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EGOV2020 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2020 Linköping University, Sweden CALL FOR PAPERS The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2020 represents the of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually, and will be hosted 31 August - 2 September 2020 in Linköping at the Linköping University in Sweden. The conference focuses on e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation in society, artificial intelligence, policy information, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. Part of the conference is a PhD Colloquium which offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods). The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group in collaboration with the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The Working Group’s special emphasis lays on interdisciplinary approaches towards information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government.
IMPORTANT DATES
* (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2020 * Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2020 * PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: May 1, 2020 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready) 10 May 2020 * Poster acceptance 25 May 2020 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2020 * PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: June 15, 2020 * PhD Colloquium: 30 August 2020 * Conference: 31 August -2 September 2020 Website: http://dgsoc.org/egov-2020/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2020
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
* Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria * Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA * Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece * Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, Austria Local Host Chairs
* Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
TRACKS AT EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2020 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. This track also covers emerging and special topics in e-government research
* Gabriela Viale Pereira (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except for the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas
* Noella Edelmann (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria * Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics and AI methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and other AI methods in the public sector.
* Habin Lee (lead), Brunel University London, UK * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece * Evangelos Kalampokis, CERTH, Greece
Smart Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology
* Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (lead), University of Granada, Spain * Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden * Nuno Lopes, DTx: Digital Transformation Colab, Portugal
Social Media Track: Digital networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks.
* Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway (lead) * Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Social Innovation Track: focuses on the intersection between research, practice, and policy related to social innovation.
* Csaba Csaki (lead), Corvinus Business School, Hungary * Gianluca Misuraca, European Commission, Spain * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other Technologies.
* Anneke Zuiderwijk (lead), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece
Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation.
* Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria (lead) * Christian Østergaard Madsen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Cybersecurity and critical infrastructure: focuses on the operation and policies for creating secure, safe and reliable critical infrastructures for areas like information exchange, public services and policies and transport, energy and other public-private infrastructures.
* Natalia Kadenko (lead), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Legal informatics: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming dominant in the government domain.
* Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria Practitioners’ Track: practitioners are encouraged to provide long abstracts of forthcoming papers, summaries of workshop proceedings, descriptions of project outputs, work experiences, inspiring case studies and best practice examples
* Francesco Mureddu (lead), The Lisbon Council, Belgium * Peter Reichstädter, Austrian Parliament, Austria * Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, United Nations University, Portugal * Francesco Molinari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be submitted.
* Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2020 conference you agree that your paper will not be submitted elsewhere and if accepted that the conference fee will be paid and the consent to publish will be signed. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers. Please note that all accepted submissions to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2020 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will make use of the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Further information about this software can be found at www.turnitin.com/ Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government Track, Smart Cities Track, AI data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track, Open Data Social and Technical Aspects Track, and Cybersecurity track, whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation track, Social Media track, Social Innovation Track, Digital Society and legal informatics track. Format guidelines for Springer LNCS are available here: https://www.springer.com/la/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui.... These guidelines should be followed when submitting the paper for review. The copyright form need to be filled in after acceptance: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/IFIP-Springer_Copyright_Form.pdf Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) might be published (but do not need to be published) by in the CEUR-WS proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). The CEUR Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) is a free open-access publication service at Sun SITE Central Europe operated under the umbrella of RWTH Aachen University. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. Ongoing research template can be found here The copyright form: http://ceur-ws.org/Non-Ex-Publication-Permission-Template.txt?ver=2017-01-17
CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) is published online under open access and provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. BEST PAPER AWARD Each year the best papers are invited to submit to GIQ and JeDEM. The best paper winners will be invited to submit their revised papers to GIQ following a fast-track reviewing process, runners up will be invited to submit to a JeDEM special issues which will be published in 2020. CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held at the premises of Linköping University in Linköping University, Sweden.
CONTACT Email: egov2020@easychair.orgmailto:egov2020@easychair.org CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2020 Website: http://dgsoc.org/egov-2020/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2020
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