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Dear All,
please see below for the CfP for dg.O 2023 taking place in Tartu,
Estonia.
Looking forward to many submissions,
Robert
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First Call for Papers
dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research
Building safe and secure cross-border public services
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/
https://eceps.ut.ee/research/dgo2023
The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o
2023 – in Tartu, Estonia, with a special focus on building safe
and secure cross-border services. The conference main organizer is
the ERA Chair of e-governance and digital public services, Center
for IT Impact Studies (CITIS) in the Johan Skytte Institute of
Political Studies at the University of Tartu.
As the European Parliament and Council adopted the regulation
establishing a single digital gateway on 11 December 2018, it set
Europe on a very clear path of digital transformation, planned to
be fully implemented by the end of 2023. This transformative
change will greatly enhance the development of cross-border
services as by then all national online procedures will have to be
made fully accessible to cross-border users. In addition, the
‘once-only principle’ will be applied to cross-border exchanges of
evidence for a range of procedures. All of this cannot be achieved
and developed further without extensive collaboration between
private and public sectors. Specifically, the conference aims to
advance research and practice on cross-border services in
democratic digital government. The dg.o conference series is an
established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration
of interdisciplinary research on digital government, ICT and
public administration, 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.
IMPORTANT DATES
* January 20, 2023: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are
due
* March 31, 2023: Author notifications (papers, workshops,
tutorials, panels)
* April 1, 2023: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium
* April 15, 2023: Posters and demo proposals due
* April 24, 2023: Poster/demo author notifications
* April 25, 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair
* May 1, 2023: Doctoral colloquium notification / Early
registration begins
* May 20, 2023: Early registration closes
OVERVIEW OF TRACKS
TRACK 1: Data-driven Governance through Information Retrieval and
Decision Support Systems
Track Chairs: Charalampos Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean),
Shefali Virkar (Danube University Krems, Austria)
The purpose of this track is to critically examine the
interrelationship between advanced decision support systems and
big data analytics in the pursuit of improved digital governance,
together with the associated benefits, challenges and risks. This
track encourages the submission of high-quality and original
papers on the theory, experimentation, and practice of information
retrieval and decision support tools and techniques towards better
(data-driven) governance; this primarily includes sources of
textual information but could also include numerical data and
multi-modal information. This track addresses a range of similar
or related research questions, topics and practices regarding
sophisticated information retrieval infrastructures and advanced
decision systems, support tools and services.
TRACK 2: Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines
Track Chairs: Helen K. Liu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan),
Lisa Schmidthuber (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business,
Austria), Seok-Jin Eom (Seoul National University, South Korea)
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. 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 3: Innovative Services in Government: When Data-Driven
Services Meet Evidence-Based Policy
Track Chairs: Hsin-Chung Liao (National Chengchi University,
Taiwan), Hsien-Lee Tseng (National University of Taiwan, Taiwan)
The Innovative Services in Government track aims to investigate
how public sectors can complement Services and policies by
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as MyData,
Once Only Principle (OOP), and application of single digital
gateway, etc. To trigger these convenience services, civics data
sometimes needs to exchange within government sectors (G2G), or to
provide to private service providers (C2G2B). EU has published OOP
which is to be fully implemented by the end of 2023. In 2019, the
U.S. launched OPEN Government Data Act, taking a step further on
implementation of opening government data. The Innovative Services
in Government track invites researchers and practitioners to
accumulate scholarly papers that explore the interactions of data
application, data governance, and/or data policy. Possible topics
include strategies for government open data sharing, data-driven
services, data Principles, and best practices of public and
private sector collaboration on data implementation, or other
similar topics and relevant approaches.
TRACK 4: Cybersecurity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Track Chairs: Sukumar Ganapati (Florida International University,
USA), Chris Reddick (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA),
Michael Ahn (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Cybersecurity has gained a renewed and increased significance for
public and nonprofit agencies as they have been major targets of
various cyber attacks, particularly in the context of work
environments during the Covid-19 pandemic. As these agencies
transitioned their operations from face to face work schedules to
work from home during the pandemic, they have had to cope with
increased security risks with digitization of their programs and
provision of online services. Without adequate cybersecurity, the
agencies are vulnerable. Ransomware attacks, for example, could
cripple critical programs (e.g. education) and services (e.g.
utility). Cybersecurity is not only a technical problem, but also
an organizational issue. This track will examine the pedagogical,
public policy, and organizational dimensions of cybersecurity in
this context. What are the educational implications for public
administrators and nonprofit managers? What are the strengths and
weaknesses of the various cybersecurity frameworks (e.g. “zero
trust”)? Are cyber-insurance policies adequate measures? What are
the elements of organizational cyber-resilience? We invite papers
that broadly deal with these questions in the context of public
and nonprofit organizations.
TRACK 5: Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart
Cities
Track Chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Thessaly,
Greece), Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
Smart city utilizes the ICT to enhance living of local communities
and make city operations sustainable against current and future
challenges. The recent COVID-19 pandemic rapidly had to transition
cities to virtual spaces where the ICT became the platform for
work, socialization and transactions. However, this transformation
did not utilize the smart city infrastructure designed with
purpose for overall planning. The post-pandemic period finds
cities to define their future strategies for transformation and
innovations to serve citizens and businesses with the smart city
infrastructure equipped with more advanced intelligent
technologies to make cities more resilient to adversities and to
promote better life. Citizens and the private sectors will be
heavily rely on the smart city infrastructure.
TRACK 6: Social Media and Government
Track Chairs: Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan (Universidad Autonoma del
Estado de Mexico, Mexico), J. Ignacio Criado (University of
Madrid, Spain) and Loni Hagen (University of South Florida, USA)
The implications of social media and government are evolving with
the evolution of technologies and advances in the field. As it has
been experienced during the last years, this area of digital
government research is one of the most dynamic as new platforms,
metrics, audiences, uses, or impacts emerge almost every year.
Recently, we have learned that opportunities for innovation and
potential challenges emerge from the last evolutions of social
media and government. Here, issues regarding TikTok or virtual
reality, among other social platforms and areas, have abruptly
emerged as a global players in the entertainment sector, promoting
government and other actors to engage with new audiences. Finally,
new political challenges, including the polarization of the public
sphere, raise concerns about the potential harm of social media
for our democratic communities. For this year's theme, we
especially will welcome papers related to safe and secure
cross-border services and collaboration through social media
platforms. In addition, we are open to other aspects of
governments' service delivery and social media, including
theoretical and conceptual advancements, methodological and data
innovations, or case and practical implications coming from
diverse contexts. We will welcome papers on both traditional and
emerging issues, including opportunities, risks, and policies in
public services delivery in cross-national contexts, social media
motivations to use and audiences, political mobilizations and
polarization, social media contents and sentiment analysis, fake
news, artificial intelligence and algorithms-based systems and
virtual agents in government, instant messaging apps in
government, entertainment platforms for political engagement, or
social media for crisis and emergency management. Also, we will
continue working on including exciting research questions,
rigorous empirical studies, and in-depth case studies to enrich
the theories, research methods, data, and available cases and
practical applications in this resea
rch area.
TRACK 7: Cross-border governance and service impact assessment
Track Chairs: Robert Krimmer (University of Tartu, Estonia),
Mihkel Solvak (University of Tartu, Estonia) & Carsten Schmidt
(University of Tartu, Estonia)
Fitting with the core theme oft he conference, the recent policy
and regulatory initiatives of the EU, such as Digital Single
Market Strategy, Single Digital Gateway, European Interoperability
Framework and eIDAS 2.0, identify the need for digital
cross-border integration in the EU. The achievement of the digital
single market within the EU is challenging governments at all
levels to transform or update their governance systems in order to
establish the cross-border e-governance. The Single Digital
Gateway Regulation (SDGR) and the underlying Once-Only Principle
(OOP) outline that businesses and citizens in contact with public
administrations must provide data only once. Until now many MS and
associated countries have started to implement the OOP at the
national level, but the cross-border implementation is still a
work in progress. The SDGR as one of the cornerstones of the
Digital Single Market for the EU will bust this development. This
track will examine whether, and how these initiatives can foster
further integration into a digital single market.
TRACK 8: Developing active citizenship to boost citizen engagement
through digital government
Track Chairs: Edimara M. Luciano (Pontifical Catholic University
of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Gabriela V. Pereira (Danube
University Krems, Austria), Carmine Bianchi (Università degli
Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Citizen engagement has been mentioned as a barrier in several
research focused on collecting more benefits from digital
government strategies. Making public institutions open and
transparent, and generating public value is a massive challenge
that cannot prescind citizens’ participation in the process of
thinking, discussing, modeling, approving, implementing, and
evaluating public services and solutions. Consultation and
participation processes have been bringing governments and society
closer. However, there are new challenges to face, significantly
in times when the trust of society in governments is compromised
in many parts of the world and misinformation and disinformation
issues are arising. Consequently, it is paramount to advance on
understanding of engagement as an institutional, structural,
social, cultural, and political phenomenon, as well as the
individual cognitive process to decide to get involved at all
levels, from town to nationwide public management discussion.
This track focuses on discussing citizen engagement through active
participation of citizens in the public discussion aiming at
improving digital public services and digital government impact.
We invite contributions from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Strengthening
governance capacities for active citizenship; Frameworks,
strategies, and nudges fostering citizen engagement; Digital
government initiatives accomplishing engagement; Collaborative
governance and collective decision-making processes; Soft policies
for increasing participation and binding decisions; Antecedents
and consequents of engagement and disengagement behavior; The role
of leadership from government officials and citizens
representatives; Active citizenship opposing patronizing
approaches; Sense of belonging and social and political capital as
drivers to active citizenship; Active citizenship contributions to
social cohesion; and Engagement programs assessment.
TRACK 9: Beyond Bureaucracy: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere
and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society
Track Chairs: Alois Paulin (University of Public Administration
and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany), Robert Müller-Török
(University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg,
Germany), Zach Bastick (Harvard University, USA)
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 shape
the public sphere and 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 governance; 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 track also welcomes research and case
studies on the innovative uses of technologies by NGOs and other
non-government actors. The “Beyond Bureaucracy” track serves as a
platform for pro/contra deliberations on the near and distant
challenges and potentials of e-democracy.
TRACK 10: Tech Diplomacy: global partnerships for global good
Track Chairs: Nele Leosk (Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Estonia), Innar Liiv (TalTech, Estonia), Ingrid Pappel (TalTech,
Estonia)
Digital technologies play an increasingly important role in our
economies and societies and brought new opportunities into the
lives of people around the world. That in turn also have become
key competitive parameters that can shift the balance of power as
well including challenges and obstacles presented by state
security and state censorship, media regulations, organizational
culture, personnel challenges. The goal of EU Digital Diplomacy is
to secure the EU global role in the digital world, to protect its
strategic interests and to promote its dynamic, human-centric
regulatory framework for an inclusive digital
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approaches based on other countries’ digitalization experiences,
which might be considered when a country embarks on their own
digitalization journey.
TRACK 11: Digital Government Student Track
Track Chairs: Bettina Distel (University of Muenster, Germany),
Hendrik Scholta (University of Muenster, Germany), Karen
Mossberger (Arizona State University, USA)
This track addresses Bachelor and Master students and encourages
them to submit and present their work at the conference. With this
format, we aim to provide students with a first-hand experience of
how research works and deepen their interest in academia. We want
to attract the original work of students, facilitate a
constructive and developmental double-blind peer-review process,
and subsequent publication of their works. In contrast to the
general research tracks, students will be the first authors of the
papers in this track and present their work at the conference. We
encourage supervisors to act as co-authors to ensure a
scientifically guided paper development process. All topics in the
area of digital government are welcome. For exemplary topics,
please take a look at the topics listed in the other tracks. We
are open to all conceptual and empirical papers that use all kinds
of research methods. The participation in the student track will
be possible online and offline. This track gives Bachelor and
Master students the opportunity to actively contribute to the
digital government community.
TRACK 12: Assessing and Realizing Artificial Intelligence in
Government
Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli (Université Laval, Canada), Marijn
Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands),
Adegboyega Ojo (Carleton University, Canada)
In the last years, governments are trying to increasingly using
artificial intelligence (AI) to support decision-makers and
policymakers. In this context, AI is providing several benefits to
different public services across different sectors such as
finance, healthcare, security, agriculture, transport, education,
and manufacturing. AI is based on a set of methods and techniques
including deep learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms,
expert systems, natural language processing, robotics and
knowledge representation and reasoning. These techniques are
evolving rapidly and governments should be aware of these
evolutions and find the ways to effective harness and manage them.
In addition, Governments are not only looking for new applications
of AI in automated decisions and improving policy-making but also
at the impacts that AI can have on the different levels of
government. Yet realization proves to be more cumbersome and there
is a need for assessment of AI projects from various views. Hence,
the purpose of this track is to investigate how AI is being
implemented and adopted in governments at different levels, what
AI is adding to governments and how to ensure that AI adoption in
government is safe and beneficial to the public at large.
TRACK 13: Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Value
Creation of Digital Government
Track Chairs: Jing Zhang (Clark University, USA), Chris Hinnant
(Florida State University, USA), Luis F. Luna-Reyes (University at
Albany, USA)
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 new governance structure of
the government and the societal impacts. This track solicits
research that examines the organizational factors that influence
the adoption and implementation, and investigate the impacts,
especially the value creation, 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. Furthermore, this
track seek research contribute the theories and practices of the
adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to
facilitate the strategic use of various ICTs by public
organizations.
TRACK 14: Blockchain-based applications for e-Government
Track Chairs: Jolien Ubacht (Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands), Sélinde van Engelenburg (Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands)
Blockchain (BC) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have the
potential to improve 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 mistakes than paper based registrations) and can contribute to
an inclusive society (e.g. by means of digital identities). In
addition blockchain-based applications can support international
public services for businesses and citizens alike. The
implementation of blockchain-based applications requires solid
analysis of the entire information chain, including the involved
stakeholders and interoperability with extant information
architectures. Moreover, 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 use cases and a
diversity in research designs, approaches and methodologies.
TRACK 15: Mobile Government and Cross-border Service
Interoperability
Track Chairs: Thomas J. Lampoltshammer (Danube University Krems,
Austria), Herbert Leitold (A-SIT, Austria), Gregor Eibl (Danube
University Krems, Austria), Stefan Dedovic (University of Tartu,
Estonia)
Until now, many Member States (MS) and associated countries have
started implementing the Once-only Principle (OOP) at the national
level, but the cross-border implementation is still a work in
progress. The SDGR, one of the cornerstones of the Digital Single
Market for the EU, will bust this development. There is
considerable potential to accelerate national and cross-border OOP
scenarios and thus directly benefit the citizens via mobile
government services, as the penetration rate of mobile subscribers
within the European population is at around 86%, with significant
growth rates in the eastern MS. Combined with the increasing need
for mobility concerning employment and education, safe, resilient,
and sustainable mobile communication is key to tapping into this
potential. Hence, in this track, we want to highlight strengths
and weaknesses related to the digital transformation and, more
specifically, the transition not only into eGovernment but also
mGovernment, including facets of the OOP, electronic
identification (eID), and SDGR. A particular focus will be set on
technical and legal aspects, as well as on governance issues.
TRACK 16: Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals
Track chairs: Rony Medaglia (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark),
Gianluca Misuraca (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are
shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including public
opinion, policy, and research. The 17 SDGs, detailed in 169
targets, have an ambition of linking separate goals of sustainable
development across different areas, into a unitary vision. The
main consequence of this new vision has been to move the focus
beyond the individual instances of e.g., environmental impacts of
human activities, or economic inequalities, and to link them in a
coherent system within the framework of the Agenda for the
Sustainable Development 2030.
Digital government can act as enabler to sustainability, equity
and social inclusion and it 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.
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=dgo-tartu-2023
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-2023/ 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
- Robert Krimmer, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Loni Hagen, University of South-Florida, USA
- Hsin-chung Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
POSTER CHAIRS
- Catherine L. Dumas, Simmons University, USA
- David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
- David Duenas Cid, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS
- J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
- Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
- Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
LOCAL ORGANISATION CHAIR
- Elis Vollmer, University of Tartu, Estonia
FINANCE CHAIR
- Mila Gasco, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
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