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Call for Track Proposals
dg.o 2021: 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research
Conference Theme
Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and
Community
College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of
Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
United States of America
June 9-11, 2021
http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/ (forthcoming)
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The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 22nd Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o
2021, with a theme " Digital Innovations for Public Values:
Inclusive Collaboration and Community. " dg.o 2021 will be hosted
by 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 at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska in the United States of
America on June 9-11, 2021. The dg.o conferences are an
established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration
of interdisciplinary research on digital government, 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 theory and practice, their focus on important and
timely topics and the quality of their writing.
THEMES & 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 the forms such 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. During the past twenty-one
years, the dg.o conferences have been at the forefront of digital
governance transformations. In its 22nd anniversary, the dg.o 2021
conference will build in past themes to advance our knowledge
about the creation of public values via digital innovations with
particular focus on inclusivity, collaboration, and community. The
dg.o 2021 theme on the digital innovations for public values
connects with established tracks featured at past dg.o
conferences, such as:
. Public value creation and innovation
. Social media and government
. Organizational factors, technology adoption, and digital
government impacts . Opening government: from open data
infrastructures to collaboration
. Engagement in government
. Smart cities: models and platforms
. Cybersecurity and government
. Beyond bureaucracy, co-producing governance & new models of
governance
. Open government data policies & politics
. Blockchain and transformational government
We encourage past track chairs to update and submit their track.
In addition, we invite new tracks to address existing and emerging
research challenges related to the dg.o 2021 theme on digital
innovation for public values. General potential topics are but not
limited to: . Digital Innovations for Inclusive Collaboration .
Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines
. Digital Innovations in Community Engagement
. Intelligent and Inclusive Society
. Digital Social Innovation
. E-participation . Digital Innovations for Transparency
. Emerging Technologies and Public Policy
. Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making and Public Services
. Digital Technologies and Nonprofit Organizations
Tracks should be related to digital government, but do not have to
be limited to the conference theme. The highly successful track
proposals will be selected, based on the reputation of the track
chairs in the proposed field, successful track performance in the
past, novelty, coherence of the topics covered in alignment with
the digital government themes that are of interest to the research
and practitioner communities. We also welcome new tracks that were
not featured in the past.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMATS:
Submit track proposals using the
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bG5GK3LdelFZh4vv2a3JGmuIx9C6lvpp/view?usp=sharing
via
. Email to: Yu-Che Chen
mailto:ychen@unomaha.edu, Luis Luna-Reyes
mailto:lluna-reyes@albany.edu, Marijn Janssen - TBM
mailto:M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl
Submission of your track proposal should complete the proposal
template and indicate: . The title of the track
. Track chairs (multiple track chairs are encouraged to attract
more submissions, cover diverse aspects and ensure attendance
during meetings and conference)
. Summary of track goals and motivation, including a list of
topics.
. Evidence of track chairs' effort or research in the proposed
area.
Track Proposal Submission and Decision Deadlines:
September 4, 2020: Track proposals due
September 18, 2020: Acceptance notification for tracks
September 30, 2020: First call for papers for all tracks
Track chair eligibility: At the time of track proposal, the
chairs should be reminded for the following eligibility criteria
to be accepted as a track. 1) Track chairs should be a member
of the DGS at the point of acceptance.
2) You can only be a track chair in one track.
The track chairs are responsible for the following conference
organization activities:
. attend the online monthly organization meetings
. monitor the submitted track papers and to oversee the review of
the submitted papers
. propose to accept/reject papers for the track
. select and nominate the best paper in their respective track for
the best paper award . communicate with the Program Committee (PC)
and Organization chairs of the paper submission and selection
status
. plan track sessions to support PC chairs, and assign the session
chairs of the track
. write a brief summary of the conference activity for the track
for inclusion in the dgs newsletter.
. register and attend the conference
. identify good/best papers to be submitted to the GIQ dg.o
special issue (organized by the program chairs) or to a special
issue for other affiliated journals (organized by track chairs).
Opportunities for Journal Special Issues
Track chairs may be able to edit a special issue based on their
track papers. Some possible venues include but not limited to:
. Government Information Quarterly
. Digital Government: Research and Practice
. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
. International Journal of E-Government Research
. Information Polity
. International Journal of E-Planning Research
. International Journal of Public Administration in the
Digital Age
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
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
Conference Program (PC) Chairs
Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
Sungsoo Hwang, Yeungnam University, Korea
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