[EGOV LIST] Call for papers - IFIP EGOV2023 Open Data Track

[Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk - TBM]

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