From ckokkalas at uth.gr Mon Jan 9 00:26:55 2023 From: ckokkalas at uth.gr (KOKKALAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] (no subject) Message-ID: <20230109102655.Horde.dw4dnCkhVNUJHPF4TMTfc4N@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 M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl Fri Jan 20 02:55:27 2023 From: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl (Marijn Janssen - TBM) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP: IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023 -Budapest, Hungary Message-ID: <7cc1b8111c2c4b33982ee344f81a11fd@tudelft.nl> IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023 Budapest, Hungary 5-7 September CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IFIP EGOV2023 will be hosted 5-7 September 2023 in Budapest by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. 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 4 September 2023. 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 is on interdisciplinary approaches for 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. IMPORTANT DATES ? (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 CONFERENCE CHAIRS o Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary o Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece o Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden o Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria o Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London o Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria o Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria o Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland o Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands o Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece o Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria o Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands TRACKS AT EGOV2023 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. ? Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden (lead) ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands ? 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 ? Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria ? Marius Rohde Johannessen (lead), University of South-Eastern Norway ICT and Sustainability Development Goals Track: All research related to the UN sustainability goals ? Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ? Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ? Gianluca Misuraca. Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. ? Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium ? Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Emerging issues and innovations: focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands ? Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu University, Estonia ? Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary ? Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium 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. ? Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece ? Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, 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 ? Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ? Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain. ? 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. ? Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ? J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA ? Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece 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. ? Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK ? Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway Legal informatics: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming dominant in the government domain. ? Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany 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. ? Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA ? Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the IFIP EGOV2023 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-ePart2023 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 proceeding's 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 & Sustainable development goals, 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 issue 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. o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece o Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain CONFERENCE VENUE The EGOV 2023 conference is hosted by Corvinus University of Budapest. The institution offers state-of-the-art knowledge, a professional network and a secure future for its 10k+ students. The institution builds on more than hundred years old history. Regarding numbers, the university has 120+ years of history, 10,000+ students, 1,500 international students from 80+ nationalities. The institution is reported in the Top 300 in the QS World rankings for 2021 in the fields of Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences. CONTACT Email: egov2023@easychair.org CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2023 Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 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 Head of the ESS department 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/ 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 peter.roenne at gmail.com Tue Jan 24 14:25:50 2023 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 2023 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2023 Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Luxembourg, 3-6 October 2023 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2023) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the eighth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Luxembourg in October 2023. 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 seven editions, over 240 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 900 participants. The format of the conference is a three-day physical meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) - (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; - Or 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: Krivonosova, Iuliia (Independent Researcher, Switzerland) and Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 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 in electronic 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: Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 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 (2-4 pages) 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: Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) and Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) 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 https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/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 in LNCS 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 4 and 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=evoteid2023 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 E-Vote-ID 2023 will take place in Luxembourg and will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Mihkel Solvak, Oliver Spycher, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2023 ? Submission deadline See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2023/ Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2023 Programme Committee General Chairs Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Track Chairs Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) Track 2: Governance Issues Krivonosova, Iuliia (Independent Researcher, Switzerland) Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track 5: PhD Colloquium Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Outreach Chair Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, Netherlands) 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) Bernhard, Matthew (Voting Works) Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering) Collazos, C?sar (Universidad del Cauca) Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Loria) Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario) Ford, Bryan (?cole polytechnique f?d?rale de Lausanne) Galindo, David (Crypto in Motion) 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) Hao, Feng (The University of Warwick) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University) Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences) 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 (Universit? catholique de Louvain) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security) Ruescas, David (Sequent) Ryan, Peter 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) Silde, Tjerand (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley) Syta, Ewa (Yale University) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas) Vukcevic, Damjan (The University of Melbourne) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw) 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) Fern?ndez Riveira, Rosa Mar?a (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Germann, Micha (University of Bath) Kersting, Norbert (University of Munster) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University) Pe?a-L?pez, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna) Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham) von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (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) Chaudhary, Tarun (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) Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum f?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University) McDermott, Ronan (mcdis) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR) Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for 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 Sat Jan 28 02:08:53 2023 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 -- 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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If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it. ======================================================================================================================= From A.M.G.Zuiderwijk-vanEijk at tudelft.nl Wed Feb 1 02:11:46 2023 From: A.M.G.Zuiderwijk-vanEijk at tudelft.nl (Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk - TBM) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for papers - IFIP EGOV2023 Open Data Track Message-ID: <2459e755caae4dfaad66e870b747319d@tudelft.nl> Are you working on open data-related research? Consider submitting a paper to the Open Data track of the IFIP EGOV2023 conference! Submission deadline: 31 March. Please see the CFP below. Kind regards, Anneke Zuiderwijk Delft University of Technology IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023 Budapest, Hungary 5-7 September CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IFIP EGOV2023 will be hosted 5-7 September 2023 in Budapest by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. 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 4 September 2023. 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 is on interdisciplinary approaches for 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. Open data: social and technical aspects Track The public sector is increasingly opening its data for everyone to freely reuse. Open data provide unprecedented opportunities for improving decision-making, enhancing transparency and participation, creating public value, and boosting the digital economy. This, however, requires an appropriate social context, innovations in technologies, and appropriate integration of the two. The "Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects" Track aims to better understand and advance research on open data. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: * Open data foundations: open data definitions; processes; stakeholders and roles; artefacts; maturity levels and indexes; theories; relation to transparency, accountability, etc. * Open data policy and practice: open data policies; the role of open data in supporting digital transformation policies and principles; governance of open, big and linked data; opportunities, drivers, and barriers for/to the adoption of open, big and linked data. * Open data technologies: technical frameworks for data and metadata; ontologies, linked open data and knowledge graphs; machine learning and artificial intelligence technology using open data; mash-ups; data formats, standards, and APIs; data visualisation; data quality. * Open data innovation: the role of open data in public sector innovation; open data enabled models of public service provision; government as a platform; making open data innovation sustainable; connecting open data and crowdsourcing; data and information literacy. * Open data evidence and impacts: impact on society and/or public administration; the value of real-life applications based on open government data; costs and benefits of providing or using open data; emerging good practices; public value generation using open data. Track Chairs * Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece IMPORTANT DATES * (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 31 March 2023 * Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 * PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 * Poster acceptance 31 May 2023 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 * PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 * PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 * PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 * Conference: 5-7 September 2023 From M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl Sat Feb 4 02:15:59 2023 From: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl (Marijn Janssen - TBM) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?windows-1253?q?CFP_WebAndTheCity=3A_9th_Internation?= =?windows-1253?q?al_Smart_City_Workshop_=96_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <89aa55b3d4b1412e9096996972ded9d3@tudelft.nl> (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) 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. 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 Head of the ESS department 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 lanthopo at teilar.gr Fri Feb 10 00:54:14 2023 From: lanthopo at teilar.gr (Leonidas Anthopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?Extended_CfP_-_WebAndTheCity=3A_9th_ACM_Int?= =?utf-8?q?ernational_Smart_City_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Citi?= =?utf-8?q?es?= 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 - DEADLINE EXTENSION 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, 2023 http://webandthecity.home.blog/ Important Dates * Submissions extended due: March 01, 2023 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) * Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2023 * Camera-ready version due: March 15, 2023 * Workshop authors' early registration: March 15, 2023 * Workshop day: April 30, 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/overview?a=29788601) 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/overview?a=29788601) 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. * Kristina Lemmer, University of Leuphana, Germany From hrweistr at vcu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:11:10 2023 From: hrweistr at vcu.edu (Heinz Weistroffer) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers AMCIS 2023 Mini Track: Beyond e-Government - e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation Message-ID: Call for Papers Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023 Panama City, Panama, August 10-12, 2023 Track: Digital Government (SIG EGov) Mini-track: Beyond e-Government: e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation We invite submissions to ?Beyond e-Government: e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation? mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023 to be held in Panama, August 10-12, 2023. Mini-track Title: Beyond e-Government: e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation The term e-government emerged in the late 1990s and generally describes a variety of interactions between national or communal administrations on one side, and residents and other entities on the other side, using information and communication technology (ICT). As our civilization more and more moves towards an e-society, a society where the use of ICT is increasingly accepted and integrated in all aspects of daily life, e-government may be progressing into e-democracy with e-inclusion and e-participation. Whereas traditionally e-government has been mainly providing information and services to the populace over the internet, with the decision-making remaining chiefly on the government side, e-democracy allows the general population to be included in democratic processes (e-inclusion) and participate in policy making (e-participation). This mini-track invites submissions dealing with all aspects of e-democracy, e-inclusion, and e-participation. Possible Topics: ? Case studies of aspects of e-democracy, e-inclusion, or e-participation. ? Acceptance of e-democracy features by population groups. ? Technical characteristics of implementing e-democracy elements into e-government. ? Development of concepts related to aspects of e-democracy, such as e-lobbying, e-referendum, e-consultation, e-deliberation, e-petition, e-monitoring, etc. ? All aspects of e-voting, including security considerations. ? Development of e-parliaments. ? Social media and e-democracy. ? Innovation in the public sector and e-democracy. ? E-government as a tool for socio-economic development. ? Opportunities for e-justice systems. ? E-administration, e-parliament, e-justice, as components of e-democracy. Mini-track Chairs: Narcyz Roztocki, SUNY at New Paltz, School of Business, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY, USA, Phone: +1 845 257 2935, Fax: +1 845 257 2947, Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu Wojciech Strzelczyk, Kozminski University, Department of Accounting, 57/59 Jagiellonska Street, 03-301, Warsaw, Poland, Phone: +48 604 182 689, Email: wstrzelczyk@kozminski.edu.pl H. Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business, Phone: +1 804 245 0650, Email: hrweistr@vcu.edu Information about our mini-track ?Beyond e-Government: e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation? can be found at: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-10 The due date is March 1, 2023. Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST (US Eastern Standard Time). From prosser at wu.ac.at Mon Feb 13 04:06:59 2023 From: prosser at wu.ac.at (prosser) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers Central and Eastern European e|Dem and e|Gov Days 2023 Message-ID: <09480f4ee45a48ae7ef39fcbaacf40b6@wu.ac.at> Call for Papers Central and Eastern European e|Dem and e|Gov Days 2023, https://ceeegov2023.ocg.at/de Budapest September 14-15, 2023, National University of Public Service and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Conference proceedings will be published in the ICPS series of the ACM Digital Library. The CEEE|Gov Days 2023 are dedicated to all aspects of Public Sector ICT. 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. 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, - 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, - Transparency and anti-corruption, - eTools to help establish a European public space, - Open Data, - Public transport and public organization of mobility - Legal aspects of eGovernment and eDemocracy, - Economic and social impact of eGovernment and eDemocracy, - Enabling the Digital Single Market The conference language will be English only. Papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process and published at ICPS. Organisers: Austrian Computer Society (OCG) Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Information Society Development Institute, Moldova (ISDI) University of Public Service, Budapest Ludovika (Ludovika-UPS) Pavol Jozef ?af?rik University, Ko?ice Hochschule f?r ?ffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen Ludwigsburg From i.susha at uu.nl Wed Feb 15 08:13:55 2023 From: i.susha at uu.nl (Susha, I. (Iryna)) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FW: CfP EGOV ICT&SDGs track In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear fellow Digital Government scholars, You are kindly invited to submit your paper to the track "ICT and Sustainable Development Goals" of the EGOV2023 conference held at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, on September 5-7. The submission deadline is March 31 (hard deadline). The track description is below. We hope for insightful discussions and inspiring exchange with you on this topic again this year! Kind regards, Iryna Susha (Utrecht University) Jolien Ubacht (Delft University of Technology) Gianluca Misuraca (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) ICT and Sustainable Development Goals Track In 2015 the United Nations presented 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the heart of these goals are themes of poverty, inequality, health, discrimination, inclusion, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. The Agenda for Sustainable Development calls upon governments, NGOs, private parties and citizens to take action that contribute to the realization of these very ambitious and far reaching universal targets by 2030. Digital technologies are seen as essential in achieving the SDG targets. can support the implementation of policies and processes that contribute to reaching these sustainable development goals in various ways. 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. Artificial Intelligence, open data and data analytics play an important role in the formulation of policies and the evaluation in terms of reaching the SDG targets. ICT-based applications such as digital identities, cryptocurrencies, open data or e-consultations and voting can give citizens the means to actively play a role in reaching for SDGs that address financial inclusion, inequality, poverty eradication, food security and health. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in many sectors, yet the effects on for instance the world of work or education are not yet fully comprehended. However, digital technologies also raise discussions on their use that can be at odds with SDGs. For instance the energy consumption of cryptocurrencies versus energy reduction goals or having no access to digital information versus solving inequality and poverty or the use of privacy-intruding digital technologies versus health improvement and well-being. Many are concerned about the effects of digital technologies, such as platformization and automation, on the labour market and the ensuing inequalities and job polarization. In this track we invite authors to submit original research that explicitly addresses the contribution of digital technologies for SDGs. We especially encourage critical perspectives on the positive effects, as well the negative externalities, of digital technologies in terms of SDGs. We provide for a non-exclusive list of themes and topics, such as: * An overview of the contribution of digital technologies for realizing a particular SDG; * Green information systems (re)design to combat CO2 emissions from ICT usage; * Case studies that illustrate how digitization supports the implementation of public policies that address a SDG. For example how digital data sharing can assist in monitoring the effects of public policies; * Critical review of the way(s) in which digital technologies are at odds with SDGs, e.g. privacy and security risks; * Information policies for dealing with climate change, pollution, in areas like healthcare and caregiving, food and agriculture, disaster prevention, and green economies; * Information-sharing between public and private stakeholders to monitor and support extended producer responsibility or policies aimed at circular business models; * Cases of ICT-enabled public consultations for formulating sustainable policies; * The use of open data for resilience and disaster management; * E-monitoring of circular goods and materials for compliance with national policies for a circular economy; * Teaching cases in the field of ICT for sustainability. * Ethical questions and dilemmas posed by digital technologies in light of SDGs * Technology tools to stimulate change in consumption patterns (lower energy use, eat local, waste management etc.)Public-private and cross-sector partnerships to leverage the power of data for SDGs We welcome a diversity in research designs, approaches and methodologies. ??Dr. Iryna Susha | Assistant Professor | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Faculty of Geosciences | Utrecht University | Vening Meineszbuilding A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht | room 7.36 | P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht | i.susha@uu.nl | www.uu.nl/staff/ISusha | On parental leave on Wednesdays From mpresearch at ugr.es Fri Feb 17 04:02:36 2023 From: mpresearch at ugr.es (mpresearch@ugr.es) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Message-ID: <02d601d942c7$b96cf130$2c46d390$@ugr.es> Dear colleague, Urban growth, natural disasters and health emergencies have introduced a number of important issues in the urban context, pushing cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a smart environment. The digital transformation of these communities has become a top priority for city governments and communities and offers great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity. Emergent and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, chatbots, open data, Internet of Things, or clean technologies are opening new avenues to become smart and are at the forefront of smart projects to improve citizen engagement, public service provision, city sustainability and resilience. However, significant challenges have also arisen at the complex intersection of technology and society. The Smart Cities track at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 aims to critically explore these issues, and research contributions that pay particular attention to topics related to the opportunities and challenges faced by smart cities, smart districts, and smart communities, as well as to the impact of these initiatives on sustainable living and governance, are therefore sought. Submissions that focus on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart districts, smart resources, and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies are also welcome. Research papers submitted may cover both organizational and technical aspects and could seek to combine theory and practice. Submissions taking interdisciplinary approaches and covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. A full description of the track and potential topics of interest may be found in https://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/conference-tracks/ IMPORTANT DATES ? (Hard) deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance: 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 HOW TO SUBMIT Submissions can be made here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 TRACK CHAIRS Dr. Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (lead) Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Prof. Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium From M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl Fri Feb 24 06:21:56 2023 From: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl (Marijn Janssen - TBM) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023 Message-ID: IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023 Budapest, Hungary 5-7 September CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IFIP EGOV2023 will be hosted 5-7 September 2023 in Budapest by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. 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 4 September 2023. 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 is on interdisciplinary approaches for 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. IMPORTANT DATES ? (Hard) deadline for paper submissions and panel and workshops proposals (anonymous- camera ready): 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 CONFERENCE CHAIRS o Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary o Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece o Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden o Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria o Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London o Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria o Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria o Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland o Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands o Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands o Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece o Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria o Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands TRACKS AT EGOV2023 General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. ? Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden (lead) ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands ? 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 ? Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria ? Marius Rohde Johannessen (lead), University of South-Eastern Norway ICT and Sustainability Development Goals Track: All research related to the UN sustainability goals ? Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ? Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ? Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. ? Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium ? Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Emerging issues and innovations: focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems ? Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands ? Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu Unversity, Estonia ? Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary ? Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium 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. ? Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece ? Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, 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 ? Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ? Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain. ? 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. ? Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ? J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA ? Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece 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. ? Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK ? Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway ? T?r?k Bern?t, University of Public Service Budapest, Hungary Legal informatics: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming dominant in the government domain. ? Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany ? Hun-Yeong Kwon - Korea University, South-Korea 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. ? Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria ? Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA ? Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the IFIP EGOV2023 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-ePart2023 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 proceeding's 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 & Sustainable development goals, 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 issue 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. o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria o Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece o Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain CONFERENCE VENUE The EGOV 2023 conference is hosted by Corvinus University of Budapest. The institution offers state-of-the-art knowledge, a professional network and a secure future for its 10k+ students. The institution builds on more than hundred years old history. Regarding numbers, the university has 120+ years of history, 10,000+ students, 1,500 international students from 80+ nationalities. The institution is reported in the Top 300 in the QS World rankings for 2021 in the fields of Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences. CONTACT Email: egov2023@easychair.org CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2023 Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 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 Head of the ESS department 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 manuelp at ugr.es Sat Mar 4 02:17:09 2023 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. Special issue in Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society Message-ID: <4D23F12C-8D46-4C6A-8FD7-4232F1DD3EDF@ugr.es> Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration Special Issues editors: Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uah.es Overview of Special Issue During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. Indicative List of Anticipated Themes: This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: - Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. - ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. - Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework - Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) - Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). - Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. - Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. - Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. - Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. Manuscript submission information: Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue: Initial paper submission deadline: 29th February 2024 First round authors notification: 15th May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26th July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15th September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15th October 2024 Final authors notification: 15th November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 Submission Site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx Article Type Name: ?VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (manuelp@ugr.es ). Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society References Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. Government Information Quarterly, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. Social Science Computer Review, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. Social Science Computer Review. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. International Journal of Information Management, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 457-469. From manuelp at ugr.es Sat Mar 4 02:17:09 2023 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. Special issue in Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society Message-ID: <4D23F12C-8D46-4C6A-8FD7-4232F1DD3EDF@ugr.es> Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration Special Issues editors: Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uah.es Overview of Special Issue During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. Indicative List of Anticipated Themes: This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: - Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. - ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. - Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework - Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) - Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). - Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. - Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. - Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. - Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. Manuscript submission information: Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue: Initial paper submission deadline: 29th February 2024 First round authors notification: 15th May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26th July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15th September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15th October 2024 Final authors notification: 15th November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 Submission Site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx Article Type Name: ?VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (manuelp@ugr.es ). Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society References Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. Government Information Quarterly, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. Social Science Computer Review, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. Social Science Computer Review. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. International Journal of Information Management, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 457-469. From sara.hofmann at uia.no Wed Mar 8 04:00:19 2023 From: sara.hofmann at uia.no (Sara Hofmann) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for abstracts: 2023 Pre-ECIS Workshop "Responsible digitalisation of the public sector" Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit an extended abstract to the 2023 pre-ECIS Workshop "Responsible digitalisation of the public sector", co-organized by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on e-Government (SIGe-Gov). Please forward this call to interested colleagues. Workshop "Responsible digitalisation of the public sector" prior to the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) June 13, 2023, Kristiansand, Norway * Submission deadline: April 13, 2023 * Notification date: April 28, 2023 The focus of the workshop will be knowledge sharing and discussion of the submitted abstracts. There will not be produced proceedings and authors will retain full authorship rights to their submitted work. The workshop calls for extended abstracts to explore the phenomenon of responsible digitalisation within the public sector. Contributions 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 We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. For any questions, please use sigegov@ecis2023.no. Peter Andr? Busch, University of Agder, Norway Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway ?ystein S?b?, University of Agder, Norway Francesco Gualdi, London School of Economics, UK From mpresearch at ugr.es Thu Mar 9 01:51:43 2023 From: mpresearch at ugr.es (mpresearch@ugr.es) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Message-ID: <03c501d9526c$c1097b70$431c7250$@ugr.es> Dear colleague, Urban growth, natural disasters and health emergencies have introduced a number of important issues in the urban context, pushing cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a smart environment. The digital transformation of these communities has become a top priority for city governments and communities and offers great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity. Emergent and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, chatbots, open data, Internet of Things, or clean technologies are opening new avenues to become smart and are at the forefront of smart projects to improve citizen engagement, public service provision, city sustainability and resilience. However, significant challenges have also arisen at the complex intersection of technology and society. The Smart Cities track at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 aims to critically explore these issues, and research contributions that pay particular attention to topics related to the opportunities and challenges faced by smart cities, smart districts, and smart communities, as well as to the impact of these initiatives on sustainable living and governance, are therefore sought. Submissions that focus on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart districts, smart resources, and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies are also welcome. Research papers submitted may cover both organizational and technical aspects and could seek to combine theory and practice. Submissions taking interdisciplinary approaches and covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. A full description of the track and potential topics of interest may be found in https://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/conference-tracks/ IMPORTANT DATES ? (Hard) deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance: 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 HOW TO SUBMIT Submissions can be made here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 TRACK CHAIRS Dr. Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (lead) Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Prof. Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium From catalin.vrabie at snspa.ro Sun Mar 12 19:46:27 2023 From: catalin.vrabie at snspa.ro (=?UTF-8?B?Q8SDdMSDbGluIFZyYWJpZQ==?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Securing Smart Cities International Conference 2023 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Securing Smart Cities International Conference Fourth Edition, June 09, 2023 The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Faculty of Public Administration is organizing the Third Edition of the Securing Smart Cities International Conference, which will be held on June 09, 2023. The participation to the conference is open to academics, policy makers, practitioners, researchers and students from all areas of administrative sciences, communication, informatics and cybernetics ? but not only. We also encourage the participation of specialists from the public administration bodies. *TOPICS ADDRESSED* Participant?s interventions will primarily focus on the following aspects, but will not be limited only to these ones: cyber management, information sabotage, fake news, (personal) data security. The list may also include ongoing researches and case studies on cybercrimes, data leaks, face recognition challenges and opportunities and IoT risks. *DISCUSSION PANELS* ? Cyber management; ? Information sabotage; ? Data security. Presentations, as well as the Q&A sessions, will be delivered in English. *REGISTRATION * ? *As a speaker* ? please write a title for the presentation and a short abstract (250 words) and send it to catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro no later than 21.05.2023. ? *As a participant *? please send us an e-mail to catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro no later than 21.05.2023. *There is no participation fee.* *PUBLICATION* The articles will be scientifically evaluated and the ones accepted for publication will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be edited and printed by the Universul Academic Publishing House along with Universitar? Publishing House ? a publisher accredited by the National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education and by the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates. We encourage not only academia to publish papers, but also public administration?s practitioners. The conference?s scientific committee will select the papers that are to be presented in the conference?s plenary sessions and the authors will be notified by e-mail. Selected papers will be published in - Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal (SCRD) - Journal of E-Technology *There is no publication fee.* *VENUE* National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) Bvd. Expozitiei, No. 30 A, Sector 1, Bucuresti, Romania *CONTACT DETAILS* E-mail address: catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro Web address: https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/events/conferences/12-ssc03/69-about-ssc04-2023 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/smartcitieshub -- Associate Professor Catalin VRABIE Lead Editor *Smart City and Regional Development (SCRD) Journa*l Faculty of Public Administration National University of Political Studies and Public Administration - SNSPA A: 30 A Expozi?iei Bd, Bucharest (S1), CP 012104 W: www.snspa.ro I www.administratiepublica.eu I www. *smart-edu-hub.eu* From noella.edelmann at donau-uni.ac.at Mon Mar 13 04:43:05 2023 From: noella.edelmann at donau-uni.ac.at (Noella Edelmann) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] EGOV 2023 5-7 September 2023, Budapest: Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear All, we look forward to your contributions and seeing you at EGOV 2023, to be held 5-7. September 2023 in Budapest. All details here: https://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/ Tracks: General E-Government and E-Governance Track General e-Democracy & e-Participation Track ICT and Sustainable Development Goals Track Digital Society Track AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Open data: social and technical aspects Track Emerging Issues and Innovations Track Digital and Social Media Track Legal Informatics Deadline for submission: 31.03.2023 Best regards Noella Edelmann Dr. Noella Edelmann, BA, MAS, MSc Senior Research Fellow University of Continuing Education Department of E-Governance and Administration Center for E-Government Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems, Austria 0043 (0)23732 893 2303 From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Mar 20 23:47:17 2023 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers. Special issue in Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society Message-ID: *Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration* ** *Special Issues editors:* Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uah.es *Overview of Special Issue* During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. *Indicative List of Anticipated Themes:* This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: -Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. -ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. -Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework -Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) -Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). -Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. -Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. -Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. -Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. *Manuscript submission information:* *Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue:* Initial paper submission deadline: 29^th ?February 2024 First round authors notification: 15^th ?May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26^th ?July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15^th ?September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15^th ?October 2024 Final authors notification: 15^th ?November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 *Submission Site:*https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx *Article Type Name:*??VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact *Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var*?(manuelp@ugr.es ). *Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:*https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society ** *References* Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. /Government Information Quarterly/, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. /Government Information Quarterly/, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. /Social Science Computer Review/, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. /Social Science Computer Review/. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. /Digital Government: Research and Practice/, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers/. Social Science Computer Review,/?33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. /International Journal of Information Management/, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(3), 457-469. From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Mar 20 23:47:17 2023 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers. Special issue in Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society Message-ID: *Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration* ** *Special Issues editors:* Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uah.es *Overview of Special Issue* During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. *Indicative List of Anticipated Themes:* This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: -Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. -ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. -Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework -Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) -Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). -Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. -Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. -Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. -Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. *Manuscript submission information:* *Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue:* Initial paper submission deadline: 29^th ?February 2024 First round authors notification: 15^th ?May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26^th ?July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15^th ?September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15^th ?October 2024 Final authors notification: 15^th ?November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 *Submission Site:*https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx *Article Type Name:*??VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact *Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var*?(manuelp@ugr.es ). *Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:*https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society ** *References* Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. /Government Information Quarterly/, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. /Government Information Quarterly/, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. /Social Science Computer Review/, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. /Social Science Computer Review/. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. /Digital Government: Research and Practice/, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers/. Social Science Computer Review,/?33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. /Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy/, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. /International Journal of Information Management/, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. /Government Information Quarterly/, 34(3), 457-469. From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Mar 20 23:51:08 2023 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] IFIP EGOV CeDEM e-Part 2023. Call for Papers: Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Message-ID: <7c633720-2231-36a5-d0de-465fd909375a@ugr.es> Dear colleague, Urban growth, natural disasters and health emergencies have introduced a number of important issues in the urban context, pushing cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a smart environment. The digital transformation of these communities has become a top priority for city governments and communities and offers great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity.Emergent and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, chatbots, open data, Internet of Things, or clean technologies are opening new avenues to become smart and are at the forefront of smart projects to improve citizen engagement, public service provision, city sustainability and resilience. However, significant challenges have also arisen at the complex intersection of technology and society. ?The Smart Cities track at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 aims to critically explore these issues, and research contributions that pay particular attention to topics related to the opportunities and challenges faced by smart cities, smart districts, and smart communities, as well as to the impact of these initiatives on sustainable living and governance, are therefore sought. Submissions that focus on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart districts, smart resources, and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies are also welcome.Research papers submitted may cover both organizational and technical aspects and could seek to combine theory and practice. Submissions taking interdisciplinary approaches and covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. ?A full description of the track and potential topics of interest may be found inhttps://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/conference-tracks/ *?IMPORTANT DATES* **? (Hard) deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance: 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 *HOW TO SUBMIT* ?Submissions can be made here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 *TRACK CHAIRS* ?Dr. Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (lead) Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Prof. Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Mar 20 23:51:08 2023 From: manuelp at ugr.es (Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] IFIP EGOV CeDEM e-Part 2023. Call for Papers: Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Message-ID: <7c633720-2231-36a5-d0de-465fd909375a@ugr.es> Dear colleague, Urban growth, natural disasters and health emergencies have introduced a number of important issues in the urban context, pushing cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a smart environment. The digital transformation of these communities has become a top priority for city governments and communities and offers great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity.Emergent and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, chatbots, open data, Internet of Things, or clean technologies are opening new avenues to become smart and are at the forefront of smart projects to improve citizen engagement, public service provision, city sustainability and resilience. However, significant challenges have also arisen at the complex intersection of technology and society. ?The Smart Cities track at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 aims to critically explore these issues, and research contributions that pay particular attention to topics related to the opportunities and challenges faced by smart cities, smart districts, and smart communities, as well as to the impact of these initiatives on sustainable living and governance, are therefore sought. Submissions that focus on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart districts, smart resources, and talent leverage in urban, rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies are also welcome.Research papers submitted may cover both organizational and technical aspects and could seek to combine theory and practice. Submissions taking interdisciplinary approaches and covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. ?A full description of the track and potential topics of interest may be found inhttps://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/conference-tracks/ *?IMPORTANT DATES* **? (Hard) deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023 ? Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 ? PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023 ? Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023 ? Poster acceptance: 31 May 2023 ? Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023 ? PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023 ? PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023 ? Conference: 5-7 September 2023 *HOW TO SUBMIT* ?Submissions can be made here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023 *TRACK CHAIRS* ?Dr. Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (lead) Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Prof. Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium From sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca Wed Mar 22 04:42:49 2023 From: sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca (Sehl Mellouli) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP: SDG for City and location technologies Mini-track : HICSS-57 Message-ID: <013d5491-ee02-978d-471a-7419f3e1f6a7@fsa.ulaval.ca> *CALL FOR PAPERS * Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 https://hicss.hawaii.edu *Location intelligence special track** * *SDG for City and location technologies Mini-track * Following the Millennium Goals, the United Nations have adopted in 2015, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), brought together under the umbrella of the 2030 Agenda. Based on 1,691 common targets, to be achieved by 2030, the SDGs address the major planetary challenges: eradicating all forms of poverty, in all countries; protecting the planet; and, ensuring prosperity for all (three pillars of sustainable development). SDGs have been designed essentially to be used at macro-scale level. Looking for ways to apply them locally at different geographic scales, in local government, departments and agencies, organizations and businesses, municipalities and cities, local communities? remain very challenging, despite the recent deployment, by the UN, of a series of simple actions, of a mobile application and even of a Chat Bot for the general public. Implementing and monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city scale is indeed not trivial. It requires dedicated research, specific methods, and tools. Even the SDG 11 ?Sustainable cities and communities? does not provide ?turnkey? or ?one size fits? all solution. Smart cities approach, Smart technologies (sensors networks and IoT, urban Artificial Intelligence, geospatial intelligence technologies and data?) should be considered as a way of addressing implementation processes, indicators design and feeding and, SDSs\targets monitoring issues. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to present new research and developments in the following area. Areas of interest for this minitrack include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Using geospatial data and place?based technologies to build indicators for urban SDG monitoring, * Developing urban SDG strategies based on smart city platform, * Educating and engaging citizens and local communities in urban SDG strategies, * Feeding urban SDG monitoring system with location technologies, * Integrating SDG in smart city projects, * SDG and urban digital transition, The minitrack welcomes Original Research, Dialogues, Brief Research Report, Community Case Study, Conceptual Analysis, Research Statement and Perspectives. *Important dates* (https://hicss.hawaii.edu/): April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56 June 15, 2023: Papers due August 17, 2023: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference January 3-6, 2024: HICSS Conference *Mini-track Co-Chairs: * St?phane Roche (Primary Contact) Laval University stephane.roche@scg.ulaval.ca Sehl Mellouli Laval University Sehl.Mellouli@fsa.ulaval.ca -- Sehl Mellouli, professeur titulaire/full professor Vice-Recteur Adjoint aux services ? l?enseignement et ? la formation tout au long de la vie/ Deputy Vice-Rector Education and Lifelong Learning Universite Laval G1V 0A6, Quebec, Quebec, Canada From jamal at shahin.org Wed Mar 22 09:03:11 2023 From: jamal at shahin.org (Jamal Shahin) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CfP: Global Internet Governance academic network annual symposium: 8 October 2023 Message-ID: # Call for Papers: GigaNet 2023 Symposium GigaNet ? the Global Internet Governance Academic Network ? is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. As of now, GigaNet 2023 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in a hybrid format in Japan. Papers on any internet/digital governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are warmly encouraged. There will be the possibility for a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. In previous years, collections of papers presented at the symposium were invited for publication in the journal Telecommunications Policy. We particularly welcome presentations of research that take a global perspective, and explicitly invite comparative papers. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars and researchers working with diverse methodologies to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge. Welcome topics for this year?s symposium include, but are not limited to: ## Internet governance as a field of study - Narratives, myths, contributing disciplines, and frictions in the construction of the field of internet governance - Internet governance cultures and power dynamics - Theoretical innovations and new methods applicable to internet governance research - Postcolonial internet governance studies ## The evolution of internet governance, institutions, and norms - Internet standards and protocols - Internet infrastructure - Platform governance - Cybersecurity - Governance of data streams - Digital rights online - Digital sovereignty ## Critical internet futures - Sustainability and environmental impacts - Digital colonialism - Transformation of internet business models - Space and internet governance - Interdisciplinary perspectives on the governance of frontier technologies (Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, virtual currencies, metaverse, quantum computing), etc. ## Current themes in internet governance research - Online harms, cyberattacks and accountability - Connectivity and access to information - Cyber operations and sanctions - Neutrality in the cyber domain - Applicability of international law - Role of international bodies and/or public-private partnerships - Corporate responsibility and connectivity - Health governance & contact-tracing apps - Civil rights and their limitations - Internet governance and emergency preparedness - Global cooperation and geopolitical tensions - Splinternet and control of the networks GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. The proposed extended abstract should be 800-1000 words long (excluding bibliography) and must describe: 1. Research question(s), 2. Data used, 3. Methodology, 4. Main (expected) findings of the paper, and 5. Contributions to literature and/or ongoing policy debates. Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated. The extended abstract must be uploaded to the submission platform by 30 April 2023, 23.59h (in the submitter?s timezone). Further information on the submission process will be available from the giga-net.org website in mid-April. Individual abstracts will be reviewed double blind. Please do not include names or any other identifiable information on the uploaded file or in the text of the abstract you submit to the platform. (The platform records the author name(s) and contact information: the programme committee chair will be able to see that information.) Full papers should only be submitted upon invitation, following the selection of abstracts. ## Important dates: Submission portal opens: **mid-April** (see giga-net.org for more information) Extended abstracts submission: **30 April** Notification to authors of acceptances/rejections: **15 June** Accepted authors confirm attendance: **25 June** Full papers due: **5 September** GigaNet Symposium: early October (tentatively planned for 8 October) ? GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, national, regional, and international debates on internet governance. More information on GigaNet?s organizational structures and activities can be found on its website at https://www.giga-net.org. From jscholl at uw.edu Tue Mar 28 18:21:05 2023 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?DIRL_Version_5=2E5_=E2=80=94_Semi-annual_Up?= =?utf-8?q?date_Released?= Message-ID: Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) ? Newest Update Version 5.5 is the most recent update of this reference library. It has been published as of March 31, 2023 as a slightly early semiannual update. The library now contains 4,706 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 204 references, or 4.5%. The DIRL is becoming an indispensable tool for Disaster Information and Technology-interested scholars. In particular, peer 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 Zoteroversions 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. 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, Galen Guffy, and Matthew Unruh and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Leslie Harka, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2023). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 5.5?6.0. Retrieved from: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/ Please also note: The DIRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support. Kind regards, Dr. Hans J Scholl, University of Washington From peter.roenne at gmail.com Tue Mar 28 09:43:56 2023 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 2023 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2023 Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Luxembourg, 3-6 October 2023 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2023) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the eighth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Luxembourg in October 2023. 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 seven editions, over 240 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 900 participants. The format of the conference is a three-day physical meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) - (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; - Or 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: Krivonosova, Iuliia (Independent Researcher, Switzerland) and Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 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 in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert, United Kingdom) 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: Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 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 (2-4 pages) 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: Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) and Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) 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 https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/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 in LNCS 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 4 and 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=evoteid2023 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 E-Vote-ID 2023 will take place in Neum?nster Abbey, Luxembourg https://www.neimenster.lu/en/event-management/ and will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Mihkel Solvak, Oliver Spycher, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2023 ? Submission deadline See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2023/ Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2023 Programme Committee General Chairs Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Track Chairs Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) Track 2: Governance Issues Krivonosova, Iuliia (Independent Researcher, Switzerland) Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert, United Kingdom) Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track 5: PhD Colloquium Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Outreach Chair Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, Netherlands) 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) Bernhard, Matthew (Voting Works) Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering) Collazos, C?sar (Universidad del Cauca) Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Loria) Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario) Ford, Bryan (?cole polytechnique f?d?rale de Lausanne) Galindo, David (Crypto in Motion) 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) Hao, Feng (The University of Warwick) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University) Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences) 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 (Universit? catholique de Louvain) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security) Ruescas, David (Sequent) Ryan, Peter 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) Silde, Tjerand (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley) Syta, Ewa (Yale University) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas) Vukcevic, Damjan (The University of Melbourne) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw) 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) Fern?ndez Riveira, Rosa Mar?a (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Germann, Micha (University of Bath) Kersting, Norbert (University of Munster) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University) Pe?a-L?pez, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna) Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham) von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (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) Chaudhary, Tarun (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) Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum f?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University) McDermott, Ronan (mcdis) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR) Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for 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 alexop at aegean.gr Sat Apr 1 05:21:27 2023 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" In-Reply-To: References: 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. From gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de Tue Apr 11 23:45:04 2023 From: gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de (Auth, Gunnar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: 6th Conf. Legal & Public Administration Informatics (RVI 2023), Dresden, Germany Message-ID: ***apologies for cross-postings*** Call for Papers 6th Conference on Legal and Public Administration Informatics (RVI 2023) ?Sustainable and Digital Government in the Networked Society? October 26/27, 2023, HTW Dresden and HSF Mei?en, Germany, https://www.rvi23.de Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2023 1. Description In a comprehensively networked world, government and administration must keep pace and incorporate the requirements of the digital age. However, decarbonization, demographics, digitization, and international conflicts reflect the rapid change of this world. Citizens, administrative employees, companies, and civil society organizations expect the public sector to offer its services in a low-threshold, user-oriented, sustainable, and contemporary manner. Failed digital projects, on the other hand, slow down the development of our entire society and damage trust in politics, the state, and the administration. Digital transformation is thus becoming a permanent task of state modernization that should not be underestimated in order to safeguard not only our prosperity but also our democracy and our freedom. In particular, trust in the administration is based on the proven maxims of the rule of law, information security, and data privacy. This area of tension presents the public sector with complex challenges time and again. Diverse objectives and diverging mission statements, as well as a visible shortage of budgets and qualified specialists, are increasingly tightening the problem. The joint conference on legal and public administration informatics (RVI 2023, formerly FTVI & FTRI) of the Gesellschaft f?r Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) aims to promote the dialog between science and practice and to substantially advance the digital transformation of government and administration through scientifically validated findings. The RVI sees itself as a platform, discourse space, and incubator to bring relevant stakeholders into a fruitful exchange. Our call for papers is addressed equally to academics and practitioners, as well as especially to students and early career professionals. Accepted papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings, which are scheduled to appear in the GI series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). The program committee will select an accepted full paper for the Best Paper Award as well as the Best Student Paper Award. 2. Possible topic areas We welcome the submission of contributions from academia and practice (completed research, work in progress, practical report) on the following topics. In addition to the topics mentioned, other related topics within our thematic scope may be addressed. * E-Government, E-Justice and E-Democracy * Administrative portals, portal networks and register modernization * Open government and administration, open data * Access to public documents, document automation and document editing * Digital citizen participation, digital collaboration and open innovation * Collaboration with GovTech/LegalTech startup companies and effects of this transfer * Novel competencies for the digitalization of government and administration * Sustainable smart cities and digital communities * Governance and strategy for sustainable digital government * Urban data platforms, digital twins and European data spaces * Business process management, process mining and (AI-based) process automation * Development and operation of legal/administrative information systems, e.g., ERP systems, Service engineering and management * Digital infrastructures and government enterprise architectures * Resilience and sovereignty requirements in procurement and operation of digital infrastructures * Data privacy, information security, digital identities, cybercrime * Data ethics, trust in digital state and administrative action * Innovative technology solutions in legal practice and administrative work (e.g., large language models, linked data/semantic web, AR/VR, blockchain, quantum computing) Contributions by students (student track) We especially call upon students and graduates of public administration and legal informatics and related study programs to submit papers. It is explicitly expected that students are the first authors of the contributions. Support from supervisors is possible and encouraged. Accepted papers will be presented in the student track and published in the conference proceedings. 3. Submission deadlines and dates * Submission of research papers: June 19, 2023 * Submission of practical presentations and workshop proposals: July 24, 2023 * Author notification: August 07, 2023 * Submission of camera-ready version: September 04, 2023 * Conference dates: October 26/27, 2023 4. Notes on submission Scientific contributions for the double-blind review process (incl. the student track) must be submitted anonymously and in the format of the LNI series (https://gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Service/Publikationen/LNI/LNI-authorsinstructions-englisch.doc) via the online system EasyChair. They must not exceed 12 pages. Practical presentations and workshop proposals should be outlined on one DIN A4 page. The content-related contribution and practical benefits are to be emphasized in particular. In the case of workshop proposals, information is also requested on the organizers, expected participants, and the course of events, as well as the necessary equipment. Practical contributions that are not intended to be published in the conference proceedings can be submitted in the form of an extended abstract (objective, main content of the presentation, contribution to administrative and/or legal informatics; 1-2 page/s). Each paper must have one of its authors registered to RVI 2023. Only papers presented during the conference will be published in the proceedings. Conference chairs Prof. Dr. Gunnar Auth, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Tim Pidun, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Conference co-chairs Prof. Dr.-Ing. J?rgen Anke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Handke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Jokisch, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef R?tz, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Apr 14 02:23:59 2023 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-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 Message-ID: <93ec1981-816a-82fb-ae27-e02d3022654b@ugr.es> Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 https://hicss.hawaii.edu *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. The concept of smart cities and communities is characterized by 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 in 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, digital twins, 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/ ): ?June 15, 2023: Papers due August 17, 2023: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference January 3-6, 2024: HICSS Conference ** *Mini-track Co-Chairs:* Gabriela Viale Pereira (primary contact), Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From sara.hofmann at uia.no Fri Apr 21 06:46:53 2023 From: sara.hofmann at uia.no (Sara Hofmann) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] ECSCW 2023 workshop on digital public encounters. Submission deadline May 1. Trondheim, Norway Message-ID: Dear colleagues, If you are working on the digitalization of public services, please consider participating in our workshop! * What: Half-day workshop on digital public encounters. * Where: As part of the ECSCW 2023 conference in Trondheim, Norway. See https://ecscw.eusset.eu. * When: June 6, 2023. * How: Submit a 1-3 pages position paper. You can find more information about the workshop and how to participate here: https://digipub.idi.ntnu.no/digital-public-encounters/ Background: The digitalization of the public sector impacts nearly all aspects of public service provision, including the interaction between citizens and public officials, also known as public encounter. This traditionally face-to-face interaction is being replaced by digital platforms, chat-bots, and self-services. Public encounters can be highly collaborative processes, e.g., in the provision of welfare services, that involve multiple stakeholders. The use of digital tools in these processes poses opportunities as well as challenges to the collaborative process and the public service provision in general. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with a common interest in the collaborative aspects of digital public encounter, how public officials and citizens communicate and cooperate through digital tools, and the long-term impact of these technological transformations. Topics include but are not limited to communication and collaboration processes in the digital public encounter, analysis of digital tools in the public encounter and theories and case-studies on how public encounters happen. We invite researchers as well as practitioners to participate in the workshop. Regards, organizers: Michaela Schmidt (NTNU), Babak Farshchian (NTNU), Sara Hofmann (UiA). -- Sara Hofmann Associate Professor Department of Information Systems University of Agder Phone: +47 38 14 13 43 E-mail: sara.hofmann@uia.no www.uia.no/en www.uia.no/kk/profil/sarah From peter.roenne at gmail.com Mon May 1 00:27:55 2023 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 2023 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] Two weeks to the main submission deadline! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2023 Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Luxembourg, 3-6 October 2023 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2023) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the eighth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Luxembourg in October 2023. 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 seven editions, over 240 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 900 participants. The format of the conference is a three-day physical meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) - (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; - Or 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: Spycher, Iuliia (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 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 in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert, United Kingdom) 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: Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 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 (2-4 pages) 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: Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) and Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) 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 https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/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 in LNCS 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 4 and 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=evoteid2023 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal Special Issue Authors of selected papers for Track 2 (Governance Issues) and Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) will be invited to submit significantly extended versions of the papers published in the conference proceedings to a special issue in the e-Journal of eDemocracy and Open Government (https://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem). The journal is open-access and indexed at Scopus and publishes theoretical, practical and empirical research in the categories Research Papers, Invited Papers, Project Descriptions and Reflections. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue E-Vote-ID 2023 will take place in Neum?nster Abbey, Luxembourg https://www.neimenster.lu/en/event-management/ and will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Mihkel Solvak, Oliver Spycher, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2023? 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2023 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2023 ? Submission deadline See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2023/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) R?nne, Peter (CNRS, France) Local Chair: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Track Chairs Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar) Track 2: Governance Issues Spycher, Iuliia (Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland) Rodriguez, Adri? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert, United Kingdom) Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track 5: PhD Colloquium Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Outreach Chair Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, Netherlands) 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) Bernhard, Matthew (Voting Works) Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering) Collazos, C?sar (Universidad del Cauca) Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Loria) Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario) Ford, Bryan (?cole polytechnique f?d?rale de Lausanne) Galindo, David (Crypto in Motion) 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) Hao, Feng (The University of Warwick) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University) Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences) 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 (Universit? catholique de Louvain) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security) Ruescas, David (Sequent) Ryan, Peter 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) Silde, Tjerand (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley) Syta, Ewa (Yale University) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas) Vukcevic, Damjan (The University of Melbourne) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw) 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) Fern?ndez Riveira, Rosa Mar?a (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Germann, Micha (University of Bath) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University) Kersting, Norbert (University of Munster) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University) Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University) Pe?a-L?pez, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna) Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service) Serd?lt, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University) Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham) Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy) von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (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) Chaudhary, Tarun (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) Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum f?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University) McDermott, Ronan (mcdis) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR) Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for 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 F.Gualdi at lse.ac.uk Thu May 4 07:16:02 2023 From: F.Gualdi at lse.ac.uk (Gualdi,F) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Message for mailing list Message-ID: Dear colleague, We cordially invite you consider submitting your original research work to the Design, Implementation, and Management of Digital Government Policies and Strategies minitrack at 57th HICSS conference (January 3-6, 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii). Important dates June 15, 2023: Papers due August 17, 2023: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference All accepted papers will be published in the HICSS proceedings and will be considered for the best paper award. This minitrack seeks papers that discuss theories and/or present cases useful to better understand how different digital government policies and/or strategies can lead to successful digital government deployments, or, on the other hand, how different factors may lead to failure of such projects. Contributions to literature cover different areas and topics. New and emerging technologies often demand new ways of thinking and innovative approaches to frame these deployments. In addition, the minitrack welcomes contributions exploring the issues associated with the design, implementation, and management of policies and strategies that change the nature of the interactions between government and citizens, private sector organizations, and NGOs. Moreover, papers that discuss the political, institutional, and organisational implication of the deployment of emerging and disruptive technologies are particularly welcomed. We are looking for high-quality conference papers that adopt a wide range of approaches on content, case studies, or practical and theoretical models to advance the knowledge related to the design, implementation, and management of strategies and policies in the digital government context. The papers submitted to this minitrack must be new and unpublished. We invite papers on the following topics, but not limited to: * Best practices for design, implementation, and management of digital innovation in the public sector. * Cases of digital government platforms design, implementation, and management * Design, implementation, and management of Interoperability policies: legal, organizational, semantic, and technical layers * Design, implementation, and management of ICT for development strategies * Design, implementation, and management of ICT related outsourcing and insourcing in the public sector * Design, implementation, and management of digital strategies * Design, implementation, and management of digital transformation in policymaking * Design, implementation, and management of E-Procurement policies and strategies * Design, implementation, and management of ICT mediated co-creation and co-production * Design, implementation, and management of ICT transparency, and accountability * Design, implementation, and management of National and global digital strategies to respond to a pandemic * Design, implementation, and management of privacy and data protection policies and strategies * Digital by default and its implications * E-Participation and E-democracy policies and strategies * ICT for efficiency and effectiveness in government action * Legal and judicial transformations associated with ICTs deployments * Lessons for digital policy from the pandemic of 2019-2023. * Public health versus privacy concerns * Public policy issues in digital government * Quantitative and qualitative analyse of the impact of digital government policies and strategies * Socio-political, institutional, organisational, and ethical impacts of disruptive technologies * Strategies to design, implement, and manage innovative technologies Please visit the Digital Government track website, and connect through the Digital Government track LinkedIn page. We look forward to receiving your research! On behalf of the minitrack chairs Francesco Gualdi Antonio Cordella Liudmila Zavolokina Frank Bannister -- Dr. Francesco Gualdi | Fellow Department of Management London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street | London | WC2A 2AE Email: f.gualdi@lse.ac.uk www.lse.ac.uk/management From manuelp at ugr.es Thu May 4 09:48:15 2023 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-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 Message-ID: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 https://hicss.hawaii.edu 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. The concept of smart cities and communities is characterized by 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 in 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, digital twins, 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/): June 15, 2023: Papers due August 17, 2023: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference January 3-6, 2024: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Gabriela Viale Pereira (primary contact), Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From manuelp at ugr.es Thu May 4 09:48:15 2023 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-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 Message-ID: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57), Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beah Resort, January 3-6, 2024 https://hicss.hawaii.edu 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. The concept of smart cities and communities is characterized by 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 in 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, digital twins, 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/): June 15, 2023: Papers due August 17, 2023: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference January 3-6, 2024: HICSS Conference Mini-track Co-Chairs: Gabriela Viale Pereira (primary contact), Danube University Krems, Austria (gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at ) Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain (manuelp@ugr.es ) Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland (anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl ) From manuelp at ugr.es Thu May 4 10:07:36 2023 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: Emerging Technologies Implementation for Improving Citizen Participation and Collaboration. In Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society (JCR) Message-ID: <5FE42059-792B-4899-9DF7-78EF0872FB9B@ugr.es> Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration Special Issues editors: Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uma.es Overview of Special Issue During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. Indicative List of Anticipated Themes: This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: - Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. - ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. - Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework - Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) - Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). - Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. - Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. - Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. - Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. It is extremely important that the submitted manuscript be also relevant to the scope of the journal "SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY". Therefore, it is recommended that potential authors check the journal for its readership and related work before submitting their work. Manuscript submission information: Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue: Initial paper submission deadline: 29th February 2024 First round authors notification: 15th May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26th July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15th September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15th October 2024 Final authors notification: 15th November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 Submission Site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx Article Type Name: ?VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (manuelp@ugr.es ). Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society References Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. Government Information Quarterly, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. Social Science Computer Review, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. Social Science Computer Review. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. International Journal of Information Management, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 457-469. From manuelp at ugr.es Thu May 4 10:07:36 2023 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: Emerging Technologies Implementation for Improving Citizen Participation and Collaboration. In Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society (JCR) Message-ID: <5FE42059-792B-4899-9DF7-78EF0872FB9B@ugr.es> Emerging technologies implementation for improving citizen participation and collaboration Special Issues editors: Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Email: manuelp@ugr.es Assoc. Prof. Laura Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Email: lauraam@ugr.es Assist. Prof. Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz, University of Alcal? de Henares, Spain Email: c.alcaide@uma.es Overview of Special Issue During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. Indicative List of Anticipated Themes: This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: - Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. - ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. - Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework - Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) - Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). - Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. - Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. - Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. - Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. It is extremely important that the submitted manuscript be also relevant to the scope of the journal "SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY". Therefore, it is recommended that potential authors check the journal for its readership and related work before submitting their work. Manuscript submission information: Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue: Initial paper submission deadline: 29th February 2024 First round authors notification: 15th May 2024 Invited revisions deadline: 26th July 2024 Second round authors notification: 15th September 2024 Final revision deadline: 15th October 2024 Final authors notification: 15th November 2024 Project publication date: January 2025 Submission Site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scsi/default2.aspx Article Type Name: ?VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Managing Guest Editor Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (manuelp@ugr.es ). Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:https://www.elsevier.com/journals/sustainable-cities-and-society/2210-6707/guide-for-authors For more information, please visit the ScienceDirect Page of the journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/sustainable-cities-and-society References Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 595-612. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. Government Information Quarterly, 38(1), 101537. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 545-555. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101-412. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. Social Science Computer Review, 34(6), 740-756. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 519-539. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. Social Science Computer Review. Online First. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 1(4), 1-7. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 90-98. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 12(1), 39-60. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 599-612. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(1), 68-80. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. International Journal of Information Management, 40, 111-119. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 457-469. From gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de Thu Jun 1 03:34:40 2023 From: gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de (Auth, Gunnar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 2nd CfP: 6th Conference on Legal and Public Administration Informatics (RVI 2023) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ***apologies for cross-postings*** 2nd Call for Papers 6th Conference on Legal and Public Administration Informatics (RVI 2023) ?Sustainable and Digital Government in the Networked Society? October 26/27, 2023, HTW Dresden and HSF Mei?en, Germany, https://www.rvi23.de/index-en.html Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2023 1. Description In a comprehensively networked world, government and administration must keep pace and incorporate the requirements of the digital age. However, decarbonization, demographics, digitization, and international conflicts reflect the rapid change of this world. Citizens, administrative employees, companies, and civil society organizations expect the public sector to offer its services in a low-threshold, user-oriented, sustainable, and contemporary manner. Failed digital projects, on the other hand, slow down the development of our entire society and damage trust in politics, the state, and the administration. Digital transformation is thus becoming a permanent task of state modernization that should not be underestimated in order to safeguard not only our prosperity but also our democracy and our freedom. In particular, trust in the administration is based on the proven maxims of the rule of law, information security, and data privacy. This area of tension presents the public sector with complex challenges time and again. Diverse objectives and diverging mission statements, as well as a visible shortage of budgets and qualified specialists, are increasingly tightening the problem. The joint conference on legal and public administration informatics (RVI 2023, formerly FTVI & FTRI) of the Gesellschaft f?r Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) aims to promote the dialog between science and practice and to substantially advance the digital transformation of government and administration through scientifically validated findings. The RVI sees itself as a platform, discourse space, and incubator to bring relevant stakeholders into a fruitful exchange. Our call for papers is addressed equally to academics and practitioners, as well as especially to students and early career professionals. Accepted papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings, which are scheduled to appear in the GI series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). The program committee will select an accepted full paper for the Best Paper Award as well as the Best Student Paper Award. 2. Possible topic areas We welcome the submission of contributions from academia and practice (completed research, work in progress, practical report) on the following topics. In addition to the topics mentioned, other related topics within our thematic scope may be addressed. * E-Government, E-Justice and E-Democracy * Administrative portals, portal networks and register modernization * Open government and administration, open data * Access to public documents, document automation and document editing * Digital citizen participation, digital collaboration and open innovation * Collaboration with GovTech/LegalTech startup companies and effects of this transfer * Novel competencies for the digitalization of government and administration * Sustainable smart cities and digital communities * Governance and strategy for sustainable digital government * Urban data platforms, digital twins and European data spaces * Business process management, process mining and (AI-based) process automation * Development and operation of legal/administrative information systems, e.g., ERP systems, Service engineering and management * Digital infrastructures and government enterprise architectures * Resilience and sovereignty requirements in procurement and operation of digital infrastructures * Data privacy, information security, digital identities, cybercrime * Data ethics, trust in digital state and administrative action * Innovative technology solutions in legal practice and administrative work (e.g., large language models, linked data/semantic web, AR/VR, blockchain, quantum computing) Contributions by students (student track) We especially call upon students and graduates of public administration and legal informatics and related study programs to submit papers. It is explicitly expected that students are the first authors of the contributions. Support from supervisors is possible and encouraged. Accepted papers will be presented in the student track and published in the conference proceedings. 3. Submission deadlines and dates * Submission of research papers: June 19, 2023 * Submission of practical presentations and workshop proposals: July 24, 2023 * Author notification: August 07, 2023 * Submission of camera-ready version: September 04, 2023 * Conference dates: October 26/27, 2023 4. Notes on submission Scientific contributions for the double-blind review process (incl. the student track) must be submitted anonymously and in the format of the LNI series (https://gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Service/Publikationen/LNI/LNI-authorsinstructions-englisch.doc). They must not exceed 12 pages. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rvi2023 Practical presentations and workshop proposals should be outlined on one DIN A4 page. The topic-related contribution and practical benefits are to be emphasized in particular. In the case of workshop proposals, information is also requested on the organizers, expected participants, and the course of events, as well as the necessary equipment. Practical contributions that are not intended to be published in the conference proceedings can be submitted in the form of an extended abstract (objective, main content of the presentation, contribution to administrative and/or legal informatics; 1-2 page/s). Each paper must have one of its authors registered to RVI 2023. Only papers presented during the conference will be published in the proceedings. Conference chairs Gunnar Auth, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Tim Pidun, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Conference co-chairs J?rgen Anke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Stefan Handke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Oliver Jokisch, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Detlef R?tz, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Program comitee Rainer Alt, Leipzig University J?rgen Anke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Tobias Brandt, University of M?nster Michael Breidung, City of Dresden Bettina Distel, University of M?nster Wolfgang Eixelsberger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth Benjamin Fabian, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University Roland Franke, BearingPoint Norbert Frick, Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences Steffen Gilge, State Chancellery of Saxony Stefan Handke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Moreen Heine, Universit?t zu L?beck Markus Helfert, Maynooth University Holger H?nemohr, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences Oliver Jokisch, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Achim Kempe, Robotron Database Software Ulrich Lohmann, Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences Matthias Lohse, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Tobias Mettler, University of Lausanne Dagmar L?ck-Schneider, Berlin School of Economics and Law Isabell Peters, HVSN University of Applied Sciences Stephan Raimer, FHVD University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Service Stephan Rein, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences Michael R?ckers, University of M?nster Detlef R?tz, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Birgit Schenk, Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences Marie-Sophie Sch?nitz, Deloitte Tobias Siebenlist, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences Ingmar Soll, dataport.kommunal Christoph Sorge, Saarland University Basanta Thapa, National E-government Competence Center Nils Urbach, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Fraunhofer FIT Anne-Dore Uthe, Harz University of Applied Sciences J?rn von Lucke, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz Andreas Spichiger, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Swiss Federal Chancellery From gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de Wed Jun 14 00:05:18 2023 From: gunnar.auth at hsf-meissen.de (Auth, Gunnar) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Last CfP: 6th Conf Legal & Public Administration Informatics (deadline 19 June '23) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ***apologies for cross-postings*** Last Call for Papers 6th Conference on Legal and Public Administration Informatics (RVI 2023) ?Sustainable and Digital Government in the Networked Society? October 26/27, 2023, HTW Dresden and HSF Mei?en, Germany, https://www.rvi23.de/index-en.html Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2023 1. Description In a comprehensively networked world, government and administration must keep pace and incorporate the requirements of the digital age. However, decarbonization, demographics, digitization, and international conflicts reflect the rapid change of this world. Citizens, administrative employees, companies, and civil society organizations expect the public sector to offer its services in a low-threshold, user-oriented, sustainable, and contemporary manner. Failed digital projects, on the other hand, slow down the development of our entire society and damage trust in politics, the state, and the administration. Digital transformation is thus becoming a permanent task of state modernization that should not be underestimated in order to safeguard not only our prosperity but also our democracy and our freedom. In particular, trust in the administration is based on the proven maxims of the rule of law, information security, and data privacy. This area of tension presents the public sector with complex challenges time and again. Diverse objectives and diverging mission statements, as well as a visible shortage of budgets and qualified specialists, are increasingly tightening the problem. The joint conference on legal and public administration informatics (RVI 2023, formerly FTVI & FTRI) of the Gesellschaft f?r Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) aims to promote the dialog between science and practice and to substantially advance the digital transformation of government and administration through scientifically validated findings. The RVI sees itself as a platform, discourse space, and incubator to bring relevant stakeholders into a fruitful exchange. Our call for papers is addressed equally to academics and practitioners, as well as especially to students and early career professionals. Accepted papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings, which are scheduled to appear in the GI series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). The program committee will select an accepted full paper for the Best Paper Award as well as the Best Student Paper Award. 2. Possible topic areas We welcome the submission of contributions from academia and practice (completed research, work in progress, practical report) on the following topics. In addition to the topics mentioned, other related topics within our thematic scope may be addressed. * E-Government, E-Justice and E-Democracy * Administrative portals, portal networks and register modernization * Open government and administration, open data * Access to public documents, document automation and document editing * Digital citizen participation, digital collaboration and open innovation * Collaboration with GovTech/LegalTech startup companies and effects of this transfer * Novel competencies for the digitalization of government and administration * Sustainable smart cities and digital communities * Governance and strategy for sustainable digital government * Urban data platforms, digital twins and European data spaces * Business process management, process mining and (AI-based) process automation * Development and operation of legal/administrative information systems, e.g., ERP systems, Service engineering and management * Digital infrastructures and government enterprise architectures * Resilience and sovereignty requirements in procurement and operation of digital infrastructures * Data privacy, information security, digital identities, cybercrime * Data ethics, trust in digital state and administrative action * Innovative technology solutions in legal practice and administrative work (e.g., large language models, linked data/semantic web, AR/VR, blockchain, quantum computing) Contributions by students (student track) We especially call upon students and graduates of public administration and legal informatics and related study programs to submit papers. It is explicitly expected that students are the first authors of the contributions. Support from supervisors is possible and encouraged. Accepted papers will be presented in the student track and published in the conference proceedings. 3. Submission deadlines and dates * Submission of research papers: June 19, 2023 * Submission of practical presentations and workshop proposals: July 24, 2023 * Author notification: August 07, 2023 * Submission of camera-ready version: September 04, 2023 * Conference dates: October 26/27, 2023 4. Notes on submission Scientific contributions for the double-blind review process (incl. the student track) must be submitted anonymously and in the format of the LNI series (https://gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Service/Publikationen/LNI/LNI-authorsinstructions-englisch.doc). They must not exceed 12 pages. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rvi2023 Practical presentations and workshop proposals should be outlined on one DIN A4 page. The topic-related contribution and practical benefits are to be emphasized in particular. In the case of workshop proposals, information is also requested on the organizers, expected participants, and the course of events, as well as the necessary equipment. Practical contributions that are not intended to be published in the conference proceedings can be submitted in the form of an extended abstract (objective, main content of the presentation, contribution to administrative and/or legal informatics; 1-2 page/s). Each paper must have one of its authors registered to RVI 2023. Only papers presented during the conference will be published in the proceedings. Conference chairs Gunnar Auth, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Tim Pidun, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Conference co-chairs J?rgen Anke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Stefan Handke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Oliver Jokisch, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Detlef R?tz, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Program comitee Rainer Alt, Leipzig University J?rgen Anke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Tobias Brandt, University of M?nster Michael Breidung, City of Dresden Bettina Distel, University of M?nster Wolfgang Eixelsberger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth Benjamin Fabian, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University Roland Franke, BearingPoint Norbert Frick, Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences Steffen Gilge, State Chancellery of Saxony Stefan Handke, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Moreen Heine, Universit?t zu L?beck Markus Helfert, Maynooth University Holger H?nemohr, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences Oliver Jokisch, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Achim Kempe, Robotron Database Software Ulrich Lohmann, Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences Matthias Lohse, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences Tobias Mettler, University of Lausanne Dagmar L?ck-Schneider, Berlin School of Economics and Law Isabell Peters, HVSN University of Applied Sciences Stephan Raimer, FHVD University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Service Stephan Rein, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences Michael R?ckers, University of M?nster Detlef R?tz, HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences Birgit Schenk, Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences Marie-Sophie Sch?nitz, Deloitte Tobias Siebenlist, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences Ingmar Soll, dataport.kommunal Christoph Sorge, Saarland University Basanta Thapa, National E-government Competence Center Nils Urbach, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Fraunhofer FIT Anne-Dore Uthe, Harz University of Applied Sciences J?rn von Lucke, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz Andreas Spichiger, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Swiss Federal Chancellery From jscholl at uw.edu Thu Jun 15 06:36:52 2023 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL Version 19.0): Edging Towards the 19, 000 References Mark Message-ID: <129F39D1-438D-4ECB-991C-86629EBA4528@uw.edu> DGRL Digital Government Reference Library Version 19.0 Now Listing 18,668 references of Peer-reviewed Research Articles in the English Language Version 19.0 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of June 15, 2023. The library now contains 18,668 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. This marks an 3.8% increase in references from version 18.5 (December of 2022) and a 8.6% increase from version 18.0 (June of 2022). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,484) 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: 12/15/2023. 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, 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. (2023). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 18.5?19.0. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/ The DGRL can be downloaded following this link: 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 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 F.Gualdi at lse.ac.uk Fri Jun 16 04:06:11 2023 From: F.Gualdi at lse.ac.uk (Gualdi,F) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] HICSS Digital Government Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: Dear colleagues, If you have PhD students doing research on Digital Government please consider advising them to apply for the HICSS Digital Government Doctoral Consortium. Deadline: 30 June 2023 More details below and here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/doctoral-consortium/ Best wishes, Francesco Gualdi HICSS DIGITAL GOVERNMENT DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The HICSS Digital Government (DG) Doctoral Consortium aims to provide collegial and affirmative environment where doctoral students currently working on dissertations in digital government research can share their work and receive constructive feedback. The DG Doctoral Consortium is a full-day session in which doctoral students engage in discussions and presentations with peers and senior scholars in digital government. The Digital Government Doctoral Consortium Committee invites applications for doctoral students whose research is in the field of digital government. Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled in at least year 2 of the PhD program. We welcome candidates from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government. Application Instructions Candidates apply to the Doctoral Consortium submitting a 2000-words document outlining the thesis structure, theoretical foundations, empirical ground and expected key contributions. Any document and material submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will not be published in the proceedings, and the authors will retain the full authorship rights to their submitted work. When applying, students must guarantee proper funding for to attend the doctoral consortium. Importantly, admitted Doctoral students must register for HICSS 2024. Schedule TBD Faculty Mentors TBD Important Dates for HICSS-57 The deadline for submissions is June 30 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time. Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17. Inquiries For questions, please contact the Digital Government Doctoral Consortium organizers: Antonio Cordella, a.cordella@lse.ac.uk Francesco Gualdi, f.gualdi@lse.ac.uk -- Dr. Francesco Gualdi | Fellow Department of Management London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street | London | WC2A 2AE Email: f.gualdi@lse.ac.uk www.lse.ac.uk/management From alexop at aegean.gr Sun Jul 9 12:28:46 2023 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] EMCIS 2023 - Call for papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Dear colleagues,* *this is the cfp of this year's EMCIS2023. I hope you are able to contribute once more.* *All the best,* *Charalampos ALEXOPOULOS * *Track co-chair of Digital Governance * *20th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) www.emcis.eu * *Theme: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation * *11-12 December 2023 * *Dubai, UAE* The European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) is an esteemed annual research event that serves as a focal point for the Information Systems (IS) discipline, offering both regional and global perspectives. Since its inception in 2004 has grown into a highly anticipated gathering that brings together researchers from around the world in an environment conducive to the free exchange of innovative ideas. As a premier conference in Europe and the Middle Eastern region, EMCIS caters to Information Systems academics and professionals, addressing a wide range of technical, organizational, business, and social issues in the application of Information Technology. By dedicating itself to the definition and establishment of Information Systems as a discipline with significant impact, EMCIS aims to contribute to the academic and research community and empower IS professionals. The conference emphasizes the use of sound research methodologies that lead to measurable outcomes, ensuring that the presented research has substantial relevance to the IS field. EMCIS annually selects different destinations, forging collaborations with local universities to enrich the conference experience and facilitate knowledge sharing. These partnerships have played a crucial role in the ongoing success of EMCIS, as the conference continues to attract a multitude of respected collaborations and forge lasting connections. By fostering an inclusive and friendly atmosphere, EMCIS has become a beacon of excellence, known for its ability to connect researchers and professionals in the IS domain, while fostering the development of innovative and impactful research. *Unique characteristics of the EMCIS conference include:* - Conference proceedings will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing volume. - Conference proceedings are *indexed by **Scopus, *ISI Proceedings, DBLP, and EI . - Substantially extended versions of the 10% at most of EMCIS papers may be selected for publication in academic journals. - Distinctive Keynote addresses distinguished international scholars from different disciplines, highlighting or discussing particular and generic global topics. - An international event that continues to attract attendees, academics, practitioners and junior researchers including PhD students from all over the world, enjoying the friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of innovative ideas. *List of conference tracks * - Artificial Intelligence - Big Data and Analytics & Machine Learning - Blockchain Technology and Applications - Climate Change and Emerging Technologies - Cloud Computing - Digital Governance - Digital Services and Social Media - Emerging Computing Technologies and Trends for Business Process Management - Enterprise Systems - Healthcare Information Systems - Information Systems Security and Information Privacy Protection - Innovative Research Projects - IT Governance and alignment - Management and Organisational Issues in Information Systems - Metaverse - Smart Cities *IMPORTANT DATES* - *Electronic Submission Deadline*: August 31, 2023 - *Notification of Acceptance to Authors*: September 30, 2023 - *Camera Ready Submission Deadline*: October 15, 2023 - *Conference dates*: December 11-12, 2023 For more details visit: *www.emcis.eu * From tpardo at albany.edu Mon Aug 7 14:21:38 2023 From: tpardo at albany.edu (Pardo, Theresa A) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] NAPA Tech Leadership Standing Panel: Solving the Data Problem for the Climate Crisis - Data for Global Climate Knowledge In-Reply-To: <1140455460933.1134912338693.1876047977.0.561249JL.2002@synd.ccsend.com> References: <1140455460933.1134912338693.1876047977.0.561249JL.2002@synd.ccsend.com> Message-ID: Data for Global Climate Knowledge [Official Academy Letterhead] Technology Leadership Standing Panel Solving the Data Problem for the Climate Crisis Part 1: Data for Global Climate Knowledge Thursday, August 10th, 1:00 ? 2:30 pm (ET) The world urgently needs more and better data to solve the climate crisis. 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We would love to hear from you #PuraVida https://forms.gle/7oxc7ZR4HdQCrmwq5 ------------------------------ [image: Twitter] [image: Facebook] [image: Website] -- Laura Sanely Gayt?n Lugo Assistant Research Professor School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Universidad de Colima https://ihclab.ucol.mx/ -- -- _?Universidad de Colima?_ From rsandov at gmail.com Wed Aug 16 09:50:06 2023 From: rsandov at gmail.com (Rodrigo Sandoval) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFC-Artificial Intelligence in Government. Latin American Challenges and Expectations Message-ID: <6f3fc2f9-8a76-4fc2-8655-992caa20425d@Spark> AI is a new frontier for government management in Latin American countries, where digital transformation is still in its early stages. The incorporation of AI practices, processes and regulations is essential for success. Research on AI in Latin American governments is limited and recent. Corvalan (2018) discussed the challenges and opportunities of the Prometea implementation in Argentina's judiciary system. Esteves et al. (2020) updated this system's use in Argentina in a BID report. Faundez-Ugalde et al. (2020) described the use of AI in tax administrations in Latin America. Barredo-Iba?ez et al. (2021) combined AI with communication and democracy for Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia. However, there is still little knowledge about the challenges these countries face in implementing these new technologies. This book will examine the opportunities, legal and regulatory frameworks needed to implement AI into government organizations, as well as the infrastructure requirements for successful implementation. It will also explore potential resistance from public officials towards technology adoption and ways to overcome it. Additionally, it will consider the digital divide that exists within Latin American societies, which may hinder access to AI tools for some citizens. Finally, it will discuss ethical considerations related to AI use in government processes, such as privacy concerns and algorithmic bias. We welcome chapter proposals based on empirical research and theoretical frameworks on the following topics. These topics are not exclusive and can be complementary: -? ?Artificial intelligence in the Latin American public sector -? ?Cases of artificial intelligence in Latin American Government -? ?Best practices of artificial intelligence for developing public policies for the development -? ?Machine learning applications in Government management -? ?Predictive Analytics and Decision-making in public policies -? ?Chatbots and virtual assistants for the public sector -? ?Fraud detection and prevention -? ?Artificial intelligence in tax systems -? ?Artificial intelligence tools for cybersecurity and national security: policy and cases -? ?Advances in Robotics for the Public Sector -? ?Best practices of artificial intelligence for environmental monitoring -? ?Uses of artificial intelligence in public health for disease management and Prevention -? ?Disaster communication using artificial intelligence -? ?Smart cities using IoT and artificial intelligence -? ?Artificial Intelligence in public education -? ?Ethical Considerations for AI Use in government processes -? ?AI for public sector management in developing countries -? ?Challenges faced in implementing AI in government processes in Latin America -? ?Generative Artificial Intelligence in the public sector Important Dates Full Chapters Submission: October 14, 2023 Review Results Returned November 17, 2023 Final Acceptance: November 20th, 2023 ?Final Chapter Submission: December 1st, 2023 Publication: April.-May 2024 Submission Procedure Full chapters are expected to be submitted by?October 29, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at?https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors?All chapters must have a minimum of 8,000-12,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by Springer- Public Administration and Information Technology Series. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit?https://www.springer.com/series/10796 This publication is anticipated to be released in 2024. Inquiries Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan ?Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico rsandovala@uaemex.mx David Valle-Cruz ?Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico davacr@uaemex.mx -- 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 2150494 y 722 2131607 ext. 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 gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie Wed Aug 30 14:24:00 2023 From: gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie (Gianluca Miscione) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FW: Global Professorships 2023 - British Academy Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Perhaps of interest: *Global Professorships 2023* The British Academy?s Global Professorships are large investigator-led awards to attract internationally recognised established scholars to work in the United Kingdom, to undertake new, coherent and cutting-edge research projects. With the Global Professorships, the Academy is looking to support researchers that are proposing ambitious, beyond the state-of-the-art research that breaks new ground. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global-professorships Gianluca *Gianluca Miscione* University College Dublin Zurich University of Applied Sciences University of Zurich *Publications* : Recent Cited Organization Infrastructures Innovation Development Trust Methodologies Geo Health Blockchain Visibility Europe Americas Asia Africa Online From rsandovala at uaemex.mx Tue Sep 5 13:03:06 2023 From: rsandovala at uaemex.mx (Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 2nd Call for Chapters AI in Government. Latin American Challenges and Expectations Springer-PAIT Message-ID: <2d12090f-a053-4103-a4bb-2670f1df6b5f@Spark> 2nd Call for Chapters AI in Government. Latin American Challenges and Expectations Springer-PAIT Important Dates Full Chapters Submission: October 14, 2023 Review Results Returned November 17, 2023 Final Acceptance: November 20th, 2023 Final Chapter Submission: December 1st, 2023 Publication: April.-May 2024 AI is a new frontier for government management in Latin American countries, where digital transformation is still in its early stages. The incorporation of AI practices, processes and regulations is essential for success. Research on AI in Latin American governments is limited and recent. Corvalan (2018) discussed the challenges and opportunities of the Prometea implementation in Argentina's judiciary system. Esteves et al. (2020) updated this system's use in Argentina in a BID report. Faundez-Ugalde et al. (2020) described the use of AI in tax administrations in Latin America. Barredo-Iba?ez et al. (2021) combined AI with communication and democracy for Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia. This book will examine the opportunities, legal and regulatory frameworks needed to implement AI into government organizations, as well as the infrastructure requirements for successful implementation. It will also explore potential resistance from public officials towards technology adoption and ways to overcome it. Additionally, it will consider the digital divide that exists within Latin American societies, which may hinder access to AI tools for some citizens. Finally, it will discuss ethical considerations related to AI use in government processes, such as privacy concerns and algorithmic bias. We welcome chapters based on empirical research and theoretical frameworks on the following topics. These topics are not exclusive and can be complementary: - Artificial intelligence in the Latin American public sector - Cases of artificial intelligence in Latin American Government - Best practices of artificial intelligence for developing public policies for the development - Machine learning applications in Government management - Predictive Analytics and Decision-making in public policies - Chatbots and virtual assistants for the public sector - Fraud detection and prevention - Artificial intelligence in tax systems - Artificial intelligence tools for cybersecurity and national security: policy and cases - Advances in Robotics for the Public Sector - Best practices of artificial intelligence for environmental monitoring - Uses of artificial intelligence in public health for disease management and Prevention - Disaster communication using artificial intelligence - Smart cities using IoT and artificial intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in public education - Ethical Considerations for AI Use in government processes - AI for public sector management in developing countries - Challenges faced in implementing AI in government processes in Latin America - Generative Artificial Intelligence in the public sector Submission Procedure Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 14, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors All chapters must have a minimum of 8,000-12,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by Springer- Public Administration and Information Technology Series. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.springer.com/series/10796 This publication is anticipated to be released in 2024. Inquiries Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico rsandovala@uaemex.mx David Valle-Cruz Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico davacr@uaemex.mx From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Sep 15 04:49:27 2023 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] 3rd October 2023. Webinar of the UNDRR about heatwave and wildfire risk Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), under the Making Cities Resilient 2023 program, is organizing a free and live webinar about heatwave and wildfire risk that will be held next 3rd October from 10:00h to 11:30 am (CEST time). Thew aim of the webinar is to provide knowledge about innovative and inclusive systems for heat and wildfire governance to policymakers and other main stakeholders in reducing the risk of urban heat and wildfires. Attach you can find the link for registering the live webinar. I hope you find it interesting for your research and practice, and decide to join to the webinar. Best regards, -- Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting 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 ============================================================================================ This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. 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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 (e-book with ISBN), 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.* *NB. *Our initial recommendation for the authors of SCIC is to derive inspiration from previously published articles within the SCRD Journal and previous editions of the SCIC Proceedings volumes, as well as scholarly papers authored by the esteemed members of the Editorial Team, Scientific Committee, and Reviewers Team. *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 2023: Open Call for Contributions* *September 2023: Open registration to the Conference* October 29, 2023 - Deadline to submit your abstracts. Submission will be made via e-mail, to the address of the Conference Chair, Professor Catalin Vrabie catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro; November 12, 2023 - Notification of acceptance communicated to the authors; December 3, 2023 - Deadline to submit final papers. Submission will be made via e-mail, to the address of the Conference Chair, Professor Catalin Vrabie catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro; December 5, 2023 - Publication of the Conference?s Final Program; December 7 ? 8, 2023 - Conference sessions in Bucharest, Romania; Mid 2024 - Publication of the Conference Proceedings. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* ? Professor Catalin VRABIE, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest ? Chair of the Conference; ? Professor Drago? DINC?, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Dr. Luminita MOVANU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Drd. Georgiana M?d?lina MIH?IL?, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania; ? Drd. Raluca TOMESCU, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. *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, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, 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, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica 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 ? Professor Tam?s KAISER, University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary; ? Professor Catalin VRABIE, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest; ? Lecturer Vilma TOMCO, University of Tirana, Albania; ? Lecturer Miranda HARIZAJ, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania; ? Andrea BECCALLI, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). *CONTACT DETAILS* E-mail address: catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro Web address: https://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/scic11 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/smartcitieshub From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Oct 2 03:04:12 2023 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] Job Offer in a Research Project. Spain In-Reply-To: <32452d40-9c54-ddf5-5df2-6ed7daedef3d@ugr.es> References: <32452d40-9c54-ddf5-5df2-6ed7daedef3d@ugr.es> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We offer a contractfor a doctoral studentfunded by the Spanish Ministry of ScienceandInnovation, for a maximum duration of four years, to researchinthe project ?Opening the black-box of algorithm- mediated public governance. Artificial intelligence implications in governments, public services, and humans?(AI_PublicGov) (PID2022-136283OB-I00). *General inquiries about the project (principal investigators):***J. Ignacio Criado (Research Group Lab Innovation, Technology, and Public Management, Department of Political Science), Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid:ignacio.criado@uam.esandManuel Pedro Rodr?guez-Bol?var, (Departmentof Accountingand Finance),Universidad de Granadamanuelp@ugr.es *Deadline*:October,16th,2023 *Institutional information****about****the application process*visitingUniversidad Aut?noma de Madrid website: https://www.uam.es/uam/en/investigacion/ofertas-empleo/contrato-predoc2023-ministerio *Gene**ral****call****info:*https://www.uam.es/uam/media/doc/1606938621909/bases-de-convocatoria-fpi- ministerio-2022-v-final.pdf *I**nfo about****the positio**n* (pages23-25):https://www.uam.es/uam/media/doc/1606938625017/anexo-i.pdf Best regards, -- Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty of Business Studies C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n University of Granada 18071, Granada (Spain) =============== Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener informaci?n privilegiada o confidencial. 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Emerging technologies and Citizen Participation References: <549cdad6-797e-4dcd-bd21-74a489663e64@Spark> Message-ID: Emerging Technologies Implementation for Improving Citizen Participation and Collaboration Overview of Special Issue During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played a key role in democratic political and governance processes (Ramadani et al. 2022), seeking to engage citizens in participatory dynamics, supporting more democratic decision-making processes and strengthening representative democracy. By contrast, up to now, this implementation of ICTs has mainly produced higher data collection, better information flows and higher information transparency (Al Sulaimani and Ozuem, 2022). With the rise of emerging technologies (ETs), new sceneries seem to be arisen. Indeed, ETs should go beyond providing higher access for citizens to participate in public issues, co-creating and co-deciding public affairs in an equal power basis with public institutions (Casiano et al., 2022; Mergel, 2015), especially in crisis situations (Criado et al., 2020). It also offers the opportunity to monitor the behavior of public managers and politicians, which improves accountability and promotes democratic processes by opening critical issues for different communities (Schmidthuber et al., 2017). This way, an increasing number of governments around the world are implementing platforms, applications, and tools based on ETs to promote an informed citizenry, direct voting, and crowdsourced decisions, trying to increase trust in government (Marino and Lo Presti, 2018). Nonetheless, although academic scholars have highlighted the need to strengthen research focused on actual practices of citizen involvement in public issues (Rodr?guez Bol?var et al. 2018; Alcaide Mu?oz et al. 2017), we can only find prior research analyzing models and frameworks that have addressed this question (Cort?s-Cediel et al. 2019; Boukris et al. 2016). Also, evidence of e-participation initiatives and projects in which ETs are being used is scarce, limiting the understanding and learning that these practical experiences could provide. Therefore, this special issue seeks to shed some light with contributions offering rigorous research evidence about these experiences to fill the gap in the use of ETs in e-participation initiatives, especially concerning the ET implementation and impact on citizen engagement in collaborative governance models. Indicative List of Anticipated Themes: This special issue seeks a wide range of papers that deal with diverse projects of ETs implementation in governance models, especially at the smart city level, to favor progress in this field of knowledge with the consequent impact and practical implications necessary to develop these ETs initiatives. All the papers submitted should also be sure that they fit with the scope of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. Else, the manuscript will be desk-rejected. Among others, the following tentative themes are the interest for the special issue: ? Theoretical approaches to the study of citizens participation using ETs. ? ET implementation in the use of citizen e-Participation initiatives. ? Citizen participation and collaboration initiatives promoting under the Smart Cities framework ? Collaborative and social platforms under ETs to foster co-production (participatory budgeting initiatives, new projects, etc.) ? Empirical experiences on the use of digital participation and co-production platforms to manage and coordinate crisis situations (Environmental catastrophes, health crisis, etc.). ? Digital competence of public officials in ETs to support citizen collaboration and participation under implementation of ET-base systems. ? Political leading initiatives in implementing ETs form citizen participation and collaboration. ? Benefits, challenges, and barriers in ET implementation for citizen participation and collaboration. ? Improving inclusiveness in citizen participation using ETs. Guest editors: Prof.?Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain Assoc. Prof.?Laura Alcaide Mu?oz Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain Assist. Prof.?Cristina Alcaide Mu?oz Universidad de Alcal?, Alcala de Henares, Spain Manuscript submission information: Important Dates in Sustainable Cities and Society Special Issue: ? Initial paper submission deadline: 29th?February 2024 ? First round authors notification: 15th?May 2024 ? Invited revisions deadline: 26th?July 2024 ? Second round authors notification: 15th?September 2024 ? Final revision deadline: 15th?October 2024 ? Final authors notification: 15th?November 2024 ? Project publication date: January 2025 Submission Site:?Editorial Manager? Article Type Name:??VSI: ETs for e-participation?- please select this item when you submit manuscripts online For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact Managing Guest Editor Prof.?Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var. Guide for Authors will be helpful for your future contributions, read more:?SCS - Guide for Authors For more information, please visit our ScienceDirect Page:?Sustainable Cities and Society References: 1. Al Sulaimani, A.H.A. and Ozuem, W. (2022). Understanding the role of transparency, participation, and collaboration for achieving open digital government goals in Oman. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 595-612. 2. Alarabiat, A., Soares, D. and Estevez, E. (2021). Determinants of citizens? intention to engage in government-led electronic participation initiatives through Facebook. Government Information Quarterly, 38(1), 101537. 3. Alcaide Mu?oz, L., Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Cobos, M.J., Herrera Viedma, E. (2017). Analyzing the scientific evolution of e-Government using a science mapping approach. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 545-555. 4. Allen, B., Tamindael, L.E., Bickerton, S.H. and Cho, W. (2020). Does citizen coproduction lead to better urban services in smart cities projects? An empirical study on e-participation in a mobile bid data platform. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101-412. 5. Boukhris, I., Ayachi, R. and Elouedi, Z., Melloullli, S. and Ben Amor, N. (2016). Decision model for policy makers in the content of citizens engagement: Application on Participatory Budgeting. Social Science Computer Review, 34(6), 740-756. 6. Casiano Flores, C., Rodr?guez M?ller, A.P., Virkar, S., Temple, L., Steen, T. and Crompvoets, J. (2022). Towards a co-creation approach in the European Interoperability Framework. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(4), 519-539. 7. Cortes-Cediel, M.E., Cantador, I. and Rodriguez Bolivar, M.P. (2019). Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities. Social Science Computer Review. Online First. 8. Criado, J.I., Guevara Gomez, A. and Villodre, J. (2020). Using collaborative technologies and social media to engage citiznes and governments during the COVID-19 Crisis. The Case of Spain. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 1(4), 1-7. 9. Gasc?, M. (2017). Living Labs: Implementing open innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 90-98. 10. Marino, V. and Lo Presti, L. (2018). From citizens to partners: the role of social media content in fostering citizen engagement. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 12(1), 39-60. 11. Mergel, I. (2015). Opening Government: Designing Open Innovation Processes to Collaborate with Externa Problems Solvers. Social Science Computer Review, 33(5), 599-612. 12. Ramadani, L., Yovadiani, A. and Dewi, F. (2022). When innocence is no protection: governance failure of digitalization and its impact on local level implementation. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 16(1), 68-80. 13. Rodr?guez Bol?var, M.P., Alcaide Mu?oz, L. and Cobo, M.J. (2018). Analyzing the scientific evolution and impact of e-Participation research in JCR journals using science mapping. International Journal of Information Management, 40, 111-119. 14. Schmidthuber, L., Hilgers, D., Gegenhuber, T. and Etzelstorfer, S. (2017). The emergende of local open government: Determinants of citizen participation in online service reporting. Government Information Quarterly, 34(3), 457-469. Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue:?https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues Interested in becoming a guest editor? Discover the benefits of guest editing a special issue and the valuable contribution that you can make to your field:?https://www.elsevier.com/editors/role-of-an-editor/guest-editors -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) Phone No.?+34958242881 fax +34958246249 | email ==================================================================================================== This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. 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Latin American Challenges and Expectations Springer-PAIT Important Dates Full Chapters Submission: October 14, 2023 Review Results Returned November 17, 2023 Final Acceptance: November 20th, 2023 Final Chapter Submission: December 1st, 2023 Publication: April.-May 2024 AI is a new frontier for government management in Latin American countries, where digital transformation is still in its early stages. The incorporation of AI practices, processes and regulations is essential for success. Research on AI in Latin American governments is limited and recent. Corvalan (2018) discussed the challenges and opportunities of the Prometea implementation in Argentina's judiciary system. Esteves et al. (2020) updated this system's use in Argentina in a BID report. Faundez-Ugalde et al. (2020) described the use of AI in tax administrations in Latin America. Barredo-Iba?ez et al. (2021) combined AI with communication and democracy for Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia. This book will examine the opportunities, legal and regulatory frameworks needed to implement AI into government organizations, as well as the infrastructure requirements for successful implementation. It will also explore potential resistance from public officials towards technology adoption and ways to overcome it. Additionally, it will consider the digital divide that exists within Latin American societies, which may hinder access to AI tools for some citizens. Finally, it will discuss ethical considerations related to AI use in government processes, such as privacy concerns and algorithmic bias. We welcome chapters based on empirical research and theoretical frameworks on the following topics. These topics are not exclusive and can be complementary: - Artificial intelligence in the Latin American public sector - Cases of artificial intelligence in Latin American Government - Best practices of artificial intelligence for developing public policies for the development - Machine learning applications in Government management - Predictive Analytics and Decision-making in public policies - Chatbots and virtual assistants for the public sector - Fraud detection and prevention - Artificial intelligence in tax systems - Artificial intelligence tools for cybersecurity and national security: policy and cases - Advances in Robotics for the Public Sector - Best practices of artificial intelligence for environmental monitoring - Uses of artificial intelligence in public health for disease management and Prevention - Disaster communication using artificial intelligence - Smart cities using IoT and artificial intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in public education - Ethical Considerations for AI Use in government processes - AI for public sector management in developing countries - Challenges faced in implementing AI in government processes in Latin America - Generative Artificial Intelligence in the public sector Submission Procedure Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 14, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors All chapters must have a minimum of 8,000-12,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by Springer- Public Administration and Information Technology Series. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.springer.com/series/10796 This publication is anticipated to be released in 2024. Inquiries Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico rsandovala@uaemex.mx David Valle-Cruz Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico davacr@uaemex.mx 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 State Autonomous University of the State of Mexico www.uaemex.mx rsandovuaem@gmail.com rsandovala@uaemex.mx @horus72 From manuelp at ugr.es Thu Oct 12 03:42:24 2023 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 in Sustainability (JCR. Special Issue: "Emerging Technologies Implementation in Sustainable Management" Message-ID: <77565F9F-835B-4DC4-910C-8BBD1C356E62@ugr.es> Special Issue Title: Emerging Technologies Implementation in Sustainable Management Dear Colleagues, Contemporary society is characterized by a series of economic, technological, social, and environmental changes (Ahlstrom et al. 2020; Goworek et al. 2020) producing more complex business and management challenges which require a large amount of knowledge to solve (Zivanovic et al. 2023). In the business sphere, the development of science and technology creates the need for constant changes for organizations and individuals (Zivanovic et al. 2023). This way, under these three axes and challenges (technological, social, and environmental changes), sustainable management arises, and it is defined as the application of sustainable practices in commerce, agriculture, the environment, production, and other fields by management in a manner that is beneficial to present and future generations. Concretely, the eruption of emerging technologies is becoming a business tool to help businesses improve their sustainable management practices. Indeed, the implementation of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, blockchain, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., is disrupting the way businesses are working and performing their processes, allowing them to improve their performance. Nonetheless, these emerging technologies can have the potential to influence the ability to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in various ways (positive and negative). Despite these comments, in business models developed for new technologies the method for their speci?c application in a given case remains unknown (Niekurzak and Mikulik 2023). Therefore, in this Special Issue we wonder how the implementation of emerging technologies could help to innovate and improve current business processes in a sustainable manner. The Special Issue aims to collect theoretical and empirical studies that contribute to developing a better understanding of the relationship between emerging technologies and sustainable management. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: Empirical experiences of the implementation of emerging technologies to improve sustainable development. The impact of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Big Data, Virtual Reality, etc.) on sustainable management. The impact of emerging technologies on energy resources and water management. Circular economy, emerging technologies, and sustainable management. The impact of emerging technologies on waste management (food waste, electronic waste, etc.). Decision support systems based on emerging technologies for sustainable management. The role of emerging technologies in sustainable management. Blockchain technology-based sustainable management research. I look forward to receiving your contributions. Website: https://www.mdpi.com/si/187594 Guest Editor: -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) Phone No. +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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Best Regards, Dr. Yu-Che Chen Isaacson Professor Chair, Ph.D. in Public Administration Director of Digital Governance and Analytics Lab School of Public Administration College of Public Affairs and Community Service University of Nebraska at Omaha Conference Co-chair, 2024 International Conference on Digital Government Research Co-Editor, The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance Call for Papers/Proposals dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Conference Theme Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ Conference Website: https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2024, with the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance" in Taipei, Taiwan on June 11-14, 2024. The conference?s main host is the Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, College of Social Sciences, at the National Taiwan University. The conference is also co-hosted by the Department of Public Administration at the National Chengchi University, the Department of Public Administration at the Chung Hua University, and the Taipei City Government. 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. THEME & TRACK TOPICS: The 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024) will feature the main theme of "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance." The conference's central theme ? the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, are people-centric, and the creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products. Especially, the post-COVID-19 has forced government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways to deliver services. The workforce shifts to remote working partially or entirely; agencies reconfigure services and the supply chains according to uncertain demand; agencies create new services for addressing delivery needs in both the public and private sectors. Digital technologies played an essential role in enabling these changes. However, adoption in the public sector needs to be more cohesive. Hence, the dg.o 2024 conference can help bridge the 'digital' gaps among different sectors in various countries and regions. Further, the theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid intelligence, blockchain, open platforms, the internet of things (IoT), wearable devices, big data, etc., have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst and bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize topics that showcase new technologies and help pinpoint where governments can achieve the most significant value. IMPORTANT DATES January 26, 2024: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due Feb 15, 2021: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium March 8, 2024: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) March 10, 2024: Posters and demo proposals due March 15, 2024: Poster/demo author notifications March 22, 2024: Author registrations are due March 15, 2024: Doctoral colloquium notification March 31, 2024: Paper revision due (straight to TAPS) March 31, 2024: Early registration closes (this is only on the website) April 01, 2024: Regular registration begins April 30, 2024: ACM Copyrights approval and TAPS due) TRACK 1. Algorithmic Bureaucracy Track Chairs: Hsini Huang (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Matt Young (Leiden University, the Netherlands) & Don-Yun Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) The track delves into the transformative landscape shaped by the integration of emerging digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, within diverse governmental domains. This track takes a process-oriented perspective to understand the nuanced and profound impacts of data-driven and algorithm-intensive governance in public organizations. While concerns about fairness and discrimination in algorithm-assisted decision-making are evident, this track also addresses the potential for algorithms to mitigate human limitations and enhance administrative efficiency. By exploring the transition from traditional Weberian bureaucracy to a system-augmented algorithmic bureaucracy, the track aims to decipher the intricate dynamics underpinning this evolution. Understanding the interplay between human and algorithmic capabilities becomes crucial as autonomous intelligent agents play a pivotal role in public organizations. This track aims to discuss the macro-level conditions, meso-level adaptations, and micro-level human competency improvements, propelling a dynamic and comprehensive dialogue on the future of human-AI collaboration in government. TRACK 2. Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli (Universit? Laval, Canada), Marijn Janssen (Delft University, the Netherlands) & Adegboyega Ojo (Carleton University, Canada) The pace of AI adoption in governments has continued to grow at different levels of government and across different domains including in particular social protection and welfare, public order and safety, environmental and natural resource protection, health, pubic services, housing and education. However, the emergence and rapid diffusion of generative AI applications in society has led to a growing consensus for developing better AI safety practices and the need for comprehensive regulatory policies to address potential threats that these new AI applications pose to citizens. In response, there is a growing stock of AI Governance frameworks and tools to support not only AI developers but also AI practitioners in government organisations to ensure the responsible development and deployment of AI in transforming public services and policymaking. However, empirical studies of government use of AI technologies are sparse. Hence, the purpose of this track is to investigate how AI is being developed, implemented and adopted in governments at different levels, what AI is adding to governments, how the institutional contexts are shaping AI use in government, and how to ensure that AI adoption in government remains safe and beneficial to the public at large. TRACK 3. Beyond Bureaucracy & e-Anarchy: 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 M?ller-T?r?k (University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany & Austrian Computer Society, Austria) & Zach Bastick (Harvard University, USA & University of Oxford, UK) 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 4. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines Track chairs: Lisa Hohensinn (Institute for Public Management and Governance, Austria), Seok-Jin Eom (Seoul National University, South Korea) & Helen K. Liu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 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 5. Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance Track chairs: Loni Hagen (University of South Florida, USA), Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece), David Valle-Cruz (Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico), Shefali Virkar (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) & Kellyton Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil) This track is for papers that use computational methods in the domain of digital government. We welcome technical or behavioral studies that include computational approaches to scrutinize, analyze, model, and simulate social phenomena, to provide services to citizens, and to make data-driven decisions. For this year's theme, we welcome papers related to empirical studies that include computational methods and/or big data to enable and enhance human interactions to co-create public services and products. In addition, we are open to other technical studies to develop new models and tools to enhance governments' service delivery, and to bring methodological innovations. We also welcome studies adopting design science approach to develop and evaluate technical artifacts, or studies reporting best practices of using artificial intelligence and machine learning for government practice and research. TRACK 6. Cybersecurity Concerns and Solutions in the age of Internet of Beings Track chairs: Sukumar Ganapati (Florida International University, USA) & Kevin D?Souza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) This track relates to the emerging cybersecurity concerns and their solutions in the context of the DGO conference?s theme, Internet of Beings. While the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that are people-centric with open platforms for collaboration, they also need to be safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The benefits of various digital technologies, including AI, IoT, blockchain, wearables, and big data can be compromised if these cybersecurity solutions do not get adequate attention. Generative AI, for example, has got much public attention for being biased, lacking authenticity, and simulating human beings in counterproductive ways for public good and even being criminalized. As public agencies transform their operations from face to face work schedules to work from anywhere, they face increased challenges of how to deliver public services effectively. The challenges are not only traditional viruses and ransomware demands, but also false narratives with the mimicry of human beings. Organizations need to be resilient and maintain their operations. Robustness even calls for organizations to be more proactive and sensitive to a range of perturbations from a security perspective. This track will examine the emerging pedagogical, public policy, and organizational dimensions of cybersecurity problems and solutions in this human context of being connected in the digital world. What should public and nonprofit managers do? What are the organizational guidelines to work in this environment? What are the pro and reactive policies that governments could take? How can we design resilient and robust organizations? We invite papers that broadly deal with these questions in the context of public and nonprofit organizations. TRACK 7. Data-Driven Services in Government for Evidence-Based Policy and Public Value Track chairs: Hsien-Lee Tseng (National University of Tainan, Taiwan) & Magdalena Ciesielska (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland) The Data-Driven Services in Government track aims to investigate how public sectors can complement services and policies through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and all kinds of data, such as open data, big data, and linked data, etc. In 2019, the U.S. launched OPEN Government Data Act, taking a step further on implementation of open government data. The other important aspect is how to benefit from government data openess. Creating value from government data is of particular importance to many stakeholders, including governments, private sector, and citizens. But explaining how government data contribute to public value creation has also become a challenge. The Data-Driven 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, as well as data and public value. Possible topics include strategies for government open data sharing, data-driven services, data principles, value of data identification, creation and assessment, and best practices of public and private sector collaboration on data implementation, or other similar topics and relevant approaches. TRACK 8. Digital Democracy & AI Track chairs: Takayuki Ito (Kyoto University, Japan), Jawad Haqbeen (Kyoto University, Japan), Sofia Sahab (Kyoto University, Japan) & Kwei Jay Lin (Chang Gung University, Taiwan) The Digital Democracy & AI track aims to investigate how crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance meaningful augmented participatory democratic approaches, such as citizen-government collaborative communication and planning, 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 Digital Democracy & AI track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly papers that explore the literature in four distinct areas: (i) the design and application of AI tools on enhancing democracy as a meaningful conversation; (ii) the design of collaborative planning and decision-making support methodologies and tools in digital social platforms; (iii) the importance of experiments in democracy and its social impact; and (iv) the ethical concerns or guidelines for applying AI-assisted tools, or other similar technologies and relevant approaches in data and democracy. TRACK 9. Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals Track chairs: Rony Medaglia (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Iryna Susha (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) & Jolien Ubacht (TU Delft, the Netherlands) 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. 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. Papers that can combine methodological rigor with practical relevance and policy implications are particularly welcome. TRACK 10. 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 helps creating common objectives, interests, and unity of action, fostering social cohesion and collaboration embodying human rights, active citizenship, inclusion, equity, empathy, and ethics, being one of the missions of Governments to build solidarity and social cohesion. Digitizing government adds new layers of complexity to this relation can scale up the positive and the negative impact of government on solidarity, and, in the latter case, undermine its own efficacy. On the other hand, solidarity can enhance digital government by triggering technological innovation, e.g., create tools to help vulnerable citizens during a crisis, or become a goal for such innovation, e.g., foster more equitable distribution of resources. The relationship between government, technology and solidarity is rich and intense and this track aims to bring together cases and reflections on the relation between solidarity and digital government. TRACK 11. Digital Government: Bachelor and Master Student Track Track chairs: Bettina Distel (University of M?nster, Germany), Hendrik Scholta, (University of M?nster, Germany) & Chung-Pin Lee (The National Taipei University, Taiwan) 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. This track gives Bachelor and Master students the opportunity to actively contribute to the digital government community. TRACK 12. Digital Platform Government and Core Public Values Track chairs: Jooho Lee (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) & Wookjoon Sung, (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea) The concept of a digital platform government can be traced back to the UK's GOV.UK and the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative. There is no agreed-upon definition of the concept, so it is more productive to compare it with similar concepts. The digital platform government differs from e-government by focusing on process innovation and being a public-private partnership service model. It emphasizes active participation of stakeholders and the use of intelligent technologies. Both the digital platform government and e-government models emphasize online citizen participation, but the digital platform government allows citizens to have a more active role in government decision-making. The core public values pursued by the digital platform government include efficiency, accountability, fairness, participation, collaboration, transparency, narrowing the digital divide, and digital equity. The digital platform government is operated in various forms depending on its purpose or the role of the government. Scholars have proposed various types of digital platforms based on their purposes and the role of the government. With this broad understanding about digital platform government, we invite papers that explore the relationship between various digital platform government practices and core public values. TRACK 13. 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, territories, provinces, municipalities, etc.); b) discuss the challenges to developing 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. TRACK 14. Exploring the Impact of Open Government Initiatives: Transparency, Participation, and Governance Transformation Track chairs: Hsin Chung Liao (National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan) & Jean-Pierre Auffret (George Mason University & International Academy of CIO, USA) In recent years, the concept of open government has gained significant attention as governments worldwide strive to enhance transparency, engage citizens, and modernize governance practices. The "Impact of Open Government" track aims to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders to delve into the multifaceted effects of open government initiatives. By examining the outcomes and implications of transparency, public participation, and the transformation of governance structures, this track seeks to foster a comprehensive understanding of open government's broader societal, political, and economic impacts. TRACK 15. Government Cyberinfrastructure and Platforms for Discovery and Innovation Track chairs: Richard Knepper (Cornell University, USA), Kerk Kee (Texas Tech University, USA) & Yu-Che Chen (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA) Cyberinfrastructure?high performance and cloud computing, networks, storage, software, and the people who build and use these systems?represents a strategic investment for nations in order to pursue and achieve policy goals. Cyberinfrastructure drives the research and innovation that supports both basic and applied science, catalyzing industry and increasing productivity in private enterprises, as well as providing analysis, modeling and simulations for weather prediction, resource availability, public health research, and other critical elements that affect citizens? lives. Government policies around infrastructure investments for support of research and development are a major factor in support of cyberinfrastructure that provides these functions. This track examines the policy initiatives that stimulate the development of cyberinfrastructure at the national level, models for supporting computational research and innovation, the development of next generation technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, cooperative ventures such as the United States National Strategic Computing Reserve, the collaborative organizations that develop, implement, and maintain cyberinfrastructure, and the outcomes of cyberinfrastructure projects that impact the safety, well-being, productivity, and health of citizens. TRACK 16. Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Government Track chairs: Fadi Salem (Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, UAE), Gianluca Misuraca (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain & Technology Diplomacy and International Relations of Inspiring Futures, Switzerland) & Theresa A. Pardo (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) This track includes research papers that critically examine the adoption and impact of Generative AI in government functions, policies, and public engagement. Its research papers provide in-depth examination of the associated challenges, ethical considerations, and regulatory and policy frameworks associated with the expanding applications of generative AI in government. Given its rapidly emerging transformations, the track aims to bridge research discussing potential theoretical underpinnings of generative AI implications for government, as well as research addressing practitioners? experiences with generative AI in public governance. The themes included in this track are grouped in two pillars: 1) Research on the potential benefits of generative AI for government, such as its ability to improve policy making efficiency, personalize service delivery by tailoring services to individual needs and preferences through autonomous agents, enhance public engagement by providing citizens with a more interactive and engaging way to participate in government and receive services. 2) Research exploring the risks of generative AI in government settings, such as its potential to generate faulty information, being misused in citizen-government power dynamics, socio-economic impact, such as automation and job loss in public sector jobs, safeguarding against algorithmic bias, discrimination, abuse of power, among other ethical considerations of using generative AI in government, such as questions of transparency, inclusion, trust in government and accountability. Moreover, the track seeks comparative research papers that explore the emerging global policy interventions as well as legal and regulatory frameworks for governing generative AI in government settings. Finally, the track seeks research papers contextually examining generative AI application within diverse geographies, government settings and societal structures. TRACK 17. Increasing citizen engagement and active citizenship through digital government Track chairs: Edimara M. Luciano (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Gabriela V. Pereira (University for Continuing Education 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. TRACK 18. Information Processing and Governance in the Digital Era Track chairs: Kwan Nok Chan (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jung Eun Kim (Konkuk University, South Korea) & Terry van Gevelt (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Digital technologies have vastly expanded our capacity to collect, manage, and analyze large amounts of high-resolution and instantaneous data about people's habits, preferences, and behaviours. Because their application entails extensive automation and surveillance, they have the potential to fundamentally reshape the nature of governance in a wide range of public service scenarios. For example, the transition to digital solutions can make it more difficult to assign accountability in public policy and undercut current privacy protection practices. It can also change the incentives for frontline officers in client interactions and transfer effective control over community decisions to private, often for-profit, contractors. This track invites scholarly papers that examine similar opportunities and challenges arising from digital technologies and assess the regulatory strategies policymakers have developed or should adopt in response. Relevant topics include algorithmic bias and mitigation, surveillance designs, biometric data management, data silo integration, and information commons. TRACK 19. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Value Creation of Digital Government Track chairs: Luis F. Luna-Reyes (University at Albany, USA), Jing Zhang (Clark University, USA), Chris Hinnant (Florida State University, USA) & Michael Ahn (University of Massachusetts Boston, 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 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Thessaly, Greece) & Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA) Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. TRACK 21. Social Media and Government Track chairs: Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan (Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico), J. Ignacio Criado (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain) & Nadzeya Sabatini (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) The potential of social media and government maintains its growing interest for scholars and managers in parallel 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 including the attention to new audiences, metrics, platforms, uses, and regarding evolving every year. During the last years, we have learned about the risks for governments and political institutions using social media. At the same time innovation capabilities have emerge from the last evolutions of social media and government. Among other issues, TikTok or virtual reality, and other social platforms and areas have abruptly emerged as global players in the entertainment sector, promoting government and other actors to engage with new audiences and social groups. Besides, some political and public institutions challenges remain in process of evolution. Here, some of the key aspects include polarization of the public sphere, growing claims about the potential harm of social media for our democratic communities, or the potential limitations of institutional communications with citizens because of the lack of trained human resources and government specialists. For this year's theme, we especially will welcome papers related to the conference's central theme ? the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, are people-centric, and the creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products. Particularly, the post-COVID-19 has forced government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways to deliver services, and this is especially important using social media technologies. 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 22. Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems Track Chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu, Estonia), Anthony Simonofski (Universit? de Namur ASBL, Belgium), Anneke Zuiderwijk (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) & Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (University of Granada, Spain) Public and open data ecosystems promise the transformation of government data-driven actions, the fostering of public sector innovations and the collaborative smartification of cities, society and life, triggering value-adding sustainable development goals-compliant smart living and society 5.0. New research is needed to help public managers and politicians for (1) implementing emerging technologies and technological innovations, (2) improving the achievement of sustainable development goals for increasing transparency, participation, and cooperation, and (3) meeting the stakeholders? expectations, needs, regulations and demands. This track welcomes contributions covering, but not limited to: - The concepts of theoretical approaches toward Public Data ecosystems, Open Data ecosystems, Data Spaces, and Data Marketplaces; - Infrastructures supporting Public and Open Data Ecosystems; - The role of emerging technologies in Public and Open Data ecosystems; - Institutional aspects of implementing sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems; - Other sustainability dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; - Stakeholder-centric dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; - Case studies of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; - The impact of Public and Open Data Ecosystems on Individuals, Organizations and Society. Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials Workshops are half- 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. Panels 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 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 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, and * poster category * reflected and related to the local context on Taipei city (sponsored by the Taipei City Government) Selection criteria for awards include: * interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, * 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. 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=dgo2024 Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o conference. Detailed instruction and ACM conference proceedings template will be available on the conference website 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. 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. Research papers - blind review: Research papers 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. Research papers are limited to approximately 8,000 words. Management, case study, or policy papers - blind review: Management or policy papers 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. Management or policy papers are limited to approximately 5,000 words. Panels: 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). Panel proposals are limited to approximately 1,300 words. Posters: 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. Poster summaries are limited to approximately 1,300 words. System Demonstrations: 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. System demonstration summaries are limited to approximately 1,300 words. Pre-conference Tutorials: 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. Tutorial proposals are limited to approximately 1,300 words. Pre-conference Workshops: 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. We seek workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. The proponents will be responsible for identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and conducting workshop activities. Workshop proposals are limited to 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 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. Doctoral colloquium applications are limited to approximately ten pages, not including references, tables, and figures. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jing Zhang, Clark University, USA Edimara Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Hsin-Chung Liao, National Chengchi University, Taiwan David Duenas Cid, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland Marie Anne Macadar, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Flavia Bernardini, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil TRACK CHAIRS Michael Ahn, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Jean-Pierre Auffret, George Mason University/ International Academy of CIO, USA Thiago Jos? Tavares ?vila, Funda??o Get?lio Vargas, Brazil Zach Bastick, Harvard University, USA & University of Oxford, UK Carmine Bianchi, Universit? degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez, Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain Kellyton Brito, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil Kwan Nok Chan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Don-Yun Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA Magdalena Ciesielska, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain Maria Alexandra Cunha, Funda??o Get?lio Vargas, Brazil Kevin D?Souza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Bettina Distel, University of M?nster, Germany David Duenas-Cid, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland Seok-Jin Eom, Seoul National University, South Korea Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur and National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET, Argentina Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, USA Terry van Gevelt, Singapore Management University, Singapore Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, USA Jawad Haqbeen, Kyoto University, Japan Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, USA Lisa Hohensinn, Institute for Public Management and Governance, Austria Hsini Huang, Leiden University, the Netherlands Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan Tomasz Janowski, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland, & Danube University Krems, Austria Marijn Janssen, Delft University, the Netherlands Kerk Kee, Texas Tech University, USA Jung Eun Kim, Konkuk University, South Korea Richard Knepper, Cornell University, USA Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, CTG SUNY & IDB, Brazil Chung-Pin Lee, The National Taipei University, Taiwan Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, U.S., USA Hsin Chung Liao, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan Kwei Jay Lin, Chang Gung University, Taiwan Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Edimara M. Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Luis F. Luna-Reyes, University at Albany, USA Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Sehl Mellouli, Universit? Laval, Canada Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain & Technology Diplomacy and International Relations of Inspiring Futures, Switzerland Robert M?ller-T?r?k, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany, and Austrian Computer Society, Austria Anastasija Nikiforova, University of Tartu, Estonia Adegboyega Ojo, Carleton University, Canada Theresa A. Pardo, University at Albany, SUNY, USA Alois Paulin, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany Gabriela V. Pereira, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria Nadzeya Sabatini, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Sofia Sahab, Kyoto University, Japan Fadi Salem, MBR School of Government, UAE Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico Hendrik Scholta, University of M?nster, Germany Anthony Simonofski, Universit? de Namur ASBL, Namur, Belgium Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Hsien-Lee Tseng, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Jolien Ubacht, TU Delft, the Netherlands David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Matt Young, Leiden University, the Netherlands Jing Zhang, Clark University, USA Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands 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 From p.henman at uq.edu.au Sun Oct 29 20:47:55 2023 From: p.henman at uq.edu.au (Paul Henman) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP - Digital transformation and hybrid future for public governance and management In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please consider submitting an abstract to present at the International Research Society for Public Management 2024 Conference, 16-18 April 2024 in Tampere, Finland. https://irspm.org/conferences/conference-2024 Our panel session on Digital transformation and hybrid future for public governance and management is chaired by John Halligan, Amanda Clarke and myself. Abstracts have now closed, but if you would like to submit a late abstract, please email me at p.henman@uq.edu.au The field of public management is being increasingly impacted by dynamic contexts in which innovations in digital technology, such as automated decision making, are affecting service delivery, user interfaces, data management, public managers' roles in decision making, the parameters within which public management operates and public governance in general. The effects of digital transformation on public management remain unclear, although it is apparent that obstacles to implementing change are shared. A continuing conundrum is the extent to which much of the field needs to be reappraised in terms of new hybrid forms and the multiple ways in which they are being addressed through inter-organisational and system interactions and scenarios for digital futures that seek to lever hybridity in public management. The various hybrid interfaces in digital governance and management cover a range of complex public, private and societal interactions and provide scope for the use of a range of theoretical frameworks. Theories that seek to explain variable progress towards digital government internationally, include cultural and political traditions and institutional analysis. Methods may include case studies, survey analysis, portal/website evaluation, and service integration measurement. Paul Professor Paul Henman Professor for Digital Sociology & Social Policy | School of Social Science UQ Node Leader | ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making & Society, https://www.admscentre.org.au/ The University of Queensland Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia T +61 7 3365 2383 E p.henman@uq.edu.au Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/4019014893 W https://social-science.uq.edu.au/profile/72/paul-henman Selected recent publications: Governing by Algorithms and Algorithmic Governmentality: Towards machinic judgement, in Algorithmic Societies (Routledge 2021) Administrative Justice in a Digital World, in Oxford Handbook for Administrative Justice (OUP 2021) Webportal vs google for finding government information on the web, Information Polity (with Tim Graham) Of algorithms, apps and advice: digital social policy and service delivery, Journal of Asian Public Policy CRICOS code: 00025B UQ ALLY Supporting and celebrating the diversity of sexuality, gender and sex at UQ. The University of Queensland is embracing the Green Office philosophy. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This email (including any attached files) is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information of The University of Queensland. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that any transmission, distribution, printing or photocopying of this email is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete and notify me. Unless explicitly stated, the opinions expressed in this email do not represent the official position of The University of Queensland. From alexop at aegean.gr Thu Nov 2 01:15:13 2023 From: alexop at aegean.gr (Charalampos Alexopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call For Papers: DGO 2024 "Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance" Track In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We created a new track for the DGO 2024 . If you are working on data and algorithms using AI, ML, big data, data science, and etc, please consider sending your paper to this track. If you have any questions about this track, please feel free to contact any of the track chairs listed below. Hope to see many of you in Taiwan next year! *Title of the track:* Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance *Track chairs: *Loni Hagen, Charalampos Alexopoulos, David Valle-Cruz, Shefali Virkar, and Kellyton Brito *Submission Deadline: *January 26, 2024 The exponential growth in the amount of data generated, collected, stored and processed in a digitalized world compels us to take a fresh look at how information is accessed and used by governments, and at the computer systems that facilitate these processes. Data-driven Governance corresponds to a new way of accessing, retrieving and analysing appropriate and/or relevant information towards more effective and efficient policy and decision making. This involves the application of a wide range of computational methods in order to provide meaningful insights, assess the relative significance of alternative solutions against a set of values or preferences and finally support decision and policy making. Due to the complexity of the process, papers adopting computational methods require computational expertise that is often not taught to behavioral scholars. This track is for scholars whose interests are in developing or adopting computational methods. Having this track can benefit both computational scholars and behavioral scholars. On the one hand, computational scholars can receive meaningful feedback from scholars with computational expertise. On the other hand, behavioral scholars can provide feedback to enhance theoretical contribution of method-oriented papers and get familiarized in computational methods. Papers selected for this track will advance knowledge, research, and practice in government service provision, developing prototypes of technical platforms, government interaction with the public, and innovative decision-making from methods development. Topics and methodologies covered by this track may include: - Use of design science research to develop and evaluate artifacts including new metrics and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation or the examination of user aspects such as interaction, contextualization, personalization and behavior. - Development of technologies for advanced Decision Support enhancing government decision-making through data science approaches and big data analytics - Artificial Intelligence and machine learning approaches for innovative government service development or administrative function. - Computational methods (Information retrieval and text mining) for better information quality - Computational methods for better decision making under conditions of uncertainty. - Technical, political, social, economic aspects of Decision Support Systems development - Applications development and evaluation such as chatbots, conversational agents, and digital virtual assistants, recommender systems, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search etc. - Open government data infrastructures for decision making. - Linked Data Analytics and Management including semantic data interoperability and ontological approaches. Best regards, _______________________________________________________________________ *Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos* Assistant Professor of Open Data Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering University of the Aegean | 2 Palama St., Karlovassi, GR-83200, Samos, Greece _______________________________________________________________________ (mob): +30 697 2425 051 | (e-mail): alexop@aegean.gr | (skype/twitter): xalexopoulos _______________________________________________________________________ From cziozias at uth.gr Thu Nov 2 03:26:01 2023 From: cziozias at uth.gr (ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231102122601.Horde.8uzP8X6bdv2aV_iqzIpqXAF@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From pkaradimos at uth.gr Mon Nov 6 03:55:28 2023 From: pkaradimos at uth.gr (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231106135528.Horde.gxbxBoyH2N4hJahBdbgHvQE@webmail.uth.gr> Dear colleague, ? are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation?? ? ----------------------------- ? CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? ? ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance? Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? ? ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 ? Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? ? ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research? ?dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance .? The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? Track chairs:? ? Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece ? Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York ? This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of? Citiverse , smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation? studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to? improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? ? IMPORTANT DATES? ? - January 26, 2024: Papers due ? - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance ? - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due ? - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under? submission guidelines . ? ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From manuelp at ugr.es Mon Nov 6 05:59:52 2023 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 for a new dg.o2024 SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC AND OPEN DATA ECOSYSTEMS track Message-ID: dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance TRACK 22. Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems Taipei, Taiwan,National Taiwan University, Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs June 11-14, 2024,https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. TRACK 22. Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems Track Chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu, Estonia), Anthony Simonofski (Universit? de Namur ASBL, Belgium), Anneke Zuiderwijk (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (University of Granada, Spain) Public and open data ecosystems promise the transformation of government data-driven actions, the fostering of public sector innovations and the collaborative smartification of cities, society and life, triggering value-adding sustainable development goals-compliant smart living and society 5.0. New research is needed to help public managers and politicians for (1) implementing emerging technologies and technological innovations, (2) improving the achievement of sustainable development goals for increasing transparency, participation, and cooperation, and (3) meeting the stakeholders? expectations, needs, regulations and demands. This track welcomes contributions covering, but not limited to: The concepts of theoretical approaches toward Public Data ecosystems, Open Data ecosystems, Data Spaces, and Data Marketplaces; Infrastructures supporting Public and Open Data Ecosystems; The role of emerging technologies in Public and Open Data ecosystems; Institutional aspects of implementing sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems; Other sustainability dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; Stakeholder-centric dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; Case studies of Public and Open Data Ecosystems; The impact of Public and Open Data Ecosystems on Individuals, Organizations and Society. IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under submission guidelines . Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 -- Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var Full Professor of Accounting University of Granada Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n | 18071, Granada (Spain) Phone No. +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. 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Latin American Challenges and Expectations Springer-PAIT Important Dates Full Chapters Submission Hard Deadline: November 30, 2023 Review Results Returned January 19, 2024 Final Chapter Submission: January 31, 2024 Final Acceptance: February 16, 2024 Publication: June.-July 2024 AI is a new frontier for government management in Latin American countries, where digital transformation is still in its early stages. The incorporation of AI practices, processes and regulations is essential for success. Research on AI in Latin American governments is limited and recent. Corvalan (2018) discussed the challenges and opportunities of the Prometea implementation in Argentina's judiciary system. Esteves et al. (2020) updated this system's use in Argentina in a BID report. Faundez-Ugalde et al. (2020) described the use of AI in tax administrations in Latin America. Barredo-Iba?ez et al. (2021) combined AI with communication and democracy for Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia. This book will examine the opportunities, legal and regulatory frameworks needed to implement AI into government organizations, as well as the infrastructure requirements for successful implementation. It will also explore potential resistance from public officials towards technology adoption and ways to overcome it. Additionally, it will consider the digital divide that exists within Latin American societies, which may hinder access to AI tools for some citizens. Finally, it will discuss ethical considerations related to AI use in government processes, such as privacy concerns and algorithmic bias. We welcome chapters based on empirical research and theoretical frameworks on the following topics. These topics are not exclusive and can be complementary: -? ?Artificial intelligence in the Latin American public sector -? ?Cases of artificial intelligence in Latin American Government -? ?Best practices of artificial intelligence for developing public policies for the development -? ?Machine learning applications in Government management -? ?Predictive Analytics and Decision-making in public policies -? ?Chatbots and virtual assistants for the public sector -? ?Fraud detection and prevention -? ?Artificial intelligence in tax systems -? ?Artificial intelligence tools for cybersecurity and national security: policy and cases -? ?Advances in Robotics for the Public Sector -? ?Best practices of artificial intelligence for environmental monitoring -? ?Uses of artificial intelligence in public health for disease management and Prevention -? ?Disaster communication using artificial intelligence -? ?Smart cities using IoT and artificial intelligence -? ?Artificial Intelligence in public education -? ?Ethical Considerations for AI Use in government processes -? ?AI for public sector management in developing countries -? ?Challenges faced in implementing AI in government processes in Latin America -? ?Generative Artificial Intelligence in the public sector Submission Procedure Full chapters are expected to be submitted by?November 30, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at?https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors?All chapters must have a minimum of 8,000-12,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by Springer- Public Administration and Information Technology Series. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit?https://www.springer.com/series/10796 This publication is anticipated to be released in 2024. Inquiries Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan ?Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico rsandovala@uaemex.mx David Valle-Cruz ?Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico davacr@uaemex.mx From cplee at gm.ntpu.edu.tw Thu Nov 9 17:31:39 2023 From: cplee at gm.ntpu.edu.tw (=?UTF-8?B?Q2h1bmdwaW4o5Luy5b2sKQ==?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] [dg.o 2024] CALL FOR PAPERS: Bachelor/Master Student Track on Digital government Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Do you have talented Bachelor and Master students and want to give them some more insights on how academia works in the digital government discipline? Then our upcoming Bachelor and Master Student Track at next year?s dg.o conference (dg.o 2024) is the right thing for you. Our 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, Bachelor and Master 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. At the bottom, you can find further information regarding the track. We are looking forward to your submissions. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. Kind regards, Bettina Distel, University of M?nster, Germany [ hendrik.scholta@ercis.uni-muenster.de] Hendrik Scholta, University of M?nster, Germany [ Bettina.Distel@ercis.uni-muenster.de] Chung-Pin Lee, Taipei University, Taiwan [cplee@gm.ntpu.edu.tw] ---------------------------------- +++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++ *25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024)* *11 ? 14 June 2024 at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan* *Track 11: Digital Government: Bachelor and Master Student Track* Submission Deadline: January 26, 2024 This track addresses Bachelor and Master students of study programs at the intersection of public administration and digitalization/ICT. With this track, we want to encourage students to submit their original works, such as seminar theses or qualification theses, to present their work at the conference, and thus to become active members of the digital government community. We aim to provide students with a first-hand experience of how research works and deepen their interest in academia. The format is designed to empower students on their academic journey and to make their work and achievements visible beyond individual programs or universities. Students can submit their original works, both individual and group works are welcome. However, we suggest that the supervisors act as co-authors and facilitate a scientifically guided paper development process. While formally the track follows the guidelines specified for the general tracks (submission type, paper format, anonymized submission, double-blind peer review), we encourage our reviewers to be particularly developmental and constructive and to consider that for most of the students this will be their first experience with a research paper. All submissions need to follow the conference?s formal guidelines. As a subtitle, all submissions must include the label ?Student Track Paper?. All accepted research papers will be published after the conference as part of the conference proceedings. All topics in the area of digital government and the conference?s overall scope are welcome, similarly the track does not impose any restrictions regarding the papers? methodology. We welcome both theory-driven/conceptual and empirical papers. We are aware that for many students travelling to Asia and paying the conference fee might not be possible. We are currently in the process of considering funding opportunities and support. Further information are available at https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/. From chinnant at admin.fsu.edu Fri Nov 10 17:07:00 2023 From: chinnant at admin.fsu.edu (Charles Hinnant) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FSU iSchool Ph.D. Program Information Session - Monday, November 13, 2023 5:30pm ET In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FSU iSchool Ph.D. Program Information Session Monday, November 13, 2023 5:30pm ET Zoom: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93349143183 Please Distribute to Graduate Students The School of Information at Florida State University is now accepting applications from motivated, diverse, and academically well-qualified candidates to our Ph.D. in Information program for the 2024-2025 academic year. We are seeking future Ph.D. students with the potential and enthusiasm necessary to perform impactful independent research on a variety of information-related problems within a broad range of contexts and settings. The Ph.D. in information is a full-time, research-intensive degree designed to equip students with the skills, attitudes, and experiences necessary to conduct socially relevant, theoretically informed, and methodologically rigorous research in an area of their choosing. Our individualized and interdisciplinary approach allows students to build unique programs of study around specific areas of research interest. Students have an opportunity to work with and be mentored by our distinguished and highly multi-disciplinary faculty. Our world-class faculty are renowned for their expertise in areas such as digital youth, health informatics, data analytics, cybersecurity, digital government, distributed knowledge processes, digital libraries, data curation, data quality, educational informatics, game design, human computer interaction, information behavior, information literacy, information management, information policy, innovation, large-scale networks, museum informatics, and social informatics. Florida State University (FSU) is one of the nation's top-25 public universities and is dedicated to fostering an entrepreneurial and innovative environment and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of higher education. FSU?s iSchool is ranked #11 among the top graduate programs in Library and Information Science US News and World Report. All admitted Ph.D. students receive 4-5 years teaching assistantships and have opportunities to apply for other types of assistantships and scholarships. The application deadline is January 15, 2024. See the attached flyers for more information. For further inquiries, please contact: FSU iSchool Student Services (850) 645-3280 ischooladvising@cci.fsu.edu https://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/phd-in-information/ [https://track.tlink.re/r/a9562cac/bbec/4b2d/9f23/7cb3a2ea6d46] From gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie Mon Nov 13 07:30:27 2023 From: gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie (Gianluca Miscione) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FW: Application wanted: DSI Excellence Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear all, please distribute this call for PhD scholarships at the University of Zurich ? Switzerland across relevant networks. For more information, you can email info@dsi.uzh.ch Thanks, Gianluca Gianluca Miscione University College Dublin https://people.ucd.ie/gianluca.miscione ---------- *Call: DSI Excellence Program for PhDs ? Scholarships available! * Doctoral students are the next generation of scientists. It is therefore crucial for their future prospects that their skills are always up to date with the latest developments. The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) offers an Excellence Program for new and prospective doctoral students at the University of Zurich (UZH) who are interested in digital transformation. As a complementary curriculum to a doctoral program, general doctorate or doctoral subject, it prepares students from all disciplines for an environment in which interdisciplinary collaboration on digitalization topics is a top priority. The program promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across all UZH Faculties. *Open call for applications * For the upcoming program start in September 2024, we invite all interested parties to apply for the DSI Excellence Program via the DSI website from *November 15, 2023 to January 15, 2024*. The DSI also awards scholarships for applicants with very good academic performance and an interest in research on the impact of digitalization on society ? find here more information. Nina Cornelius-Malecha DSI Excellence Program Universit?t Z?rich Digital Society Initiative (DSI) R?mistrasse 69 8001 Z?rich info@dsi.uzh.ch www.dsi.uzh.ch linkedin.com/showcase/uzh-dsi twitter.com/UZH_dsi @DSI: Montag, Dienstag, Donnerstag & Freitag @DSI: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday From ionikolaou at uth.gr Mon Nov 13 11:33:37 2023 From: ionikolaou at uth.gr (Ioannis Nikolaou) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From jscholl at uw.edu Wed Nov 15 13:47:22 2023 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?DIRL_Version_6=2E0_=E2=80=94_Semi-annual_Up?= =?utf-8?q?date_Released?= Message-ID: <3881D511-8AD4-45AB-A890-779CDB2406FA@uw.edu> Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) Version 6.0 is the most recent update of this reference library. It has been published as of November 15, 2023 as a semiannual update. The library now contains 4,991references 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 285 references, or 6.1%. The DIRL is becoming an indispensable tool for Disaster Information and Technology-interested scholars. In particular, peer 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. 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, Galen Guffy, and Matthew Unruh and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Leslie Harka, Grace Landers, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2023). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 5.5?6.0. Retrieved from: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/ Please also note: The DIRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support. Maintained by Hans Jochen Scholl and friends at the University of Washington's Information School 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 Service Award of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Research Fellow of the Center for Technology in Government 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 ellkontogianni at uth.gr Mon Nov 20 05:49:36 2023 From: ellkontogianni at uth.gr (KONTOGIANNI ELLI) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231120154936.Horde.TEJTDoG4f8Nz0B3RKqbOv6R@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? ? Dear colleague, ? are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation?? ? ----------------------------- ? CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? ? ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance? Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? ? ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 ? Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? ? ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?.? The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? Track chairs:? ? Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece ? Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York ? This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation? studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? ? IMPORTANT DATES? ? - January 26, 2024: Papers due ? - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance ? - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due ? - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. ? ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 ? From elis.vollmer at ut.ee Mon Nov 20 13:17:45 2023 From: elis.vollmer at ut.ee (Elis Vollmer) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Invitation to conference "Cross-border mobile e-services for European benefit" on Dec 4, 2023, in Brussels Message-ID: We cordially invite you to attend the conference Cross-border mobile e-services for European benefit Monday, 4 December at 12:00-18:00 followed by a Networking Reception at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU, Rue Guimard 11/13, 1040, Brussels To truly unlock the full benefits of Mobile Cross-Border Government Services, the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) and the (updated) eIDAS Regulation must be enabled for mobile-device use that we nowadays naturally expect. This shall come with unprecedented user journeys by making extensive use of automatic attribute provision and SDGR's once-only principle (OOP), complemented by mobile identification, so that cumbersome filling of complex forms is replaced by user-controlled and user-consented releasing of authoritative data. By taking advantage of the security features of modern smartphones like hardware-backed secure elements together with integrated convenience elements like biometric sensors, our piloted research meets both the security needs and data-protection expectations one has for public services and the usability challenges that arise when accessing complex services using constrained mobile devices. By pushing forward the practical use of inclusive mobile Government services in Europe, such services will be brought in line with EU citizens' expectations for safe, resilient and sustainable mobile communication. It will also support the transformation of an eGovernment-based society into a mobile Government driven society. Due to the limited availability of seats, early registration is recommended to ensure your participation. Please register before 28th November HERE Entry upon the presentation of ID document. You can find more information here: https://www.mgov4.eu/community/mgov4eu-symposium Agenda 12.00-13.00 Welcoming lunch 13.00-17.00 Presentations and panel discussion 17.00-19.00 Closing reception We will publish the detailed agenda soon From ida.lindgren at liu.se Wed Nov 29 05:57:36 2023 From: ida.lindgren at liu.se (Ida Lindgren) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Open position at LiU relevant for e-government researchers Message-ID: Please spread in your networks: The division of information systems and digitalization (INDIG) at Link?ping University, Sweden, is currently hiring an associate professor in information systems. We are looking for a candidate who has received a doctoral degree and has demonstrated pedagogical expertise relevant for the information systems field. We offer a full-time and permanent position in an open environment, where there is room for creativity, autonomy, and personal development. At the division, there are good opportunities for conducting research that is theoretically well-grounded and relevant for practitioners, as well as high-quality teaching and higher education development. For more than 15 years, research on digitalization in the public sector (the e-government area) has been a cornerstone of our division. At the division, several research projects are conducted in this area, both the public sector?s IT-, service-, and business development, and projects at the societal level in the form of e.g. development of smart grids and the role of digitalization in such contexts. Starting January 2024, we will contribute to building a new multi-disciplinary research environment on resilient institutional design or welfare in the digital era (RIDE), together with researchers on IS, political science and economics from three different universities. However, our research also includes more general information systems topics. Read more about the position here: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/23329 Learn more about INDIG here: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei/indig Deadline for applications is January 8, 2024. If you have any inquiries about this position, please contact Johanna Sefyrin (head of division), johanna.sefyrin@liu.se Best regards, Ida Lindgren ************************************************************************** Ida Lindgren PhD., Associate Professor in Information Systems Research Leader for Division of Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG) Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) Link?ping University (LiU), Sweden Phone: +46 13 282669 Email: ida.lindgren@liu.se From cziozias at uth.gr Sun Dec 3 23:11:48 2023 From: cziozias at uth.gr (ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231204091148.Horde.q4GfuYuDzQoZT7jdZfqboNg@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From jooholee at unomaha.edu Mon Dec 4 13:30:07 2023 From: jooholee at unomaha.edu (Jooho Lee) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: Track 11. Digital Platform Government and Core Public Values Message-ID: Dear Digital Government Researchers and Students Track 11 (Digital Platform Government and Core Public Values) at dg.o 2024 conference is currently accepting papers/proposals. This track focuses on the intersection of digital platforms and government, with an emphasis on core public values. If you are interested in submitting a paper or proposal, please review the details below. Call for Papers/Proposals dg.o 2024: Track 11. Digital Platform Government and Core Public Values The concept of a digital platform government can be traced back to the UK's GOV.UK and the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative. There is no agreed-upon definition of the concept, so it is more productive to compare it with similar concepts. The digital platform government differs from e-government by focusing on process innovation and being a public-private partnership service model. It emphasizes active participation of stakeholders and the use of intelligent technologies. Both the digital platform government and e-government models emphasize online citizen participation, but the digital platform government allows citizens to have a more active role in government decision-making. The core public values pursued by the digital platform government include efficiency, accountability, fairness, participation, collaboration, transparency, narrowing the digital divide, and digital equity. The digital platform government is operated in various forms depending on its purpose or the role of the government. Scholars have proposed various types of digital platforms based on their purposes and the role of the government. With this broad understanding about digital platform government, we invite papers that explore the relationship between various digital platform government practices and core public values. Track chairs: Jooho Lee (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) & Wookjoon Sung, (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea) dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2024, with the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance" in Taipei, Taiwan on June 11-14, 2024. The conference's main host is the Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, College of Social Sciences, at the National Taiwan University. The conference is also co-hosted by the Department of Public Administration at the National Chengchi University, the Department of Public Administration at the Chung Hua University, and the Taipei City Government. 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. THEME & TRACK TOPICS: The 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024) will feature the main theme of "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance." The conference's central theme - the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, are people-centric, and the creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products. Especially, the post-COVID-19 has forced government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways to deliver services. The workforce shifts to remote working partially or entirely; agencies reconfigure services and the supply chains according to uncertain demand; agencies create new services for addressing delivery needs in both the public and private sectors. Digital technologies played an essential role in enabling these changes. However, adoption in the public sector needs to be more cohesive. Hence, the dg.o 2024 conference can help bridge the 'digital' gaps among different sectors in various countries and regions. Further, the theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid intelligence, blockchain, open platforms, the internet of things (IoT), wearable devices, big data, etc., have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst and bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize topics that showcase new technologies and help pinpoint where governments can achieve the most significant value. IMPORTANT DATES January 26, 2024: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due Feb 15, 2024: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium March 8, 2024: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels) March 10, 2024: Posters and demo proposals due March 15, 2024: Poster/demo author notifications March 15, 2024: Doctoral colloquium notification March 22, 2024: Author registrations are due March 31, 2024: Paper revision due (straight to TAPS) March 31, 2024: Early registration closes (this is only on the website) April 01, 2024: Regular registration begins April 30, 2024: ACM Copyrights approval and TAPS due PREPARATION OF SUBMISSIONS AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o conference. * All submissions should use ACM proceedings submission template (with the exception of the doctoral colloquium). You can obtain the template by going to the instruction here: (Prepare your article with LaTeX or Prepare your article with Microsoft Word). * For people using LaTeX: We strongly recommend using Overleaf Platform available to all ACM authors. Follow the direction in this link to create your manuscript. Please use the latest version of the Master Article Template - LaTeX to create your article submission. Please use the template option "sigconf" to format your paper; like \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}. Citation Style and Reference Formats: Follow the styles written in the direction. For example, if you use Zotero, the citation style is ACM SIG Proceedings. If you are using other systems for exporting references, please find a citation style corresponding to ACM SIG Proceedings. * Research, Management, and Policy papers will go through a double-review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from the submission. * All other submissions should also use ACM proceedings submission template but include author names and contact information. * All authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single-column format. * Submit your work via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 * In the EasyChair, Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper and assign it to the proposed tracks while submitting it in EasyChair to assist the program committee in the review process. * All submissions will be checked for plagiarism. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jooho Lee, Ph.D. Professor Co-director of Digital Governance and Analytics Lab School of Public Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha Google Scholar From i.susha at uu.nl Wed Dec 6 01:58:45 2023 From: i.susha at uu.nl (Susha, I. (Iryna)) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] FW: 2 PhD vacancies Utrecht Uni on data and societal challenges In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear fellow digital government scholars, I just announced two PhD positions at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) to work with me on the DATA ALLY project. The PhD candidates will research the value of data for addressing societal challenges, with a specific focus on business-to-government data sharing. Please be so kind to spread the word and forward to potential candidates in your network. Application deadline: January 15. The PhDs will be supervised by Dr. Iryna Susha and Prof. Koen Frenken and will be part of Innovation Studies group. The link to the vacancy is provided below. Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Iryna Susha ??Dr. Iryna Susha | Assistant Professor | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Faculty of Geosciences | Utrecht University | Vening Meineszbuilding A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht | room 7.36 | P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht | i.susha@uu.nl | www.uu.nl/staff/ISusha | On parental leave on Wednesdays Two PhD positions in Business-to-government data sharing for addressing societal challenges (0.8 -1.0 FTE) - Working at Utrecht University - Utrecht University (uu.nl) Job description Utrecht University is offering two fully funded, four-year PhD-positions on the value of data for addressing societal challenges, with a specific focus on business-to-government (B2G) data sharing. Vacancy 1. The PhD-candidate will map and compare approaches of local governments in large European cities towards accessing business data. The candidate will investigate the tensions, strategies, and outcomes of B2G data sharing and how the shared business data is used by governments to address which societal challenges. The research will involve the use of survey research methods, as well as interviews and case studies. Vacancy 2. The PhD candidate will investigate the value of private sector data for the production of official statistics. The candidate will compare the approaches to access private sector data of national government statistics offices throughout the European Union and investigate the challenges and trace the outcomes. The research will involve the use of interviews and case study research methods. Your PhD-project is part of a wider NWO-funded Vidi-project called DATA ALLY which investigates regulatory and non-regulatory approaches of governments across the EU to institutionalize access to private sector data when public interest is at stake. DATA ALLY is an interdisciplinary project connecting scholarship in public administration, information systems, and innovation studies. As a PhD student, you will be part of a four-person team with access to a network of collaborators in other Dutch universities and abroad. The PhD candidates filling in the two vacancies will closely collaborate with each other and with the team of supervisors. The PhD candidate will be part of the Innovation Studies group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and supervised by Dr Iryna Susha and Prof. Koen Frenken. Qualifications Vacancy 1. We seek highly motivated candidates who: * have an interest in digital innovation, data-driven policy, big data in government or the like; * have a background in public administration, political science, digital government, information systems, organization studies, innovation studies and/or a related discipline; * are willing to learn about institutional theory and related theories; * have experience with qualitative (case studies) and/or quantitative (survey) research methods; * have an interest (or prior experience) in collaborating with city governments (municipalities); * are proficient in English (proficiency in Dutch or another European language is an advantage but not a requirement); * have an interest (or prior experience) of working in an international/EU context, as well as good (stakeholder) communication and project management skills; * have solid scientific writing skills. Vacancy 2. We seek highly motivated candidates who: * have an interest in digital innovation, data-driven policy, big data in government or the like; * have a background in public administration, political science, organization studies, innovation studies, information systems, and/or a related discipline; * have an interest (or prior experience) in collaborating with national statistics offices; * are willing to learn about institutional theory and related theories; * have experience with qualitative (case studies) research methods; * are proficient in English (proficiency in Dutch or another European language is an advantage but not a requirement); * have an interest (or prior experience) of working in an international/EU context, as well as good (stakeholder) communication and project management skills; * have solid scientific writing skills. The project can start between 1 June 2024 and 1 September 2024. Offer We offer: * a position (0.8-1.0 FTE) for 4 years; * a full-time gross salary between ?2,770 in the first year and ?3,539 in the fourth year of employment in scale P of the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities; * 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus; * a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. Deadline for application is 15 January 2024. First-round interviews will be conducted on 30 January 2024. To apply, please provide, via the 'apply' button, your CV, motivation letter, an example of written research work, and contact details of 2 reference persons. In your motivation letter, indicate whether you are applying for vacancy 1 or vacancy 2 or for both. From joern.vonlucke at zu.de Wed Dec 6 10:10:43 2023 From: joern.vonlucke at zu.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_von_Lucke?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany - Endowed Assistant Professor or Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence (Full Time, Open Rank) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Zeppelin University invites applications for the position of an Endowed Assistant Professor or Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence (Full Time, Open Rank) at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, to be filled at the earliest possible date. The holder of the position will represent the academic field of artificial in its entire width in research and teaching, including its application in the political, social, and economic sciences. Possible topics of research are advanced methods of machine learning, in particular deep learning, and the application and development of large language models. An expertise in the area of generative artificial intelligence is especially welcome. Further details can be found here: https://short.sg/j/38989506 ___________________________________________ Zeppelin University bridging business culture politics Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joern von Lucke Professor, Director and Senator Chair for Public Sector Informatics and Business Informatics The Open Government Institute (TOGI) Am Seemooser Horn 20 D-88045 Friedrichshafen | Lake Constance GERMANY Phone +49 7541 6009-1471 Fax +49 7541 6009-1499 Email joern.vonlucke@zu.de Home http://togi.zeppelin-university.com and http://togi.zu.de TosiT http://www.tosit.org Newsletter https://www.zu.de/institute/togi/assets/pdf/TOGI-Newsletter-059_Herbst_2023.pdf ___________________________________________ Zeppelin Universit?t gemeinn?tzige GmbH Seat of Registration Friedrichshafen | Germany | Lake Constance Court of Jurisdiction Ulm HRB 632002 Management: Prof Dr Klaus M?hlhahn ___________________________________________ From pkaradimos at uth.gr Mon Dec 11 01:39:22 2023 From: pkaradimos at uth.gr (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231211113922.Horde.YGc2SJ8pk7y54bA4qjrR1QM@webmail.uth.gr> Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/?|?https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024?and?https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website?http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/?under ?submission guidelines?. ? Submission Site:?https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From shefali.virkar at wu.ac.at Tue Dec 12 06:34:10 2023 From: shefali.virkar at wu.ac.at (Virkar, Shefali Vidya) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers: dg, o 2024 - Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance Message-ID: **Apologies for Cross-Posting** Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to contribute your work to our new dg.o 2024 track, Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance! Track Description The exponential growth in the amount of data generated, collected, stored and processed in a digitalized world compels us to take a fresh look at how information is accessed and used by governments, and at the computer systems that facilitate these processes. Data-driven Governance corresponds to a new way of accessing, retrieving and analysing appropriate and/or relevant information towards more effective and efficient policy and decision making. This involves the application of a wide range of computational methods in order to provide meaningful insights, assess the relative significance of alternative solutions against a set of values or preferences and finally support decision and policy making. Due to the complexity of the process, papers adopting computational methods require computational expertise that is often not taught to behavioral scholars. This track is for scholars whose interests are in developing or adopting computational methods. Having this track can benefit both computational scholars and behavioral scholars. On the one hand, computational scholars can receive meaningful feedback from scholars with computational expertise. On the other hand, behavioral scholars can provide feedback to enhance theoretical contribution of method-oriented papers and get familiarized in computational methods. Papers selected for this track will advance knowledge, research, and practice in government service provision, developing prototypes of technical platforms, government interaction with the public, and innovative decision-making from methods development. Topics and methodologies covered by this track may include: * Use of design science research to develop and evaluate artifacts including new metrics and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation or the examination of user aspects such as interaction, contextualization, personalization and behavior. * Development of technologies for advanced Decision Support enhancing government decision-making through data science approaches and big data analytics * Artificial Intelligence and machine learning approaches for innovative government service development or administrative function. * Computational methods (Information retrieval and text mining) for better information quality * Computational methods for better decision making under conditions of uncertainty. * Technical, political, social, economic aspects of Decision Support Systems development * Applications development and evaluation such as chatbots, conversational agents, and digital virtual assistants, recommender systems, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search etc. * Open government data infrastructures for decision making. * Linked Data Analytics and Management including semantic data interoperability and ontological approaches. About the Conference The annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2024, will be held on 11-14 June 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan at the National Taiwan University. The central theme of the conference is "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance". A conference website has been set up at https://dgo2024.github.io/index.html where you can get more information about the event. The deadline for submissions is 26 January 2024. If you have any questions about this track, please feel free to contact any of the track chairs listed below. We hope to see many of you in Taiwan next year! Best regards, The Track Chairs. Loni Hagen (University of South Florida, USA) Charalampos Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece) David Valle-Cruz (Universidad Aut?noma del Estado de M?xico, M?xico) Shefali Virkar (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) Kellyton Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil) Dr. Shefali Virkar Assistant Professor Institut f?r Public Management und Governance Institute for Public Management and Governance WU Wirtschaftsuniversit?t Wien Vienna University of Economics and Business Geb?ude D2, Eingang E, 1. OG Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien, Austria E-Mail: shefali.virkar@wu.ac.at www.wu.ac.at/pubmgt From ida.lindgren at liu.se Wed Dec 13 03:25:18 2023 From: ida.lindgren at liu.se (Ida Lindgren) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Papers EGOV 2024 Message-ID: EGOV2024 ? eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation 1-5 September Ghent & Leuven, Belgium http://dgsociety.org/egov-2024/ CALL FOR PAPERS EGOV2024 is a scientific conference dedicated to the broader areas of eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation which include facets like Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, AI Governance, GovTech, Algoritmic Governance, and related topics to digitalization in the public sector. Conference sessions will be hosted 3-5 September in Leuven by the KU Leuven. As part of the conference, the University of Ghent hosts a PhD colloquium and a Junior Faculty School in Ghent on 1-2 September. The PhD Colloquium is a full day event on 1 September, open only for those who are admitted and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. The Junior Faculty School is a full day event on 2 September, for sharing experiences to advance the career of young researchers interested in digitalization and government (see conference website for more information). Several types of submissions are possible, including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, panels, and workshops. These submission types follow different review processes and have different publication outlets. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods). The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group on Information Systems in Public Administration (IFIP WG 8.5) 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 emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches for researching 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. CONFERENCE VENUE The EGOV 2024 conference is hosted by the University of Ghent and by the KU Leuven in Belgium. IMPORTANT DATES * (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 15 March 2024 * Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2024 * PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2024 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2024 * Poster acceptance 31 May 2024 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2024 * PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 3 June 2024 * Junior Faculty School deadline for application: 3 June 2024 * Junior Faculty School notification of acceptance: 10 June 2024 * PhD Colloquium final version: 1 July 2024 * PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2024 (in Ghent) * Junior Faculty School: 2 September 2024 (in Ghent) * Conference Sessions: 3-5 September 2024 (in Leuven) CONFERENCE CHAIRS * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden * Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium * Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary * Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium * J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA * Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway * Thomas Lampoltshammer, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom * Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu University, Estonia * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / University for Continuing Education, Austria * Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland * Anthony Simonofski, University of Namur, Belgium * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece * Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands TRACKS AT EGOV2024 General eGovernment & Open Government Track: covers all eGovernment-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden General eDemocracy & eParticipation Track: covers 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. * Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway * Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education, Austria * David Duenas-Cid, Kozminski University, Poland Digital Technologies & Sustainability Development Track: focuses on research related to sustainability goals. * Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Digital Society Track: focuses on citizen-centric governance in the public sector, including digital ecosystems, digital skills and education, digital public health, digital sovereignty, as well as digital society, culture, and democracy. * Thomas Lampoltshammer, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden * Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium Emerging Issues and Innovations Track: focuses on innovation and emerging applications driven by technologies and institutional changes at all levels of government, e.g., metaverse, decentralized autonomous organizations, smart contracts, blockchain and quantum computing. * Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu University, Estonia * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: focuses on 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. * Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece AI Governance and its Societal Challenges Track: focuses on the understanding of the impact of AI on society and the role of the public sector in influencing related changes, as well as the regulation and global governance of AI itself. * Csaba Cs?ki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary * Roel Dobbe, Delft University of Delft, The Netherlands * Gregor Eibl, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track: covers all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology. * Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium * Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var, University of Granada, Spain * Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value including transparency, as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other technologies. * J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece * Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Digital and Social Media Track: focuses on social networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. * Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK Governance, Digital Legislation, and Policy Track: focuses on digital governance, digital legislation, regulatory reforms, and policies that shape our increasingly interconnected world, e.g., digital sovereignty, data ownership, digitization projects within government administrations, and the legal challenges that emerge. * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / University for Continuing Education, Austria * Anna-Sophie Novak, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Edimara M. Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Practitioners - Researchers Collaboration Track: This is a new track entirely devoted to presenting future or ongoing initiatives to foster collaboration between practitioners and researchers in eGovernment. * Anthony Simonofski, University of Namur, Belgium * Ulf Melin, Link?ping University, Sweden * Francesco Mureddu, Lisbon Council, Belgium PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation 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. Application required (see conference website). * Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden Junior Faculty School: The overall aim of the Junior Faculty School is to exchange experiences and build connections between young and experienced scholars interested in digitalization in the public sector. The activity is directed towards PhD students, postdoctoral-, and young researchers who are registered for the full conference. Application required (see conference website). * Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Ida Lindgren, Link?ping University, Sweden TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS By making a submission to the EGOV2024 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 EGOV2024 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 proceeding?s 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 & e-Participation, ICT & Sustainable development goals, 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. 8 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 issue from conference papers is planned by the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) among other journals. 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. BEST PAPER AWARD There are three different best paper awards. 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. * Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece * Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education, Austria CONTACT CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/egov2024 Website: http://dgsociety.org/egov-2024/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2024 ************************************************************************** Ida Lindgren EGOV2024 Conference Chair PhD., Associate Professor in Information Systems Research Leader for Division of Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG) Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) Link?ping University (LiU), Sweden Phone: +46 13 282669 Email: ida.lindgren@liu.se From Soon.Chun at csi.cuny.edu Wed Dec 13 08:45:17 2023 From: Soon.Chun at csi.cuny.edu (Soon Chun) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] DGOV Journal - Special Issue on Generative AI commentaries - deadline extension Message-ID: *** Apologies if you received the duplicate messages **** Dear E-Gov colleagues: Hope you are doing well during the business season. We would like to share that the submission deadline for the special issue on "ChatGPT and Generative AI commentaries" has been extended to Jan 28th, 2024, with many requests by potential authors. Attached please find the new deadlines in the updated CFP at the website: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/Special_Issue_GenAI-dec13-1702484282970.pdf https://dl.acm.org/journal/dgov/calls-for-papers We hope you could share with your colleagues and students for possible submissions. Thank you. -Soon & Beth DGOV Journal Soon Ae Chun, Ph.D Professor and co-Director, Information Systems & Informatics Program & Director, iSecure Lab CUNY College of Staten Island Graduate Center Faculty member, Computer Science PhD Program & Data Science MS Program CUNY Graduate Center Founding Co-Editor-In-Chief, ACM Digital Government Research and Practice City University of New York http://isi.csi.cuny.edu/~soon From jooholee at unomaha.edu Wed Dec 13 14:10:33 2023 From: jooholee at unomaha.edu (Jooho Lee) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CALL OF PAPERS - Special Issue Track: Artificial Intelligence, Data-driven Technologies, and Comparative Public Policy Message-ID: CALL OF PAPERS Special Issue Track: Artificial Intelligence, Data-driven Technologies, and Comparative Public Policy The International Conference on Comparative Public Policy in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice April 19-21, 2024, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China SPECIAL ISSUE ORGANIZERS: Yixin Dai, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (yixindai@tsinghua.edu.cn) Jooho Lee, Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha (jooholee@unomaha.edu) SPECIAL ISSUE THEME: The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Data-driven Technologies, and Comparative Public Policy. The rapid development of emerging data-driven technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), has had a profound impact on social behaviors, necessitating urgent government regulation, which, in turn, brought significant changes to the field of comparative policy analysis, both in terms of theory and methodology. Practically, the velocity of AI and data-driven technology developments, the complexity of what to regulate, and the question of who regulates and how, all pose significant challenges for AI oversight. Theoretically, to design policies and ensure that AI is applied in an ethical, secure, transparent, and human-centric manner across all sectors are often unclear. Both policy design, implementation and policy analysis can be facilitated by AI and data-driven technologies, but this requires careful consideration of the aforementioned challenges. Given that AI-related policies have been designed and adopted across various policy fields in numerous countries and regions, it would be beneficial to explore these policy challenges from comparative perspectives. Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Special features of AI oversight policies - AI and data-driven technologies in traditional policy design - Policy collaboration, co-ordination and coherence in policy design with regarding to AI and data- driven technologies - Unexpected and unintended consequences in implementation and dissemination of AI policies - AI and data-driven technologies usage and the quality and efficiency of comparative policy analysis - Ethical considerations when using AI technologies in comparative policy analysis - Reliability and validity of AI-assisted analysis SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: JCPA plans to organize a series of special sessions for this special issue at the International Conference on Comparative Public Policy, to be held at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, on April 19-21, 2024. Scholars who are interested in this special issue should submit their abstracts, by January 15, 2024, through the conference website. All proposals must adhere to the AIMS and SCOPE of JCPA, and include the following information: (1) Cover page: authors or (co)authors names, corresponding author, institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address; 2) Text: of up to 500 words only considering: theoretical framework and/or development; methodology and/or development; research questions; findings and implications; innovations; unique contributions. Please submit your abstract under the category "Special Issue Track: Artificial Intelligence, Data-driven Technologies, and Comparative Public Policy". Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection will be sent via email, no later than January 31, 2024. If shortlisted, candidates should submit a full manuscript by April 12, 2024. Along with the manuscript, please provide a cover page with the author's name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. PUBLICATION: Only research that explicitly addresses comparative policy analysis will be considered. Please refer to the JCPA comparative scope criteria available here. Only on submission of the full manuscripts and presenting the papers in-person at the conference, will the Special Issues Editors and the JCPA review the papers and shortlist them for submission, if shortlisted, through the Special Issue Portal on JCPA Scholar One. Papers should follow the JCPA guidelines, available here<:%20https:/www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=fcpa20.>. All papers will go through regular double blind peer review process and are not guaranteed for publication at JCPA. The Special Issue will receive priority slotting for publication once all accepted manuscripts are accepted. Those articles that do not meet the deadlines for final acceptance together with the other articles in the bundle, might be scheduled for publication, in regular issues once fully accepted independent of the special issue. INQUIRIES: For inquiry about the special issue, please email: Dr. Yixin Dai (yixindai@tsinghua.edu.cn). For inquiry about the International Conference, please email: JCPAconference@outlook.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jooho Lee, Ph.D. Professor Co-director of Digital Governance and Analytics Lab School of Public Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha Google Scholar From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Dec 15 04:21:46 2023 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] Smart Cities Track. EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2024 Call for Proposals/Papers Message-ID: <138C57F7-A988-49D4-957E-357B339BCF90@ugr.es> Dear colleagues, IFIP EGOV2024 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2024 at Ghent University and KU Leuven, Belgium, 1-5 September 2024 The IFIP EGOV2024 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 1-5 September 2024 in Ghent University and KU Leuven in Belgium. See https://dgsociety.org/egov-2024/ Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Urban growth and natural and health disasters have introduced important challenges in the urban context, pushing cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a smart environment. The transformation of these communities has become a top priority for city governments and communities and offers great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity. However, significant challenges have arisen at the complex intersection of technology and society. Prior research has demonstrated that cities with greater digital maturity allow them to develop more resilient service management systems and supply chains, resulting in the emergence of cities that are more agile and adaptable. In addition, smart communities, smart districts, smart cities and regions are needed to be proactive in adopting a citizen-centric lens to serve the needs of their residents and improve city resilience and wellbeing of denizens. Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and communities, it is less developed on the topic of why smart districts and regions need to become smart. Further, the existing literature is fragmented and dispersed among several areas of knowledge, resulting in a lack of a multi-domain holistic view and a lack of critical analysis about the strategies that different cities, districts, and communities follow to become smarter. Although there is not a one-size-fits-all solution to become smart because it is context-dependent, mainly due to different levels of pressures exerted on housing, energy, transportation, infrastructure, and healthcare due to rapid urbanisation and ageing populations, having a holistic and common approach for achieving could be considered fundamental to guide decision-makers in the digital transformation of societies. Emergent and disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, digital twins, open data, Internet of Things, or clean technologies are opening new avenues to become smart and are at the forefront of smart initiatives to improve city sustainability and resilience. All of them are being integrated into city administration and community management, information integration, data quality, privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen participation ? which are just some of the issues that need greater attention to make a community smarter today and in the near future. Smart services can also make our cities better, but as digital technology and transformation evolve there are challenges as well as opportunities for both citizens and stakeholders. At the same time, these new technologies also bring big challenges with their adoption such as the digital divide, privacy, and security issues. This track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular attention to the challenges faced by smart cities, smart districts, and smart communities as well as to the impact of these initiatives on sustainable living and governance. It also aims at focusing on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart communities, smart districts, 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 track include, but are not limited, to the following topics: Smart governance as the foundation to both creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance) and coordinating smart public policies at different levels of public administrations. Smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and potential pitfalls) Smart partnerships and smart communities (triple/quadruple helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation) Smart cities, smart districts, smart communities and regions (cases, indicators, assessment, rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors) Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities (smart ideas and solutions for smart cities) Emerging and disruptive technologies in smart communities (big data, open data, data analytics, social media, and networks, Blockchain technologies, etc.) AI, IoT and Digital Twins as enablers for Smart Communities/Smart Cities (infrastructure, transportation, citizen participation, education, governance, environment, health care, safety, security, and energy) AI in smart city design, urban planning, and intelligent infrastructure operation Integrative research that addresses the technological and social dimensions of smart and connected communities Smart homes, intelligent home automation systems, domotics pros and cons Smart grids, smart energy distribution systems, intelligent energy monitoring, implications for climate change Smart environment, traffic management, and transportation (carbonless and clean individual and public mobility) Smart law enforcement theory and practice Smart devices and their novel use in public management and public service delivery Smart (technology-facilitated) practices such as payment systems, identification systems, etc. New cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in smart technologies SMART as a public-sector planning and management principle (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Results-based, and Time-bound) Smart university, smart classrooms, and smart delivery of education-related services Quality of life issues in smart cities and smart communities Urban-rural gaps in smart communities, digital divides, and socio-economic disparities Citizen participation in smart cities using emerging technologies as chatbots or blockchain. Innovation and creativity in smart society development Emerging technologies implementation in cities to face and manage natural disasters and health pandemics. Sustainable policy developments for smart cities IMPORTANT DATES (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 15 March 2024 Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2024 PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2024 Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2024 Poster acceptance 31 May 2024 Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2024 PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 1 June 2024 Junior Faculty School deadline for application: 1 June 2024 PhD Colloquium final version: 1 July 2024 PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2024 (in Ghent) Junior Faculty School: 2 September 2024 (in Ghent) Conference Sessions: 3-5 September 2024 (in Leuven) HOW TO SUBMIT Submissions can be made through easychair system here: https://easychair.org/account/signin TRACK CHAIRS Prof. Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodr?guez Bol?var (lead), University of Granada, Spain. Dr. Shefali Virkar, Donau-Universit?t Krems, Austria From jscholl at uw.edu Sat Dec 16 04:02:25 2023 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Jochen Scholl) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] DGRL Version 19.5 Now at Over 19,000 References Message-ID: <38ED8410-B1BE-4AFA-8D10-28F158593423@uw.edu> Release Notice DGRL Digital Government Reference Library Version 19.5 Now Listing 19,390 references of Peer-reviewed Research Articles in the English Language Version 19.5 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of December 15, 2023. The library now contains 19,390 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. This marks an 3.9% increase in references from version 19.0 (June of 2023) and a 7.8% increase from version 18.5 (December of 2022). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,403) 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: 06/15/2024. 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, Leslie Harka, Kreg Hasegawa, Jackie Holmes, Julia Hon, Grace Landers, 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. (2023). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 18.0?19.5. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/ The DGRL can be downloaded following this link: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/download.php 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 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 ionikolaou at uth.gr Mon Dec 18 07:35:00 2023 From: ionikolaou at uth.gr (Ioannis Nikolaou) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 Twitter handle: #dgo2024 The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?. The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. IMPORTANT DATES - January 26, 2024: Papers due - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 From alexander.prosser at wu.ac.at Tue Dec 19 03:20:36 2023 From: alexander.prosser at wu.ac.at (Prosser, Alexander) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days 2024, CEEeGov 24 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Dear Madam/Sir, The CfP for next year's CEEeGov in Budapest, September 12-13, 2024 has been published: https://ceeegov2024.ocg.at/ Submission deadline is March 31, 2024. The conference will particularly focus on, but not limit itself to, the following topics: * Electronic Administration services both back office and in communication with citizens/businesses, * Identity management, * 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, * Transparency and anti-corruption, * eTools to help establish a European public space, * Open Data, * Public transport and public organization of mobility * Legal aspects of eGovernment and eDemocracy, * Economic and social impact of eGovernment and eDemocracy, * Enabling the Digital Single Market The conference language will be English only. Papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process and published at ICPS, here this year's proceedings https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3603304 Like every year, the conference will also be dedicated to a special theme: This year, eAgriculture (particularly the eGov aspects of it) was selected. Please feel free to spread the call and of course your submission would be highly welcome. You may also follow us on X: https://twitter.com/ceeegov Best Wishes, Alexander Prosser Prof. Dr. Alexander Prosser Institute for Production Management University of Economics and Business, Vienna https://www.wu.ac.at/prodman/team/prosser/ https://www.wu.ac.at/erp/ Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days, Sept. 12-13, 2024 https://ceeegov2024.ocg.at/ https://twitter.com/ceeegov From lanthopo at teilar.gr Sat Dec 23 00:53:34 2023 From: lanthopo at teilar.gr (Leonidas Anthopoulos) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?CfP_-_WebAndTheCity=3A_10th_ACM_Internation?= =?utf-8?q?al_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: <2c09bf982346159b9590337b790f2221@teilar.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION WebAndTheCity: 10th International Smart City Workshop - The Web and Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW'24): 34th World Wide Web International Conference, Singapore, May 13, 2024 http://webandthecity.home.blog/ Important Dates * Submissions extended due: Feb 05, 2024 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) * Notification of Acceptance: March 4, 2024 * Camera-ready version due: March 11, 2024 * Workshop authors' early registration: March 31, 2024 * Workshop day: May 13, 2024 Workshop Objective This is the 10th 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 held in Austin, Texas, USA, in conjunction with "The Web Conference 2023". 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 new era of the web and web intelligence in cities and communities. In the era of digital twinning and metaverse (so called citiverse for cities), and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities are being transformed to virtual spaces that generate new types of value and new experiences to their citizens and enterprises that can enhance living and offer new opportunities for economic growth. Moreover, AI and web intelligence generate new types of automated transactions in these virtual spaces, while they can utilize data spaces and standardization for optimal data flow. ?his workshop aims to demonstrate how the web transforms cities to new virtual environments. 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): * Meet the metaverse expectations for cities (new value creation, immersive experiences for users etc.) * Explore city digital twinning * 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=31988213) 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=31988213) 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 * Soon Ae Choon, Professor, City of University of New York, U.S.A. * Carl Erik Moe, Professor, University of Agder, Norway * Sofia Toufic Shwayri, Independent Scholar, U.S.A. * Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR G?ographie-Cit?s / LabEx DynamiTe * Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform * Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany * Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Maynooth University, Ireland * Kristina Lemmer, University of Lunenburg, Germany From ellkontogianni at uth.gr Sat Dec 23 05:37:27 2023 From: ellkontogianni at uth.gr (KONTOGIANNI ELLI) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse Message-ID: <20231223153727.Horde.nab6TGWDESMZGWgA6sqq2qZ@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? ? Dear colleague, ? are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation?? ? ----------------------------- ? CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? ? ? dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance? Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ ? ? ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 ? Twitter handle: #dgo2024 ? ? ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? dg.o 2024, with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance?.? The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value. ? ? TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse ? Track chairs:? ? Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece ? Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York ? This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of ?Citiverse?, smart city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the people?s needs and values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation? studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people?s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year?s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse. ? Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven innovations to ?improve? information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where people?s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations. ? ? IMPORTANT DATES? ? - January 26, 2024: Papers due ? - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance ? - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due ? - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under ?submission guidelines?. ? ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024 ? From fadi.salem at gmail.com Sat Dec 23 12:05:10 2023 From: fadi.salem at gmail.com (Fadi Salem) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Digital Government Society Membership Survey 2023/2024 Message-ID: *Dear Digital Government Society Members and Friends,* The Digital Government Society is continuously striving to enhance the value and relevance of the benefits it offers to its members. We invite you to help the DGS Board serve you better by completing this short survey about the benefits you'd like to receive as part of your membership with the DGS. *Here is the link to the survey (should take less than 5 min to complete): https://bit.ly/DGSMembership * Your feedback will be greatly appreciated. Please complete the survey the next couple of days or after the holidays. Thank you in advance for your continued support and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year! The DGS Membership Committee (on behalf of the DGS Board of Directors), Fadi Salem, Jing Zhang, Gabriela Viale Pereira and Gabriel Puron Cid - *The Digital Government Society: https://dgsociety.org/ * - *Submit a Paper to the DGO2024 Conference here (deadline 26-Jan-2024): https://dgo2024.github.io/index.html * From fadi.salem at mbrsg.ac.ae Sat Dec 23 11:53:23 2023 From: fadi.salem at mbrsg.ac.ae (Dr. Fadi Salem) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] (no subject) Message-ID: From M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl Tue Dec 26 08:35:12 2023 From: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl (Marijn Janssen) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Call for Bids for hosting dg.o 2026 Conference Message-ID: <28702c2784d74ceba9fb01e6e7e8c7e7@tudelft.nl> Digital Government Society Call for Bids for hosting dg.o 2026 Conference The Digital Government Society (DGS) hereby invites bids to host the 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, known as dg.o, in year 2026. 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 100-180 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 day (optional field trip) is comprised of some papers sessions, 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, 10-20 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 1) one DGS representative, 2) one from the local organizing party and 3) on in charge of the local organization of the next conference, and optional, 4) one from the previous 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 (together with the DGS treasurer) 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 arrange the keynote sessions. We encourage having a local keynote from the country in which the conference will be held. At least one General Chairs participates each month in the DGS Board Meeting to update the Board on progress and to raise any issues or concerns regarding the conference planning. General chairs should ensure that the conference is announced during the previous dg.o conference and a track chair meeting is arranged. Local Organization Chair: The Local Organization Chair, mostly members of the organizing party, is responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, 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 2026, for example, should begin meeting no later than August of 2025. 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 Feb 15, 2024. 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 April 15, 2024. 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 June 1, 2024. * Final Bids. Final Bids (which could be the same as the draft bid) are due to the DGS Treasurer on July 1, 2024. * Final Selection. The selection committee will review final bids according to the selection criteria and make recommendations to the DGS Board in its board meeting. The DGS Board and the selection committee will notify the selected host about the decision, and will invite the final selected host to announce it at the next dg.o conference. BID REQUIREMENTS Letter of Intent (LOI): A letter on an official host organization's letterhead expressing 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 to cover administrative costs like MemberClicks system, administrative assistant etc. 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, Jing Zhang Contact information; m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl 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. 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