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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 Řstergaard 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 Řlnes, 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, Fundaçăo 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 Řstergaard 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 Řlnes, 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
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