silvima(a)ifi.uio.no) Petter Nielsen (pnielsen(a)ifi.uio.no) -- Associate Professor Head of Information Systems Research Group Department of Informatics University of Oslo Ole-Johan Dahls Hus Gaustadalleèn 23B N-0373 Norway +47 41506058 pnielsen(a)ifi.uio.no http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/pnielsen/index.html http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petter_Nielsen _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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