-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP ICEGOV2014 - The Rise of Data Post-2015 Empowered Citizens, Accountable Institutions 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 - 8^th 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

www.icegov.org http://www.icegov.org

icegov@icegov.org mailto:icegov@icegov.org

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%).

2.SUBMISSIONS

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:

* Big Data * Big Data Analytics * Business Cloud * Decision Support Systems * e-Procurement * Geographical Information Systems * Infomediary Business Models * Innovative e-Business Models * Legal and Regulatory Compliance * Linked Data Assets * Open Data Communities * Open Data Ecosystems * Open Data Platforms * Open Government Data as a Market * Open Government Data as a Movement * Open Government Data as a Policy * Open Government Data as a Right * Open Government Data Initiatives * Open Government Data versus Open Government * Privacy, Security and Sensitive Data * Proactive Release of Government Data * Service Mashups * Supply, Demand and Value Chains

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:

* Access and Accessibility * Citizen Co-Creation * Connected Governance * Contract Management * Crowd Sourcing * Digital Cities and Regions * Digital Divide and Digital Culture * e-Business Models for Social Entrepreneurship * e-Consultation * Education, Training and Digital Skills * Engaging Citizens via Social Media * Government as a Platform * ICT-Enabled Pursuit of Social Missions * Identity Management * Information Sharing * Managing Social Tensions with ICT * Online Conflict Resolution * Online Deliberation and Discourse * Participation 2.0 * Participatory Governance * Smart Citizens, Smart Communities * Social Media and Government * Universal and Mobile Access

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:

* Accountability Frameworks * Digital Accountability and Transparency Acts * Expose, Investigate and Disseminate Services * e-Voting * ICT-driven Government Ethics * ICT-facilitated Accountability * ICT-facilitated Anti-Corruption Laws * ICT-facilitated Legislation for Transnational Investments/Procurements * Increasing Transparency through ICT * Internet Censorship * Law Compliance and Enforcement * Open Government * Social Responsibility * Transparency and Accountability * Transparency in International Aid * Transparency Metrics * Transparency versus Performance * Transparency versus Privacy * Trust and Confidence * Oversight Institutions * Oversight of Private Companies Involved in Service Delivery * Participation and Accountability

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:

* Adaptive Policy * Comparative Research * e-Legislation * Incentive-based Policies * Internal Efficacy of Public Policies * New Policy Tools and Instruments * Open Innovation * Policy Modeling and Impact Assessment * Policy Modeling and Simulation * Policy Simulation * Public Sector Innovation * Public Sector Innovation Management * Public Sector Innovation Transfer * Serious Gaming and User Participation * Services Science * Technology Adoption and Diffusion * Visualization Methods and Tools

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:

* Access in Rural Areas * Adoption of Electronic Public Services * Community Development * Development Approaches * Emergency Assistance * Governance for Community Development * Green Government * Green Technology * Healthy Lifestyle Intervention * ICT against Exploitation and Marginalization * Impact Assessment of Electronic Governance * Inter-Generational Relationships * Modeling Life Settings and Life Scenarios * Monitoring of Chronic Diseases * Personal Activity Management * Public Services for Disabled People * Public Services for Rural Population * Public Services for Vulnerable Groups * Remote and Self Health Monitoring * Rural Government * Smart Homes * Stakeholder Engagement * Tele-Centers

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:

* Business Process Integration * Business Process Reengineering * Changes in Hiring Patterns of Government Workers * Chief Information Officer * Collaborative Government * Emergency and Disaster Response * Experience and Knowledge Sharing * Government Information Leadership * Human Resource Management * Interoperability * Knowledge Management in Government * Knowledge Retention * Lean Government * Mobile Government * Mobile Public Services * Performance Management * Public Value * Public-Private Partnerships * Regulatory Government * Re-organization of Government Functions * Sustainability of Electronic Government Initiatives * Technological Culture * Transformation and Change Management * Transformative Government

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:

* Access to citizen-centric rural EGOV * Innovations in rural EGOV services * EGOV services for rural enterprises * Rural EGOV infrastructure * Rural EGOV for sustainable development * Benchmarking and metrics based measurements in Rural EGOV * Rural EGOV Architectures, Policies and Frameworks * Convergence and networks for sustainable rural EGOV services * Rural EGOV and Rural Value Chains

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:

oKnowledge representation and reasoning for EGOV

oBig data for enhancing public service delivery and policy-making

oBiomimetics for EGOV

oGranular computing for enhanced public services

oFuzzy sets and soft computing for EGOV

oSemantic technologies for EGOV

oSocial network analysis for government information networks

oRecommender system technologies for EGOV

oIntelligent information systems for smart governance

oIntelligent ICT solutions for e-Participation

oNew advanced ICT-solutions for smart cities

oIntelligent Systems and e-Democracy

oPreservation 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:

oICT innovative solutions for EGOV evaluation

oICT innovative solutions for Open Government evaluation

oICT-enabled innovations for EGOV

oICT-enabled innovations for public value delivery

oICT-enabled innovations for delivering social value

oICT-enabled public sector innovation

oDigital social innovation

oPublic Information Systems planning

oPositive 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.

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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=icegov201 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov20104by 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=icegov201 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov20104by 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.

7.PROGRAM

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