| Betreff: | [AISWorld] CFP ICEGOV2014 - The Rise of Data Post-2015 Empowered Citizens, Accountable Institutions |
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| Datum: | Sat, 7 Jun 2014 17:11:47 +0000 |
| Von: | Marijn Janssen - TBM <M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl> |
| An: | aisworld@lists.aisnet.org <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org> |
ICEGOV2014
- 8th International Conference on Theory and
Practice of Electronic Governance
“The
Rise of Data Post-2015 – Empowered Citizens, Accountable
Institutions”
27 - 30 October 2014, Guimarães, Portugal
SECOND
CALL FOR PAPERS
PATRON
President
of the Portuguese Republic
ORGANIZERS
University of Minho, Portugal
Agência para a Modernização Administrativa,
Portugal
Center
for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST, Macao SAR, China
(Series Organizer)
PUBLICATIONS
Accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be
published by ACM Press (expected). Journal special issues
and best paper awards are also expected.
IMPORTANT
DATES
|
First
Submission Deadline Notification
Deadline Final
Submission Deadline Author
Registration Deadline |
1
July 2014 8
August 2014 1
September 2014 1
September 2014 |
CONTACT
1.
INTRODUCTION
As
the post-2015 United Nations development agenda to guide the
world community in the pursuit of inclusive and sustainable
development is shaping up, a broad agreement is emerging
that accountable public governance is a key enabler to such
development, and that digital technology, by empowering
citizens with access to vast amounts of governance- and
policy-related data and the means to analyze and interpret
such data, is a key enabler to accountable public
governance. The main purpose of ICEGOV2014 is to explore
research and policy implications and discuss way forward for
technology-enabled and data-intensive public governance in
the post-2015 world.
The
series of International Conferences on Theory and Practice
of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) brings together
governments, academia, the United Nations (UN) system and
other international organizations, civil society and the
private sector to share the insights and experiences in
theory and practice of Electronic Governance. ICEGOV
promotes interactions between different groups of
stakeholders, from policy-makers, government officials and
elected representatives, to researchers, innovators and
educators from developing and developed countries, all
sharing a common concern that public investment in
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and
Electronic Governance (EGOV) creates public value. ICEGOV
creates a forum for such stakeholders to discuss effective
ways to working together across the national, thematic,
development, political and other boarders towards addressing
this concern.
Following
earlier conferences in Macao (ICEGOV2007), Cairo
(ICEGOV2008), Bogota (ICEGOV2009), Beijing (ICEGOV2010),
Tallinn (ICEGOV2011), Albany (ICEGOV2012) and Seoul
(ICEGOV2013), the ICEGOV conference series has become a
source of significant research and policy events, able to
reach to global and multi-stakeholder audiences. On average,
every ICEGOV conference attracts 136 submissions from 51
countries and is attended by over 400 participants from more
than 50 developed and developing countries including
representatives from government (40%), academia (36%),
industry and civil society (14%), and international and UN
system organizations (10%).
ICEGOV2014
invites submissions of original work, not published or
considered for publication elsewhere. The papers can be
submitted to six specific tracks, several thematic sessions
and the doctoral colloquium, as described below. Papers can
also be submitted to the conference in general. In either
case, Program Chairs may allocate papers to specific tracks,
sessions or the colloquium, or relocate them accordingly.
The
details of the tracks, thematic sessions and the colloquium
are included below:
o
Track
1: Data for Development
– With new technologies facilitating data collection in
various forms and for various purposes, how can governments
and businesses profit from the availability of big and open
data? How can such data be effectively used in support of
public policy and development goals?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Track
2: Citizen Empowerment
–
Facing lack of capacity and confidence in the ability of a
centralized state to address complex, interconnected and
often contradictory public needs, how can citizens,
businesses and other non-state actors be more involved and
empowered, particularly with data?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Track
3: Ethics, Accountability and Transparency
–
Given generally low levels of trust by the public in the
performance of governance processes, how can ICT enable
citizens to demand (and receive) high standards of ethics,
transparency and accountability from their governments to
bolster responsive public policy, ensure high levels of
public sector performance and prevent corruption?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Track
4: Policy Innovation and Digital Science
– Policy-making and -implementation is fundamentally
changing with the advancement of new digital technologies
including the availability of big data, data analytics and
simulation, visualization and gaming technologies. How can
ICT-enabled innovations in policy and governance be
transferred and successfully adapted to local settings?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Track
5: Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development
–
Electronic Governance has the potential to contribute to
inclusive and equitable socio-economic development while
protecting natural resources for future generations. How can
governments, supported by ICT, work with citizens,
businesses, academia and other non-state actors to pursue
rights-based, equitable and sustainable development?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Track
6: Leadership and Organization –
Leadership
is required to build and manage ICT capabilities within a
government organization and to strategically align such
capabilities with existing business objectives. How can
government leaders manage and organize ICT capabilities to
deliver public value?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Thematic
Session 1: Rural Electronic Governance –
The
development, deployment and management of rural Electronic
Governance face enormous challenges: How to improve access
for rural e-citizens? What infrastructure and services are
required for rural e-citizens? How to extend EGOV services
for rural citizens and organizations to access markets and
value chains? How to converge policies and architectures for
better rural e-services? What are the best practices for
rural EGOV measurement?
Topics of interest
include but are not limited to the following:
o
Thematic
Session 2: Intelligent Information Systems for Government
Organizations –
Intelligent
Systems provide sophisticated technological solutions in a
variety of areas like business, transport, health, decision
making and others, and EGOV is not an exception. This
session will explore the question how can novel information
systems, computer science-originated frameworks and new
applications of intelligent information systems provide
added value in the EGOV area?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
Knowledge
representation and reasoning for EGOV
o
Big data for enhancing
public service delivery and policy-making
o
Biomimetics for EGOV
o
Granular computing for
enhanced public services
o
Fuzzy sets and soft
computing for EGOV
o
Semantic technologies
for EGOV
o
Social network
analysis for government information networks
o
Recommender system
technologies for EGOV
o
Intelligent
information systems for smart governance
o
Intelligent ICT
solutions for e-Participation
o
New advanced
ICT-solutions for smart cities
o
Intelligent Systems
and e-Democracy
o
Preservation and
dissemination of cultural assets using intelligent systems
o
Thematic
Session 3: Unfolding ICT-enabled Innovation in the Public
Sector –
Digital
initiatives in the public sector are currently focused on
introducing open government in public service delivery to
citizens and on enabling participation in policy-making.
However the potential of ICT-enabled innovation in the
public sector, its impact on the society and the promised
productivity gains are yet to be supported by evidence. How
to evaluate the effects of ICT-enabled innovation in the
public sector through the lenses of different theoretical
and methodological frameworks?
Topics
of interest include but are not limited to the following:
o
ICT innovative
solutions for EGOV evaluation
o
ICT innovative
solutions for Open Government evaluation
o
ICT-enabled
innovations for EGOV
o
ICT-enabled
innovations for public value delivery
o
ICT-enabled
innovations for delivering social value
o
ICT-enabled public
sector innovation
o
Digital social
innovation
o
Public Information
Systems planning
o
Positive deviance
approach for EGOV
o
Doctoral
Colloquium
– Submissions to the Doctoral Colloquium are welcome from
the doctoral students who would like to present their
research work on any topic related to the theme of the
conference. Each submission should explain: 1) the research
problem addressed and why it is important, 2) the research
questions pursued and the methodology adopted to pursue
them, 3) what kind of scientific and technical challenges
were encountered in the course of the research, and 4)
obtained or emerging research results. Presentations at the
Doctoral Colloquium aim at providing feedback to students
from academic experts and building the students’
peer-to-peer and professional networks.
3.
SUBMISSION
CATEGORIES
Completed
or ongoing work can be submitted as research papers,
experience papers, poster papers or doctoral research
papers:
o
Research
papers
– The papers that provide the results of complete or ongoing
research in one or more aspects of EGOV, with proven or
potential capability to advance the state of research in the
field. Complete research papers are limited to 10 pages
while ongoing research papers to 4 pages.
o
Experience
papers
– The papers that describe completed or ongoing innovations
in EGOV practice or policy with proven or potential
capability to advance the state of practice in the field
including critical success factors and insights on the
challenges encountered and how they were or are addressed.
Complete experience papers are limited to 10 pages while
ongoing experience papers to 4 pages.
o
Poster
papers
– The papers that present new ideas and initiatives with
potential to advance the state of research and state of
practice in the field. Poster papers are limited to 2 pages.
o
Doctoral
research papers
– The papers submitted by doctoral students to describe
their research related to the topics of the conference.
Doctoral research papers are limited to 4 pages.
4.
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE
o
Preparation
– All papers should be written in English and prepared using
the Word template http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pubform.doc
within the page limits set for the corresponding submission
categories: 10 pages for completed research or experience
papers, 4 pages for ongoing research or experience papers or
for doctoral research papers, and 2 pages for poster papers.
o
Submission
– All papers should be submitted without any means of
identifying their authors through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov2014
by the First Submission Deadline.
o
Review
– All submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review by
the Program Committee and the authors will be notified about
acceptance or rejection decisions by the Notification
Deadline.
o
Rights
management
– A right management form and complete instructions how to
fill it will be sent by the publisher to the authors of
accepted papers. After completing the form online, the
authors will be emailed a copy of the form and the correct
rights management text to add to their papers.
o
Revision
– Accepted papers must be revised to address reviewer
comments, to add author names and affiliations and to add
the rights management text received above and resubmitted
through
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov2014
by the Final Submission Deadline.
5.
PUBLICATIONS
AND AWARDS
All
accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings on
the condition that at least one author registers before the
Author Registration Deadline and presents the accepted paper
at the conference. As in previous years, electronic
proceedings will be published by ACM Press (expected). In
addition to conference proceedings, special journal issues
with selected conference papers and best paper awards are
planned.
6.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Authors
of accepted papers will be able to apply for scholarships to
partially cover the costs of attending the conference
(registration, accommodation or both), with preference given
to the authors from developing countries. At most one
application will be considered per accepted paper.
Besides
presentations of submitted work – research papers,
experience papers, poster papers and doctoral research work,
the program will include Keynote Lectures, Thematic
Sessions, Invited Sessions and Town Hall Debates, as well as
social events for networking and community building.
8.
IMPORTANT
DATES
|
First
Submission Deadline Notification
Deadline Final
Submission Deadline Author
Registration Deadline |
1
July 2014 8
August 2014 1
September 2014 1
September 2014 |