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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-guidelines.
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.org<mailto: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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