[EGOV LIST] CFP: IFIP EGOV2022 - deadline approaching

[Ulf Melin]

Dear colleagues,

submission deadline (18 March 2022) approaching for IFIP EGOV 2022.

Further information below.

Best regards

Ulf Melin
Professor, Information Systems
Linköping University
Department of Management and Engineering, Information Systems and Digitalization
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden


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IFIP EGOV2022 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2022
Linköping, 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 Linköping by Linköping 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 at easychair.org<mailto:egov2022 at easychair.org>
CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV202<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fcfp%2FEGOV2022&data=04%7C01%7Culf.melin%40liu.se%7C816783fa89cb40aa22c708d9e48bf4ee%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C637792113499890846%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=1SH41Cg5AvT68m6sj3tP5xsUHUGPaEcAoMeQ3uFNO%2B8%3D&reserved=0>2
Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2022/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdgsociety.org%2Fegov-2022%2F&data=04%7C01%7Culf.melin%40liu.se%7C816783fa89cb40aa22c708d9e48bf4ee%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C637792113499890846%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=jC2xpo1a%2B9AHz4NWwVe7DdSjbpyo9A2bFY7O6yJHKrY%3D&reserved=0>
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, Linköping 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, Linköping University, Sweden
  *   Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria
  *   Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
  *   Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, 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, Linköping 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 Wüst, 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 Csáki, 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 Rodríguez Bolívar (lead), University of Granada, Spain.
  *   Shefali Virkar, Donau-Universität 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), Linköping 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/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fceur-ws.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Culf.melin%40liu.se%7C816783fa89cb40aa22c708d9e48bf4ee%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C637792113500047078%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=vPTn8nq47ftYGCYXExEp7wAnXWnZTlNvCrWk1Sv%2FGOk%3D&reserved=0>). 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 Rodríguez 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, Linköping 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.