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31 Oct 2022


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Subject: 	[AISWorld] First Call for Papers dg.O 2023 in Tartu, Estonia
Date: 	Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:10:49 +0000
From: 	Robert Krimmer robert.krimmer@ut.ee
To: 	aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
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 transformation[1]about:blank%23_ftn1. In terms of service 
digitalization and digital era, there exists a wide range of 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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