From prosser at wu.ac.at Tue Mar 1 02:30:05 2022 From: prosser at wu.ac.at (prosser) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:58 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Central and Eastern European eGov and eDem Days 2022 Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings. Dear Colleagues, The CEEeGov 2022 will again take place on September 22-23, 2022 at the Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest. Paper submission deadline March 31, 2022 Depending on the pandemic situation, the conference is intended to be physical on-site. The conference volume will be published at the ACM digital library within ICPS. It will cover all aspects of public sector IT, this year's special topic will be fake news and hate speech and how to counter them. More details below and at https://ceeegov2022.ocg.at You can also follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/ceeegov Best Wishes, Alexander Prosser Organisers ========== Austrian Computer Society (OCG) Babe?-Bolyai University, Cluj (BBU) Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) Information Society Development Institute, Moldova (ISDI) Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest (Ludovika-UPS) University of Public Administration and Finance, Ludwigsburg (HVF) Timeline and organisation 31 March 2022: Paper submission (max. 10 pages), double-blind full paper review 15 May 2022: Reviews out 30 June 2022: ?Camera-ready? papers due, ACM format 15 September 2022: Volume and ACM online available 22 - 23 September 2022: Conference Organisation and Contact Please submit your papers to ceeegovdays@ocg.at. Special Conference Theme ======================== The CEEeGov Days are dedicated to all aspects of Public Sector ICT, however, a special topic is chosen every year, which also dominates keynotes and panel discussions. This time the choices were fake news and hate speech, two closely inter-related topics that show their general relevance again in the COV-19 situation. Shady, non-scientific figures, sometimes with a more-than-doubtful personal track record, nevertheless manage to influence large portions of a country?s population not to get vaccinated stoking irrational fear and at times plainly ridiculous assertions (cf. the ?Bill Gates microchip implantation? hoax). The internet, particularly the social media plays an important multiplier role and provides a stage for such personalities. This situation quickly combines with people not just expressing legitimate political discontent with the government management of the situation but venting resentment against identified groups or persons. This resentment can easily foster physical violence. At the same time, we see governments struggling to get their statistics right, flip-flopping between ?freedom days? and lockdowns and at times conveying a rather disorganised image ? not least because of insufficient eGovernment maturity. We would like to explore these issues in more depth and provide analysed examples for both phenomena. The conference addresses public sector practitioners and policy makers, industry professionals and academia alike. The disciplines covered are primarily information sciences, law and administrative science, political science, sociology and economics. Theoretical and empirical contributions are equally welcome. We especially encourage submissions addressing the European Union in general, the Danube Region, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Beyond the general theme, papers are solicited in all areas of applying ICT to the Public Sector. The conference will particularly focus on, but not limit itself to, the following topics: Electronic Administration services both back office and in communication with the citizen and businesses, eTools for pandemic management, Identity management for individuals, Privacy and data protection (including Cyber Security), eDemocracy on all levels (e.g., new forms of citizen participation, internet in political campaigns, eVoting), The role of the internet in revolutions and in transition processes, The role of social media, Transparency and anti-corruption, eTools to help establish a European public space, Open Data, Legal aspects of eGovernment and eDemocracy, Economic and social impact of eGovernment and eDemocracy, Enabling the Digital Single Market Connecting urban and rural areas into a digital inclusive society The conference language will be English only. Papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process and published jointly by ACM and the Austrian Computer Society. Note on CoV-19 ============== The conference organizers cannot foresee the state of the pandemic in September 2022. Therefore, several alternative arrangements are considered: ?Classical? presence conference, which we consider as our ?target?; Distributed conference taking place at some of the organizing institutions to enable at least local in-person networking by participants with large-screen video streaming and interactive Q&A between locations; Pure video format. Irrespective of the presentation format, we are happy to announce that the conference volume will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM. From manuelp at ugr.es Tue Mar 1 03:21:44 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:58 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: <25bab496-4c3f-4a2e-bccb-94e677431604@ugr.es> CALL FOR PAPERS ?Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/) *Digital Government Track* ?Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and communitymanagement, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: -Taxonomies of smart cities and communities -Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) -Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) -Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) -The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city -Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) -Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities -Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities -Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) -Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies -Management of smart cities and communities -Outcomes of smart cities and communities -The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities -Smart services -Urban-rural gaps in smart communities -Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. -?Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities -Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities -Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) *Important dates*(https://hicss.hawaii.edu/): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference * * *Mini-track Co-Chairs:* Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From peter.roenne at gmail.com Wed Mar 2 15:37:40 2022 From: peter.roenne at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Browne_R=C3=B8nne?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP E-Vote-ID 2022 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2022 Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 4-7 October 2022 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2022) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the seventh edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Bregenz (Austria) in October 2022. One of E-Vote-ID?s major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues related to electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners, and Internet voting). In the first six editions, over 200 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 800 participants. We aim for a hybrid conference. Further information will be provided during 2022. The format of the conference is a three-day meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government, and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting. To address the interdisciplinary character of the conference, the conference has four tracks and a PhD colloquium: Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) and Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - (Remote) Electronic voting protocols and systems: design and analysis; - New types of voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness, and coercion resistance; - End-to-end verifiability; - Risk limiting audits; - Requirements and formal modelling; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards; - Risk assessment; - Voter authentication; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Any other security and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues relevant to (remote) electronic voting. It is important for the review process that the methodology in place is clearly described. Furthermore, it is essential that the limitations are clearly mentioned and discussed: Limitations can be that a formal proof exists only for parts of the system or for some properties, or that a mathematical proof is missing for the proposed protocol. In the context of user studies, e.g., limitations regarding the sample, the external or internal validity should be mentioned and discussed. Track 2: Governance Issues Chairs: Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia) This track is intended to cover all non-technical issues that occur during the digital transformation of elections including, but not limited to the following: - Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviour, and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Administrative, legal, political and social issues of electronic voting; - Electronic voting legislation; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues inelectronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) and Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); These experiences and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete, and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Chair: Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France), Jurlind Budurushi (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH) We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to discuss with the community or summarizing papers you have published on other venues but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community to know and to discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to already published papers, we ask you to provide the information where to find the original publication and whether you want the Short Paper being included in the proceedings or not (due to potential copyright restrictions of the main paper) Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is published). Track 5: PhD Colloquium Chairs: Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg) and Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) The goal of the colloquium is to foster the understanding and academic quality of PhD students? contributions in collaboration with senior researchers in the field. Further, the collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting is supported. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each interested participant should ideally submit their research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) in the form of an extended draft using the conference platform. High-potential master students can also submit their work to the colloquium. The PhD Colloquium takes place on the day before the formal conference begins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Types LNCS style is used for all submissions (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computerscience/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). All papers in the conference will be Open Access. Paper submissions can be in the following formats: - Full papers need to contain original unpublished research. The submission should be max 16 pages inLNCS format. - Work-in-Progress submissions contain ongoing original research. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words. Initial submissions are format-neutral. If submissions are accepted, the authors are expected to provide a short summary of their key contributions (max 4 pages in LNCS format). This submission route enables authors to receive feedback on work in progress without pre-empting publication in a different venue (e.g., an academic journal). - Short Papers are a maximum of 4 pages long in LNCS format all-in. In Tracks 1 and 2, such papers have a smaller contribution than a full paper. All accepted contributions in tracks 3 to 5 are published as Short papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings The E-Vote-ID conference publishes two volumes of proceedings. One volume is published with Springer LNCS proceedings and another one is published with University of Tartu Press. Both proceedings are published under open access licenses. Selected Full papers from Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues) are published in the Springer LNCS proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 to 5 are published in University of Tartu Press proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviewing All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2022 During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. When submitting, you will be asked to declare the conflicts of interest with the members of the Programme Committee in Easychair; please follow the common sense for that (e.g. because they have been co-authored a paper in the last three years, they have been in the same project, there is or was a supervision relation, or because they have the same affiliation). The members mentioned will not be involved in the review process of your paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. Please note ? the welcome reception will not take place on the evening before the first conference day, but has been combined with the poster and demo session on the evening of the first conference day on 5. October. It will be held in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner will take place on 7. October. Notably, the conference dinner will feature the traditional ?Cheese Road?! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is renewed every year. The mission of the steering board is to support the current general and track chairs with the promotion of the conference and to assist with conflicts of interest emerging as a result of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Uwe Serd?lt, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia, Iuliia Krivonosova, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. With 2022 being the first year featuring the staggered steering board, the board this year also includes the members of the 2021 board: Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 ? ?eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Skytte Institute, Estonia) Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): Deadline for submission of papers:* 15 May 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). Notification of Acceptance: 24 June 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 24 July 2022. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium): Deadline for submission of papers:* 10 July 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 September 2022. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session): Submission deadline:* 15 September* 2022. See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eloukis at aegean.gr Thu Mar 3 02:33:50 2022 From: eloukis at aegean.gr (Loukis Euripides) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Message to be posted to the egov-list Message-ID: Final Call for Contributions AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track at EGOV2022 ? IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2022 September 6-8, 2022, Link?ping University, Sweden As the Fourth Industrial Revolution creates new tools for conducting economic activities in the private sector, it also provides the public sector with tools for creating public value and engaging in digital transformation. While ICT has been fundamental for digitalising public services, the public sector increasingly relies on Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), (Big) Data Analytics (BDA), Blockchain, 5G, Adaptive manufacturing / 3D technologies, wireless and related technologies to accelerate and increase the impact of digital transformation. As citizens are spending more time on the Internet, their digital footprints are becoming easier to collect, forming massive interconnected networks of data. Innovative methods and tools to analyse such data and understand policy implications are in urgent demand. In particular, open data and open government initiatives can create bigger synergy and impact when integrated with new technologies. However, the use of new technologies by government has some serious ethical and policy implications. Complementing or replacing human-made public service with AI, automating decisions of consequence to people?s lives, harvesting interconnected data about individuals, etc. raise the risk that exclusion, injustice and privacy violations can happen on a massive scale. Decision made through (Big) Data Analytics and policy modelling tool may generate optimal solutions from an economic perspective, but not from a social inclusion perspective, or give rise to transparency and fairness concerns. Privacy and security issues with regards to citizens? everyday digital footprints also have legal and policy implications. This track invites papers that can advance theoretical, practical and policy questions on those issues. Papers are expected to address the topics including but not limited to: - Adoption of robotics-based public services - AI and labour displacement in the public sector - AI applications in the public sector - eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in the public sector - AI and policy monitoring and analytics - AI-enabled smart cities - AI in government and discriminatory bias - Big data analytics for policy modelling - Co-creation via AI and big data analytics - Computational analysis methods for open data - Consequential decisions and AI in government - Decision support system for policy makers - Digital transformation via AI - Disruptive services in public sector - Impact of AI on social cohesion - Legal and ethical aspects of AI in the public sector - IoT applications in public services - Privacy issues in big data analytics - Fairness, safety, transparency of AI in the public sector - Qualitative policy modelling -Quality of AI-enabled public services Important Dates: - (Hard) deadline for submissions: 18 March 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022 We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full research papers (max. 12 pages) - Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages) - Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages) - Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages) - Projects (max. 8 pages) Accepted full research papers will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research, Reflections and Viewpoints, and Practitioner Papers might be published (but do not need to be published) by in the CEUR-WS proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2021 Chairs: - Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece - Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece - Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Programme Committee: - Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York - Hong Joo Lee, The Catholic University of Korea - Masoud Shahmanzari, Brunel University - Youngseok Choi, University of Southampton - Jong Woo Kim, Hanyang University - Areti Karamanou, University of Macedonia - Nikolaos Loutas, European Commission - Shefali Virkar Donau-Universit?t Krems Dr Euripidis N. Loukis Professor Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering University of the Aegean Karlovassi, Samos, GR-83200, Greece Tel.: +30-22730-82221 Fax: +30-22730-82009 Email: eloukis@aegean.gr From ulf.melin at liu.se Thu Mar 3 07:26:38 2022 From: ulf.melin at liu.se (Ulf Melin) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP: IFIP EGOV2022 - deadline approaching In-Reply-To: <134E3671-785C-41C8-8D71-C715FD6DA4BF@liu.se> References: <134E3671-785C-41C8-8D71-C715FD6DA4BF@liu.se> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, submission deadline (18 March 2022) approaching for IFIP EGOV 2022. Further information below. Best regards Ulf Melin Professor, Information Systems Link?ping University Department of Management and Engineering, Information Systems and Digitalization SE-581 83 Link?ping, Sweden Apologies for cross-posting! IFIP EGOV2022 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2022 Link?ping, Sweden 6-8 September CALL FOR PAPERS The IFIP EGOV2022 represents the merging of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually and will be hosted 6-8 September 2022 in Link?ping by Link?ping University in Sweden. The conference will be organized as an onsite conference, however, there will be one online event for ongoing papers and panels only. The conference fee for onsite and online participation will be the same to encourage onsite participation. If circumstances are not favorable, there will only be an online event. The conference focuses on e-Government, Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, GovTech, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation, Digital society, artificial intelligence, policy information, policy informatics, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible, including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. Part of the conference is a PhD Colloquium, which offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods). The PhD colloquium will be held on Monday 5 September 2022. The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group (WG8.5) and the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The WG8.5 emphasis lays on interdisciplinary approaches towards information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government. CONTACT Email: egov2022@easychair.org CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2022 Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2022/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=egov2022 IMPORTANT DATES * (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous - camera ready): 18 March 2022 * Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022 * PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2022 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2022 * Poster acceptance 31 May 2022 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2022 * PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2022 * PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2022 * PhD Colloquium: 5 September 2022 * Conference: 6-8 September 2022 CONFERENCE CHAIRS * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden * Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria (lead) * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece * Ulf Melin, Link?ping University, Sweden * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria * Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain * Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece TRACKS AT EGOV2022 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (lead) * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except for the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas * Robert Krimmer (lead), Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria ICT and Sustainability Track: All research related to the UN sustabinility goals * Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (lead) * Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * Anja W?st, Berner Fachhochschule, Switzerland Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. * Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria (lead) * Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden * Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium Emerging issues and innovations: focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems * Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary (lead) * Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics and AI methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and other AI methods in the public sector. * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece (lead) * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece * Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Smart and digital Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology * Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (lead), University of Granada, Spain. * Shefali Virkar, Donau-Universit?t Krems, Austria * Joep Cromvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency, as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other technologies. * Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece * Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Digital and Social Media Track: Digital networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. * Marius Rohde Johannessen (lead), University of South-Eastern Norway * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London * Sara Hofmann, University of Agder Legal informatics: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming dominant in the government domain. * Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be published. * Ida Lindgren (lead), Link?ping University, Sweden * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the IFIP EGOV2022 conference you agree that your paper will not be submitted elsewhere and if accepted that the conference fee will be paid and the consent to publish will be signed. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers. Please note that all accepted submissions to the IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2022 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will make use of the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Further information about this software can be found at www.turnitin.com/ Accepted full research papers (max. 16 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government, Emerging Issues and Innovations, Smart Cities, AI, Data Analytics and Automated Decision Making, and Open Data tracks, whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation, ICT & Sustainability, Legal Informatics, Social Media and Digital Society tracks. The Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media (formerly Springer-Verlag) since 1973. The LNCS proceedings are always well-downloaded and read. Accepted papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 10 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) will be published (but, if desired, can be excluded) by in the CEUR-WS proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). The CEUR Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) is a free open-access publication service at Sun SITE Central Europe operated under the umbrella of RWTH Aachen University. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE A special issues from conference papers is planned by the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). JeDEM is published online under open access and provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. BEST PAPER AWARD Each year the best papers are invited to submit to Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) and JeDEM. The best paper winners will be invited to submit their revised papers to GIQ, the premier journal in e-government field, following a fast-track reviewing process, runners up will be invited to submit to a JeDEM special issue which will be published in 2022. * Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria * Evangelos Kalampokis, CERTH, Greece * Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain CONFERENCE VENUE The EGOV 2022 conference (https://liu.se/en/research/egov2022) is hosted by the Division of Information Systems and Digitalization, at the Department of Management and Engineering, Link?ping University (LiU). LiU is situated in the south of Sweden and is known for its interdisciplinary research. The university offers many innovative educational programmes, many of them with a clear vocational focus. The university has approx. 32.000 students and 4.000 employees, distributed across on four campuses. From alexop at aegean.gr Fri Mar 4 00:18:23 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CfP_Special Issue_Legal Informatics_Journal of the Knowledge Economy [IF 2, 363] Message-ID: Call for Papers Special Issue: "*Foundational Approaches, Methods and Cases in Legal Informatics*" Journal of The Knowledge Economy [ISSN 1868-7873, IF 2,363] *SUBMISSION DUE DATE:* 30 June 2022 *ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION:* 31 August 2022 *REVISED VERSION SUBMITTED:* 31 October 2022 *PUBLICATION IN ONLINE MODE:* 30 November 2022 *SUBMISSION PLATFORM:* Select the Legal Informatics special issue from the menu that will appear during the submission process. After registering on the Editorial Manager system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jkec/default1.aspx follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. *We would appreciate a prompt reply within two weeks about your decision.* I remain at your disposal for any further information about the special issue. Guest Editor, Charalampos Alexopoulos alexop@aegean.gr *DESCRIPTION:* Data has become the lifeblood of the modern global economy and is found at the heart of almost all strategic decision making. Recent trends in digitalization, open data, and social media movements have resulted in an exponential increase in the amount of data available for use in making sense of socio-economic and political phenomena. Repositories of large quantities of new information ? including expert knowledge, sensor data, text, social media posts - have become available to a wide number of actors in society. Advanced, intelligent computer systems, together with sophisticated techniques of data harvesting, annotation, analysis and visualisation have enhanced our ability to comprehend, display and disseminate complex, temporal and spatial information to diverse audiences. This is especially true for legal information, as more and more legal data is digitized, organized into legal databases, and made available in machine readable formats. The Legal Informatics domain is concerned with the application of informatics within the context of the legal environment, focusing on law-related organisations, such as parliaments or national printing offices, lawyers and law firms, courts, deliberative institutions and public administration, as well as citizens and businesses. The big data available ? the amount of data produced is growing exponentially ? permits machines to turn data into information, and to use information for personal behaviors for extracting knowledge. Artificial intelligence, legal analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, text mining and blockchain have, in the last five years, through their application to concrete domains, , including the legal environment and the legal informatics discipline, paved the way for the emergence of a new services and tools that may be used to extract, organize and manipulate data. The study of legal informatics is important for two fundamental reasons. On the one hand, the law-making and courts-decision processes, in an informed society, face the requirement to be ?evidence-based?, with factual evidence being deemed the prerequisite to guarantee the quality of decision and legislation. On the other hand, transparency, explicability, efficiency and effectiveness are the basic prerequisites in the public sector, including within the legal domain. Thus, new approaches utilizing the above-mentioned technologies are emerging in order for the designed services to provide information about the potential and actual impact of decisions and policies, enhance trust and accountability among governments, citizens and businesses, prevent bias on proceedings with cross jurisdictional boundaries, facilitate the rules depend on a particular jurisdiction and assist dispute resolution process. A number of challenges still persist and are worthy of further enquiry. Firstly, the combination of the basic characteristics of these technological trends would eventually lead to the total reform of the legal sector either in law-making or in the legal industry. But first legal information needs to be described, annotated and semantically enriched. A second great challenge within the domain is the so-called, ?Responsible AI? and explicable AI, which has been raising awareness of the potential threats of AI to a ?healthy development? of society, and there is an ongoing discussion to what extent normative regulations are required to control the use of AI. This new approach includes also a new ethics dimension creating a digital ethics analytic method by-design to introduce with the other disciplines. OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: This special issue aims at exploring the importance of legal information and legal data in the context of the global knowledge economy. Contributions presenting practical application, foundational approaches, tools, case studies and theoretical frameworks for the creation, processing and publishing of legal documents as open data towards citizens, practitioners and administrations are therefore encouraged. Specific emphasis may be given to legal text mining, legal XML standards and models, legal ontologies, as well as further legal argumentation and reasoning models and approaches towards more automated legal services and information systems. We solicit for papers covering both organizational and technical aspects and combining theory and practice. Papers taking interdisciplinary approaches and covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. Furthermore, we promote a diversity of research methods to study the challenges of this multifaceted discipline including best practices, case studies, design approaches, literature reviews and interviews. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: - Practical implementations of legal standards in national and EU context - AI and NLP concepts, methods and applications in legal informatics - Blockchain and smart contracts concepts, methods and applications in legal informatics - Responsible and Explainable AI in the legal sector - Creating Big Legal Open Data - Legal Knowledge Graphs and ontological alignment - Metadata and semantic approaches in the legal sector - Automated decision-making using Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms in legal domain - Extracting value from big legal open data through text mining - Legal data analytics - Knowledge extraction from legal documents - Policy analytics, processing and intelligence for legal domain - Data-driven strategies and policies using legal big data - AI for eGovernment using legal rules - Data quality, authenticity and provenance of legal big data - Data protection, security and trust of the legal big data - Ownership and legal big data and documents - Ethical considerations in the application of Artificial Intelligence in Government - Methods and technologies leading to enhanced digital public services - Data-driven public sector innovations and applications - Architectural Legal standards, principles and frameworks - Semantic ontologies, web services and modeling for legal governmental infrastructures - Legal Data platforms, interoperability and information sharing SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ? Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Foundational Approaches, Methods and Cases in Legal Informatics *on or before 30 June 2022*. ? All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. ? Please make sure your papers reflect the Special Issue thematic foci as well as the core concepts and themes of the JKEC in general. ? Interested authors should consult the journal?s guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/submission-guidelines ? Authors should make clear when submitting their paper that it should be referred for review to the Editors of the Legal Informatics Special Issue: after registering on the Editorial Manager system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jkec/default1.aspx follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. Select the Legal Informatics special issue from the menu that will appear during the submission process. ? All submitted papers will be reviewed on *a single-blind peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.* All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Charalampos Alexopoulos E-mail: alexop@aegean.gr From sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca Mon Mar 7 07:09:14 2022 From: sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca (Sehl Mellouli) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: DGOV Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector Message-ID: <6d0855db-a1b0-76c9-cda8-f337f07e6231@fsa.ulaval.ca> Apologies for cross posting -------- Digital Government: Research and Practice Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector Guest Editors: ? Sehl Mellouli, Universite? Laval, sehl.mellouli@fsa.ulaval.ca ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl ? Adegboyega Ojo, Maynooth University, Adegboyega.Ojo@mu.ie The digital transformation is evolving rapidly, and new AI-based solutions are constantly emerging in public sectorto help governments provide better services to their citizens and improving their internal processes. AI is now considered as a key enabler for digital innovation in the public sector. In this context, Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new major research area in the field of digital government. It brings new techniques and tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, that can used to improve the government. With the promises of AI, governments are paying greater attention to this technology. Governments are not only looking at the applications of AI, but also how to transform their different organizations by taking advantages of AI and mitigating the risks associated with its adoption. In addition, policy makers are seeking to understand the impacts that AI can have on different levels of governments. However, AI does not only bring advantages to government; it also creates social, ethical, and legal challenges. These challenges need to be addressed and solutions need to be provided to overcome them. We invite high-quality submissions that employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research approaches. We encourage the submission of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Finally, we also welcome submissions that deploy computer simulations based on AI and machine-learning techniques. Topics The topics of this track are, but are not limited to: * Impact and evaluation of AI * AI enabling transformation * AI machine learning techniques, natural language processing techniques and deep learning techniques * AI adoption and acceptance * AI for decision and policy-making * Legal issues related to AI * AI and data quality * AI and privacy & security * AI and governments? services and policies * AI impacts on (IT) teams, transparency, accountability, fairness and trustworthiness * AI maturity models * Value sensitive design and public values in AI * Ethical considerations and challenges * Bots for governments * Comparative studies of AI adoption CALL FOR PAPERS Important Dates ? Submission deadline: June 30, 2022 ? First-round review decisions: September 1st, 2022 ? Deadline for revision submissions: October 30, 2022 ? Notification of final decisions: November 30, 2022 ? Tentative publication: January 2023 Submission Information ? Regular SI papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically by the deadline listed above and should adhere to the ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice guidelines (dl.acm.org/journal/dgov/author-guidelines). Please submit your papers through the online system (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgov) and be sure to select the "Special Issue on New Trends of Building Digital Government in China" option for the paper- type. We expect 10-15 papers to be featured in this special issue. ? Commentaries: In addition to full paper submissions, we invite international colleagues to submit commentaries to enrich and facilitate discussions of the topics above and beyond. This submission type should be within 1,000-2,500 words. Review Process: The submitted manuscripts will receive at least three reviews by the DGOV editorial board and other international colleagues. The commentaries will be reviewed by two editorial board members, including the special issue editors. For questions and further information, please contact Sehl Mellouli at sehl.mellouli@fsa.ulaval.ca. -- Sehl Mellouli, professeur titulaire/full professor Vice-Recteur Adjoint aux Etudes et aux Affaires Etudiantes/Deputy Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs Universite Laval G1V 0A6, Quebec, Quebec, Canada From info at iceccme.com Mon Mar 14 00:39:18 2022 From: info at iceccme.com (ICECCME 2022) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] IEEE Conference in Maldives Message-ID: <0100017f875dfd39-2d9c75d1-4371-4767-a2aa-d892987780bc-000000@email.amazonses.com> ? Dear authors, We invite you to attend the IEEE - International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME). The ICECCME is the premier event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and engineers from the related institutions to exchange information and ideas on electrical, computer, communications and mechatronic engineering. All accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication. Due to the Covid pandemic, ICECCME will be held both face-to-face and online. Participants can make their presentations as online. You can see all the details on the conference web page: http://www.iceccme.com The conference will tahe place at Mauritius surrounded by the warm Indian Ocean. Mauritius is one of the best holiday destinations in the world with clear warm sea waters, attractive beaches, tropical fauna and flora. Come to Mauritius, reward yourself! Important Dates: Paper Due : 10 July, 2021 Acceptance Notification : 25 July, 2021 Camera Ready Due : 5 September, 2021 Early Registration Deadline: 1 August, 2021 Conference Dates: 7-8 October 2021 ? Best regards, Conference Organizing Team E-mail: info@iceccme.com?? Phone(Whatsapp): +90 532 6425237 Unsubscribe? ? ? ? ? From ida.lindgren at liu.se Tue Mar 15 01:21:08 2022 From: ida.lindgren at liu.se (Ida Lindgren) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CfP: IFIP EGOV2022 - Deadline approaching In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! Deadline approaching for IFIP EGOV2022 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2022 Link?ping, Sweden 6-8 September CALL FOR PAPERS The IFIP EGOV2022 represents the merging of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually and will be hosted 6-8 September 2022 in Link?ping by the University of Link?ping in Sweden. The conference will be organized as an onsite conference, however, there will be one online event for ongoing papers and panels only. The conference fee for onsite and online participation will be the same to encourage onsite participation. If circumstances are not favorable, there will only be an online event. The conference focuses on e-Government, Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, GovTech, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation, Digital society, artificial intelligence, policy information, policy informatics, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible, including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. Part of the conference is a PhD Colloquium, which offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods). The PhD colloquium will be held on Monday 5 September 2022. The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group (WG8.5) and the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The WG8.5 emphasis lays on interdisciplinary approaches towards information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government. CONTACT Email: egov2022@easychair.org CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2022 Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2022/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=egov2022 IMPORTANT DATES * (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 18 March 2022 * Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022 * PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2022 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2022 * Poster acceptance 31 May 2022 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2022 * PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2022 * PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2022 * PhD Colloquium: 5 September 2022 * Conference: 6-8 September 2022 CONFERENCE CHAIRS o Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden o Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria (lead) o Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece o Ulf Melin, Link?ping University, Sweden o Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria o Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria o Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain o Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland o Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece TRACKS AT EGOV2022 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. o Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (lead) o Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden o Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except for the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas o Robert Krimmer (lead), Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria ICT and Sustainability Track: All research related to the UN sustabinility goals o Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (lead) o Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark o Anja W?st, Berner Fachhochschule, Switzerland Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. o Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria (lead) o Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden o Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium Emerging issues and innovations: focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems o Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary (lead) o Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium o Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics and AI methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and other AI methods in the public sector. o Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece (lead) o Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece o Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Smart and digital Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology o Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (lead), University of Granada, Spain. o Shefali Virkar, Donau-Universit?t Krems, Austria o Joep Cromvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency, as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other technologies. o Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece o Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA Digital and Social Media Track: Digital networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. o Marius Rohde Johannessen (lead), University of South-Eastern Norway o Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London o Sara Hofmann, University of Agder Legal informatics: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming dominant in the government domain. o Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany o Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be submitted. o Ida Lindgren (lead), Link?ping University, Sweden o Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA o Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the IFIP EGOV2022 conference you agree that your paper will not be submitted elsewhere and if accepted that the conference fee will be paid and the consent to publish will be signed. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers. Please note that all accepted submissions to the IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2022 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will make use of the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Further information about this software can be found at www.turnitin.com/ Accepted full research papers (max. 16 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government, Emerging Issues and Innovations, Smart Cities, AI, Data Analytics and Automated Decision Making, and Open Data tracks, whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation, ICT & Sustainability, Legal Informatics, Social Media and Digital Society tracks. The Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media (formerly Springer-Verlag) since 1973. The LNCS proceedings are always well-downloaded and read. Accepted papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 10 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) will be published (but, if desired, can be excluded) by in the CEUR-WS proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). The CEUR Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) is a free open-access publication service at Sun SITE Central Europe operated under the umbrella of RWTH Aachen University. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE A special issues from conference papers is planned by the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). JeDEM is published online under open access and provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. BEST PAPER AWARD Each year the best papers are invited to submit to Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) and JeDEM. The best paper winners will be invited to submit their revised papers to GIQ, the premier journal in e-government field, following a fast-track reviewing process, runners up will be invited to submit to a JeDEM special issue which will be published in 2022. o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Evangelos Kalampokis, CERTH, Greece o Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain CONFERENCE VENUE The EGOV 2022 conference is hosted by the Division of Information Systems and Digitalization, at the Department of Management and Engineering, Link?ping University (LiU). LiU is situated in the south of Sweden and is known for its interdisciplinary research. The university offers many innovative educational programmes, many of them with a clear vocational focus. The university has approx. 32.000 students and 4.000 employees, distributed across on four campuses. [Link?pings universitet] Ida Lindgren PhD., Associate professor Research Leader, Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG) Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) Link?ping University SE-581 83 Link?ping Telephone: +46-13-28 26 69 Visiting address: A-building, Campus Valla Please visit us at: liu.se From manuelp at ugr.es Sat Mar 26 01:29:30 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/ ) Digital Government Track Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track > Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and community management, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: - Taxonomies of smart cities and communities - Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) - Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) - Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) - The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city - Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) - Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities - Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities - Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) - Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies - Management of smart cities and communities - Outcomes of smart cities and communities - The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities - Smart services - Urban-rural gaps in smart communities - Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. - Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities - Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities - Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Important dates (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From manuelp at ugr.es Sat Mar 26 01:29:30 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/ ) Digital Government Track Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track > Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and community management, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: - Taxonomies of smart cities and communities - Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) - Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) - Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) - The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city - Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) - Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities - Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities - Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) - Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies - Management of smart cities and communities - Outcomes of smart cities and communities - The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities - Smart services - Urban-rural gaps in smart communities - Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. - Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities - Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities - Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Important dates (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From rsandov at gmail.com Mon Mar 28 12:18:59 2022 From: rsandov at gmail.com (Rodrigo Sandoval) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CfP: ISGOV 2022 Smart Government Conference In-Reply-To: <69ead373-4300-41a8-b394-6670d382934c@Spark> References: <69ead373-4300-41a8-b394-6670d382934c@Spark> Message-ID: <8607b0fc-22a6-4643-a89f-97f45a4ba3c8@Spark> First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference ( ISGOV 2022) Challenges for Public Innovation in a post-pandemic governments ?12-14 September 2022 [www.isgovc.org](http://www.isgov.org) ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. CALL FOR PAPERS Academic space is needed amid the perverse problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To share visions, projects, and new ideas related to technology in government. Public problems must be addressed through advances in digital government, public innovation, and emerging technologies. The objective of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference is to foster cutting-edge research on the topics of public innovation, smart government, public governance, government data, internet access, and changes in government organizations. It seeks to unite the efforts of academics in multidisciplinary groups related to information systems, data science, public administration, e-government, artificial intelligence, among others, to produce alternatives to the problems shared by governments around the world. This effort is dedicated to attracting research from Latin America due to its geographical proximity and seeks to become a reference in Smart government and Public Innovation. It highlights academic contributions in cutting-edge research topics and practical contributions to solving shared problems in the region and areas where technology and government practice converge. This year, the congress is focused on proposing solutions to complex problems (Paquet and Scherez, 2021) and wicked problems. From generating theoretical explanations, reference frameworks, key constructs that allow understanding the problems and proposing practical and tangible solutions for governments. This first edition of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference focuses on understanding the organizational challenges public administrations face at all levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how to face the short and medium-term challenges.These challenges are complex because they imply drastic changes in public organizations that rethink their existence, work dynamics, and impact on their communities and countries. These challenges, such as repairing the social tissue are fragmented by losing lives and jobs and have broken cultural and ideological structures by being locked in for so many months. The great challenge of governing the social media platforms whose synergy has transformed: social interactions, citizen participation, the government-citizen relationship, and families, young people, professionals, and political employees adapt to new communication and collaboration dynamics, which threatens to become virtual realities through new technologies such as the Metaverse. The economic challenges to repair the severe economic, distribution, and supply chain damage, loss of jobs, closure of industries facing more challenging competitive conditions, and deal with disjointed governments.The crucial challenges in health systems require structural, comprehensive reforms that contain the intensive use of data, the revolution of machines to understand new viruses, attend patients with extreme care, and require technologies to generate vaccines and prevent epidemics. Finally, the challenges of information inequality and access to public data involve new public knowledge systems in the face of the sustainable energy revolution. These changes brought the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain will be decisive in understanding the new configuration between government, technology, and society in the 21st century. CONTACT: Email:?info@isgovconference.org WebSite:?http://isgovc.org/ CFP Website:?http://isgovc.apps2.mx/conference-clone-2/ Submission Website:?https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isgov2022 Submission Guidelines (Springer)?https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, all manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline??May 30, 2022 Notification Due?? ? ? ? ?June 30, 2022 Final Version Due? ? ? ?July 30, 2022 Event?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?September 12-14, 2022 CONFERENCE CHAIRS TRACKS AT ISGOV 2022 TRACK 1. Smart Government and Public Innovation Track chair: Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 2. Artificial Intelligence in Government Track chair: David Valle Cruz Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 3. Open Government Innovations and challenges Track chair: Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez Phd (Universidad de Guadalajara-i-LabMexico) Javier Cifuentes (Universidad de Murcia-i-LabMexico) TRACK 4. New digital technologies in public services** ?Track chair: Juli?n Villodre (UAM-Espa?a) Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2022, a full paper according Springer guidelines resources (Springer Guide?https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation). All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, all manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. We solicit original research papers written in English. The submissions must not have been previously published or be under review for another conference or journal. Only complete and finished papers will be reviewed, not abstracts. After your paper is accepted you will have a chance to improve it according to the comments of the reviewers, but the reviewers will assume that the text that they are reading is the text that is to be published, with the only changes they explicitly request (as opposed to reviewing a draft or abstract). In particular, the papers must be submitted in the required format. We reserve the right to reject without review the submissions that do not follow the format guidelines. ?CONFERENCE CHAIRS Gerardo Haces-Atondo, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Autonomous Mexico State University, Mexico Jose Melchor Medina-Quintero, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. David Valle-Cruz Autonomous Mexico State University, Mexico Edgar Ruvalcaba Demian Abrego-Almazan, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. ?CONFERENCE VENUE ?Tamaulipas Autonomous University, Mexico ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. From alexop at aegean.gr Tue Mar 29 02:54:31 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP Special Issue on Legal Informatics Message-ID: Dear authors, We invite you to submit your research into the current special issue *"Foundational Approaches, Methods and Cases in Legal Informatics"* in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy by Springer. Deadline: 30 June 2022 More info: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/20207388/data/v1 or https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/updates/18341194 This special issue aims at exploring the importance of legal information and legal data in the context of the global knowledge economy. Contributions presenting practical application, foundational approaches, tools, case studies and theoretical frameworks for the creation, processing and publishing of legal documents as open data towards citizens, practitioners and administrations are therefore encouraged. Specific emphasis may be given to legal text mining, legal XML standards and models, legal ontologies, as well as further legal argumentation and reasoning models and approaches towards more automated legal services and information systems. On behalf of the invited editors team, Charalampos Alexopoulos From peter.roenne at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 15:32:31 2022 From: peter.roenne at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Browne_R=C3=B8nne?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Second CFP E-Vote-ID 2022 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2022 Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 4-7 October 2022 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2022) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the seventh edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Bregenz (Austria) in October 2022. One of E-Vote-ID?s major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues related to electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners, and Internet voting). In the first six editions, over 200 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 800 participants. We aim for a hybrid conference. Further information will be provided during 2022. The format of the conference is a three-day meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government, and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting. To address the interdisciplinary character of the conference, the conference has four tracks and a PhD colloquium: Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) and Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - (Remote) Electronic voting protocols and systems: design and analysis; - New types of voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness, and coercion resistance; - End-to-end verifiability; - Risk limiting audits; - Requirements and formal modelling; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards; - Risk assessment; - Voter authentication; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Any other security and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues relevant to (remote) electronic voting. It is important for the review process that the methodology in place is clearly described. Furthermore, it is essential that the limitations are clearly mentioned and discussed: Limitations can be that a formal proof exists only for parts of the system or for some properties, or that a mathematical proof is missing for the proposed protocol. In the context of user studies, e.g., limitations regarding the sample, the external or internal validity should be mentioned and discussed. Track 2: Governance Issues Chairs: Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia) This track is intended to cover all non-technical issues that occur during the digital transformation of elections including, but not limited to the following: - Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviour, and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Administrative, legal, political and social issues of electronic voting; - Electronic voting legislation; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues inelectronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) and Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); These experiences and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete, and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Chair: Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France), Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH) We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to discuss with the community or summarizing papers you have published on other venues but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community to know and to discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to already published papers, we ask you to provide the information where to find the original publication and whether you want the Short Paper being included in the proceedings or not (due to potential copyright restrictions of the main paper) Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is published). Track 5: PhD Colloquium Chairs: Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg) and Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) The goal of the colloquium is to foster the understanding and academic quality of PhD students? contributions in collaboration with senior researchers in the field. Further, the collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting is supported. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each interested participant should ideally submit their research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) in the form of an extended draft using the conference platform. High-potential master students can also submit their work to the colloquium. The PhD Colloquium takes place on the day before the formal conference begins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Types LNCS style is used for all submissions (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computerscience/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). All papers in the conference will be Open Access. Paper submissions can be in the following formats: - Full papers need to contain original unpublished research. The submission should be max 16 pages inLNCS format. - Work-in-Progress submissions contain ongoing original research. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words. Initial submissions are format-neutral. If submissions are accepted, the authors are expected to provide a short summary of their key contributions (max 4 pages in LNCS format). This submission route enables authors to receive feedback on work in progress without pre-empting publication in a different venue (e.g., an academic journal). - Short Papers are a maximum of 4 pages long in LNCS format all-in. In Tracks 1 and 2, such papers have a smaller contribution than a full paper. All accepted contributions in tracks 3 to 5 are published as Short papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings The E-Vote-ID conference publishes two volumes of proceedings. One volume is published with Springer LNCS proceedings and another one is published with University of Tartu Press. Both proceedings are published under open access licenses. Selected Full papers from Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues) are published in the Springer LNCS proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 to 5 are published in University of Tartu Press proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviewing All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2022 During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. When submitting, you will be asked to declare the conflicts of interest with the members of the Programme Committee in Easychair; please follow the common sense for that (e.g. because they have been co-authored a paper in the last three years, they have been in the same project, there is or was a supervision relation, or because they have the same affiliation). The members mentioned will not be involved in the review process of your paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. Please note ? the welcome reception will not take place on the evening before the first conference day, but has been combined with the poster and demo session on the evening of the first conference day on 5. October. It will be held in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner will take place on 7. October. Notably, the conference dinner will feature the traditional ?Cheese Road?! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is renewed every year. The mission of the steering board is to support the current general and track chairs with the promotion of the conference and to assist with conflicts of interest emerging as a result of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Uwe Serd?lt, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia, Iuliia Krivonosova, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. With 2022 being the first year featuring the staggered steering board, the board this year also includes the members of the 2021 board: Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 ? ?eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Skytte Institute, Estonia) Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): Deadline for submission of papers:* 15 May 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). Notification of Acceptance: 24 June 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 24 July 2022. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium): Deadline for submission of papers:* 10 July 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 September 2022. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session): Submission deadline:* 15 September* 2022. See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2022/ Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) Track Chairs Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track 2: Governance Issues Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France) Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH, Germany) Track 5: PhD Colloquium Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) Outreach Chairs R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology) Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Programme Committee Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Par? (UFPA)) Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Bernhard, Matthew (VotingWorks) Blanchard, Enka (Digitrust, Loria, Universit? de Lorraine) Budurushi, Jurlind (ITU Copenhagen) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia University) Collazos, Cesar A. (Universidad del Cauca) Cortier, Veronique (CNRS, Loria) Dragan, Constantin Catalin (University of Surrey) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario) Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen) Gj?steen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University) Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences) Haines, Thomas (Queensland University of Technology) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University) Jamroga, Wojtek (Polish Academy of Sciences) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences) Kremer, Steve (INRIA) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen) K?sters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart) Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn) Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg) Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar) Pereira, Olivier (UCLouvain) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security) Ruescas, David (nVotes) Ryan, P. Y. A. (University of Luxembourg) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey) Schoenmakers, Berry (Eindhoven University of Technology) Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen) Selker, Ted (University of California, Berkeley, CITRIS) Stark, Philip (University of California, Berkeley) Syta, Ewa (Yale University) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica) Zagorski, Filip (Wroclaw University of Technology) Zollinger, Marie-Laure (Universit? du Luxembourg) Track 2: Governance Issues Programme Committee Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest) Barrat I Esteve, Jordi (eVoting Legal Lab) Dandoy, R?gis (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) Eenmaa, Helen (University of Tartu) Gabel, Chelsea (McMaster University) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Kersting, Norbert (University of M?nster) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallin University of Technology) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University) Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University) Rodriguez, Adria (Scytl Election Technologies, S.L.U.) Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service) Smith, Rodney (University of Sydney) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham) Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia) von Nostitz, Felix (Universit? Catholique de Lille) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato) Bull, Christian (The Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development) Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant) Catozzi, Gianpiero (UNDP) Chanussot, Thomas (IFES) Egger, Philipp (Staatskanzlei Kanton St. Gallen) Franklin, Joshua (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Lecl?re, Olivier (State of Geneva) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia) Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions LLC) Maurer, Ardita (self-employed; Zentrum f?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University) McDermott, Ronan (mcdis) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR) Past, Liisa (Information System Authority, Republic of Estonia) Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR) Plante, St?phanie (University of Ottawa) Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery) Vollan, K?re (Quality AS) Wenda, Gregor (BMI) Wolf, Peter (IDEA) Yard, Michael (IFES) From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Apr 8 12:41:02 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: <9C6515AF-59DE-4C82-B4F6-735ABDE3526D@ugr.es> CALL FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/ ) Digital Government Track Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track > Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and community management, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: - Taxonomies of smart cities and communities - Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) - Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) - Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) - The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city - Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) - Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities - Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities - Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) - Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies - Management of smart cities and communities - Outcomes of smart cities and communities - The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities - Smart services - Urban-rural gaps in smart communities - Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. - Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities - Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities - Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Important dates (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From manuelp at ugr.es Thu Apr 14 10:07:24 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Guest Editors of Books in PAIT series Springer References: Message-ID: <7c6c7061-06db-4bad-88ae-39d5c437731e@Spark> Public Administration and Information Technology Series Ed.: M.P. Rodriguez Bolivar Public Administration and Information Technology publishes authored and edited books that examine the application of information systems to common issues and problems in public administration. This series examines both the successes of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption and some of the most important challenges to implementation. The books published in this series will address all areas of public administration, through the use of information technology adoption in the public and nonprofit sectors, and in the private sector where important lessons can be learned for public managers and policy analysts. New and emerging technologies that will have a lasting impact on public administration will be featured in this series. Both developed and developing countries will be examined in this series. The series particularly welcomes books that cover international dimensions of public administration and information technology. The research in this series will be able to bridge both theory and practice to provide relevance to public managers. The series will cover all aspects of e-governance/egovernment research, and new and emerging trends and issues in this research. The series publishes edited books, monographs, upper-level textbooks and research handbooks. For authors interested in submitting a book proposal, please email the editor (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar, University of Granada,?manuelp@ugr.es). Please, visit our webpage at?https://www.springer.com/series/10796, in which you can download the proposal form to write your project and send it to the editor previously mentioned. Best regards, -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting Director of Economic Affairs, University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) tel +34958242881 fax +34958246249 | email =================================================================================================================================================================== Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informaci?n privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilizaci?n, divulgaci?n o copia sin autorizaci?n est? prohibida en virtud de la legislaci?n vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma v?a y proceda a su destrucci?n. 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Message-ID: <22C4D206-1966-4210-AEAA-52BBA575A665@ugr.es> Special Issue TOPIC: A new era for public sector reporting: Technology and digitization in service to meet user needs Introduction Information technology effects are nowadays evident in, literally, all aspects of social and economic life. Digital technologies, and especially emerging technologies such as social media, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), can affect data production and dissemination. The relation between digital technologies and accounting has already attracted considerable interest in the private sector, while in the public sector, there is a dearth of relevant studies (Agostino et al., 2020; Agostino et al., 2021). The use of technology in public sector reporting has covered so far a few possible research topics. Early studies focused on the web as a means through which citizens would get regular accurate information on public finances (Caba P?rez et al., 2005) and its consideration as a tool that the public could use to continuously assess government agencies through everyday interaction (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2007). More recently, there are studies that have assessed citizens' preferences regarding the way the information is presented. More specifically, there are research works dealing with popular report presentation (Cohen et al., 2017), whether smart cities adopt IT-enhanced means in relation to financial or non-financial reporting (Cohen and Karatzimas, forthcoming) or whether the use of infographics increases financial statements understandability (Cohen et al., 2021). In the last years, the implementation of emerging technologies on the public sector is opening new avenues for changing both the roles of stakeholders and the way these stakeholders reach the financial and non-financial reporting. Indeed, the use of technology as a facilitator for both financial and non-financial reporting to meet user needs shows significant prospects. Currently, big data attract public administration interest related to users? needs (Ju et al., 2018; Ingrams, 2019), while the use of social media by administrations to bring reporting to citizens? mobile phones and tablets is escalating (Giacomini et al., 2021). AI and the IoT are further placed on the service of various users (de Sousa et al., 2019; El-Haddadeh et al., 2019). This special issue focuses on how emerging technologies and digitalization could impact on the stakeholders? role in the production and shaping of financial and non-financial reporting in the public sector as well as on the development of good practices in this area. The new era challenges the content and the suitability of the traditional lengthy pdf. reports that are available on the websites which, up to now, are a direct transfer of the paper-world to the digital one. The capacity of stakeholders to participate in the co-production of information and the alternative ways of visualization (on demand) make information more comprehensive. Technology advancements make people get accustomed to interactive tools and personal digital assistants to answer their queries on several matters on the spot and users of financial information usually browse through data at their own pace and not in a predefined order through tablets and mobile phones. This way, report narrations based on artificial intelligence or the use of chatbots may be features of future reporting. However, these dimensions are likely to affect not just the format of reporting per se to meet the user needs but also the content of the reporting irrespectively of the type of the reports, e.g. financial reports, environmental reports, popular reports, integrated reports, etc. List of Topic Areas: ? Financial reporting (including popular reporting and integrated reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; ? Non-Financial reporting (e.g. sustainability and environmental reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; ? Challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors; ? Public Sector reporting and big data; ? The impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data,...) on both public sector reporting and auditing; ? Digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting; ? Citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels. Deadline: 31 May 2023 Guest Editors Sandra Cohen Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept. of Business Administration - Greece scohen@aueb.gr Sotirios Karatzimas Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept. of Accounting and Finance - Greece skaratzimas@aueb.gr Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var University of Granada, Dept. of Accounting and Finance - Spain manuelp@ugr.es From manuelp at ugr.es Thu Apr 28 23:50:18 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: <94a400e8-1160-7c64-2eac-c8f9ffec4c1e@ugr.es> CALL FOR PAPERS ?Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/) *Digital Government Track* ?Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and communitymanagement, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: -Taxonomies of smart cities and communities -Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) -Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) -Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) -The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city -Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) -Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities -Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities -Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) -Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies -Management of smart cities and communities -Outcomes of smart cities and communities -The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities -Smart services -Urban-rural gaps in smart communities -Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. -?Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities -Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities -Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) *Important dates*(https://hicss.hawaii.edu/): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference * * *Mini-track Co-Chairs:* Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From rsandovuaem at gmail.com Mon May 2 11:59:45 2022 From: rsandovuaem at gmail.com (Rodrigo Sandoval) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] [Deadline Approach] ISGOV Conference References: Message-ID: <8360386e-989c-4e3e-bbff-e102af50ffe3@Spark> First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference ( ISGOV 2022) Challenges for Public Innovation in a post-pandemic governments ?12-14 September 2022 [www.isgovc.org](http://www.isgov.org) ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. CALL FOR PAPERS Academic space is needed amid the perverse problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To share visions, projects, and new ideas related to technology in government. Public problems must be addressed through advances in digital government, public innovation, and emerging technologies. The objective of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference is to foster cutting-edge research on the topics of public innovation, smart government, public governance, government data, internet access, and changes in government organizations. It seeks to unite the efforts of academics in multidisciplinary groups related to information systems, data science, public administration, e-government, artificial intelligence, among others, to produce alternatives to the problems shared by governments around the world. This effort is dedicated to attracting research from Latin America due to its geographical proximity and seeks to become a reference in Smart government and Public Innovation. It highlights academic contributions in cutting-edge research topics and practical contributions to solving shared problems in the region and areas where technology and government practice converge. This year, the congress is focused on proposing solutions to complex problems (Paquet and Scherez, 2021) and wicked problems. From generating theoretical explanations, reference frameworks, key constructs that allow understanding the problems and proposing practical and tangible solutions for governments. This first edition of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference focuses on understanding the organizational challenges public administrations face at all levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how to face the short and medium-term challenges.These challenges are complex because they imply drastic changes in public organizations that rethink their existence, work dynamics, and impact on their communities and countries. These challenges, such as repairing the social tissue are fragmented by losing lives and jobs and have broken cultural and ideological structures by being locked in for so many months. The great challenge of governing the social media platforms whose synergy has transformed: social interactions, citizen participation, the government-citizen relationship, and families, young people, professionals, and political employees adapt to new communication and collaboration dynamics, which threatens to become virtual realities through new technologies such as the Metaverse. The economic challenges to repair the severe economic, distribution, and supply chain damage, loss of jobs, closure of industries facing more challenging competitive conditions, and deal with disjointed governments.The crucial challenges in health systems require structural, comprehensive reforms that contain the intensive use of data, the revolution of machines to understand new viruses, attend patients with extreme care, and require technologies to generate vaccines and prevent epidemics. Finally, the challenges of information inequality and access to public data involve new public knowledge systems in the face of the sustainable energy revolution. These changes brought the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain will be decisive in understanding the new configuration between government, technology, and society in the 21st century. CONTACT: Email:?info@isgovconference.org WebSite:?http://isgovc.org/ CFP Website:?http://isgovc.apps2.mx/conference-clone-2/ Submission Website:?https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isgov2022 Submission Guidelines (Springer)?https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, all manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline??May 30, 2022 Notification Due?? ? ? ? ?June 30, 2022 Final Version Due? ? ? ?July 30, 2022 Event?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?September 12-14, 2022 CONFERENCE CHAIRS TRACKS AT ISGOV 2022 TRACK 1. Smart Government and Public Innovation Track chair: Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 2. Artificial Intelligence in Government Track chair: David Valle Cruz Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 3. Open Government Innovations and challenges Track chair: Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez Phd (Universidad de Guadalajara-i-LabMexico) Javier Cifuentes (Universidad de Murcia-i-LabMexico) TRACK 4. New digital technologies in public services** ?Track chair: Juli?n Villodre (UAM-Espa?a) Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2022, a full paper according Springer guidelines resources (Springer Guide?https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation). All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, all manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. We solicit original research papers written in English. The submissions must not have been previously published or be under review for another conference or journal. Only complete and finished papers will be reviewed, not abstracts. After your paper is accepted you will have a chance to improve it according to the comments of the reviewers, but the reviewers will assume that the text that they are reading is the text that is to be published, with the only changes they explicitly request (as opposed to reviewing a draft or abstract). In particular, the papers must be submitted in the required format. We reserve the right to reject without review the submissions that do not follow the format guidelines. ?CONFERENCE CHAIRS Gerardo Haces-Atondo, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Autonomous Mexico State University, Mexico Jose Melchor Medina-Quintero, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. David Valle-Cruz Autonomous Mexico State University, Mexico Edgar Ruvalcaba Demian Abrego-Almazan, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez, Autonomous University Of Tamaulipas, Mexico. ?CONFERENCE VENUE ?Tamaulipas Autonomous University, Mexico ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Dr. Rodrigo Sandoval Almaz?n Profesor Tiempo Completo SNI Nivel 2 Facultad de Ciencias Pol?ticas y Sociales Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico 722 2150494y 722 2131607 exts 147 email: rsandovuaem@gmail.com Twitter: @horus72 www.rodrigosandoval.mx ?+++ Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan PHD Associate Profesor Political Sciences Faculty Autonomous University of the State of Mexico www.uaemex.mx rsandovuaem@gmail.com rsandovala@uaemex.mx ?@horus72 From peter.roenne at gmail.com Wed May 4 16:00:53 2022 From: peter.roenne at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Browne_R=C3=B8nne?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Final CFP E-Vote-ID 2022 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2022 Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 4-7 October 2022 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2022) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the seventh edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Bregenz (Austria) in October 2022. One of E-Vote-ID?s major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues related to electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners, and Internet voting). In the first six editions, over 200 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 800 participants. We aim for a hybrid conference. Further information will be provided during 2022. The format of the conference is a three-day meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government, and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting. To address the interdisciplinary character of the conference, the conference has four tracks and a PhD colloquium: Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) and Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - (Remote) Electronic voting protocols and systems: design and analysis; - New types of voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness, and coercion resistance; - End-to-end verifiability; - Risk limiting audits; - Requirements and formal modelling; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards; - Risk assessment; - Voter authentication; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Any other security and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues relevant to (remote) electronic voting. It is important for the review process that the methodology in place is clearly described. Furthermore, it is essential that the limitations are clearly mentioned and discussed: Limitations can be that a formal proof exists only for parts of the system or for some properties, or that a mathematical proof is missing for the proposed protocol. In the context of user studies, e.g., limitations regarding the sample, the external or internal validity should be mentioned and discussed. Track 2: Governance Issues Chairs: Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia) This track is intended to cover all non-technical issues that occur during the digital transformation of elections including, but not limited to the following: - Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviour, and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Administrative, legal, political and social issues of electronic voting; - Electronic voting legislation; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues inelectronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) and Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); These experiences and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete, and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Chair: Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France), Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH) We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to discuss with the community or summarizing papers you have published on other venues but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community to know and to discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to already published papers, we ask you to provide the information where to find the original publication and whether you want the Short Paper being included in the proceedings or not (due to potential copyright restrictions of the main paper) Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is published). Track 5: PhD Colloquium Chairs: Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg) and Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) The goal of the colloquium is to foster the understanding and academic quality of PhD students? contributions in collaboration with senior researchers in the field. Further, the collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting is supported. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each interested participant should ideally submit their research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) in the form of an extended draft using the conference platform. High-potential master students can also submit their work to the colloquium. The PhD Colloquium takes place on the day before the formal conference begins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Types LNCS style is used for all submissions (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computerscience/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). All papers in the conference will be Open Access. Paper submissions can be in the following formats: - Full papers need to contain original unpublished research. The submission should be max 16 pages inLNCS format. - Work-in-Progress submissions contain ongoing original research. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words. Initial submissions are format-neutral. If submissions are accepted, the authors are expected to provide a short summary of their key contributions (max 4 pages in LNCS format). This submission route enables authors to receive feedback on work in progress without pre-empting publication in a different venue (e.g., an academic journal). - Short Papers are a maximum of 4 pages long in LNCS format all-in. In Tracks 1 and 2, such papers have a smaller contribution than a full paper. All accepted contributions in tracks 3 to 5 are published as Short papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings The E-Vote-ID conference publishes two volumes of proceedings. One volume is published with Springer LNCS proceedings and another one is published with University of Tartu Press. Both proceedings are published under open access licenses. Selected Full papers from Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues) are published in the Springer LNCS proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 to 5 are published in University of Tartu Press proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviewing All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2022 During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. When submitting, you will be asked to declare the conflicts of interest with the members of the Programme Committee in Easychair; please follow the common sense for that (e.g. because they have been co-authored a paper in the last three years, they have been in the same project, there is or was a supervision relation, or because they have the same affiliation). The members mentioned will not be involved in the review process of your paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. Please note ? the welcome reception will not take place on the evening before the first conference day, but has been combined with the poster and demo session on the evening of the first conference day on 5. October. It will be held in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner will take place on 7. October. Notably, the conference dinner will feature the traditional ?Cheese Road?! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is renewed every year. The mission of the steering board is to support the current general and track chairs with the promotion of the conference and to assist with conflicts of interest emerging as a result of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Uwe Serd?lt, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia, Iuliia Krivonosova, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. With 2022 being the first year featuring the staggered steering board, the board this year also includes the members of the 2021 board: Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 ? ?eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Skytte Institute, Estonia) Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): Deadline for submission of papers:* 15 May 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). Notification of Acceptance: 24 June 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 24 July 2022. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium): Deadline for submission of papers:* 10 July 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2022. Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 September 2022. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session): Submission deadline:* 15 September* 2022. See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2022/ Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) Track Chairs Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track 2: Governance Issues Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France) Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH, Germany) Track 5: PhD Colloquium Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu, Estonia) Outreach Chairs R?nne, Peter (Universit? de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology) Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Programme Committee Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Par? (UFPA)) Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Bernhard, Matthew (VotingWorks) Blanchard, Enka (Digitrust, Loria, Universit? de Lorraine) Budurushi, Jurlind (ITU Copenhagen) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia University) Collazos, Cesar A. (Universidad del Cauca) Cortier, Veronique (CNRS, Loria) Dragan, Constantin Catalin (University of Surrey) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario) Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen) Gj?steen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University) Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences) Haines, Thomas (Queensland University of Technology) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University) Jamroga, Wojtek (Polish Academy of Sciences) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences) Kremer, Steve (INRIA) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen) K?sters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart) Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn) Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg) Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar) Pereira, Olivier (UCLouvain) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security) Ruescas, David (nVotes) Ryan, P. Y. A. (University of Luxembourg) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey) Schoenmakers, Berry (Eindhoven University of Technology) Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen) Selker, Ted (University of California, Berkeley, CITRIS) Stark, Philip (University of California, Berkeley) Syta, Ewa (Yale University) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica) Zagorski, Filip (Wroclaw University of Technology) Zollinger, Marie-Laure (Universit? du Luxembourg) Track 2: Governance Issues Programme Committee Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest) Barrat I Esteve, Jordi (eVoting Legal Lab) Dandoy, R?gis (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) Eenmaa, Helen (University of Tartu) Gabel, Chelsea (McMaster University) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Kersting, Norbert (University of M?nster) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallin University of Technology) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University) Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University) Rodriguez, Adria (Scytl Election Technologies, S.L.U.) Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service) Smith, Rodney (University of Sydney) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham) Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia) von Nostitz, Felix (Universit? Catholique de Lille) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato) Bull, Christian (The Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development) Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant) Catozzi, Gianpiero (UNDP) Chanussot, Thomas (IFES) Egger, Philipp (Staatskanzlei Kanton St. Gallen) Franklin, Joshua (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Lecl?re, Olivier (State of Geneva) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia) Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions LLC) Driza Maurer, Ardita (legal expert) McDermott, Ronan (mcdis) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR) Past, Liisa (Information System Authority, Republic of Estonia) Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR) Plante, St?phanie (University of Ottawa) Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery) Vollan, K?re (Quality AS) Wenda, Gregor (BMI) Wolf, Peter (IDEA) Yard, Michael (IFES) From ionikolaou at uth.gr Thu May 5 08:52:50 2022 From: ionikolaou at uth.gr (Ioannis Nikolaou) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] ISC2 2022: 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference - Track 10. Observability in smart cities Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE ISC2 2022: Track 10. Observability in smart cities ISC2 2022: 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference Theme: Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus September 26-29, 2022 https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of six IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The theme of the conference this year is ?Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.? Track 10: Observability in smart cities Special Track Committee: - Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece - Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly, Greece - Alois Paulin, University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany Recommended topics: - Smart city platforms - IoT and robots monitoring in smart cities - Smart City KPI monitoring - Smart city data and AI-driven analytics - Smart city infrastructure - Observability with AI - Anomaly detection in smart city systems - Fault localization and root cause analysis - Predictive and proactive service management - Automation for remediation and mitigation - Security and compliance - Energy efficiency of smart city services - Continuous improvement for smart city services Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022@easychair.org Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Paper contests will include a Conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information will be available on the conference web site. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Important Dates Conference Paper Submission Deadline ? May 15, 2022 Conference Acceptance Notification ? July 15, 2022 Conference Camera-ready Deadline ? July 31, 2022 Conference Dates ? September 26-29, 2022 Submission Site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 Special Tracks Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE ISC2 2022 https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/ From jscholl at uw.edu Mon May 9 08:46:57 2022 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Academic Research on Disaster Information Management Continues its Steady Growth Message-ID: DIRL Version 4.4 Released As per May 9, 2022, version 4.4 of the Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) has been released as a minor update. Another minor update will follow during this summer. The library now contains 4,099 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of disaster information and information technologies and their uses in the context of disasters. This represents an increase over the previous version of 166 references, or 4.2%. The DIRL release history reveals that from the inaugural DIRL version 1.0 to this version (DIRL v. 4.4), the peer-reviewed academic literature has almost doubled in the course of less than four years. This is a remarkable increase of the body of academic knowledge in the particular area of disaster information management and disaster information technology within a relatively short period of time. The DIRL is intended to become an indispensable tool for Disaster Information and Technology-interested scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions may want to rely on this reference library. Packaged in a zip file, bibTeX, RIS as well as an Endnote package (enlp) versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. The DIRL can be downloaded from the DIRL website. Next scheduled minor update: 08/15/2022, next major update? 11/15 2022. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Acknowledgement: No curator can do the work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DIRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson. Citation: Scholl, Hans J. (2022). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 4.4?5.0. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/ Kind regards, Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl, MBA Full Professor Fellow of the Digital Government Society Recipient of the IFIP Service Award Research Fellow of the Center for Technology in Government Elected Faculty Council Member (iSchool) University of Washington The Information School Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370D MS 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ From jbertot at umd.edu Fri May 13 14:18:29 2022 From: jbertot at umd.edu (John Bertot) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: Call for Papers: HICSS 56, Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ) Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Digital Government: Narrowing the Divides Governments at all levels continue to promote, grow, and augment their digital engagement with the citizens that they serve. Through social media, mobile applications, online services, and other forms of digital services, governments are increasingly expecting that individuals will interact with them through a range of digital media and technologies. This includes public policy-making (e.g., governance), government operations (e.g. emergency management), citizen engagement (e.g. transparency), and government services (e.g., information provision). As governments closed their physical locations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital services and resources were the primary, if not only, means through which individuals could engage with their governments. The pandemic highlighted the disparities that various populations, particularly marginalized groups, and governments face in achieving a vision of digital government for all. As governments promote digital pathways, it is critical for governments to ensure that all citizens are able to realize their needs through inclusive design, availability, and ability. However, many digital divides remain ? from access to sufficient technologies (e.g., broadband, devices, costs), the ability to use technologies, and the design of digital government services. This minitrack focuses on digital inclusion within digital government services. The minitrack includes (but is not limited to) topics such as: This includes, but is not limited to: Impacts of the COVID-19 on the ability of marginalized groups to engage with digital government; The development of inclusive digital government; Longitudinal analyses of inclusion in digital government; The role of digital literacy in use/non-use of online government services; The use of digital government by immigrant and migrant populations; The use of digital government by indigenous populations; The use of digital government by low-literacy populations; The role of socio-economic status on the use of digital government; Accessibility of digital government for people with perceptual, motor, or cognitive disabilities; The role of government in the development of international technical standards for digital accessibility; The role of community-based organizations (e.g., public libraries, non-government organizations) in fostering digital inclusion; Development and/or implementation of statutes, regulations or policies related to digital inclusion; Trends in case law related to digital inclusion; Trends in comparative or international law related to digital inclusion; The relationship between trust of institutions and use of digital government by diverse populations; How digital-based voting impacts involvement of citizens in elections LGBTQ interactions with digital government; Usability evaluation methods for testing digital government services with diverse user populations; Research methods for understanding why diverse individuals avoid using digital government; and, Inclusive design methods to involve diverse populations in the actual development of digital government. Important dates: June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference Minitrack Co-Chairs: John Bertot (Primary Contact) University of Maryland College Park jbertot@umd.edu Jonathan Lazar University of Maryland College Park jlazar@umd.edu Simone Barbosa PUC-Rio simone@inf.puc-rio.br John Bertot Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Professor, iSchool 2117B Administration Building University of Maryland College Park College Park, MD 20742 Email: jbertot@umd.edu Phone: 301.405.4252 This information is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. Any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this email communication by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately by returning this message to the sender and delete all copies. From manuelp at ugr.es Wed Jun 1 00:42:29 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Approaching Deadline!! CFP - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 Message-ID: <81e66390-40af-a086-a934-0b5285d1cbf7@ugr.es> CALL FOR PAPERS ?Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/) *Digital Government Track* ?Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and communitymanagement, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: -Taxonomies of smart cities and communities -Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) -Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) -Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) -The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city -Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) -Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities -Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities -Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) -Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies -Management of smart cities and communities -Outcomes of smart cities and communities -The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities -Smart services -Urban-rural gaps in smart communities -Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. -?Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities -Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities -Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) *Important dates*(https://hicss.hawaii.edu/): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference * * *Mini-track Co-Chairs:* Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From emmva at dtu.dk Mon Jun 6 02:46:38 2022 From: emmva at dtu.dk (Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] IEEE CNS 2022 (CFP extended) In-Reply-To: References: <3583714cb8b24beab7d409749e96fcc5@es.aau.dk> <9ec11cfcd70541b3b5f860b67d93b46e@es.aau.dk> <0c90172df7f24d4ba9a90055f11fd3b3@dtu.dk> <466144f9f00c4a86aec22a8091fa718f@dtu.dk> <147fdb8a1ae848fab3e139833df0673a@dtu.dk> Message-ID: The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cyber security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experiences related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry, presenting novel research results in communications and network security. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Anonymity and privacy technologies * Biometric authentication and identity management * Security and privacy of blockchain and its applications * Censorship countermeasures and privacy * Combating cyber-crime (anti-spam, anti-phishing anti-fraud techniques, etc.) * Computer and network forensics * Cyber deterrence strategies * Data and application security * Data protection and integrity * Game-theoretic security technologies * Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems * Information-theoretic security * Intrusion detection, prevention, and response * Key management, public key infrastructures, certification revocation, authentication, and access control * Malware detection, prevention, and mitigation * Security metrics and models * Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies * Security and privacy for big data and machine learning * Security and privacy for data and network outsourcing * Security and privacy for mobile and wearable devices * Security and privacy in cellular networks * Security and privacy in cloud and edge computing * Internet Security: Protocols, standards, measurements * Security and privacy in crowdsourcing * Security and privacy in cyber-physical systems (CPS) * Security and privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) * Security and privacy in emerging wireless technologies and applications (dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, millimeter wave communications, MIMO systems, RFID, 5G/6G networks, etc.) * Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and overlay networks * Security and privacy in WiFi, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, body-area, and disruption/delay tolerant systems * Security and privacy in smart cities, smart and connected health, and other smart systems/buildings/offices * Security for critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems, etc.) * Security for future Internet architectures and designs * Security for software-defined and data center networks * Security and privacy in connected/autonomous vehicles, UAVs/UAS, drones, etc. * Security and privacy of social networks, metaverse/virtual/augmented reality-based networks/systems * Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy * Traffic analysis * Usable security and privacy * Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2022 (extended) * Notification of Acceptance: 05 Aug 2022 * Final Paper Submission: 19 Aug 2022 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Haining Wang, Virginia Tech, USA Sencun Zhu, Penn State University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ming Li, University of Arizona, USA Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University, USA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Berkay Celik, Purdue University, USA Yao Liu, University of Southern Florida, USA POSTER CHAIR Shuai Hao, Old Dominion University, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR Syed Rafiul Hussain, Penn State University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ming Li, University of Texas, Arlington, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Xing Gao, University of Delaware, USA Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis Aalborg University, Denmark Yongzhong He, Beijing Jiaotong University, China STUDENT TRAVEL CHAIR Rui Zhang, University of Delaware, USA WEB CHAIR Guannan Liu, Virginia Tech, USA For more information have a look at: https://cns2022.ieee-cns.org/ From alexop at aegean.gr Tue Jun 7 22:42:16 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP Special Issue on Legal Informatics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear authors, This is a kind reminder to submit your research into the current special issue "Foundational Approaches, Methods and Cases in Legal Informatics" in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy by Springer. Deadline: 30 June 2022 More info: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/20207388/data/v1 or https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/updates/18341194 This special issue aims at exploring the importance of legal information and legal data in the context of the global knowledge economy. Contributions presenting practical application, foundational approaches, tools, case studies and theoretical frameworks for the creation, processing and publishing of legal documents as open data towards citizens, practitioners and administrations are therefore encouraged. Specific emphasis may be given to legal text mining, legal XML standards and models, legal ontologies, as well as further legal argumentation and reasoning models and approaches towards more automated legal services and information systems. On behalf of the invited editors team, Charalampos Alexopoulos From manuelp at ugr.es Wed Jun 8 12:11:11 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Final CFP- HICSS 56. Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track Message-ID: <81B7F06A-323A-4C9E-8E7F-B2DE878B0530@ugr.es> CALL FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (http://www.hicss.org/ ) Digital Government Track Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track > Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and communal quests for well-being. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the way they are addressed, influencing people?s ability to exercise their ?right to the city/community? and impacting on social sustainability on several levels. City administration and community management, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter. What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no single way to becoming smart and different communities have adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities. In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data, blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart governance in the urban and communities? contexts, which fosters new research on this area. This mini track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives to understand how new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies. As a result, areas of focus and interest to this mini track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: - Taxonomies of smart cities and communities - Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) - Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) - Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) - The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens? role in the city - Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) - Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and local communities - Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities - Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media and networks, chatbots, etc.) - Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the emerging technologies - Management of smart cities and communities - Outcomes of smart cities and communities - The role of digital technologies in both increasing community livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities - Smart services - Urban-rural gaps in smart communities - Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and communities. - Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities - Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities - Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Important dates (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2022: Papers due August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (primary contact), University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (ece@cs.uns.edu.ar ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From abreiter at uni-bremen.de Mon Jun 13 05:21:13 2022 From: abreiter at uni-bremen.de (Andreas Breiter) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Tenure Track Researcher Position "Data Science in Business and Administration" at University of Bremen, Germany Message-ID: <89797609-938F-476E-AEB5-7B8024A9231F@uni-bremen.de> The University of Bremen is characterized by its high capacity for innovation. It thus offers for early-career researchers a multifaceted teaching and research environment with clearly defined career structures and opportunities, also besides professorships. Information on career paths for mid-level academic staff at the University of Bremen can be found at https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/academic-career/senior-researcher-senior-lecturer.html The University of Bremen is offering ? under the condition of job release ? a fulltime position as *** Researcher with Tenure-Track to Senior Researcher *** in the Unit for Computer Science at the Faculty of ?Mathematics/ Computer Science? starting at the Date. for the field of *** Data Science in Business and Administration *** We are looking for an early career researcher from the field of computer science with a focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence methods in relation to specific application fields. The focus should be in the areas of business, public administration, or education. The tenure-track phase serves to broaden the range of qualifications, especially in concentration on Smart Services, Big Data analytics, process mining, learning analytics, or recommendation systems. A design-oriented approach and critical analysis of the opportunities and risks of Data Science is expected. Initially, the appointment is limited to four years (salary group 14 TV-L). The employment is regulated by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, ?2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz ? WissZeitVG). Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with ? 2 (1) WissZeitVG. The permanent position of a Senior Researcher (salary group 15 TV-L) can be assigned in case of proof of outstanding aptitude, performance and competence after successful completion of an evaluation. Research and scientific teaching are carried out independently within the framework of the Bremen Higher Education Act (? 24 Abs. 2). The teaching responsibilities are four weekly hours per semester in the position as Researcher and nine weekly hours as Senior Researcher. Within this framework, the tenure-track phase offers opportunities for independent profile development that goes beyond the previous professional expertise. The Data Science Center of the University of Bremen is available as a central infrastructure and enables collaborations for research, teaching and transfer. Your tasks and responsibilities: ? Independent research in the field of data science ? Publication activities, organization of conferences / workshops, active participation in the acquisition of third-party funding) ? Cooperation with partners from business and public administration and societal engagement following the transfer strategy of the University of Bremen ? Independent, research-based teaching of courses (also in English) in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Information Systems ? Development of disciplinary and interdisciplinary innovative teaching concepts, e.g. with a view to methods training in business informatics in cooperation with the professorships for Information Management and for Digitization of Public Services ? Participation in academic self-administration. Your qualifications (recruitment requirements): ? High-level university degree (usually in computer science with a focus on application fields) ? Recent doctoral degree with above-average results in computer science/information systems, with a focus (usually indicated by the topic of the doctoral thesis) on data science and/or methods of artificial intelligence ? (First) experience in teaching subject-specific courses (also in English); ? Language competence (English at least level C1; German: by the time of the evaluation, applicants should also be able to give lectures or seminars in German); ? Confident command of digital media and forms of presentation in teaching. Further are desirable: ? Interest in contributing to the research focus of Department 3 within the Focus Area Minds, Media, Machines ? Experience in course design or program module development. The University of Bremen aims to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field. It has received several awards in programs to promote gender equality and is certified as a family-friendly university. Female scientists are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications from persons with a migration background as well as international applications are expressly welcomed. Severely handicapped applicants will be given priority if they have essentially the same professional and personal aptitude. Questions regarding the job advertisement will be answered with pleasure by Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, abreiter@uni-bremen.de. Applications with the usual documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae with list of publications, teaching and research concept, copies of academic degrees, etc.) should be sent, quoting the reference number LK283/22, by July 22nd, 2022: electronically as one PDF file: LK283@fb3.uni-bremen.de or: Universit?t Bremen Fachbereich 03 Mathematik und Informatik Fachbereichsverwaltung, z.Hd. W. Giesenhagen Bibliothekstr. 5 28359 Bremen From sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca Mon Jun 13 08:50:55 2022 From: sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca (Sehl Mellouli) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 3rd International Conference on Maintenance and Intelligent Asset Management (ICMIAM2022) Message-ID: <3d554da0-e1f6-04ff-d07e-359c6130e713@fsa.ulaval.ca> *Apologize if you already received this call * Dear Madam/Sir, Greetings from ICMIAM2022!! The 3^rd ?International Conference on Maintenance and Intelligent Asset Management (ICMIAM2022) ? Abstract/Extended Abstract Paper Submission Deadline to 30 June 2022 *Conference Focus: "Rural Assets for Sustainable Development" * /*Theme 1: Asset Management (AM) and Systems (AMS)*/ /*Theme 2: Rural Assets and SDGs*/ The 3^rd International Conference on Maintenance and Intelligent Asset Management (ICMIAM2022) will be held during 13-15 December 2022, preceded by a pre-conference workshop on 12 December 2022. Currently, the plan is to have the conference physically on campus at theInstitute ofRural Management Anand (IRMA) . Depending on the prevailing COVID-19 and related decisions of the Government, the conference may be held in hybrid / virtual mode. ICMIAM is technically co-sponsored by IEEE ? Gujarat Section of Region 10. It is also supported by Asset Management Council Australia, Asset Management Society India, Federation University, Australia, The United Nations University-Portugal, University of Laval - Canda, and Lule? University of Technology, Sweden, among others. We cordially invite you to submit high-quality and unpublished research papers in the field of Intelligent asset management, but not limited to the following tracks: 1.Track 1: Asset Management (AM) and Systems (AMS) 2.Track 2: Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) and Maintenance Management (MM) 3.Track 3: Safety Engineering and Analytics (SEA), Security, Risk Management and Human Factors (SRM-HF) 4.Track 4: Socio-Economic Assets and SDGs 5.Track 5: Digital Assets Governance and SDGs 6.Track 6: Rural Infrastructure, Services, and SDGs *Important Dates (Paper Submission):* Extended Abstract submission 30 June 2022 Extended Abstract acceptance 31 July 2022 Full paper submission 30 September 2022 Full paper acceptance 31 October 2022 Early-bird registration 31 July 2022 to 31 October 2022 Last date for registration 1 December 2022 *Important Dates (Workshop Proposal Submission):* Proposal Submission 30 June 2022 Acceptance Notification 31 July 2022 Final Submission 31 August 2022 Registration As detailed in the registration table Submission Link Submission Guidelines All accepted and registered papers inICMIAM 2022 will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Subject to IEEE Xplore's Reviews and acceptance) and are expected to be Indexed by Scopus. Few selected papers shall undergo further reviews to be published in associated journals. Details will be notified in due course. *For More Information* https://www.irma.ac.in/icmiam2022 icmiam2022@irma.ac.in We are looking forward to receiving your paper submissions! Regards Prof. Harekrishna Misra Chair, ICMIAM 2022 ** -- Sehl Mellouli, professeur titulaire/full professor Vice-Recteur Adjoint aux Etudes et aux Affaires Etudiantes/Deputy Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs From rm.digi at cbs.dk Mon Jun 13 10:25:32 2022 From: rm.digi at cbs.dk (Rony Medaglia) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 2022 pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government Message-ID: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2022 Pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 December 2022 AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment (SIGe-Gov) ? Submissions due: October 2, 2022 ? Notification of acceptance: October 23, 2022 Please submit your abstracts to: sigegov22@gmail.com You are invited to submit an extended abstract for presentation and discussion at the 2022 pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government, co-organized by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on e-Government (SIGe-Gov), to be held on 11 December 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark as an ancillary event of the ICIS conference. Abstracts should introduce a new or emerging topic, issue, or research question of relevance to researchers and practitioners within the e-government/digital government community. Workshop Objective As with previous SIG eGovernment pre-ICIS workshops, this joint workshop will be designed to provide the maximum opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion of the abstracts submitted. The workshop will include brief formal presentations and discussions designed to help facilitate knowledge sharing among participants and to lay the foundation for future collaborations in digital government research. The discussions will be moderated to ensure opportunity for full participation. Workshop Focus Extended abstracts should address outstanding questions and issues related, but not limited to, the topics below: - Artificial Intelligence and eGovernment - IoT and eGovernment - Blockchain and eGovernment - eGovernment and Sustainable Development - Smart Cities - Capture, management and use of (Big) Data in government - Open innovation in eGovernment - Open-source and open-standard solutions in eGovernment - Transparency and openness in eGovernment services - Co-production of eGovernment - Social media and eGovernment services - eParticipation; eDemocracy - eGovernment security - eGovernment and ethical challenges Submission and Review Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages, excluding references. Each abstract submitted will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. Abstracts selected for inclusion in the workshop will be those considered best ready to serve as catalysts for knowledge sharing and debate among workshop participants on new and emerging research and practice issues and challenges in the e-government/digital government community. There will not be produced proceedings and authors will retain full authorship rights to their submitted work. Document Format: 12-point Arial, single line spacing Please submit your extended abstracts in Word format to: sigegov22@gmail.com Details on Workshop registration will be available through the ICIS 2022 website: https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/register/ Important Dates ? Submissions due: October 2, 2022 ? Notification of Acceptance: October 23, 2022. ? For any questions, please contact the workshop chairs: * Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, rony@cbs.dk * Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, kna.digi@cbs.dk From rm.digi at cbs.dk Mon Jun 13 10:42:27 2022 From: rm.digi at cbs.dk (Rony Medaglia) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?windows-1252?q?CfP=3A_Information_Polity_=96_Specia?= =?windows-1252?q?l_Issue_on_=93Digital_Government_and_Sustainable_Develop?= =?windows-1252?q?ment_Goals=94?= Message-ID: Call for Papers - Special Issue on ?Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals? to be published by Information Polity Guest Editors Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, rm.digi@cbs.dk Gianluca Misuraca, Executive Director, AI4GOV Master on AI for Public Services, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid and Associate Researcher at the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano, gianluca.misuraca@upm.es Timeline * 1 October 2022: Deadline for extended abstract submission * 1 November 2022: Notification for invitation to submit full manuscript * 1 February 2023: Deadline for submission of full manuscript * 1 February ? 1 June 2023: Review process * 1 July 2023: Final decision on manuscripts * Anticipated publication: Fall 2023 (issue 4) Introduction The United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations, 2015) 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. At the heart of these goals are themes of poverty, inequality, health, discrimination, inclusion, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. 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 (United Nations, 2017). Digitalization has the potential to represent an integral part of achieving sustainable development goals (Corbett & Mellouli, 2017; Medaglia & Damsgaard, 2020; Nishant et al., 2020). In particular, digital government can act as enabler to sustainability, equity and social inclusion (Estevez & Janowski, 2013) and it represents a cross-cutting objective across several SDGs at both sectoral and horizontal level, with a crucial importance in particular for 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? (Medaglia et al., 2021; Misuraca & Medaglia, 2021). Information exchange between governmental organizations (G2G), between business and government (B2G) as well as between governments and citizens (G2C) can support the formulation and monitoring of policies to reach SDGs (Janowski, 2016). The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in the public sector, pushing governments to experience unprecedent challenges of data management, policy formulation, and citizen inclusion in a short period of time (Pan & Zhang, 2020). As we move closer to the 2030 milestone, we are only beginning to understand the implications of digital government initiatives on the journey towards sustainable development. The goal of this Special Issue is to advance the understanding on the potential benefits, challenges, and theoretical implications of digital government in supporting the achievement of SDGs and on the role of digital technologies to sustain policy developments at both horizontal and sectoral level. As the sustainability agenda gains increasing attention worldwide, there is more than ever need for original, rigorous, and theoretically-informed research on how digital government can support or hinder SDGs. We invite studies on the design, management and evaluation of policies and implementation of digital government strategies in relation to the UN SDGs at global, national, and local level. We welcome research from different social science perspectives, including Public Administration, Information Systems, Sociology, Information Science, and Management, that can combine relevant research foci, with rigorous methodological approaches. Interdisciplinary submissions are also encouraged, as well as submissions that are theoretical and/or empirically based. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * SDGs in digital government policy, design, and implementation * Artificial Intelligence in government and SDGs * The Internet of Things in government and SDGs * Blockchain in government and SDGs * Open Government Data and the SDGs * Digital government infrastructure and SDGs * Smart cities and SDGs * Impact of technology on democracy in relation to SDGs * Ethical implications of digital government and the SDGs * Institutional/cultural change arising from digital transformation around SDGs * Factors limiting digitally-enhaced sustainable development in government * Critical perspectives on digital government and SDGs * Long term consequences of government digitalization on SDGs Reviewing process The Special Issue will apply a two-step reviewing process. * In the first step, we invite the submission of an extended abstract of maximum 1000 words (excluding references) that presents the study?s research question(s), theoretical framework, methodology, preliminary and/or expected findings, and expected contributions to research and practice. This extended abstract is mandatory and will be used by the editors for selecting which abstracts will be invited to make full paper submission. The Guest Editors will make selections based on topic relevance, novelty, and potential contributions of the study. * In the second step, the completed submissions will be managed by the Guest Editors, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers per paper, in a double-blind process. The submissions will undergo a maximum of two rounds of review. Papers with a final acceptance are expected to be published online at the end of 2023. Format and guidelines Extended abstracts are to be submitted to the Special Issue Editors at ipsisdg@gmail.com as a Word document, double-spaced, non-justified, in 12-point font. The reference style to be followed is the APA 6thedition. Completed papers may not exceed 8000 words (excluding references and appendices) and will have to be submitted via the journal online manuscript management system. Submitted papers should not be under review for any other journal or conference, should be significantly different from previously published work (at least 60% unpublished material), and should present original contributions. Duplicate submissions will be rejected. In case the manuscripts are an extension of previously published work (e.g., conference article), the authors need to disclose all information about the previous work upon submission. About Information Polity Information Polity is a tangible expression of the increasing awareness that Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) have become of deep significance for all polities as new technology-enabled forms of government, governing and democratic practice are sought or experienced throughout the world. This journal positions itself in these contexts, seeking to be at the forefront of thought leadership and debate about emerging issues, impact, and implications of government and democracy in the information age. More information: https://www.informationpolity.com/ Author Instructions Instructions for authors for manuscript format and citation requirements can be found at: https://www.informationpolity.com/guidelines If you have questions or concerns about this Special Issue, please contact the guest editors at ipsisdg@gmail.com. References Corbett, J., & Mellouli, S. (2017). Winning the SDG battle in cities: How an integrated information ecosystem can contribute to the achievement of the 2030 sustainable development goals. Information Systems Journal, 27(4), 427?461. Estevez, E., & Janowski, T. (2013). Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development?Conceptual framework and state of research. Government Information Quarterly, 30, Supplement 1, S94?S109. Janowski, T. (2016). Implementing Sustainable Development Goals with Digital Government ? Aspiration-capacity gap. Government Information Quarterly, 33(4), 603?613. Medaglia, R., & Damsgaard, J. (2020). Blockchain and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Towards an Agenda for IS Research. PACIS 2020 Proceedings. https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2020/36 Medaglia, R., Misuraca, G., & Aquaro, V. (2021). Digital Government and the United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals: Towards an analytical framework. DG.O2021: The 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 473?478. Misuraca, G., & Medaglia, R. (2021). Re-designing the UN e-Government Survey in light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Towards a post-COVID digital society. ICEGOV. International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Athens Greece. Nishant, R., Kennedy, M., & Corbett, J. (2020). Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda. International Journal of Information Management, 53, 102104. Pan, S. L., & Zhang, S. (2020). 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Rony Medaglia Professor MSO, PhD Department of Digitalization Copenhagen Business School Howitzvej 60 DK-2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel.: +45 2479 4327 www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rmdigi From jscholl at uw.edu Sat Jun 18 04:35:04 2022 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) Version 18.0 Released Message-ID: Now Listing 17,184 references of Peer-reviewed Research Articles in the English Language Version 18.0 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of June 17, 2022. The library now contains 17,184 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. This marks an 4.0% increase in references from version 17.5 (December of 2021) and a 9.2% increase from version 17.0 (July of 2021). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government- related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,453) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months. The DGRL has become an indispensable tool for Digital Government scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions are reported to rely heavily on this reference library. Packaged in a zip file, bibTeX, RIS, and Endnote (package) versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Next scheduled update: 12/15/2022. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Please also note: The DGRL is provided on basis of self- service. Do not request any support. No curator can do her work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DGRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Colin Anderson, Andrea Berg, Emily Cunningham, Erika Deal, Gary Gao, Kreg Hasegawa, Jackie Holmes, Julia Hon, Christine Lee, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, Hannah Robinson, Richard Robohm, Kelle Rose, Stephanie Rossi, Christopher Setzer, and Daniel Wilson. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2021). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 18.0?18.5. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/ The DGRL can be downloaded following the link above. Kind regards, Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl, MBA Professor Fellow of the Digital Government Society Recipient of the IFIP Service Award Research Fellow of the Center for Technology in Government ISCRAM Board Member University of Washington The Information School Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370D MS 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ From robert.krimmer at ut.ee Sun Jun 26 11:14:07 2022 From: robert.krimmer at ut.ee (Robert Krimmer) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Track Proposals Dg.o 2023 - Tartu, Estonia - Deadline August 15, 2022 Message-ID: Call for Track Proposals 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) announces the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2023 on "Building safe and secure cross-border public services". dg.o 2023 will be hosted by the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, on June 18 -22, 2023.? The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory and practice, their focus on important and timely topics and the quality of their writing. ? THEMES & TOPICS: The 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023) will feature the main theme of "Building safe and secure cross-border public services". 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. Society and technology co-evolves and we are looking for new balance between them. Specifically, the conference aims to advance research and practice in this field. ? During the past twenty-three years, the dg.o conferences have been at the forefront of digital governance transformations. In its 24th anniversary, the dg.o 2023 conference will build in past themes to advance our knowledge about the creation of public values via digital innovations with particular focus on cross-border digital public services. Next to the track pioneered at dgo 2022, other established tracks featured at past dg.o conferences, such as: *?????? Public value creation and innovation *?????? Social media and government *?????? Organizational factors, technology adoption, and digital government impacts *?????? Opening government: from open data infrastructures to collaboration *?????? Engagement in government *?????? Smart cities: models and platforms *?????? Cybersecurity and governance *?????? Beyond bureaucracy, co-producing governance & new models of governance *?????? Open government data policies & politics *?????? Blockchain and transformational government ? We encourage past track chairs to update and submit their track. In addition, we invite new tracks to address existing and emerging research challenges related to digital government. Tracks should be related to digital government, but do not have to be limited to the conference theme. The highly successful track proposals will be selected, based on the reputation of the track chairs in the proposed field, successful track performance in the past, novelty, coherence of the topics covered in alignment with the digital government themes that are of interest to the research and practitioner communities. ? SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMATS: *??????Prepare the track proposal using the template available here *?????? email your proposal to?Robert Krimmer ? robert.krimmer@ut.ee The submission of your track proposal should be based on the above template, including: *?????? The title of the track *?????? Track chairs (multiple track chairs are encouraged to attract more submissions, cover diverse aspects and ensure attendance during meetings and conference) *?????? Summary of track goals and motivation, including a list of topics. *?????? Evidence of track chairs' effort or research in the proposed area. ? Track Proposal Submission and Decision Deadlines: ? August 15, 2022: ?????????????Track proposals due ? August 22, 2022:??????? ???? Acceptance notification for tracks ? September 1, 2022:???????? First call for papers for all tracks ? Track chair eligibility:? At the time of track proposal, the chairs should be reminded for the following eligibility criteria to be accepted as a track. 1)??? Track chairs should be a member of the DGS at the point of acceptance. 2)??? You can only be a track chair in one track. ? The track chairs are responsible for the following conference organization activities: *?????? attend the online monthly organization meetings *?????? monitor the submitted track papers and to oversee the review of the submitted papers *?????? propose to accept/reject papers for the track *?????? select and nominate the best paper in their respective track for the best paper award *?????? communicate with the Program Committee (PC) and Organization chairs of the paper submission and selection status *?????? plan track sessions to support PC chairs, and assign the session chairs of the track *?????? write a brief summary of the conference activity for the track for inclusion in the dgs newsletter. *?????? register and attend the conference *?????? identify good/best papers to be submitted to the GIQ dg.o special issue (organized by the program chairs) or to a special issue for other affiliated journals (organized by track chairs). ? Opportunities for Journal Special Issues. Track chairs may be able to edit a special issue based on their track papers. Some possible venues include but not limited to: *?????? Government Information Quarterly *?????? Digital Government: Research and Practice *?????? Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy *??? ???Internet Policy Review *?????? International Journal of E-Government Research *?????? Information Polity *?????? International Journal of E-Planning Research *??? ???International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age ? We look forward to receiving your proposals. Conference Chairs Robert Krimmer, University of Tartu, Estonia Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University ? Conference Program (PC) Chairs Mihkel Solvak, Tartu University, Estonia Hsin-Chung Liao, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Prof. Dr. Dr. Robert Krimmer ERA Chair Professor in e-Governance and Digital Public Services Center for IT Impact Studies (CITIS) Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies University of Tartu https://eceps.ut.ee From sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca Sun Jun 26 19:12:13 2022 From: sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca (Sehl Mellouli) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: deadline extended Message-ID: <98aedd45-71e6-16f2-a2a1-826a60bc2b16@fsa.ulaval.ca> We apologize if you already received this call for papers Due to several requests, we are very pleased to extend the deadline for papers submission to the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector at the Digital Government: Research and Practice journal. *New Dates* ? Submission deadline: August 1, 2022 ? First-round review decisions: October 1st, 2022 ? Deadline for revision submissions: November 30, 2022 ? Notification of final decisions: January 15, 2023 ? Tentative publication: February 2023 Pls find below the CFP, Best regards and thank you for considering this special issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Government: Research and Practice Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector Guest Editors: ? Sehl Mellouli, Universite? Laval, sehl.mellouli@fsa.ulaval.ca ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl ? Adegboyega Ojo, Maynooth University, Adegboyega.Ojo@mu.ie The digital transformation is evolving rapidly, and new AI-based solutions are constantly emerging in public sector to help governments provide better services to their citizens and improving their internal processes. AI is now considered as a key enabler for digital innovation in the public sector. In this context, Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new major research area in the field of digital government. It brings new techniques and tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, that can used to improve the government. With the promises of AI, governments are paying greater attention to this technology. Governments are not only looking at the applications of AI, but also how to transform their different organizations by taking advantages of AI and mitigating the risks associated with its adoption. In addition, policy makers are seeking to understand the impacts that AI can have on different levels of governments. However, AI does not only bring advantages to government; it also creates social, ethical, and legal challenges. These challenges need to be addressed and solutions need to be provided to overcome them. We invite high-quality submissions that employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research approaches. We encourage the submission of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Finally, we also welcome submissions that deploy computer simulations based on AI and machine-learning techniques. Topics The topics of this track are, but are not limited to: * Impact and evaluation of AI * AI enabling transformation * AI machine learning techniques, natural language processing techniques and deep learning techniques * AI adoption and acceptance * AI for decision and policy-making * Legal issues related to AI * AI and data quality * AI and privacy & security * AI and governments? services and policies * AI impacts on (IT) teams, transparency, accountability, fairness and trustworthiness * AI maturity models * Value sensitive design and public values in AI * Ethical considerations and challenges * Bots for governments * Comparative studies of AI adoption *Important Dates* ? Submission deadline: August 1, 2022 ? First-round review decisions: October 1st, 2022 ? Deadline for revision submissions: November 30, 2022 ? Notification of final decisions: January 15, 2023 ? Tentative publication: February 2023 *Submission Information* ? Regular SI papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically by the deadline listed above and should adhere to the ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice guidelines (dl.acm.org/journal/dgov/author-guidelines). Please submit your papers through the online system (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgov) and be sure to select the "Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector" option for the paper-type. We expect 10-15 papers to be featured in this special issue. ? Commentaries: In addition to full paper submissions, we invite international colleagues to submit commentaries to enrich and facilitate discussions of the topics above and beyond. This submission type should be within 1,000-2,500 words. *Review Process:* The submitted manuscripts will receive at least three reviews by the DGOV editorial board and other international colleagues. The commentaries will be reviewed by two editorial board members, including the special issue editors. For questions and further information, *please contact Sehl Mellouli at sehl.mellouli@fsa.ulaval.ca*. -- Sehl Mellouli, professeur titulaire/full professor Vice-Recteur Adjoint aux Etudes et aux Affaires Etudiantes/Deputy Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs Universit? Laval Qu?bec, Canada From rsandovuaem at gmail.com Mon Jun 27 10:16:46 2022 From: rsandovuaem at gmail.com (Rodrigo Sandoval) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FINAL-Call. ISGOV 2022 In-Reply-To: <5afe48a9-8a23-4b68-8729-a722458c302b@Spark> References: <5afe48a9-8a23-4b68-8729-a722458c302b@Spark> Message-ID: FINAL CFP-ISGOV 2022 First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference ( ISGOV 2022) Challenges for Public Innovation in a post-pandemic governments ?12-14 September 2022 [www.isgovc.org](http://www.isgov.org) ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. CALL FOR PAPERS Academic space is needed amid the perverse problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To share visions, projects, and new ideas related to technology in government. Public problems must be addressed through advances in digital government, public innovation, and emerging technologies. The objective of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference is to foster cutting-edge research on the topics of public innovation, smart government, public governance, government data, internet access, and changes in government organizations. It seeks to unite the efforts of academics in multidisciplinary groups related to information systems, data science, public administration, e-government, artificial intelligence, among others, to produce alternatives to the problems shared by governments around the world. This effort is dedicated to attracting research from Latin America due to its geographical proximity and seeks to become a reference in Smart government and Public Innovation. It highlights academic contributions in cutting-edge research topics and practical contributions to solving shared problems in the region and areas where technology and government practice converge. This year, the congress is focused on proposing solutions to complex problems (Paquet and Scherez, 2021) and wicked problems. From generating theoretical explanations, reference frameworks, key constructs that allow understanding the problems and proposing practical and tangible solutions for governments. This first edition of the First International Innovation and Smart Government Conference focuses on understanding the organizational challenges public administrations face at all levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how to face the short and medium-term challenges.These challenges are complex because they imply drastic changes in public organizations that rethink their existence, work dynamics, and impact on their communities and countries. These challenges, such as repairing the social tissue are fragmented by losing lives and jobs and have broken cultural and ideological structures by being locked in for so many months. The great challenge of governing the social media platforms whose synergy has transformed: social interactions, citizen participation, the government-citizen relationship, and families, young people, professionals, and political employees adapt to new communication and collaboration dynamics, which threatens to become virtual realities through new technologies such as the Metaverse. The economic challenges to repair the severe economic, distribution, and supply chain damage, loss of jobs, closure of industries facing more challenging competitive conditions, and deal with disjointed governments.The crucial challenges in health systems require structural, comprehensive reforms that contain the intensive use of data, the revolution of machines to understand new viruses, attend patients with extreme care, and require technologies to generate vaccines and prevent epidemics. Finally, the challenges of information inequality and access to public data involve new public knowledge systems in the face of the sustainable energy revolution. These changes brought the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain will be decisive in understanding the new configuration between government, technology, and society in the 21st century. CONTACT: Email:?info@isgovconference.org WebSite:?http://isgovc.org/ CFP Website:?http://isgovc.apps2.mx/conference-clone-2/ Submission Website:?https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isgov2022 Submission Guidelines (Springer)?https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, all manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline (Final call): June 30, 2022 Notification Due: July 20, 2022 Final Version Due: August 20, 2022 Event: September 12-14, 2022 ===== CONFERENCE CHAIRS TRACKS AT ISGOV 2022 TRACK 1. Smart Government and Public Innovation Track chair: Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 2. Artificial Intelligence in Government Track chair: David Valle Cruz Phd (UAEMEX-iLabMexico) TRACK 3. Open Government Innovations and challenges Track chair: Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez Phd (Universidad de Guadalajara-i-LabMexico) Javier Cifuentes (Universidad de Murcia-i-LabMexico) TRACK 4. New digital technologies in public services** ?Track chair: Juli?n Villodre (UAM-Espa?a) Keynote Speakers ============== J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and the Director of the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Anastasija Nikiforova, Assistant Professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu (Institute of Computer Science). ============= Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a full paper, can be with a length of 12-15 pages according to the guidelines in MS Word template [download here](http://isgovc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/River-Publishers-MS-Word-template.doc). All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. We solicit original research papers written in English. The submissions must not have been previously published or be under review for another conference or journal. Only complete and finished papers will be reviewed, not abstracts. After your paper is accepted you will have a chance to improve it according to the comments of the reviewers, but the reviewers will assume that the text that they are reading is the text that is to be published, with the only changes they explicitly request (as opposed to reviewing a draft or abstract). In particular, the papers must be submitted in the required format. We reserve the right to reject without review the submissions that do not follow the format guidelines. All proposals should be submitted through the Easychair [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isgov2022](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isgov2022) Note 1: To identify track, please add below research title. Publisher ============== The accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the River Publishers Conference Proceedings (Confirmation in process). General Chairs ============== Gerardo Haces-Atondo, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Autonomous Mexico State University, Mexico. Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Monica Lorena Sanchez-Limon, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Track Chairs ============== Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan, UAEMEX-iLabMexico. David Valle-Cruz, UAEMEX-iLabMexico. Edgar Ruvalcaba, Universidad de Guadalajara-iLabMexico. Javier Cifuentes Faura, Universidad de Murcia-i-LabMexico. Juli?n Villodre, UAM-Espa?a, IT_GesPub. About the conference ============== There are no fees for publication or to attend this event. =========== ?CONFERENCE VENUE ?Tamaulipas Autonomous University, Mexico ?Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. ?+++ Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan PHD Associate Profesor Political Sciences Faculty Autonomous University of the State of Mexico www.uaemex.mx rsandovuaem@gmail.com rsandovala@uaemex.mx ?@horus72 From alexop at aegean.gr Mon Jul 11 05:34:37 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CfP: International Conference on Open Data 2022 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This is to inform you about the *Call for Papers *of the *International Conference on Open Data* which will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from the 28th of November until the 2nd of December 2022 *in hybrid mode*. *Important dates:* - Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2022 - Notification on selected papers: 22 October 2022 - Registration for the conference: 25 October to 21 November 2022 - Publication of abstracts in the Book of abstracts: 1 December 2022 - Publication of selected papers in journal(s): March 2023 *Website: *https://icod2022.pravo.hr/call The TODO International Open Data Conference organised by the Twinning Open Data Operational Project Consortium seeks to address current challenges of open data provision and reuse. This scientific conference, which will also host open data professionals from public and private sector as well as open data users and enthusiasts, aims to highlight benefits and impact of open data for addressing societal problems and economic growth. In addition to the main sessions which will provide the participants the opportunity to get acquainted and inspired by the recent developments in the open data research, the five-days conference will offer keynote speeches, sessions, special panels, workshops for students and general public, presentation of the Open data MOOC and professionals panels. The conference is expected to host 400 participants from international, regional and local open data academic and professional community, and general public. The conference will be hosted in the hybrid mode, both offline and online, in English as the language of the conference. We invite interested researchers to apply with their research papers presenting innovative research on open data or case studies on different examples of open data publication, processing and reuse. Within this context, the conference aims at discussing opportunities and challenges, new tools, emerging practices, policies, innovative approaches, ?dark? aspects and risks that may raise negative consequences, case studies, and more theoretical contributions concerning the governance, use, impact, adoption and sustainability of open data that may shape future societies. The research contributions may address different aspects of open data including, but not limited to, the following tracks and subtopics: - Track 01: Governance and policies for open data - Track 02: Stakeholders and data reuse in the open data ecosystem - Track 03: Open data technical considerations (Architecture & Portals) - Track 04: Impact and value of/for open data - Track 05: Open data practice and research evaluation and assessment - Track 06: Open data sustainability issues On behalf of the organising committee, *Harris Alexopoulos* Senior Researcher Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering University of the Aegean From alexop at aegean.gr Sat Jul 16 01:11:48 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Deadline EXTENSION on CfP - LEGAL INFORMATICS Special Issue in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear authors, Upon several requests, we decided to extend the deadline until 15 September 2022. The submission system will be open until then. I would also like to thank the authors who have already submitted their manuscripts. These manuscripts are going to be put in the review process as soon as possible. This means they would have much more time for addressing review comments. The new dates are as follows: SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 15 September 2022 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: 30 October 2022 REVISED VERSION SUBMITTED: 30 December 2022 PUBLICATION IN ONLINE MODE: 15 February 2023 For more information please visit the website and download the cfp: https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/updates/18341194 All the best, Harris Alexopoulos SI Chair From alexop at aegean.gr Thu Jul 28 06:40:48 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP: Digital Governance Track in EMCIS2022 conference Message-ID: Dear contributors, This is to inform you about the call for papers in the Digital Governance Track of the EMCIS2022 (19th European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems) which will be held *online *from 07 to 08 December 2022. *Important Dates* - Electronic Submission Deadline: August 25, 2022 - Notification of Acceptance to Authors: October 15, 2022 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline: October 25, 2022 - Author Registration Deadline: October 25, 2022 The ?Digital Governance? track of the EMCIS 2021 seeks new and unpublished research contributions from academia, public administration and businesses on Digital Governance, concerning a wide range of topics, which include, but are not limited to: - ?Classical? efficiency-oriented digital government - Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance services - Electronic (Digital) Democracy and Voting - Digital Divide and e-Inclusion - Information Society and Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance policies - Open Government ? Transparency, Participation and Collaboration - Open government data - Open government data platforms and evaluation - Open government data ecosystems development - Data Science and Big, Open and Linked Data (BOLD) - Cloud Computing in Government - Citizen-centric Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance - Innovative Electronic (Digital) Services (Transparent, Anticipatory, Context-Aware, Co-Created) - Digital Transformation of government - Public Values and Digital(Electronic) Government/Governance - Smart Cities, Smart Government and Smart Citizens - Security, Privacy and Trust in Digital(Electronic) Government/Governance - Benefits, barriers and risks of Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance development and adoption - Government Process Management, Interoperability and Integration - Social Media in Government - Policy Modelling/Analytics - Artificial Intelligence in government - Blockchain in Government - Legal Informatics - Mobile-Government (M-Government) - Covid-19 and Digital Government/Governance More info at: https://emcis.eu/ Thank you in advance for your consideration! Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos Track co-chair https://emcis.eu/ From kersaint at hertie-school.org Wed Aug 3 00:11:27 2022 From: kersaint at hertie-school.org (Maite Kersaint) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFA: Postdoctoral researcher in digital governance (Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance | Berlin, Germany) Message-ID: The Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany, is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in digital governance (f/m/div). * Position start: Fall 2022 * Contract duration: 3 years * Deadline: 11 September 2022 More information on the Centre for Digital Governance: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/centre-for-digital-governance Please apply here: https://hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs/50634/postdoctoral-researcher-digital-governance-fmdiv-full-time-40-hoursweek Your tasks: * Your main tasks at the Hertie School will be to further develop your own independent research programme with relevance for the Centre. This includes either a public policy/governance perspective working on topics such as government-business relations, regulation, competition, cybersecurity, informational control, ethical issues and/or a public management/administration perspective with a focus on transforming government (policy, service delivery) through digitalisation * Your goal should be to publish relevant research in leading peer-reviewed journals * In a minor role, you will be asked to contribute towards core activities of the Centre for Digital Governance, such as supporting grant-writing activities or helping with the organisation of the Centre?s research colloquium and smaller workshops or events Your profile: * PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline with publications demonstrating sufficient transdisciplinary understanding and capacities, and an excellent potential for academic achievement * Keen interest in the interplay of questions related to the topics mentioned above is a must-have * Excellent oral and written communication skills in English We offer: A stimulating international and diverse environment in multiple areas of social science, high-quality teaching, and public policy. The Hertie School is a vibrant academic community that emphasizes excellence in research and teaching as well as an interdisciplinary perspective. Our school has been certified as a family friendly work environment in higher education and an equal opportunity employer. Severely disabled applicants are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification. Please submit your application portfolio (a CV, a cover letter describing your research plans and interest, two writing samples, and names and contact information of at least two references). Please send us your complete and relevant application documents in a PDF document by 11 September 2022. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and promising candidates will be invited for interviews until the position is filled. We encourage applying early. Please contact Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid, Director Centre for Digital Governance and Professor of Public and Financial Management, for further information on the position. Dr. Ma?t? Kersaint (she/her) Manager ? Centre for Digital Governance Hertie School Berlin?s University of Governance Friedrichstra?e 180 10117 Berlin ? Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 / 259 219 170 Mobile: +49 (0)151 / 720 659 70 kersaint@hertie-school.org ? www.hertie-school.org Hertie School gemeinn?tzige GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Bernd Knobloch Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Frank Mattern Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Woll, Dr. Axel Baisch Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 97018 B Hertie School ? gegr?ndet und gef?rdert von der Gemeinn?tzigen Hertie-Stiftung From gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie Mon Aug 8 05:34:24 2022 From: gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie (Gianluca Miscione) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] PhD position at the University of Lausanne Message-ID: <012f01d8ab23$32771660$97654320$@ucd.ie> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** I?m happy to distribute this job ad for a PhD position in information systems at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Please forward it to possible candidates and relevant networks. Thanks, Gianluca Gianluca Miscione University College Dublin https://people.ucd.ie/gianluca.miscione We are pleased to announce that we have a funded PhD position starting January 2023. Located at the beautiful Lake of Geneva, the University of Lausanne is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students. The position is part of the Information Management research unit headed by Prof. Tobias Mettler. The candidate for this position is expected to conduct her/his Ph.D. thesis within the field of information systems with a focus on e-health or digital government, particularly with a view on generating positive societal impact (#TechForGood). Applicants should have the equivalent of a master?s degree in Information Systems, Statistics or Computer Science (preferably with a minor in Management or Public Administration) and have strong skills in data analysis, statistical methods and programming, interest in interdisciplinary research and writing of a PhD. thesis. We are looking for an innovative, accurate, reliable, and persistent person who likes working in a team. Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required. Proficiency in French and German is an asset. We offer a pleasant, multicultural, and diversified academic working environment, a close supervision of your doctoral thesis, as well as a multitude of activities and other benefits to discover. Application deadline is September 30, 2022. Please, send your full application (including CV, copies of certificates, motivation letter and publications) in Word or PDF. Only applications through the universities? job portal will be taken into account. See: https://career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=19984 &company=universitdP Further information may be obtained from Prof. Tobias Mettler (tobias.mettler@unil.ch ). From alexop at aegean.gr Wed Aug 10 00:46:42 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Reminder: Deadline EXTENSION on CfP - LEGAL INFORMATICS Special Issue in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This is a reminder for your contributions to the Legal Informatics special issue in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. *Important dates* SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 15 September 2022 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: 30 October 2022 REVISED VERSION SUBMITTED: 30 December 2022 PUBLICATION IN ONLINE MODE: 15 February 2023 For more information please visit the website and download the cfp: https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/updates/18341194 All the best, Harris Alexopoulos SI Chair > From M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl Mon Aug 15 12:49:49 2022 From: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl (Marijn Janssen - TBM) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Bids for hosting dg.o 2025 Conference Message-ID: <5cd0680cb3c34c63a6db34e1f84db20d@tudelft.nl> Digital Government Society Call for Bids for hosting dg.o 2025 Conference The Digital Government Society (DGS) hereby invites bids to host the 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, known as dg.o, in year 2025. DGS is a global multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government: http://dgsociety.org/ ***************************************************************************** DG.O SITE SELECTION PROCEDURE Each year, DGS appoints a committee to manage the conference site selection process, consisting of current and past board members and active members. The Site Selection Committee sends out the call for proposals through DGS outreach vehicles and is available to interested parties to answer questions. The Committee is responsible for collecting bids, conducting their evaluation according to the stated criteria, working closely with the bidding parties, and presenting their recommendation to the DGS Board. Final selection may involve a site visit by members of the Site Selection Committee to the location(s) of interest. FACTS ABOUT THE CONFERENCE dg.o Conference Facts Timeframe The 3-days conference takes place each year during the late May or early June timeframe, avoiding national holidays and based on final date approval with the DGS Board. Attendance Attendance is typically between 100-150 people. Venue The conference is normally held on a university or college campus (who is committed to provide the meeting venues free of charge and support the local organization). Format In total, the conference runs for four days. The conference begins with one full-day of pre- conference day with workshops, tutorials and PhD Colloquium, followed by an evening welcome reception. The conference includes two full days of conference, with traditional plenary speakers, and topical tracks of research papers and panel presentations. The event also includes one evening of posters reception and one evening for a conference dinner and award ceremony. The fourth half-day (optional field trip) is comprised of cultural exchange and community networking activities including field trips to government or research facilities of interest to the conference participants or trips to local cultural sites. Tracks dg.o has recently adopted a track format. Currently, 10-15 tracks are offered. Each track has at least two track chairs who work with the program chairs to manage the track. Tracks are based on an open call among DGS members. Review Process and Acceptance Rate Papers and posters are selected through a double-blind peer review process. Recent acceptance rates are close to 50%, ensuring a high-quality program. Many conference papers are turned into publications in leading journals. The program chairs organize a Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) special issue by selecting the best conference papers. CONFERENCE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES General Chairs: The General Chairs, typically three, including one DGS representative, one from the local organizing party, and one chair who will be in charge of the local organization of the next conference, are responsible for overseeing the operations of the conference. The general chair from the current organizing party takes the lead. This responsibility, carried out through a conference committee, includes working with the DGS Board and liaising with the Local Arrangements Chair to develop the budget and registration materials; working with the Program and Local Arrangements Chairs to develop the schedule and program; working with the DGS Board to appoint supporting chairs to obtain outside funding, publicize the conference, and organize workshops, tutorials, student events, and demonstrations (none of these supporting nominations need to be included in the proposal); and coordinating the activities of the various chairs and their committees. General Chairs also have the opportunity to arrange keynote sessions. We encourage having a local keynote from the country in which the conference will be held. General Chairs participate each month in the DGS Board Meeting to update the Board on progress and to raise any issues or concerns regarding the conference planning. Local Organization Chair: The Local Organization Chair, mostly members of the organizing party, is responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipments, refreshments, housing, on-site registration, participant e-mail access, the reception, the poster/demo dinner, students volunteers recruitment and assignments, and working with the General Chair, and the DGS Board to develop the budget and registration materials as well as travel/lodging information for the website. The Local Organization Chair often participates in the monthly DGS Board Meeting to update the Board on progress and to raise any issues or concerns regarding the conference planning. Program Committee Chairs: The DGS Board selects the Program Committee (PC) Chairs. Typically, three program committee chairs are included, with one being a PC Chair from the previous conference, one from the organizing party of this year's conference, and one from the organizing party of the next year's conference. PC Chairs are responsible for organizing Program Committee, soliciting and receiving submission, coordinating with the track chairs to manage the reviewing process, making final decision for paper acceptance; notifying authors of acceptance or rejection; producing proceedings, managing the process of nominating and selecting the best paper awards, and coordinating with the General Chairs to develop the conference program/schedule. Conference Committee: The Conference Committee, under the direction of and organized by the General Chairs, meets monthly beginning as early as possible after the preceding dg.o, and no later than the August following the preceding dg.o; the conference Committee for dg.o 2025, for example, should begin meeting no later than August of 2024. The Conference Committee is comprised of the General Chairs, local organizing chair, program chairs, doctoral colloquium chair, panel chair, workshop and tutorial chair, poster and demo chair, and several representatives of the DGS Board, including the Treasurer and the Communication Committee Chair. Track chairs typically do not participate in the monthly calls, but are directly coordinated in their efforts by the Program Chairs. dg.o Conference Elements Roles and Responsibilities Conference Element Responsibility and Process Conference Organizing Committee General Chairs and Program Chairs. Call for papers, conference websites including submission and registration systems, management of submission and review, acceptance/rejection of papers, agenda and program setup, session chairing. General Chairs and Program Chairs working with track chairs and other members of the conference committee and Board. dg.o uses EasyChair as a submission management system and has a robust registration system available as part of the DGS website. Proceedings Organized and produced by Program Chairs. Invited Keynote talks Typically, two or three Keynote speakers are arranged by Conference Chairs and DGS President. Lump sum for travel support negotiated with DGS Treasurer. Ph.D. Colloquium. Organized by Colloquium Chairs in coordination with Program Chairs. Rooms, installations, A/V and other equipment Organized and ideally, provided free of charge, by host. On-site Administrative support for registration desk, technical support, and information desk Staff of 3 to 5 individuals provided free of charge by host, with free registration to the conference. Refreshments, including receptions, morning coffee, breaks, lunches and one conference dinner Organized and operated by host. Registration fees Set by DGS Treasurer, in consultation with host and DGS Board. Budget plan Jointly developed and maintained by DGS Treasurer and hosts. Social program, conference dinner, field trip(s) Organized by host. Policy for waving fees Determined by DGS Treasurer in consultation with Conference Chairs and Board. Recruiting sponsorships Responsibility of local host with assistance from DGS organizers and specially appointed Sponsorship Committee. PROCESS AND TIMELINE The bid process includes two deadlines; the first is for a draft proposal and the second, for selected bidders, a final proposal. * Letter of Intent (LOI): Submit one- or two-page letter of intent to host the conference with basic information on proposed location, dates, and intention by Nov 15, 2022. The committee will select two or three candidate sites. The selected LOI will be invited to submit draft proposals. * Draft Bid Proposals. Draft Bids are due to the DGS site committee chair on Feb 15, 2023. The Site Selection Committee makes a selection and recommends it for the DGS board approval. The committee chair will notify the selected bidders to submit the final proposals by April 1, 2023. * Final Bids. Final Bids are due to the DGS Treasurer on May 1, 2023. * Final Selection. The selection committee will review final bids according to the selection criteria and make recommendations to the DGS Board in its May board meeting. The DGS Board and the selection committee will notify the selected host about the decision by June 1, 2023, and will invite the final selected host to announce it at dg.o 2023. BID REQUIREMENTS Letter of Intent (LOI): A letter on an official host organization's letterhead expresses the intention to host the dg.o conference. A rationale why it may be beneficial to host the conference at its site may be expressed. Specify approximate dates and exact location of the host institution and who may lead/chair as local host. Draft proposals and final proposals should include the following: * Proposed conference site (organization, affiliation, location) * Proposed dates * Proposed conference theme * Potential General Chair Candidates. The General Chair(s) must be someone other than the Local Organizational Chair, but can be someone from the same institution. The DGS Board approval is required. * Names of the Local Conference team (chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labor, registration handling) * General Description of site location (accessibility; conference venue, attractions, safety, etc.) * Hotels or university accommodations, e.g., hotels, motels, student dorms) * Description of conference facilities in terms of the fit with the traditional dg.o conference format and room requirements. * Plenary session space * Tutorial and workshop space * Capacity of break-out rooms for parallel sessions * Space for Poster/Demo dinner/reception * Space for Welcome reception * Social space for breaks, networking and parallel meetings. * Possible field trip locations/attractions * Describe any suggested changes to the traditional conference format and how such changes would be supported, for example, in terms of facilities, logistics and costs. * Estimated cost of A/V equipment. * Description of available food/entertainment/banquet/receptions and estimated costs. * Description of the strategy to be used for external fundraising efforts and the local capabilities available to support these efforts (e.g., sponsorships and potential sponsors). * Note the availability of any startup funding and support available at host institution to facilitate conference planning. The conference venue is sponsored by the host institution or other sponsors to lower the registration costs. * Provide cost and revenue estimates for 100, 125 and 150 attendees. SELECTION CRITERIA Proposals will be evaluated according to the following site selection criteria (unordered): Local Site * Accessibility (particularly travel) and attractiveness of proposed site. * Geographical and national balance, considering conference location sequence. * Experience of local arrangements team. * Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants. * Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities * Budgetary viability. Timing * Appropriateness of proposed dates. Budget * Adequacy of budget, support from local host and projections of expected surplus (typically about $6000) to be transferred to DGS. Practitioner Network * Extent of network with government: federal, state and/or local and likelihood that such network connections will result in local practitioner participation in the conference. * Nature of support from local, state/provincial, and national level government including but not limited to financial, speakers, registered participants and access to cultural, government and research facilities. Support from the local community - industry, media, etc. * Nature and extent of likely support from the relevant industries including but not limited to financial, speakers, registered participants and access to cultural, industry and research facilities. * Nature and extent of likely support from local press, civil society, historical and other societies and other relevant professional and community organizations and associations. ************************************************************************************* To contact the Site Selection Committee by email: DGS Site Selection Committee Marijn Janssen (Chair), Mila Gasco Hernandez (member), Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes (member), Jing Zhang (member) Contact information; m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl Marijn My working day may not be your working day. Please do not feel obliged to reply to my email outside of your normal working hours Prof.dr.ir. Marijn Janssen Full Professor in ICT & Governance ESS-ICT research group Co-editor Government Information Quarterly Chair IFIP 8.5 Working Group in ICT & Public administration President Digital Government Society (DGS) Innovating the government at "De DigiCampus" https://digicampus.tech/ Do you want to learn about Open and Smart Government? You might be interested in our MOOC! https://www.edx.org/course/open-government Delft University of Technology Building 31 Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Room B3.150 PO Box 5015 2600 GA DELFT Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX DELFT the Netherlands Tel.: +31 (15) 278 1140 Fax: +31 (15) 278 3741 EMAIL |WEB | TWITTER | GOOGLE SCHOLAR | SCOPUS | ISI From alexop at aegean.gr Tue Aug 30 00:57:27 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Reminder: CFP Special Issue on Legal Informatics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This is a reminder to submit your research into the current special issue *"Foundational Approaches, Methods and Cases in Legal Informatics"* in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy by Springer. SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 15 September 2022 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: 30 October 2022 REVISED VERSION SUBMITTED: 30 December 2022 PUBLICATION IN ONLINE MODE: 15 February 2023 For more information please visit the website and download the cfp: https://www.springer.com/journal/13132/updates/18341194 This special issue aims at exploring the importance of legal information and legal data in the context of the global knowledge economy. Contributions presenting practical application, foundational approaches, tools, case studies and theoretical frameworks for the creation, processing and publishing of legal documents as open data towards citizens, practitioners and administrations are therefore encouraged. Specific emphasis may be given to legal text mining, legal XML standards and models, legal ontologies, as well as further legal argumentation and reasoning models and approaches towards more automated legal services and information systems. On behalf of the invited editors team, Charalampos Alexopoulos From alexop at aegean.gr Tue Aug 30 00:54:06 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Reminder: CfP: International Conference on Open Data 2022 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > Dear colleagues, > > This is to inform you about the *Call for Papers *of the *International > Conference on Open Data* which will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from the > 28th of November until the 2nd of December 2022 *in hybrid mode*. > > *Important dates:* > > - Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2022 > - Notification on selected papers: 22 October 2022 > - Registration for the conference: 25 October to 21 November 2022 > - Publication of abstracts in the Book of abstracts: 1 December 2022 > - Publication of selected papers in journal(s): March 2023 > > *Website: *https://icod2022.pravo.hr/call > > The TODO International Open Data Conference organised by the Twinning Open > Data Operational Project Consortium seeks to address current challenges of > open data provision and reuse. This scientific conference, which will also > host open data professionals from public and private sector as well as open > data users and enthusiasts, aims to highlight benefits and impact of open > data for addressing societal problems and economic growth. > > In addition to the main sessions which will provide the participants the > opportunity to get acquainted and inspired by the recent developments in > the open data research, the five-days conference will offer keynote > speeches, sessions, special panels, workshops for students and general > public, presentation of the Open data MOOC and professionals panels. The > conference is expected to host 400 participants from international, > regional and local open data academic and professional community, and > general public. The conference will be hosted in the hybrid mode, both > offline and online, in English as the language of the conference. > > We invite interested researchers to apply with their research papers > presenting innovative research on open data or case studies on different > examples of open data publication, processing and reuse. Within this > context, the conference aims at discussing opportunities and challenges, > new tools, emerging practices, policies, innovative approaches, ?dark? > aspects and risks that may raise negative consequences, case studies, and > more theoretical contributions concerning the governance, use, impact, > adoption and sustainability of open data that may shape future societies. > > The research contributions may address different aspects of open data > including, but not limited to, the following tracks and subtopics: > > - Track 01: Governance and policies for open data > - Track 02: Stakeholders and data reuse in the open data ecosystem > - Track 03: Open data technical considerations (Architecture & Portals) > - Track 04: Impact and value of/for open data > - Track 05: Open data practice and research evaluation and assessment > - Track 06: Open data sustainability issues > > > On behalf of the organising committee, > > *Harris Alexopoulos* > Senior Researcher > Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering > > University of the Aegean > From shefali.virkar at donau-uni.ac.at Mon Sep 5 06:11:05 2022 From: shefali.virkar at donau-uni.ac.at (Shefali Virkar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: Administrative Sciences Special Issue on New Technologies in Public Administration Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to submit your current research work to the forthcoming special issue of Administrative Sciences on "New Technologies and Institutional Change in Public Administration". Administrative Sciences is an international, peer-reviewed, open access Q2 journal on organisation studies indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. Our special issue focuses on investigating the particular role played by digital technologies and applications in the implementation of public sector reforms, and their integration as a means of enhancing the quality of public sector management and institutional capacities. We welcome contributions that cover the foundational approaches, practical application, tools, case studies and theoretical frameworks necessary for exploring the possibilities and challenges which public administrations face when digitally redesigning internal and external processes, procedures and services, as well as what make these and the organisation more sustainable, effective and efficient. Particular emphasis may be placed on those qualities of new digital technologies that have a tangible impact on public sector processes, procedures, functions and institutions, as well as a focus on values, culture and shared understanding. Research papers submitted may cover both organizational and technical aspects and could be theoretical or empirical in their approach. Submissions taking an interdisciplinary perspective are strongly encouraged. Furthermore, we aim to promote the application of diverse research methods to the study of this multifaceted discipline; including best practices, case studies, design approaches, literature reviews, workshops, and expert interviews. The full Call for Papers can be accessed here. The deadline for the submission of completed research articles is 30 November 2022. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require further information. We would be grateful if you could also disseminate this call in your networks. We look forward to receiving your contribution! Best regards, Dr. Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria Prof. Dr. Thomas Lampoltshammer, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria Dr. Shefali Virkar, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria (Special Issue Guest Editors) From rm.digi at cbs.dk Thu Sep 8 01:44:11 2022 From: rm.digi at cbs.dk (Rony Medaglia) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 2022 pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2022 Pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 December 2022 AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment (SIGe-Gov) ? Submissions due: October 2, 2022 ? Notification of acceptance: October 23, 2022 Please submit your abstracts to: sigegov22@gmail.com You are invited to submit an extended abstract for presentation and discussion at the 2022 pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government, co-organized by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on e-Government (SIGe-Gov), to be held on 11 December 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark as an ancillary event of the ICIS conference. Abstracts should introduce a new or emerging topic, issue, or research question of relevance to researchers and practitioners within the e-government/digital government community. Workshop Objective As with previous SIG eGovernment pre-ICIS workshops, this joint workshop will be designed to provide the maximum opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion of the abstracts submitted. The workshop will include brief formal presentations and discussions designed to help facilitate knowledge sharing among participants and to lay the foundation for future collaborations in digital government research. The discussions will be moderated to ensure opportunity for full participation. Workshop Focus Extended abstracts should address outstanding questions and issues related, but not limited to, the topics below: - Artificial Intelligence and eGovernment - IoT and eGovernment - Blockchain and eGovernment - eGovernment and Sustainable Development - Smart Cities - Capture, management and use of (Big) Data in government - Open innovation in eGovernment - Open-source and open-standard solutions in eGovernment - Transparency and openness in eGovernment services - Co-production of eGovernment - Social media and eGovernment services - eParticipation; eDemocracy - eGovernment security - eGovernment and ethical challenges Submission and Review Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages, excluding references. Each abstract submitted will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. Abstracts selected for inclusion in the workshop will be those considered best ready to serve as catalysts for knowledge sharing and debate among workshop participants on new and emerging research and practice issues and challenges in the e-government/digital government community. There will not be produced proceedings and authors will retain full authorship rights to their submitted work. Document Format: 12-point Arial, single line spacing Please submit your extended abstracts in Word format to: sigegov22@gmail.com Details on Workshop registration will be available through the ICIS 2022 website: https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/register/ Important Dates ? Submissions due: October 2, 2022 ? Notification of Acceptance: October 23, 2022. ? For any questions, please contact the workshop chairs: * Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, rony@cbs.dk * Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, kna.digi@cbs.dk From peter.roenne at gmail.com Fri Sep 9 14:04:55 2022 From: peter.roenne at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Browne_R=C3=B8nne?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] E-Vote-ID 2022: Call for Participation, Demos & Posters Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] Conference programme now available www.e-vote-id.org/programme-2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION E-Vote-ID 2022 Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 4-7 October 2022 www.e-vote-id.org CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Submission deadline: September 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration www.e-vote-id.org/registration/ Registration Fees: On-site participants: 650 EUR Online attendants: 100 EUR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers Prof Olivier Pereira (UC Louvain, Belgium) Alicia Ramon (ICT Expert for the EU EOM Kenya 2022) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Chair: Glondu, St?phane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Num?rique, France), Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH) We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to discuss with the community or summarizing papers you have published on other venues but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community to know and to discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to already published papers, we ask you to provide the information where to find the original publication and whether you want the Short Paper being included in the proceedings or not (due to potential copyright restrictions of the main paper) Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is published). Submission link (deadline September 15): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to the upcoming E-Vote-ID 2022, which will take place from 4 to 7 October. After two years online-only, the leading international event for global e-voting experts will return to its well-established home in Castle Hofen in Bregenz, Austria. Register here: www.e-vote-id.org/registration/ As a novelty, the conference will take place this year in a hybrid mode. So you can participate in person or online. The conference will feature some 25 presentations This year, our keynote speakers are Prof Olivier Pereira from UC Louvain, Belgium, and Alicia Ramon, ICT Expert for the EU EOM Kenya 2022, who will speak about their experiences with electronic voting in Belgium and Kenya, respectively. Their presentations contribute to the conference's central objective of providing a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussions on all forms of electronic voting. The conference brings together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government, and industry. Since the beginning of the meeting, over 1,400 experts from over 70 countries have attended to discuss electronic voting and related topics. The presentations are selected by our international programme committee of more than 100 leading experts on electronic voting. Please observe the programme here: www.e-vote-id.org/programme-2022/ While the first day is reserved for PhD students and their supervisors, the conference opens to all participants from Wednesday, 5 October 2022. The programme consists of 10 Sessions with over 25 Presentations covering the broad expertise from academia, industry, policy, and civil society. This year, the presentations will cover topics such as Trust and Distrust in Electronic Voting, Legal Aspects and Election Administration, New Algorithms and Voting Proposals, and Lessons learned and Security Issues. After two years of abstinence, we are also delighted to welcome back our main side event, the famous Cheese Road within the Castle. We would like to welcome you, either online or in person (! Attention - only 100 physical seats available, with over 70 already booked!). Please do not hesitate to contact us. Yours sincerely, The Conference Chairs Prof. Dr. Dr. Robert Krimmer Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer Prof. Dr. David Duenas-Cid From smarteduhub at snspa.ro Mon Sep 12 09:16:23 2022 From: smarteduhub at snspa.ro (Smart Edu Hub SNSPA) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC), 10th Edition - CfP Message-ID: *Accelerating innovation* Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC), 10th Edition, December 8, 9 ? 2022 The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Faculty of Public Administration, cordially invites you to the 10th edition of the Smart Cities International Conference, which will be held on December 8-9, 2022, in Bucharest, Romania. Participation in the conference is open to academics, policy makers, early-stage researchers and students in social sciences and other related fields. Experts in comparative public administration and elected officials of local governments are strongly encouraged to engage and submit their contributions to one of the Conference tracks. This anniversary edition aims to focus more on longitudinal studies of digital reforms, locally and globally. Successful applications may also approach one or more of the following: e-government, e-democracy, social innovation, urban planning and development. *CONFERENCE TRACKS* ? *Smart Governance;* ? *Smart Environment;* ? *Smart Technology;* ? *Smart Economy;* ? *Smart People;* ? *Smart Mobility;* ? *Smart Living;* ? *Smart Education;* ? *Young Leaders for Smart Cities* (open to students and early-stage researchers); ? *Future trends ? Smart(er) State.* The language of the Conference is English. Abstracts and articles may be submitted also in Romanian, provided that their presentation is made in English. Templates for abstracts and articles are available here . Information regarding the registration process is available here . *PUBLICATION* All submitted articles undergo a peer review process: please refer to the timeline of the Conference for more information. Contributions accepted for publication will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be edited and printed by Universul Academic Publishing House and Universitar? Publishing House (accredited by the Romanian Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education and by the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates). Selected papers may also be published in our two ? internationally indexed Partner Journals: - Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal (SCRD) - Journal of E-Technology *There is no participation or publication fee.* *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT * *For this anniversary edition, we are happy to introduce our new *partnership with MDPI *. Authors are welcome to submit their conference contributions to the *Smart Cities Journal * for its *Special Issue on ?Accelerating innovation? *. Authors choosing MDPI as their publication venue will comply with the *publisher requirements *. * *MDPI Smart Cities Journal will also award the most impactful keynote speech of the Conference, as well as the ?Best Presented Paper?. Each award will amount up to 500 CHF.* *VENUE* This year, we expect to welcome you in Bucharest, Romania. Our venue will be the main campus building of The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), located in Bucharest on 30A Expozi?iei Bld. *TIMELINE* *July 2022: Open Call for Contributions* *September 2022: Open registration to the Conference* October 31, 2022 - Deadline to submit your abstracts. Submission will be made via e-mail, to the address of the Conference Chair, Professor Catalin Vrabie vrabie.catalin@gmail.com; November 11, 2022 - Notification of acceptance communicated to the authors; December 4, 2022 - Deadline to submit final papers. Submission will be made via e-mail, to the address of the Conference Chair, Professor Catalin Vrabie vrabie.catalin@gmail.com; December 6, 2022 - Publication of the Conference?s Final Program; December 8 ? 9, 2022 - Conference sessions in Bucharest, Romania; Mid 2023 - Publication of the Conference Proceedings. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* ? Professor Catalin VRABIE, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest ? Chair of the Conference; ? Professor Dragos DINCA, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Dr. Luminita MOVANU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest ? secretariat; ? Raluca TOMESCU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest ? secretariat. *SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE & REVIEWERS TEAM* ? Professor Vasile BALTAC, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Professor Lasse BERNTZEN, University of South-Eastern Norway; ? Professor Robert M?LLER-T?R?K, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany; ? Professor Florina P?NZARU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Professor Alexander PROSSER, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria ? Professor Christian SCHACHTNER, IU Internationale Hochschule, Bad Reichenhall, Germany; ? Professor Nicoleta CORBU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Professor Adrian FLOREA, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu; ? Professor Marta-Christina SUCIU, Bucharest University of Economic Studies; ? Professor Jacek MA?LANKOWSKI, University of Gda?sk, Poland; ? Professor Florin Codru? NEM?ANU, Politehnica University, Bucharest; ? Professor Drago? DINC?, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Professor Mauro ROMANELLI, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy; ? Professor Milena YORDANOVA-KRUMOVA, Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria ? Lecturer Sergiu ??RA, Politehnica University, Bucharest; ? Lecturer Diana-Mariana POPA, Politehnica University, Bucharest; ? Lecturer Vilma TOMCO, University of Tirana, Albania; ? Lecturer Miranda HARIZAJ, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania ? Dr. Parvin NEGINRAZ, Islamic Azad University, South Branch, Iran; ? Andrea BECCALLI, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). *CONTACT DETAILS* E-mail address: vrabie.catalin@gmail.com Web address: https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/scic10 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/smartcitieshub Warm regards, Dr. Catalin VRABIE, President of the Organizing Committee National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Bd. Expozi?iei nr. 30 A, Sector 1, Bucharest -- *National University of Political Studies and Public Administration - SNSPA* *Faculty of Public Administration - Smart-Edu-Hub* Facebook: @administratiepublica.eu I @smartcitieshub www.administratiepublica.eu I *http://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/ * From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Sep 19 23:24:04 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?UTF-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=c3=adguez_Bol=c3=advar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers. International Journal of Public Sector Management. Special Issue: Technology and digitization in service to meet user needs Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Information technology effects are nowadays evident in, literally, all aspects of social and economic life. Digital technologies, and especially emerging technologies such as social media, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), can affect data production and dissemination. The relation between digital technologies and accounting has already attracted considerable interest in the private sector, while in the public sector, there is a dearth of relevant studies (Agostino et al., 2020; Agostino et al., 2021). The use of technology in public sector reporting has covered so far a few possible research topics. Early studies focused on the web as a means through which citizens would get regular accurate information on public finances (Caba P?rez et al., 2005) and its consideration as a tool that the public could use to continuously assess government agencies through everyday interaction (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2007). More recently, there are studies that have assessed citizens' preferences regarding the way the information is presented. More specifically, there are research works dealing with popular report presentation (Cohen et al., 2017), whether smart cities adopt IT-enhanced means in relation to financial or non-financial reporting (Cohen and Karatzimas, forthcoming) or whether the use of infographics increases financial statements understandability (Cohen et al., 2021). In the last years, the implementation of emerging technologies on the public sector is opening new avenues for changing both the roles of stakeholders and the way these stakeholders reach the financial and non-financial reporting. Indeed, the use of technology as a facilitator for both financial and non-financial reporting to meet user needs shows significant prospects. Currently, big data attract public administration interest related to users? needs (Ju et al., 2018; Ingrams, 2019), while the use of social media by administrations to bring reporting to citizens? mobile phones and tablets is escalating (Giacomini et al., 2021). AI and the IoT are further placed on the service of various users (de Sousa et al., 2019; El-Haddadeh et al., 2019). This special issue focuses on how emerging technologies and digitalization could impact on the stakeholders role in the production and shaping of financial and non-financial reporting in the public sector as well as on the development of good practices in this area. The new era challenges the content and the suitability of the traditional lengthy pdf. reports that are available on the websites which, up to now, are a direct transfer of the paper-world to the digital one. The capacity of stakeholders to participate in the co-production of information and the alternative ways of visualization (on demand) make information more comprehensive. Technology advancements make people get accustomed to interactive tools and personal digital assistants to answer their queries on several matters on the spot and users of financial information usually browse through data at their own pace and not in a predefined order through tablets and mobile phones. This way, report narrations based on artificial intelligence or the use of chatbots may be features of future reporting. However, these dimensions are likely to affect not just the format of reporting per se to meet the user needs but also the content of the reporting irrespectively of the type of the reports, e.g. financial reports, environmental reports, popular reports, integrated reports, etc.. List of Topic Areas: * Financial reporting (including popular reporting and integrated reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; * Non-Financial reporting (e.g. sustainability and environmental reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; * Challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors; * Public Sector reporting and big data; * The impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data,...) on both public sector reporting and auditing; * Digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting; * Citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels. The deadline for submissions to the?special?issue?is *May 31, 2023*. The platform will open for submissions on *January 2, 2023*. Accepted papers will be published in a Special Issue on 2024 (Vol. 37, Issue 3). For inquiries and further information please contact the corresponding Guest Editor Prof. Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) ? scohen@aue _b.gr_. For the call for papers click _https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/a-new-era-public-sector-reporting-technology-and-digitization-service-meet-user_ Guest Editors Sandra Cohen Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept. of Business Administration - Greece scohen@aueb.gr Sotirios Karatzimas Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept. of Accounting and Finance - Greece skaratzimas@aueb.gr Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var University of Granada, Dept. of Accounting and Finance - Spain manuelp@ugr.es From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Sep 30 13:09:06 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers. International Journal of Public Sector Management. Special Issue: Technology and digitization in service to meet user needs Message-ID: <4143AA14-A9D5-450F-AF3A-FB1E794E355B@ugr.es> Dear Colleagues, Information technology effects are nowadays evident in, literally, all aspects of social and economic life. Digital technologies, and especially emerging technologies such as social media, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), can affect data production and dissemination. The relation between digital technologies and accounting has already attracted considerable interest in the private sector, while in the public sector, there is a dearth of relevant studies (Agostino et al., 2020; Agostino et al., 2021). The use of technology in public sector reporting has covered so far a few possible research topics. Early studies focused on the web as a means through which citizens would get regular accurate information on public finances (Caba P?rez et al., 2005) and its consideration as a tool that the public could use to continuously assess government agencies through everyday interaction (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2007). More recently, there are studies that have assessed citizens' preferences regarding the way the information is presented. More specifically, there are research works dealing with popular report presentation (Cohen et al., 2017), whether smart cities adopt IT-enhanced means in relation to financial or non-financial reporting (Cohen and Karatzimas, forthcoming) or whether the use of infographics increases financial statements understandability (Cohen et al., 2021). In the last years, the implementation of emerging technologies on the public sector is opening new avenues for changing both the roles of stakeholders and the way these stakeholders reach the financial and non-financial reporting. Indeed, the use of technology as a facilitator for both financial and non-financial reporting to meet user needs shows significant prospects. Currently, big data attract public administration interest related to users? needs (Ju et al., 2018; Ingrams, 2019), while the use of social media by administrations to bring reporting to citizens? mobile phones and tablets is escalating (Giacomini et al., 2021). AI and the IoT are further placed on the service of various users (de Sousa et al., 2019; El-Haddadeh et al., 2019). This special issue focuses on how emerging technologies and digitalization could impact on the stakeholders role in the production and shaping of financial and non-financial reporting in the public sector as well as on the development of good practices in this area. The new era challenges the content and the suitability of the traditional lengthy pdf. reports that are available on the websites which, up to now, are a direct transfer of the paper-world to the digital one. The capacity of stakeholders to participate in the co-production of information and the alternative ways of visualization (on demand) make information more comprehensive. Technology advancements make people get accustomed to interactive tools and personal digital assistants to answer their queries on several matters on the spot and users of financial information usually browse through data at their own pace and not in a predefined order through tablets and mobile phones. This way, report narrations based on artificial intelligence or the use of chatbots may be features of future reporting. However, these dimensions are likely to affect not just the format of reporting per se to meet the user needs but also the content of the reporting irrespectively of the type of the reports, e.g. financial reports, environmental reports, popular reports, integrated reports, etc.. List of Topic Areas: Financial reporting (including popular reporting and integrated reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; Non-Financial reporting (e.g. sustainability and environmental reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders; Challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors; Public Sector reporting and big data; The impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data,...) on both public sector reporting and auditing; Digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting; Citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels. The deadline for submissions to the special issue is May 31, 2023. The platform will open for submissions on January 2, 2023. Accepted papers will be published in a Special Issue on 2024 (Vol. 37, Issue 3). For inquiries and further information please contact the corresponding Guest Editor Prof. Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) ? scohen@aue b.gr. For the call for papers click https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/a-new-era-public-sector-reporting-technology-and-digitization-service-meet-user -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting Director of Economic Affairs, University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) tel +34958242881 fax +34958246249 | email: manuelp@ugr.es ======================================================================================================================= Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informaci?n privilegiada o confidencial. 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I hope to see you there! Kind regards, Mete Yildiz Senior Research Analyst, United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Hacettepe University https://www.hertie-school.org/en/digital-governance/colloquium [https://www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/_processed_/7/1/csm_Lecture_FB_2117a40bf9.jpg] Digital Governance Research Colloquium www.hertie-school.org The Digital Governance Research Colloquium brings together the school's researchers in the areas of digital governance, digital government and data science. Mete Yildiz Senior Research Analyst, United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Hacettepe University ________________________________ Bu e-posta mesaji kisiye ?zel olup, gizli bilgiler i?eriyor olabilir. Eger bu e-posta mesaji size yanlislikla ulasmissa, i?erigini hi?bir sekilde kullanmayiniz ve e-postayi siliniz. Hacettepe ?niversitesi bu e-posta mesajinin i?erigi ile ilgili olarak hi?bir hukuksal sorumlulugu kabul etmez. --------------------------The information contained in this communication may contain confidential or legally privileged information. Hacettepe University doesn't accept any legal responsibility for the contents and attachments of this message. The sender does not accept any liability for any errors or omissions or any viruses in the context of this message which arise as a result of internet transmission. From sara.hofmann at uia.no Wed Oct 19 04:34:18 2022 From: sara.hofmann at uia.no (Sara Hofmann) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] [CfP] Track "Digital Transformation of the Public Sector" at ECIS 2023 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit your papers to the track "Digital Transformation of the Public Sector" at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), taking place June 11-16, 2023 in Kristiansand, Norway. Please forward this call for papers to interested colleagues. Track "Digital Transformation of the Public Sector" at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) June 11-16 2023, Kristiansand, Norway * Submission deadline: November 17, 2022 * Notification date: February 28, 2023 In this track, we welcome submissions dedicated to theory building efforts, work on concepts, perspective and use of theory in the field as well as empirical studies using a plethora of perspectives, methods and approaches. Submissions should address outstanding questions and issues related, but not limited to, the topics below: * Digital transformation of the public sector in an era of co-creating sustainable digital futures * Values and (conflicting) paradigms related to public sector digitalization * Conceptual development of IT in public sector labels, e.g., e-government, transforming government, digital government, smart government * Inclusions and digital divides using public sector ICT * Automatization of, and applications of RPA and AI in processes * E-services/digital services and multi-channel delivery of services to citizens and businesses * E-government policy, implementation and practice * Emerging technologies (e.g., IoT, block chain, robots) and smart prefixes in the public sector * Implementation of IS - past, present and future in public sector * Participation and involvement of internal and external stakeholders * Identification and identity of citizens and users * Strategies, use and implications of cloud computing in the public sector * Utilization of open, linked and big data in the public sector * Emergence and (mis)use of social media in the public sector * Theories and perspectives related to digitalization * Strategic policy making process and technology * Co-creation of innovation and services * Privacy, fairness, freedom, risks and threats of digitization * Critical and sustainable perspectives on digital government For any questions, please contact the track chairs: * Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway, sara.hofmann@uia.no * Ulf Melin, Link?ping University, Sweden, ulf.melin@liu.se * Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, andersen@cbs.dk From tpardo at albany.edu Sun Oct 23 08:01:07 2022 From: tpardo at albany.edu (Pardo, Theresa A) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Journal of Strategic Information Systems - SI - Digital Transformation in the Public Sector Message-ID: CFP ? Journal of Strategic Information Systems Digital Transformation of the Public Sector Digital transformation, increasingly recognized as central to the efforts of government leaders to meet their obligations to society, is the use of digital technologies to innovate and change how organizations create value and prepare for the future. According to Gartner, while digital optimization focuses on using data to improve current operations, digital transformation is set to change the shape of government operations through a process of destruction, reinvention and creation. Deloitte recently conducted a survey of 1,200 government officials from 70 countries and found that three-fourths of respondents said that digital technologies were disrupting government operations, and nearly all of them characterized the impact as significant. There are numerous examples of digital transformation in the public sector. For example, Rhode Island modernized its unemployment insurance (UI) contact center by migrating to the cloud to deal with a surge in calls related to claims. Within 10 days, Rhode Island went from handling 75 concurrent calls to over 2000. Similarly, Brookings recently published a series of articles on country-level AI planning and found evidence that different countries are robustly (but differently) pursuing AI at the national level. Interestingly, there is even some early-stage experimentation efforts happening with emerging digital platforms, such as the Metaverse. These efforts span all level of government from the federal to state and to local. National and international efforts on Smart Cities allow government to be hyper-responsive to activities within the city, but also create ethical and oversight issues. From body cameras and their use within law enforcement to augmented reality for recruiting and training, there are multiple innovations that impact the way citizens and organisations interact. There is also a growing interest in digital sustainability and resilience efforts in the public sector. Digital transformation in government is still in its early stages, and thus far, progress has been slow. Only a small percentage of governments believe that they have successfully executed digital transformation. Further, these efforts are being carried out at a time when many governments do not believe they fully understand the policy, management and technology strategies required to respond appropriately to digital trends. Thus, the focus of this special issue is on the strategic facets of digital transformation in the public sector, including: * How do public agencies design, evaluate and implement digital transformation strategies? * What are the strategizing processes that government uses when confronting digital transformation? * How do public agencies scan their environments for opportunities when it comes to digital technologies and how do they evaluate these opportunities? * How does strategy lead to the design of digital transformation projects and how do the outcomes of these impact the digital strategy of the agencies? * What are the omnichannel strategies that provide a consistent experience for the constituent? * When and how do public agencies look to external stakeholders (e.g., consultants, think-tanks, and even academia) for knowledge, capabilities, and solutions for digital transformation? * Within government, who are the key stakeholders driving (or limiting) digital transformation and how can this be harnessed or overcome? * What explains constituent acceptance or rejection of digital transformation initiatives? * How do mega-scale (large-scale) digital transformation projects in the public sector work? * What leadership characteristics are necessary in senior IS leadership for transformational projects? * Do maturity models exist for digital transformation and how effective are they? * How does the implementation of digital transformation strategies differ from traditional implementations? * How can the costs, benefits and risks of digital transformation be calculated and rationalized? We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers. We are agnostic when it comes to methodological stance taken so long as it is executed rigorously. Papers should clearly identify the strategic element that is being addressed. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) terms of reference can be found at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the?journal?of?strategic?information?systems Important Dates Abstract Submission for Feedback (optional): March 15, 2023 Initial paper submission deadline: June 15, 2023 First round authors notification: September 1, 2023 *Invited revisions deadline: November 10, 2023 *Second round authors notification: January 15, 2024 *Final revision deadline: March 31, 2024 *Final authors notification: April 15, 2024 Expected Special Issue Published: October 2024. *Please note that these dates are indicative as each paper may require different timing and a different number of revisions to make the final deadline. Guest Editors Lemuria Carter Professor School of Information Systems & Technology Management UNSW Business School UNSW Sydney Lemuria.Carter@unsw.edu.au Lemuria Carter is a Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology Management at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include technology adoption, digital government and privacy. She has published in several top-tier journals including the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal and Decision Support Systems. Dr. Carter?s initial study on e-government adoption published in Information Systems Journal (ISJ) in 2005 is one of the most cited papers in the discipline, with more than 2,500 Google Scholar citations. She currently serves as an e-government track for the Americas Conference on Information Systems and mini-track chair for AI in Government at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Homeland Security Solutions and the Southeastern Transportation Institute in the United States. Kevin C. Desouza (Senior Editor, Journal of Strategic Information Systems) Professor of Business, Technology and Strategy QUT Business School Faculty of Business and Law Queensland University of Technology kevin.c.desouza@gmail.com> Kevin C. Desouza is a Professor of Business, Technology and Strategy in the School of Management at the QUT Business School at the Queensland University of Technology. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He formerly held tenured faculty posts at Arizona State University, Virginia Tech and the University of Washington and has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Universit? Bocconi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Ljubljana. Desouza has authored, co-authored, and/or edited nine books. He has published more than 150 articles in journals across a range of disciplines including information systems, information science, public administration, political science, technology management, and urban affairs. Several outlets have featured his work including Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Research, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Businessweek, Wired, Governing, Slate.com, Wall Street Journal, BBC, USA Today, NPR, PBS, and Computerworld. Gregory S. Dawson (Associate Editor, Journal of Strategic Information Systems) Clinical Professor, School of Accountancy W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University GregorySDawson@gmail.com> Gregory S. Dawson is Clinical Professor in the School of Accountancy in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He teaches accounting analytics in the graduate and undergraduate platforms and has won teaching awards in several different programs. His research explores the legal, social, technical and public policy ramifications of the adoption of artificial intelligence in the public and private sector and he has been widely published in both academic and practitioner journals. He recently completed a series of articles on national artificial intelligence strategy documents, which was published in Brookings. His Ph.D. is from the University of Georgia and he has been at ASU since 2008. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a Partner in the Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, California and was a Director at Gartner Consulting. He actively consults with public sector organizations throughout the world on various technology topics. Theresa A. Pardo Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development Special Assistant to the President Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government Full Research Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany, State University of New York tpardo@albany.edu> Theresa A. Pardo, Ph.D. serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Special Assistant to the President at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government (CTG UAlbany), as a Full Research Professor in Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College and an Affiliate Faculty in Information Science, College of Emergency Response, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity. Dr. Pardo is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a past president of the Digital Government Society and a founding member of the Smart Cities, Smart Government Research and Practice Consortium. Dr. Pardo has over 250 publications and is ranked among the top scholars in her field in terms citations to her published work. In 2018 and 2019 she was named a Top 100 Influencer in Digital Government globally. She is a recipient of the Digital Government Society?s Distinguished Service Award, the University at Albany?s Distinguished Alumni Award and the University at Albany?s Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Pardo holds a doctorate in Information Science from the University at Albany, SUNY. Kind regards, Lemuria, Kevin, Gregory, and Theresa *************************************************************************** Theresa A. Pardo, MS PhD Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development Special Assistant to the President Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government (CTG UAlbany) Full Research Professor, Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy Affiliate Faculty, Information Science Doctoral Program, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity University at Albany, State University of New York Albany, NY 12222 tpardo@albany.edu From robert.krimmer at ut.ee Mon Oct 31 08:11:00 2022 From: robert.krimmer at ut.ee (Robert Krimmer) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] First Call for Papers dg.O 2023 in Tartu, Estonia Message-ID: Dear All, please see below for the CfP for dg.O 2023 taking place in Tartu, Estonia. Looking forward to many submissions, Robert --- 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 research 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 (Universit? 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 Mu?ller-T?r?k (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]. 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 (Universit? 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), S?linde 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 Polit?cnica 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 Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico - David Duenas Cid, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS - J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA - Ida Lindgren, Link?ping 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 From smartcities at snspa.ro Thu Nov 3 21:49:42 2022 From: smartcities at snspa.ro (Smart Cities Community@SNSPA) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Smart Cities Conference - Extended deadline In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Organising Committee of the Smart Cities International Conference, 10th Edition 2022, decided to extend the deadline to submit your abstracts till November 20. Attached to this email (and also online at https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/scic10) you will find the updated CfPs with the new dates. As a short reminder we extract the most relevant info from the CfP... please see it below: *CONFERENCE TRACKS* Smart Governance; Smart Environment; Smart Technology; Smart Economy; Smart People; Smart Mobility; Smart Living; Smart Education; Young Leaders for Smart Cities (open to students and early-stage researchers); Future trends ? Smart(er) State. The language of the Conference is English. Abstracts and articles may be submitted also in Romanian, provided that their presentation is made in English. Templates for abstracts and articles are available here: https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/scic10/submission-instructions10. Information regarding the registration process is available here: https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/scic10/registration10. *PUBLICATION* All submitted articles undergo a peer review process: please refer to the timeline of the Conference for more information. Contributions accepted for publication will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be edited and printed by Universul Academic Publishing House and Universitar? Publishing House (accredited by the Romanian Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education and by the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates). Selected papers may also be published in our two ? internationally indexed Partner Journals: Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal (SCRD) - https://www.scrd.eu/index.php/scrd Journal of E-Technology - https://www.dline.info/jet/aim.php *There is no participation or publication fee.* *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* For this anniversary edition, we are happy to introduce our new partnership with MDPI (https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/home/partners). Authors are welcome to submit their conference contributions to the Smart Cities Journal for its Special Issue on ?Accelerating innovation? ( https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/special_issues/85X60IG2T6). Authors choosing MDPI as their publication venue will comply with the publisher requirements ( https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/instructions). MDPI Smart Cities Journal will also award the most impactful keynote speech of the Conference, as well as the ?Best Presented Paper?. Each award will amount up to 500 CHF. *VENUE* This year, we expect to welcome you in Bucharest, Romania. Our venue will be the main campus building of The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), located in Bucharest on 30A Expozi?iei Bld. All the best from Bucharest, Romania. Yours, Catalin Vrabie -- Associate Professor Catalin VRABIE Lead Editor *Smart City and Regional Development (SCRD) Journa*l -- *National University of Political Studies and Public Administration - SNSPA* *Faculty of Public Administration - Smart-Edu-Hub* Facebook: @administratiepublica.eu I @smartcitieshub www.administratiepublica.eu I *http://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/ * From alois.paulin at gmail.com Mon Nov 28 13:20:07 2022 From: alois.paulin at gmail.com (alois paulin) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Beyond Bureaucracy '23: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society Message-ID: <5CA20CCF-611A-44C0-AF36-F9C026F8E8E2@gmail.com> Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as Liquid Democracy? e-Anarchy? Non-Bureaucracy Government?, or other PROGRESSIVE e-Gov / e-Dem topics? ////////////////// DG.O 2023 BEYOND BUREAUCRACY TRACK: THEME: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society The DG.O 2023 Conference seeks submissions for the Beyond Bureaucracy track, which aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance and e-democracy research paths and priorities. Where well-established e-government / e-governance research ambitions focus on providing and/or studying technology that supports the work and mission of government agencies and governmental agents (incremental innovation), Beyond Bureaucracy addresses the question how radical technological innovation transforms the power of citizens and the conceptual sovereign body to actively control (rather than passively observe and follow) government agencies and governmental agents. The Beyond Bureaucracy track invites contributions that discuss pending technological (design science) challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on Beyond Bureaucracy thought and knowledge. Track Chairs: * Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany * Robert M?ller-T?r?k, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany * Zach Bastick, University of Harvard, USA * http://bb23.beyondbureaucracy.org ////////////////// CONF INFO * Gda?sk, Poland * June 11-14, 2022 (Sunday ? Wednesday) * Submissions at https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/ * Deadline: Jan 20, 2023 ////////////////// GUIDING CHALLENGES: * Can dislocated (potentially very large) groups of people make decisions about common assets or common matters, which do not need to be interpreted by institutions? * Is it unavoidable to delegate decision-making to institutions (like parliaments, government agencies, ...)? * How can a society self-organize its common budget (taxes etc.)? * Are institutions to collect, govern, and redistribute public assets absolutely necessary or can exaction be done self-organized? * Can core public-domain institutions be realized without central institutions? * How can a society dynamically self-organize its public sector institutions / projects / programmes and bind them directly to collaborative decision making? * What are the challenges of the electronic identity? How can we overcome them to reach a system that will provide sustainable global identification for centuries to come? * Increased computerization of societal interactions comes with significant computing challenges. Can these be sufficiently addressed with classical computing approaches? * What would be the architecture and organization of such a government? ////////////////// RECOMMENDED TOPICS: * Use of technology by NGOs & Civil Society * e-Anarchy * Participatory Budgeting & Bottom-Up Excise * Non-Bureaucratic Government * Governance Informatization * Disruptive Models of Societal Governance * Liquid Democratic Collaborative Decision-Making * Crowd-Sourced Taxation, Quantum Budget * Ethics of new Governance models * Historical Lessons of Self-Organization * Ethical concerns in technology application * Bureaucratic Morality * The philosophy of technology * Peer Production, Self-Organized Virtual Communities * Hopes & Limits of E-Democracy * Pro/Contra discussions on above topics * Technologies that enable above topics ////////////////// RECOMMENDED LITERATURE: * A. Paulin. Smart City Governance. Elsevier, 2018. * A. Paulin, L. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds., Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards Sustainable Governance Informatisation, vol. 25. Springer, 2017. * Paulin, Alois. ?Ten years of liquid democracy research: An overview?. Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days 338 (16. Juli 2020): 455?66. https://doi.org/10.24989/ocg.338.36. * Blum, Christian, und Christina Isabel Zuber. ?Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives: Liquid Democracy?. Journal of Political Philosophy 24, Nr. 2 (Juni 2016): 162?82. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12065. * Valsangiacomo, Chiara. ?Clarifying and Defining the Concept of Liquid Democracy?. Swiss Political Science Review, 25. Oktober 2021, spsr.12486. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12486. * Z. Bastick, ?Digital Limits of Government: The Failure of E-Democracy?, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. A. Paulin, L. G. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 3?14. * F. Bannister, ?In Defence of Bureaucracy: Governance and Public Values in a Digital Age?, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. A. Paulin, L. G. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 27?47. * C. Velikanov and A. Prosser, ?Mass online deliberation within participatory policy-making?, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. Paulin, L. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Springer, 2017. * A. Downs, Inside bureaucracy. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1967. * L. Lessig, Code 2.0. New York: Basic Books, 2006. * E. S. Raymond, The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. O?Reilly Media, 1999. * Franssen, Maarten, Gert-Jan Lokhorst, and Ibo Van de Poel. Philosophy of technology. 2009 From tomasz.janowski at pg.edu.pl Sun Dec 4 13:40:02 2022 From: tomasz.janowski at pg.edu.pl (Tomasz Janowski) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] DG.O 2023 change of location, date, theme and host, and Call for Papers Message-ID: <432864805.20221204224002@pg.edu.pl> Dear Colleague, Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Digital Government Society had to change the location and date of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023) from Tartu, Estonia to Gda?sk, Poland. The conference will take place during 11-14 July 2023 under the theme "Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity". Our conference will be hosted by the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gda?sk University of Technology. The call for papers is included below and available on the conference page?https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/. We look forward to receiving your submissions and meeting you in Gda?sk in July. Many regards, ? Marijn and Tomasz ? ------------------------- ? Call for Papers dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity? 11-14 July 2023 Gda?sk University of Technology, Gda?sk, Poland https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/ The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2023 ? in Gda?sk, Poland, with a special focus on digital government and solidarity. The conference's main organizer is the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland. Crisis upon crisis, from pandemic and war to climate change to democratic breakup, government institutions face rapidly changing service demands, unpredictable geopolitical environment, and challenges to their own legitimacy. They cannot address such crises alone without mobilizing adequate social response, even supported by advanced technology. In turn, such a response requires citizens to feel (and act upon) their responsibility toward each other, e.g., changing one's attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles for collective well-being. It requires solidarity ? the recognition that "we are all in this together". While different notions of "we" produce different variants of solidarity ? universal, civil, social, or political, all variants are about relationships, intentionality, and sacrifice. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught us is that the efficacy of any technical solution deployed to fight the pandemic, e.g., public messaging, policy innovation, regulatory action, technology platform, needs to be accompanied by a positive social reaction: social distancing, self-quarantine, self-protection restrain, community volunteering, and other expressions of social solidarity. But the pandemic also taught us that common threats and fear could both unite and disunite, leading to feelings and acts of greater solidarity or polarization. Public messaging amplified by social technology can balance or counter-balance such discourses. But technology can also help strengthen solidarity and social cohesion by fostering e-democracy, providing a voice to traditionally excluded groups, promoting equitable resource distribution, etc. The conference aims to put the concept of solidarity at the center of the digital government debate. To this end, it focuses on how digital government can enhance solidarity and, conversely, how solidarity can enhance the efficacy of digital government in responding to global crises and local constituency demands. The dg.o conference series is an established forum for presenting, discussing, and demonstrating 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 their work's interdisciplinary and innovative nature, their contributions to the rigor of theory and relevance of practice, their focus on important and timely topics, and the quality of their writing. IMPORTANT DATES 20 January 2023: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due 31 March 2023: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) 1 April 2023: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium 15 April 2023: Posters and demo proposals due 24 April 2023: Poster/demo author notifications 25 April 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair 1 May 2023: Doctoral colloquium notification / Early registration begins 20 May 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, Greece), 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 (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain), 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 research 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 (Universit? 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 Mu?ller-T?r?k (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]. 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 Transformation in Governments Track chairs:?Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza (CTG SUNY & IDB, Brazil), Thiago Jos? Tavares ?vila (Funda??o Get?lio Vargas, Brazil), Maria Alexandra Cunha (Funda??o Get?lio Vargas, Brazil) Digital transformation has become an essential part of the government?s strategic agenda, both at national and sub-national levels. Such governments seek to offer services through digital platforms with integrated citizen identification systems, digitization of governmental processes, with respect to the privacy of personal data, and digital inclusion of the most vulnerable population. However, digital transformation initiatives at the subnational level tend to present specific aspects when compared to national initiatives. On the one hand, this track highlights the challenges faced by subnational digital transformation initiatives in the public sector, as well as national governments that have acted to develop and integrate national digital transformation considering subnational aspects. On the other hand, it seeks to understand the capacities supporting digital transformation at the subnational level. The track?s objectives are: a) to identify real-world examples/cases of digital transformation projects at the subnational levels (states, regions, L?nder, provinces, municipalities, etc.); b) discuss the challenges to develop a digital and integrated government considering national and subnational aspects, especially in federative countries; c) seek to explain these cases in the context of existing or new theoretical frameworks, and, d) create actionable recommendations for researchers, professional developers, and digital government practitioners at the national and sub-national level. This topic stands out for prioritizing the investigation of digital transformation in subnational governments, seeking to understand and identify the most relevant aspects of subnational initiatives aimed at building more digital governments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Citizen?s digital and secure identification; ? Protection of users? personal data; ? Development of new models aimed at the relationship between the government and the Citizen (Citizenship Relationship Management ? CzRM), especially using multi or omnichannel experiences. ? Promotion of transparency, openness, and sharing of public data with a view to endowing public sector business processes with greater intelligence and automation of repetitive tasks; ? Incorporation of new technologies for the production and management of public sector knowledge such as Artificial Intelligence, as well as for increasing the security and trust of digital relationships, based on blockchain and similar technologies; ? Mechanisms for social participation in improving and monitoring the quality of public service offerings, as well as promoting the role of citizens in proposing improvements in service delivery procedures and the development of public policies; ? Collaborative governance instruments that provide greater stakeholder engagement in the value generated by the public sector, including the development of institutional arrangements and cooperation aimed at sharing and strengthening the capacities necessary for the development of the digital government; ? Challenges of the digital divide in the digital government era; ? Gender and Human Rights issues in the digital government era; ? Institutional relations, cooperation, arrangements, and partnerships for Digital Government; ? Federative relations for Digital Government development. ? TRACK 12: Assessing and Realizing Artificial Intelligence in Government Track Chairs:?Sehl Mellouli (Universit? 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), S?linde 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 Polit?cnica 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. ? TRACK 17: Digital Government, Solidarity and Social Cohesion Track chairs:?David Duenas-Cid (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland), Elsa Estevez (Universidad Nacional del Sur and National Research Council for? Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET, Argentina), Tomasz Janowski (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland and Danube University Krems, Austria) Solidarity is a unity of feeling among people sharing a common objective or interest, despite their logical differences and inequalities. A key measure for building social cohesion, particularly in deeply divided societies, it embodies human rights, active citizenship, inclusion, and empathy. Government has a profound impact on solidarity and social cohesion. Still, this impact can be double-edged: government policy can help increase social solidarity and social cohesion, but too much reliance on the government to solve society?s problems and organize citizens? lives can lead to a breakdown of social cohesion. Digitizing government adds new layers of complexity to this relation: it can scale up the positive impact of government on solidarity, but it can also amplify polarization and, hence, negatively affect government efficacy. On the other hand, solidarity can enhance digital government by triggering technological innovation, e.g., creating tools for vulnerable citizens during a crisis, or becoming the goal for such innovation, e.g., fostering the more equitable distribution of resources. Thus the relationship between digital government and solidarity is rich and intense. This track aims to unravel some of the open questions regarding this topic. Key among them is how digital government can enhance solidarity and social cohesion and, conversely, how solidarity and social cohesion can enhance the efficacy of the government?s digital agenda and the efficacy of digital government itself. TRACK 18: Digital Government Student Track? Track Chairs:?Bettina Distel (University of Muenster, Germany), Hendrik Scholta? (University of Muenster, Germany), Karen Mossberger (Arizona State University, USA), Marzia Mortati (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy) ? 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. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS Workshops are half-day or full-day facilitated discussions. Short presentations by workshop participants typically stimulate discussions. Individuals proposing workshops will be responsible for identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and conducting workshop activities. Tutorials are half-day 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. PANEL DISCUSSIONS Panel discussion proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that spotlight 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 program co-chairs about their ideas before 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 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. SUBMISSION TYPES AND REQUIREMENTS - Research papers ? blind review Such submissions present innovative digital government research results in the form of formal scholarly papers. Papers on any digital government topic and using any research methodology are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. (Limit of approximately 8,000 words) - Management or policy papers ? blind review Such 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) - Poster summaries Poster 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 will be 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 demonstration summaries System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to accompany 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 has 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) - Panel descriptions Panel 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 numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) - Tutorial proposals Tutorials are half-day or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into digital government research, practice, methodologies, technologies, or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of specific technologies such as social media, and other insights into digital government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) - Workshop proposals We invite workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half-day 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 be responsible for identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and conducting workshop activities. (Limit of approximately 1,300 words) - Doctoral colloquium applications 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 yet to reach the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this study stage to 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 apply. The 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. (Limit of approximately ten pages, not including references, tables, and figures) Submission Site:?https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dgo2023?? Submissions need to follow the dg.o conference guidelines. Detailed instructions and the ACM conference proceedings template will be available on the conference website?http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/?under "submission guidelines". Research, management, and policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind process. Therefore, authors must omit their names and contact information 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 the ACM proceedings 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. Some other co-author registration and presentation are required from the third paper onwards. PUBLICATIONS All accepted research, management, or policy papers and panel, poster, and system demonstration descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM Press and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Workshop and tutorial descriptions can also be published in the conference proceedings, depending on the authors, and decided by the program chairs.? Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to the special issues of various journals. Several special issues are considered in relation to the conference, including with: - 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 four categories: research category, management and policy category, poster category, and system demonstration category. Papers that reflect the conference's main theme, "Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity", will be given preference. 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 writing and communicating the work to a broad audience. CONFERENCE COMMITTEES CONFERENCE CHAIRS - Tomasz Janowski, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland - Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands? - Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan PROGRAM CHAIRS - Loni Hagen, University of South-Florida, USA - Hsin-chung Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Nadzeya Sabatini, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland ? POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS - Catherine L. Dumas, Simmons University, USA - David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico - Nina Rizun, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS - J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA - Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden - Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria FINANCE CHAIR - Mila Gasco, University at Albany, SUNY, USA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE - Magdalena Ciesielska, finances? - Jakub Chabik, outreach? - David Duenas Cid, promotion? - Jaromir Durkiewicz, proceedings and technology - Igor Garnik, venue and services - Karolina Krause-Brykalska, cultural program - Gra?yna Musiatowicz-Podbia?, hospitality - S?awomir Ostrowski, registration and volunteers All from the Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland. ? ? From lanthopo at teilar.gr Sun Dec 4 23:52:02 2022 From: lanthopo at teilar.gr (Leonidas Anthopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?CfP_-_WebAndTheCity=3A_9th_ACM_Internationa?= =?utf-8?q?l_Smart_City_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= In-Reply-To: References: <24316F5685903E45AEE605C285EBE9B153A971AE@SRV384.tudelft.net> <2f0e6bb71540a8feacf9d1522d27ad99@teilar.gr> <7c871b2e695754a979f33726a8b17ab8@teilar.gr> <55eff8f815018f256f46a6ed167e9b5c@teilar.gr> <598c68023901583a24dac6faa6a73bce@teilar.gr> <51d9d42c9a5c6f992e198f5af1232e98@teilar.gr> <8d85ad64792bb8a4b733e5ae4d4bea47@teilar.gr> Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop - The Web and Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW'23): 33rd World Wide Web International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023 http://webandthecity.home.blog/ IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) * Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023 * Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023 * Workshop authors' early registration: March 31, 2023 * Workshop day: May 1, 2023 WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label "Web Applications and Smart Cities" (previous name: AW4City), which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon, France during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. THIS YEAR, THE WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF THE WEB IN SOCIAL COHERENCE. In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against social threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another challenge that cities have started phasing. ?his workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications Apps can Web intelligence serve communities. WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC that are related to this year's conference topics, to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends with regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web intelligence). Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while innovative applications can strengthen the community's coherence (e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency; communication about social threats with transparency etc.). We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): * Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); * Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; * Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); * Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); * Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; * Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; * Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); * Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) * The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); * Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; * The role of standards on smart city data mining; * Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; * Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. SUBMISSION We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo@uth.gr with the subject: "WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal" Details of the programme will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: written in English; contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template [1]) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop's chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference can be found on https://www2023.thewebconf.org/ Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI Sustainability (like https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or IET Smart Cities. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo@uth.gr with the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal" DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE. For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: * Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr * Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl * Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TENTATIVE) * Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong * Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A. * Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe * Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform * Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. * Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) * Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. * Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia * Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA * Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY) * Amel Attour, Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice * Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany * Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland * Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K. Links: ------ [1] http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template From lanthopo at teilar.gr Sun Dec 11 22:28:20 2022 From: lanthopo at teilar.gr (Leonidas Anthopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Dg.o 2023 - Track 5 Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities In-Reply-To: <9a07e3cfbe6b7445dc0d1c7bf116016e@teilar.gr> References: <24316F5685903E45AEE605C285EBE9B153A971AE@SRV384.tudelft.net> <2f0e6bb71540a8feacf9d1522d27ad99@teilar.gr> <7c871b2e695754a979f33726a8b17ab8@teilar.gr> <55eff8f815018f256f46a6ed167e9b5c@teilar.gr> <598c68023901583a24dac6faa6a73bce@teilar.gr> <51d9d42c9a5c6f992e198f5af1232e98@teilar.gr> <8d85ad64792bb8a4b733e5ae4d4bea47@teilar.gr> <7864ba022114cd1bc7786bae76fae5bd@teilar.gr> <9a07e3cfbe6b7445dc0d1c7bf116016e@teilar.gr> Message-ID: dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? sustainability? circularity? people-centered cities? smart transformation? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? industry 4.0? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland 11-14 July 2023 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023 Twitter handle: #dgo2023 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2023 - in Gdansk, Poland, with a special focus on digital government and solidarity. The conference main organizer is the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Crisis upon crisis, from pandemic and war to climate change to democratic breakup, government institutions face rapidly changing service demands, unpredictable geopolitical environment, and challenges to their own legitimacy. They cannot address such crises alone without mobilizing adequate social response, even supported by advanced technology. In turn, such a response requires citizens to feel (and act upon) their responsibility toward each other, e.g., changing one's attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles for collective well-being. It requires solidarity - the recognition that "we are all in this together". While different notions of "we" produce different variants of solidarity - universal, civil, social, or political, all variants are about relationships, intentionality and sacrifice. The conference aims to put the concept of solidarity at the center of the digital government debate. To this end, it focuses on how digital government can enhance solidarity and, conversely, how solidarity can enhance the efficacy of digital government in responding to global crises and local constituency demands. TRACK 5. Smart Cities: 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 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. This track invites research and practices in inclusive, circular and resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as intelligence for circularity and resilience in cities; enhancing diverse digital skills toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital and circular transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces, circular and resilient to adverse events. In this environment, trust on the smart city is essential for engaging citizens, communities, and businesses. The advanced technologies used in the smart cities include AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, are being applied to autonomous vehicles, drones, blockchain, intelligent utility management, precision healthcare, adjustable traffic management, public safety monitoring, crisis management, industrial and social robotics, and crime surveillance, etc. These algorithmic intelligence embedded in the smart cities are fueled by continuous data collections and super-powered analytics, and presents various benefits and unprecedented challenges. Different levels of governments adopting the superintelligent technology-based smart cities need to consider the impacts on citizens and connected communities, local and global. They require to consider trust enhancing aspects to avoid the calamities of basic rights of citizens and to achieve ultimate goals of smart cities. In this track, we investigate the trust enhancing approaches for these advanced technologies from different perspectives to carefully design and implement more secure, privacy-respecting, inclusive, fair, just, and equitable smart city infrastructure. We call for design models and implementation innovations of the smart city infrastructure that consider the trust dimensions, ranging from technology governance, trust-enhancing regulations and policies, to social approaches, to technical approaches, but not limited to these. Recommended Topics: - smart city and trust; - smart city sustainability and circularity; - smart city inclusiveness and resilience; - smart city key infrastructure and platforms; - smart city implementation strategies and success indicators; - smart government; - smart city service innovations and impacts; - smart digital citizen identity; - citizen's behavior modeling; - citizen centricity, engagement, industry 4.0 technologies; - digital transformation, smart and connected communities; - governance and policy issues of intelligent machines and man-machine interactions; - security, ethics and privacy issues; - novel sharing and interactions in intelligent cities; - smart city infrastructure and standards; applications and collaborations based on the IoT and, smart sensors; - Big Data analytics; - civic technology movement, and intercity and intergovernmental collaborations; - Machine learning, Deep Learning, AI, Blockchain, AR/VR and Robotics for cities and governments IMPORTANT DATES January 20, 2023: Papers are due March 31, 2023: Author notifications) April 25, 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair May 1, 2023: Early registration begins May 20, 2023: Early registration closes SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS 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". Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023 From cziozias at uth.gr Mon Dec 12 08:04:31 2022 From: cziozias at uth.gr (ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CALL FOR PAPERS - WebAndTheCity2023 Message-ID: <20221212180431.Horde.ZtMR71xyFiYZk5lEXY746-p@webmail.uth.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ? WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop ? The Web and Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW?23): 33rd World Wide Web International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023 http://webandthecity.home.blog/ ? IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) * Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023 * Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023 * Workshop authors? early registration: March 31, 2023 * Workshop day: May 1, 2023 ? WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label ?Web Applications and Smart Cities? (previous name: AW4City), which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon, France during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. THIS YEAR, THE WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF THE WEB IN SOCIAL COHERENCE. In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against social threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another challenge that cities have started phasing. ?his workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications Apps can Web intelligence serve communities. WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC that are related to this year?s conference topics, to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends with regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web intelligence). ? Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the ?big picture? of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while innovative applications can strengthen the community?s coherence (e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency; communication about social threats with transparency etc.). We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions? or apps? development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications? development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): * Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); * Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; * Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); * Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); * Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; * Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; * Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); * Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) * The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); * Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; * The role of standards on smart city data mining; * Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; * Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. ? SUBMISSION We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo@uth.gr with the subject: ?WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal? Details of the programme will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ? All submitted papers must be: written in English; contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template[1]) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop?s chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference can be found on https://www2023.thewebconf.org/ Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI Sustainability (like https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or IET Smart Cities. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo@uth.gr with the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal? DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE. For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: * Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr * Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl * Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TENTATIVE) ? Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ? Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A. ? Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe ? Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform ? Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. ? Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ? Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. ? Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia ? Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia ? Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA ? Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY) ? Amel Attour, Universite Cote d?Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice ? Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany ? Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland ? Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K. ? ?????????: ---------- [1] http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template From jscholl at uw.edu Thu Dec 15 22:50:33 2022 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] DGRL v 18.5: Getting Close to the 18, 000 References Mark Message-ID: <65456940-8184-40A5-AECC-A0FD39683059@uw.edu> Version 18.5 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of December 15, 2022. The library now contains 17,987 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. This marks a 4.7% increase in references from version 18.0 (June of 2022) and a 8.8% increase from version 17.5 (December of 2021). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,456) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months. The DGRL has been strengthening its role as an indispensable tool for Digital Government scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions are reported to rely heavily on this reference library. Packaged in a zip file, bibTeX, RIS, and Endnote (package) versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Next scheduled update: 06/15/2023. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Acknowledgement: No curator can do her work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DGRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Colin Anderson, Andrea Berg, Emily Cunningham, Erika Deal, Gary Gao, Leslie Harka, Kreg Hasegawa, Jackie Holmes, Julia Hon, Christine Lee, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, Hannah Robinson, Richard Robohm, Kelle Rose, Stephanie Rossi, Christopher Setzer, and Daniel Wilson. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2022). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 18.0?18.5. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/ Kind regards, Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl, MBA Professor UW Faculty Senator Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Fellow of the Digital Government Society Recipient of the IFIP Service Award Research Fellow of the Center for Technology in Government ISCRAM Board Member University of Washington (UW) The Information School Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370D MS 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ From pkaradimos at uth.gr Mon Dec 19 05:06:14 2022 From: pkaradimos at uth.gr (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?CfP_-_WebAndTheCity=3A_9th_ACM_Internationa?= =?utf-8?q?l_Smart_City_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <20221219150614.Horde.TxScVWFx1hLcxBsC_03-tCw@webmail.uth.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WebAndTheCity: 9th International Smart City Workshop - The Web and Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW'23): 33rd World Wide Web International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023 http://webandthecity.home.blog/ IMPORTANT DATES ?? ? ? ? * Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) ?? ? ? ? * Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023 ?? ? ? ? * Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023 ?? ? ? ? * Workshop authors' early registration: March 31, 2023 ?? ? ? ? * Workshop day: May 1, 2023 WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label "Web Applications and Smart Cities" (previous name: AW4City), which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon, France during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. THIS YEAR, THE WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF THE WEB IN SOCIAL COHERENCE. In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against social threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another challenge that cities have started phasing. ?his workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications Apps can Web intelligence serve communities. WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC that are related to this year's conference topics, to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends with regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web intelligence). Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while innovative applications can strengthen the community's coherence (e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency; communication about social threats with transparency etc.). We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): ?? ? ? ? * Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); ?? ? ? ? * Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; ?? ? ? ? * Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); ?? ? ? ? * Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); ?? ? ? ? * Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; ?? ? ? ? * Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; ?? ? ? ? * Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); ?? ? ? ? * Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) ?? ? ? ? * The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); ?? ? ? ? * Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; ?? ? ? ? * The role of standards on smart city data mining; ?? ? ? ? * Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; ?? ? ? ? * Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. SUBMISSION We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to:?lanthopo@uth.gr[1]?with the subject: "WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal" Details of the programme will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: written in English; contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template[2]?[1]) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop's chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference can be found on?https://www2023.thewebconf.org/ Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI Sustainability (like https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or IET Smart Cities. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to:?lanthopo@uth.gr[1]?with the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal" DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE. For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ?? ? ? ? * Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr[1] ?? ? ? ? * Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands,?M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl[1] ?? ? ? ? * Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom,?v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk[1] PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TENTATIVE) ?? ? ? ? * Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ?? ? ? ? * Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A. ?? ? ? ? * Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe ?? ? ? ? * Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform ?? ? ? ? * Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. ?? ? ? ? * Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ?? ? ? ? * Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. ?? ? ? ? * Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia ?? ? ? ? * Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia ?? ? ? ? * Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA ?? ? ? ? * Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY) ?? ? ? ? * Amel Attour, Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice ?? ? ? ? * Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany ?? ? ? ? * Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland ?? ? ? ? * Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K. ? Links: ------ [1]?http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template _______________________________________________ eGov-list mailing list eGov-list@u.washington.edu[1] http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/egov-list ?????????: ---------- [1] https://webmail.uth.gr/imp/dynamic.php?page=message&buid=12&mailbox=aW1wc2VhcmNoAGRWcjFqVExCT2owQ2NXT2hYU1dFOUZ4&token=x-xM8yLVpB4mOIl0lFqqhei&uniq=1671454023457# [2] http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template From cziozias at uth.gr Mon Dec 19 08:54:21 2022 From: cziozias at uth.gr (ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for papers - DG.O. 2023 Track 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities Message-ID: <20221219185421.Horde.uDRPJr-mgT0I_rtNuygq1f6@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? sustainability? circularity? people-centered cities? smart transformation? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? industry 4.0? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland 11-14 July 2023 ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023 Twitter handle: #dgo2023 ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2023 ? in Gdansk, Poland, with a special focus on digital government and solidarity. The conference main organizer is the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Crisis upon crisis, from pandemic and war to climate change to democratic breakup, government institutions face rapidly changing service demands, unpredictable geopolitical environment, and challenges to their own legitimacy. They cannot address such crises alone without mobilizing adequate social response, even supported by advanced technology. In turn, such a response requires citizens to feel (and act upon) their responsibility toward each other, e.g., changing one?s attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles for collective well-being. It requires solidarity ? the recognition that ?we are all in this together?. While different notions of ?we? produce different variants of solidarity ? universal, civil, social, or political, all variants are about relationships, intentionality and sacrifice. The conference aims to put the concept of solidarity at the center of the digital government debate. To this end, it focuses on how digital government can enhance solidarity and, conversely, how solidarity can enhance the efficacy of digital government in responding to global crises and local constituency demands. ? TRACK 5. Smart Cities: 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 ? 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. This track invites research and practices in inclusive, circular and resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as intelligence for circularity and resilience in cities; enhancing diverse digital skills toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital and circular transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces, circular and resilient to adverse events. In this environment, trust on the smart city is essential for engaging citizens, communities, and businesses. The advanced technologies used in the smart cities include AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, are being applied to autonomous vehicles, drones, blockchain, intelligent utility management, precision healthcare, adjustable traffic management, public safety monitoring, crisis management, industrial and social robotics, and crime surveillance, etc. These algorithmic intelligence embedded in the smart cities are fueled by continuous data collections and super-powered analytics, and presents various benefits and unprecedented challenges. Different levels of governments adopting the superintelligent technology-based smart cities need to consider the impacts on citizens and connected communities, local and global. They require to consider trust enhancing aspects to avoid the calamities of basic rights of citizens and to achieve ultimate goals of smart cities. In this track, we investigate the trust enhancing approaches for these advanced technologies from different perspectives to carefully design and implement more secure, privacy-respecting, inclusive, fair, just, and equitable smart city infrastructure. We call for design models and implementation innovations of the smart city infrastructure that consider the trust dimensions, ranging from technology governance, trust-enhancing regulations and policies, to social approaches, to technical approaches, but not limited to these. Recommended Topics: - smart city and trust; - smart city sustainability and circularity; - smart city inclusiveness and resilience; - smart city key infrastructure and platforms; - smart city implementation strategies and success indicators; - smart government; - smart city service innovations and impacts; - smart digital citizen identity; - citizen?s behavior modeling; - citizen centricity, engagement, industry 4.0 technologies; - digital transformation, smart and connected communities; - governance and policy issues of intelligent machines and man-machine interactions; - security, ethics and privacy issues; - novel sharing and interactions in intelligent cities; - smart city infrastructure and standards; applications and collaborations based on the IoT and, smart sensors; - Big Data analytics; - civic technology movement, and intercity and intergovernmental collaborations; - Machine learning, Deep Learning, AI, Blockchain, AR/VR and Robotics for cities and governments ? IMPORTANT DATES January 20, 2023: Papers are due March 31, 2023: Author notifications) April 25, 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair May 1, 2023: Early registration begins May 20, 2023: Early registration closes ? SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS 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?. ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023 From manuelp at ugr.es Tue Dec 27 01:43:17 2022 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Guest Editors of Books in PAIT series Springer. Years 2023 and 2024 Message-ID: <65C7F6A8-6A65-478D-A9FC-841BF35565CE@ugr.es> New Call for Book Volumes for 2023 and 2024 Public Administration and Information Technology Series Ed.: M.P. Rodriguez Bolivar Public Administration and Information Technology publishes authored and edited books that examine the application of information systems to common issues and problems in public administration. This series examines both the successes of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption and some of the most important challenges to implementation. The books published in this series will address all areas of public administration, through the use of information technology adoption in the public and nonprofit sectors, and in the private sector where important lessons can be learned for public managers and policy analysts. New and emerging technologies that will have a lasting impact on public administration will be featured in this series. Both developed and developing countries will be examined in this series. The series particularly welcomes books that cover international dimensions of public administration and information technology. The research in this series will be able to bridge both theory and practice to provide relevance to public managers. The series will cover all aspects of e-governance/egovernment research, and new and emerging trends and issues in this research. The series publishes edited books, monographs, upper-level textbooks and research handbooks. For authors interested in submitting a book proposal, please email the editor (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar, University of Granada, manuelp@ugr.es ). Please, visit our webpage at https://www.springer.com/series/10796, in which you can download the proposal form to write your project and send it to the editor previously mentioned. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With my best wishes for all, -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting Director of Economic Affairs, University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) tel +34958242881 fax +34958246249 | email: manuelp@ugr.es ======================================================================================================================= Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informaci?n privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilizaci?n, divulgaci?n o copia sin autorizaci?n est? prohibida en virtud de la legislaci?n vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma v?a y proceda a su destrucci?n. 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Rodriguez Bolivar Public Administration and Information Technology publishes authored and edited books that examine the application of information systems to common issues and problems in public administration. This series examines both the successes of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption and some of the most important challenges to implementation. The books published in this series will address all areas of public administration, through the use of information technology adoption in the public and nonprofit sectors, and in the private sector where important lessons can be learned for public managers and policy analysts. New and emerging technologies that will have a lasting impact on public administration will be featured in this series. Both developed and developing countries will be examined in this series. The series particularly welcomes books that cover international dimensions of public administration and information technology. The research in this series will be able to bridge both theory and practice to provide relevance to public managers. The series will cover all aspects of e-governance/egovernment research, and new and emerging trends and issues in this research. The series publishes edited books, monographs, upper-level textbooks and research handbooks. For authors interested in submitting a book proposal, please email the editor (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar, University of Granada, manuelp@ugr.es ). Please, visit our webpage at https://www.springer.com/series/10796, in which you can download the proposal form to write your project and send it to the editor previously mentioned. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With my best wishes for all, -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting Director of Economic Affairs, University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) tel +34958242881 fax +34958246249 | email: manuelp@ugr.es ======================================================================================================================= Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informaci?n privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilizaci?n, divulgaci?n o copia sin autorizaci?n est? prohibida en virtud de la legislaci?n vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma v?a y proceda a su destrucci?n. 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The Web and Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW?23): 33rd World Wide Web International Conference, Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 4, 2023 *http://webandthecity.home.blog/ * *Important Dates* - Submissions due: Feb. 06, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) - Notification of Acceptance: March 06, 2023 - Camera-ready version due: March 31, 2023 - Workshop authors? early registration: March 31, 2023 - Workshop day: May 1, 2023 *Workshop Objective* This is the 9th edition of the workshop series with the label ?Web Applications and Smart Cities? (previous name: AW4City), which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was in Lyon, France during The Web Conference 2022. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. *This year, the workshop focuses on the role of the web in social coherence. * In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities appear to play a crucial role in securing humanity against social threats and generating sustainable and circular cities. In this regard, cities attempt to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to host their increasing populations. Additionally, new types of business appear (e.g., for smart energy), while the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate another challenge that cities have started phasing. ?his workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications Apps can Web intelligence serve communities. WebAndTheCity aims at gathering researchers from the fields of SC that are related to this year?s conference topics, to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of SC trends with regard to the WWW role (web-based, Apps, platforms and web intelligence). Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the ?big picture? of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC must deal with emerging social threats. Nevertheless, communities have not been supported by the SC during emerging social crises (i.e., access to affordable energy, shelters etc.), while the SC does not seem to play a central role in circular economic growth. This skepticism can be added to the existing criticism that represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. Articles can deliver ideas for intelligent sensing, crowdsourcing, and risk analysis with the Web, which can provide a clearer view of SC role against social emergencies, while innovative applications can strengthen the community?s coherence (e.g., access to affordable energy with smart energy efficiency; communication about social threats with transparency etc.). We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions? or apps? development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications? development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): - Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); - Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; - Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); - Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); - Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; - Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; - Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); - Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) - The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); - Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; - The role of standards on smart city data mining; - Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; - Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. *Submission* We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (*https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269 *) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo@uth.gr with the subject: ?WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal? Details of the programme will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. *Submission Guidelines* The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: written in English; contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (*www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template *) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop?s chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2023 conference can be found on *https://www2023.thewebconf.org/ * Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of MDPI Sustainability (like https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/WebIntelligence_SmartMobility), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or IET Smart Cities. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2023 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (*https://easychair.org/conferences/submissions?a=29997269 *) and via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: *lanthopo@uth.gr * with the subject: WebAndTheCity 2023 proposal? *Details of the programme will be made available online.* For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: - Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr - Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl - Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk *Program Committee Members (tentative)* ? Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ? Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A. ? Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe ? Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform ? Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. ? Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ? Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. ? Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia ? Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia ? Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA ? Soon Ae Chun, City University New York (CUNY) ? Amel Attour, Universite Cote d?Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Nice ? Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany ? Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland ? Marianna Cavada, Lancaster University, U.K. From alexop at aegean.gr Thu Dec 29 10:36:24 2022 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] [Sustainability] Journal Special Issue on "Smart Governance for Sustainable Cities" Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A Special Issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) "Smart Governance for Sustainable Cities" is now open for submission with a Deadline on 15 October 2023. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/KL9N0K9125 This Special Issue of Sustainability is specifically interested in developing and strengthening original research on the emerging concept of smart governance towards the development of sustainable cities. It seeks interdisciplinary contributions in the areas of public management, project management, governance, public administration, public-sector innovation, and citizen-oriented services, in connection with adjacent fields such as information systems, public policy, and public law. Topics covered by the Special Issue may include, but are not limited to: ? State-of-the-art academic thinking about the implications of smart governance in the development of sustainable cities, as well as their relation to the UN SDGs at the local level. ? Theoretical and empirical analyses of legal issues (data security and privacy) that may affect the adoption of smart governance practices, including recommendations on how to overcome them. ? Theoretical and practical considerations regarding the diffusion and adoption of ICT in smart cities in economic, social, environmental and institutional dimensions. ? Case studies on the drivers, barriers, and adoption mechanisms of smart governance practices and infrastructures in sustainable cities in all smart city domains (mobility, energy, buildings, health, etc.). ? Theoretical and empirical analyses on both the positive outcomes and the possible failures or unintended consequences of smart governance at administrative levels. ? Development of novel governance or conceptual models towards sustainable city policy and strategy design and implementation, as well as decision-making. ? Historical and comparative accounts of the development of agile government. ? Citizen engagement and participation approaches using disruptive technologies towards community smartification. ? Architectures and solutions for smart governance tools using disruptive technologies that support the development of sustainable cities (e.g., AI-powered smart city services for smart governance and sustainability). Thank you for your consideration! The editors team.