From manuelp at ugr.es Tue Jan 2 01:11:42 2024 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: Dear colleague, Are you researching on topics such as Open Data Ecosystems? emerging technologies in Public and Open Data ecosystems? Institutional aspects of implementing sustainable Open data Ecosystems? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 22. Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems 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 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 (Nikiforova, 2021, Nikiforova et al., 2023). Recent research found that concepts affecting and shaping the ecosystem are: 1) stakeholders / actors and their roles, 2) phases of the data lifecycle, in which a stakeholder participates in the ecosystem, 3) technical and technological infrastructure, 4) generic services and platforms, 5) human capacities and skills of both providers and consumers, 6) smart city domains (thematic categories) as the targeted areas for data reuse, 7) externalities affecting goals, policy, and resources, 8) level of (de)centralization of data sources ? development, restrictions, 9) perception of importance and support from public officials, and 10) user interface, user experience, and usability (Lnenicka et al., 2021). The body of knowledge in the above areas (not to say about putting them all together) is very limited. 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. The track welcomes both contributions covering the current state-of-the-art of public data ecosystems (what components constitute them, what are the relationships between these components, what makes an ecosystem resilient and sustainable), incl. individual case studies reflecting best or bad practices, as well as those addressing how these ecosystems can be transformed into more sustainable ecosystems that will ?fuel? or ?smartify? society (Information Society aka Society 4.0 to Super Smart Society aka Society 5.0 transition), cities and various areas of life. The track is very in line with the conference theme of DGO 2024, namely: Internet of Beings ? Transforming Public Governance, where, ?the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, people-centric, and creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products? (as mentioned in the theme description). Public and open data ecosystems can be considered as such open platforms, where data providers and data users find each other and collaborate and co-create to develop services and products useful for society. While digital technologies enable the development of public and open data ecosystems, the adoption of such ecosystems has been fragmented. 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?. 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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 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 i.susha at uu.nl Mon Jan 8 03:05:01 2024 From: i.susha at uu.nl (Susha, I. (Iryna)) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] 2 PhD vacancies on data & societal challenges Utrecht Uni Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A kind reminder of two PhD positions at Utrecht University on business-to-government data sharing for societal challenges. Application deadline: January 15. Please spread the word in your networks. 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. ??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 cziozias at uth.gr Mon Jan 8 08:36:32 2024 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: <20240108183632.Horde.Y8lNStCD58iB3AYcAK2us8Q@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 Ute.Aisenpreis at zu.de Tue Jan 9 05:56:38 2024 From: Ute.Aisenpreis at zu.de (Aisenpreis, Ute) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Professor of Artificial Intelligence (Full Time, Open Rank) Message-ID: To whom it may concern, we would like to advertise the attached position. Is it possible? If you have any questions or need additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you so much. Best regards, ________________________________ Zeppelin Universit?t zwischen Wirtschaft Kultur Politik Ute Aisenpreis HR-Administration Legal Affairs & HR Am Seemooser Horn 20 D-88045 Friedrichshafen | Bodensee T +49 7541 6009 1153 F +49 7541 6009 1159 ute.aisenpreis@zu.de zu.de ________________________________ Zeppelin Universit?t gemeinn?tzige GmbH Sitz der Gesellschaft | Headquarter: D-88045 Friedrichshafen | Bodensee Handelsregister | Commercial register: Amtsgericht Ulm HRB 632002 Gesch?ftsf?hrung | Managing Director: Prof Dr Klaus M?hlhahn From cziozias at uth.gr Sat Jan 13 07:57:56 2024 From: cziozias at uth.gr (ZIOZIAS CHRISTOS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?WebAndTheCity=3A_10th_International_Smart_C?= =?utf-8?q?ity_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <20240113175756.Horde.zcQk_AjR6A8Ad4D05mPI-Hk@webmail.uth.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 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 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 ruiloure at fe.uc.pt Mon Jan 15 01:34:21 2024 From: ruiloure at fe.uc.pt (Rui Lourenco (FEUC)) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_papers=3A_Data_science_and_fi?= =?iso-8859-1?q?nancial_information_in_the_public_sector-challenges?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_for_accounting_and_accountability?= Message-ID: <000001da4796$0575be80$10613b80$@fe.uc.pt> (Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Public Money & Management Special Issue on Data science and financial information in the public sector?challenges for accounting and accountability (https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/data-science-financial-in formatio-public-sector-challenges-accounting-accountability) Recent digital transformations and the use of big data have created risks and opportunities in public sector entities and government. The growth of analysable data is challenging established paradigms. Using algorithmic-based technologies (such as artificial intelligence [AI]) can change the way decisions are made, the processes and competences, and the relative power of actors both within and outside these organizations. The recent pandemic context has exacerbated these effects. Governments and public sector organizations are now making considerable use of digital technologies, for example to define public policies, provide public services and report about financial performance. This is impacting on accountability and ultimately on citizens? engagement and trust in politicians. Moreover, governments have used AI to enhance surveillance of citizens and organizations, while citizens and civic organizations are using big data and AI to monitor governments and to prepare counter accounts. Although digital transformation has undoubtedly facilitated public management overall, there are pernicious effects, such as increasing the cyber-vulnerability of digitally open governments and public organizations. ?Data science? is an umbrella term for an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, exploratory processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge from data. Data science use in the public sector is bringing new challenges for accounting professionals, as well as for public officials and politicians who use this information to make decisions and manage public sector entities and governments. Data science and digital transformation has also challenged accountability, pointing to new types and forms of reporting, with implications for preparers, standard-setters and auditors. This new PMM theme will address the impact of data science on public sector financial information and reporting. It will examine the opportunities and challenges faced by accounting professionals (for example accountants, auditors and consultants) in producing information, as well as by public managers and policy-makers as data users. Contributions are particularly welcome on how accounting and accountability can help to deal with these opportunities and challenges or, on the contrary, neglect them. Articles on the positive and pernicious effects of data science in reporting, transparency and accountability are invited. Topics to be covered include the following: ? The impact of digital transformation on professionals as co developers, preparers and translators/brokers of accounting information. ? The challenges in designing, implementing and using algorithms, blockchain and/or data analytics for public sector financial information. ? Educational and training needs of accounting professionals related to digital transformation. ? The impact of digital transformation on controlling practices. ? Financial decision-making processes in public sector organizations. ? The role of legal frameworks, possibly creating entropy to the real benefits of digital transformation and data science for accountability and decision-making. ? How accounting systems can adapt and support users, while protecting them from the pernicious effects of digital transformation. ? How data science can support the use of financial information for public policies and decision-making, including gender equality policies. ? Digital vulnerability of public sector reporting and cybersecurity problems. ? Interaction between human and non-human actors and impact on accountability. ? Challenges for auditors and credibility of data and information. ? The impact of data science on the surveillance of citizens and organizations by governments for financial management purposes. ? Overall impact of data science on transparency of governments and the public sector. These topics are only suggestions. All articles on the impact of data science on public sector accounting and accountability practices are welcome. Please feel free to discuss your ideas with the guest editors. **************************************************************************** ** Rui Pedro Louren?o Investigador do CeBER Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Economia - Gab. 209 Telef.: +351.239.790584 Universidade de Coimbra Fax: +351.239.403511 Av. Dias da Silva, 165 https://www.uc.pt/feuc/pessoas-e-servicos/docentes/#R 3004-512 COIMBRA PORTUGAL **************************************************************************** ** From pkaradimos at uth.gr Mon Jan 15 03:34:50 2024 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: <20240115133450.Horde.rByAQSVhPMs0uf_Fu8i437J@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 pkaradimos at uth.gr Sat Jan 20 02:12:32 2024 From: pkaradimos at uth.gr (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?WebAndTheCity=3A_10th_International_Smart_C?= =?utf-8?q?ity_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <20240120121232.Horde.EZ1LXaRbldZAnFmmRZE77aY@webmail.uth.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 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 ionikolaou at uth.gr Mon Jan 22 00:37:00 2024 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 fadi.salem at gmail.com Tue Jan 23 05:20:35 2024 From: fadi.salem at gmail.com (Fadi Salem) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Generative Artificial Intelligence in Government - Final Call for Papers DGO2024 Message-ID: Are you exploring Generative AI and Government projects? What are the implications of the rise of Generative AI for government and policy? How can a global governance of generative AI needs to consider? Submit your paper to the specialized Track 16 in the DG.o2024.. Call for Papers: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Government Research Track (Track 16) The rapid rise of Generative AI (GAI) across government ecosystems calls for deeper examination by the global digital government research community. We invite you to submit pioneering research papers to the special track on Generative AI in Government, chaired by Fadi Salem, Theresa Pardo and Gianluca Misuraca (Track 16), in the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.o 2024), taking place on 11 ? 14 June 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. The track seeks papers that critically examine the adoption and impact of Generative AI in government functions, policies, and public engagement in three pillars: 1) Generative AI?s Potential Benefits for Government 2) Generative AI's Risks and Threats for Public Governance 3) Global Governance of Generative AI Suggested paper themes sought for this track include (among others): 1. Demystifying GAI in Government: Map and conceptualize the operational mechanics of Generative AI in public governance, its applications, and its impact on government operations, policy, and service delivery. 2. Generative AI in Public Services: Explore the implications of GAI in public service delivery and citizen-centric interactions, through autonomous agents. 3. Policy ecosystem for generative AI, including standards, and regulations to ensure the responsible use of GAI in governmental settings. 4. Practical Applications of GAI in Government: including case studies of GAI implementations in government settings and the outcomes achieved. 5. AI and Citizen-Government Interaction: such as assessing the role of GAI in facilitating electronic participation, citizen engagement, transparency, and participation in governance. 6. Ethical and Regulatory Considerations: Evaluate the potential risks, ethical concerns, and regulatory implications of using GAI in government. 7. Readiness and Capacity Building in Government: Research the need for capacity building in government for understanding, using, developing, deploying, and managing GAI. 8. Public Trust and Security: Explore GAI?s emerging implications for data privacy, cybersecurity, and public trust. Track 16 of DG.o 2024: The 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - June 11-14, 2024 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ Conference Website: https://dgo2024.github.io/index.html SUBMIT YOUR PAPER HERE: https://dgo2024.github.io/submission/index.html Papers Due: January 26, 2024 Looking forward to receiving your original contributions and seeing you in Taipei at DG.o2024. From shefali.virkar at wu.ac.at Wed Jan 24 07:24:49 2024 From: shefali.virkar at wu.ac.at (Virkar, Shefali Vidya) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] [REMINDER] Call for Papers: dg, o 2024 - Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: **Apologies for Cross-Posting** Dear Colleagues A reminder to submit to our track! FYI: the deadline has been extended to Friday, 02 February 2024. We look forward to your contributions! The Track Chairs From: Virkar, Shefali Vidya Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 3:34 PM To: egov-list@u.washington.edu Subject: Call for Papers: dg,o 2024 - Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance **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 ellkontogianni at uth.gr Fri Jan 26 03:11:11 2024 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: <20240126131111.Horde.pa1PRbO_DSQSLH5e5GMkADR@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? ? Feb. 2, 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 ? ? ? 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 icegov at icegov.org Fri Jan 26 05:52:03 2024 From: icegov at icegov.org (ICEGOV) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:14:59 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] ICEGOV 2024: Call for Papers and Workshops Message-ID: <85f3531e-b419-4c46-9c13-fe4a04b21ae5@icegov.org> Good afternoon, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Fl?via Barbosa and I am ICEGOV Communications Chair. In 2024, the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance will be hosted by South Africa (Pretoria). Would it be possible for you to disseminate our Call for Papers and Workshops to your network? You can find the Call and a banner attached. We would be very grateful. I am happy to help if you need more information. Thank you very much! -- /Kind regards,/ /Fl?via Barbosa/ /ICEGOV Communications Chair/ *International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)* *WEB:* icegov.org | *EMAIL:* icegov@icegov.org | LinkedIn | Facebook From ionikolaou at uth.gr Sat Feb 3 06:44:00 2024 From: ionikolaou at uth.gr (Ioannis Nikolaou) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:15:00 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?CfP_WebAndTheCity=3A_10th_International_Sma?= =?utf-8?q?rt_City_Workshop_=E2=80=93_The_Web_and_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: (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 28, 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 peter.roenne at gmail.com Sun Feb 4 14:35:42 2024 From: peter.roenne at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Browne_R=C3=B8nne?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:15:00 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP E-Vote-ID 2024 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2024 Ninth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Tarragona, 2-4 October 2024 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2024) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://e-vote-id.org/ and https://www.e-vote-id2024.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ninth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Tarragona in October 2024. 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 eight editions, over 270 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 1200 participants. The format of the conference is an in-place three-day 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 (Kozminski University, Poland) R?nne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Local Chairs: Castell?, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) and Barrat, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Budurushi, Jurlind (DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany) and Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - (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, UK) and Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery, 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. Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, nonpolitical 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 Passanti, Cecilia (Universit? Paris Cit?, France) 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). - Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers. This year we also introduce the SoK paper category. These papers evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. The papers will be reviewed according to the same standards as other research papers, but the emphasis will be on value to the community rather than novel research contributions. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GI. 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 whereas some submissions will be selected for the GI proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 are published in GI 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=evoteid2024 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 2024 will take place in Tarragona, in the south of Catalonia, and will be hosted by Universitat Rovira i Virgili. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is continuously renewed with former chairs. 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 aresult of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Thomas Hofer, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Peter Y.A. Ryan, Mihkel Solvak, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2024 ? Submission deadline Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2024 From manuelp at ugr.es Fri Mar 8 09:17:29 2024 From: manuelp at ugr.es (=?utf-8?Q?Manuel_Pedro_Rodr=C3=ADguez_Bol=C3=ADvar?=) Date: Tue Mar 19 20:15:00 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Deadline!! CFP for EGOV2024 Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Message-ID: 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 peter.roenne at uni.lu Sat Mar 23 08:29:48 2024 From: peter.roenne at uni.lu (Peter ROENNE) Date: Sun Mar 24 12:21:45 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Second CFP E-Vote-ID 2024 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2024 Ninth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Tarragona, 2-4 October 2024 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2024) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://e-vote-id.org/ and https://www.e-vote-id2024.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ninth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Tarragona in October 2024. 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 eight editions, over 270 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 1200 participants. The format of the conference is an in-place three-day 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 (Kozminski University, Poland) R?nne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Local Chairs: Castell?, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) and Barrat, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Budurushi, Jurlind (DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany) and Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - (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, UK) and Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) - Present real-world cases related to technology use in elections or referenda, including experiences with implementation, insights and assessments; - This can include cases of actual e-voting, but also wider technology application (e.g., voter registration, results management systems, etc.). Cases may include operation, preparation, observation, lawmaking, case law, political debate, and other relevant subjects. Contributions need not be academic papers, but should be properly grounded and evidence-based. Contributions stemming from or addressing issues in current academic research are also very welcome. Acceptance criteria include relevance for other practitioners from EMB?s, international organizations, civil society organisations (CSOs), or actors from the private sector. 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. Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties: type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, nonpolitical 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 Passanti, Cecilia (Universit? Paris Cit?, France) 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, 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 page limit is 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). - Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers. This year we also introduce the SoK paper category. These papers evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. The papers will be reviewed according to the same standards as other research papers, but the emphasis will be on value to the community rather than novel research contributions. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GI. 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 whereas some submissions will be selected for the GI proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 are published in GI 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=evoteid2024 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 2024 will take place in Tarragona, in the south of Catalonia, and will be hosted by Universitat Rovira i Virgili. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is continuously renewed with former chairs. 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 aresult of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Thomas Hofer, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Peter Y.A. Ryan, Mihkel Solvak, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2024 ? Submission deadline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Par?, Brazil) Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft, USA) Bernhard, Matthew (Enhanced Voting, USA) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, USA) Collazos, C?sar (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia) Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey, England) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Gaudry, Pierrick (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom, France) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Gj?steen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University, Australia) Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz, Germany) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Haines, Thomas (The Australian National University, Australia) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Ku?sters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany) Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar, Germany) Pereira, Olivier (Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security, Germany) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, England) Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, England) Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Syta, Ewa (Yale University, USA) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity, Australia) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas GmbH, Germany) Vukcevic, Damjan (Monash University, Australia) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, Estonia) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw, Poland). Track 2: Governance Issues Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) Barrat i Esteve, Jordi (Election Observation and Democracy Support, Belgium) Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Eenmaa, Helen (University of Tartu, Estonia) Fern?ndez Riveira, Rosa M? (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Germann, Micha (University of Bath, England) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University, Canada) Kersting, Norbert (University of Muenster, Germany) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, England) Montathar, Faraon (Kristianstad University, Sweden) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University, Canada) Pe?a-L?pez, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia) Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna, Austria) Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences, France) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, Hungary) Serdu?lt, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney, Australia) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu, Estonia) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham, England) Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia) Von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (Universit? Catholique de Lille, France). Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Bailey, Matt (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden) Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant, The Netherlands) Chanussot, Thomas (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Chaudhary ,Tarun (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Chelleri, Riccardo (European Commission, Belgium) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum fu?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University, Switzerland) Erni, Barbara (State Chancellery of Thurgau, Switzerland) Giroud, Kayle (Global Cyber Alliance, Belgium) Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Lecl?re, Olivier (State of Geneva, Switzerland) Levine, David (German Marshall Fund, USA) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, England) Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions, USA) McDermott, Ronan (Mcdis, Switzerland) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia, Estonia) Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) Plante, St?phanie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Thornton, Laura (German Marshall Fund, USA) Van Kerckhoven, David (Federal Public Service Home Affairs, Belgium) Vollan, K?re (Quality AS, Norway) Wenda, Gregor (BMI, Austria) Wolf, Peter (IDEA, Sweden) Yard, Michael (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA). From egov-list at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 1 22:00:00 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Smart-EDU Hub via eGov-list) Date: Tue Apr 2 12:36:57 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Securing Smart Cities International Conference Fifth Edition, June 05, 2024 Message-ID: Securing Smart Cities International Conference Fifth Edition, June 05, 2024 The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Faculty of Public Administration is organizing the Fifth Edition of the Securing Smart Cities International Conference, which will be held on June 05, 2024. 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 19.05.2024. ? *As a participant *? please send us an e-mail to catalin.vrabie@snspa.ro no later than 19.05.2024. *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 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-sscic/91-about-ssc05-2024 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/smartcitieshub -- *National University of Political Studies and Public Administration - SNSPA* *Faculty of Public Administration - Smart-Edu-Hub* Facebook: @administratiepublica.eu I @smartcitieshub www.administratiepublica.eu I *http://www.smart-edu-hub.eu/ * From egov-list at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 8 08:37:35 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Gianluca Miscione via eGov-list) Date: Tue Apr 9 16:10:40 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?Invitation_=E2=80=9CGovernance_in_Internati?= =?utf-8?q?onal_Organizations=22__April_25th=2C_17=3A00_-_18=3A30=E2=80=8B?= =?utf-8?q?_Central_Europe_Time?= Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** We would like to invite you to the panel discussion ?Governance in International Organizations: Potentials and pitfalls for digitalization? organized by the Democracy group at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich, Switzerland (a brief intro is appended below). This event will host Prof. Lu Xiankun (Managing Director of LEDECO Geneva, Founder and CEO of FMG), Rashmi Jose (Senior Policy Advisor at IISD), Costa Vayenas (ProCivis), Tom Hunter (University of Zurich), and Gianluca Miscione (University College Dublin and ZHAW School of Management and Law) This event takes place on April 25th, 17:00 - 18:30 (Central Europe Time). For in person participation, please register here (a networking apero will follow the event): https://www.eventbrite.ch/e/850849613097?aff=oddtdtcreator For remote attendance, please use this Zoom link: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/67795397222?pwd=djg5VUxjMDA1ZlBMR0llVVgxTU50Zz09, Meeting ID: 677 9539 7222, Passcode: 615804 Please distribute this invite across relevant networks. Thanks and best regards, Gianluca Governance in international organizations - Potentials and pitfalls for digitalization Panel discussion International organizations, such as the World Trade Organization, hold a central role on the global stage and thus play a significant part in shaping our daily lives. A prime example is the 1998 moratorium on customs duties for electronic transmissions. This agreement has enabled digital goods and services to be traded globally without tariffs, which could be used to modulate the development of digital societies across the world. This panel seeks to unravel often impenetrable aspects of international negotiations and affairs. We bring together insiders from these organizations and researchers specializing in digital transformation to delve into the inner workings of international relations. The discussion will explore the potentials and pitfalls of digitalization for international governance. Gianluca Miscione University College Dublin https://people.ucd.ie/gianluca.miscione From egov-list at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 8 13:59:14 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Prof. Dr. Maria A. Wimmer via eGov-list) Date: Tue Apr 9 16:10:41 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP Emerging Topics in Digital Government Mini-track at HICSS-58 Message-ID: <8bd4859c-59c6-453c-b353-8c06cfd68505@uni-koblenz.de> Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, January 7-10, 2025 https://hicss.hawaii.edu *Digital Government Track* *Emerging Topics in Digital Government Mini-track* https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-58/digital-government/#emerging-topics-in-digital-government-minitrack This minitrack provides a home for incubating new topics and emergent technologies in Digital Government research. Digital Government as an academic field has evolved and matured over more than two decades. While many subjects have become foundational, the field is also substantially shaped by ever evolving new directions of research and practice. The developments take place at the crossroads of different academic disciplines and in close connection to the practices in governments around the globe. This mini-track invites papers positioned in relation to the foundations of Digital Government and contributing to the evolution of the field, to clarifications and conceptualizations, or to addressing novel issues, innovative trends, and emerging technologies. Submissions must specifically tackle the emerging nature of a technology or a specific topic and how the research presented builds new understanding. Submitted research needs also to relate to the central developments in the field of Digital Government. Topics and research areas include, but are not limited, to: * Emergent technologies and Digital Government * Digital transformation and agile government practices * Digital identity ecosystems in Digital Government * Digital Twins and other computational models in Government decision-making * Large Language Models (LLM) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Digital Government * Metaverse in Digital Government * Design Science in Digital Government * Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in Digital Government: applications, legislation, benefits and risks * Internet of Things (IoT) in the public sector: applications, regulation, social impact, security and data analytics * Cross-border Digital Government / Interoperable Digital Government * Business Process Management (BPM) and Rapid Process Automation (RPA) in Digital Government * Ethics of Digital Government from theoretical and practical views, privacy concerns, and the right to know * Participatory approaches in government such as co-creation, co-production, and crowdsourcing * Potential threats from technology-enabled government and ways to be protected * Legal implications towards Next Generation Digital Government * Digital Government skills and competences * Data sharing within the Public Sector, and beyond, including Private Sector and Civil Society * Conceptual and practice-based boundaries and foundations of the field of Digital Government * Other topics as appropriate to the purposes of the mini-track The papers submitted to this minitrack must be new and unpublished. We welcome papers from different settings and sectors in digital government and look more for innovative and creative analyses than best practices. We also give precedence to strong conceptual and empirical analysis (both qualitative and quantitative) over descriptive cases or opinion pieces. *Important dates*(https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ ): ?June 15, 2024: Papers due August 17, 2024: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2024: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2024: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference January 7-10, 2025: HICSS Conference *Mini-track Co-Chairs:* Maria A. Wimmer (Primary Contact), University of Koblenz, wimmer@uni-koblenz.de J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany ? SUNY, jgil-garcia@ctg.albany.edu Andriana Prentza, University of Piraeus, aprentza@unipi.gr From egov-list at u.washington.edu Wed Apr 10 05:47:53 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Annalisa Pelizza via eGov-list) Date: Wed Apr 10 08:30:37 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Postdoc and research assistant positions in Governance by Infrastructures at AU In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross.-posting Two open positions as postdoc and research assistant at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Feel free to share the call too. Deadline April 18. ---- Postdoc and research assistant positions in Governance by Infrastructures at Aarhus University The Department of Digital Design and Information Studies within the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral position and a research assistant position in science and technology studies (STS) with a focus on information infrastructures. The postdoc position is affiliated with the research project Governance by Infrastructures funded by the Aarhus University Research Foundation and led by Prof. Annalisa Pelizza. Postdoc position https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/postdoc-in-science-and-technology-studies-at-the-department-of-digital-design-information-studies-at-the-school-of-communication-and-culture The postdoc position is a full-time (37 hours/week) and 30-month fixed-term position. The position begins on 01 June 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline: 18. apr 23:59 CEST The project?s working language is English. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the part of the Governance by Infrastructures project that concerns the informational management of territory, with a preference for coastal territories. Research assistant position https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/research-assistant-for-auff-recruitment-grant-at-the-department-of-digital-design-information-studies-at-the-school-of-communication-and-culture The position of research assistant is a part-time (30 hours a week), fixed-term (23 month) academic position. The position begins on 01 June 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline: 18. apr 23:59 CEST The project?s working language is English. The main responsibilities involve research (more details on the webpage above). International applicants are encouraged to read about the attractive working conditions and other benefits of working at Aarhus University and in Denmark. Aarhus University offers various services for international researchers and accompanying families, including a relocation service and an AU Expat Partner Programme. The Department of Digital Design and Information Studies offers a broad range of humanistic approaches to studying the relationship between humans and information technology, from the granular study of the agency of code to how information technology challenges and transforms modern society?s social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions. Diverse and innovative methodologies are represented and encouraged in the department. Prospective applicants are invited to view the department?s website. For further information about the position, please contact the principal investigator (PI), Professor Annalisa Pelizza, by e-mail: apelizza@cc.au.dk ____________________________________________ Annalisa Pelizza Professor in Science and Technology Studies Department of Digital Design and Information Studies | University of Arhus Email apelizza@cc.au.dk | Helsingforsgade 14, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark | https://www.au.dk/vis/person/apelizza@cc.au.dk Department of Philosophy | University of Bologna Email annalisa.pelizza2@unibo.it | via Zamboni, 40126 Bologna, Italy | https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/annalisa.pelizza2 Latest publications: Pelizza, A. and Van Rossem, W. (2023), ?Scripts of alterity: Mapping assumptions and limitations of the border security apparatus through classification schemas?, Science, Technology and Human Values 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/01622439231195955 Pelizza, A. and Loschi, C. (2023), ?Telling ?more complex stories? of European integration: How a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System?, Journal of European Public Policy 0(0). DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2197945 From egov-list at u.washington.edu Thu Apr 11 19:07:15 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Jochen Scholl via eGov-list) Date: Thu Apr 11 19:08:24 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) Version 6.5 Released Message-ID: <74217166-8790-4CFA-AAA6-75963C8A4C3C@uw.edu> Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) Version 6.5 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 5,142 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 151 references, or 3.0%. 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, Matthew Unruh, Alicia Supernavage and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Leslie Harka, Grace Landers, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson. Please also note: The DIRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2024). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 6.5?7.0. Retrieved from: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/ 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 From egov-list at u.washington.edu Thu Apr 11 19:16:09 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Jochen Scholl via eGov-list) Date: Thu Apr 11 19:16:27 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) Version 6.5 Released In-Reply-To: <74217166-8790-4CFA-AAA6-75963C8A4C3C@uw.edu> References: <74217166-8790-4CFA-AAA6-75963C8A4C3C@uw.edu> Message-ID: <09F01147-7742-4E1A-BB20-B629D124E8AD@uw.edu> Corrected version On Apr 11, 2024, at 19:07, Jochen Scholl wrote: Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) Version 6.5 is the most recent update of this reference library. It has been published as of April 15, 2024 as a semiannual update. The library now contains 5,142 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 151 references, or 3.0%. 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, Matthew Unruh, Alicia Supernavage and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Leslie Harka, Grace Landers, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson. Please also note: The DIRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support. Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2024). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 6.5?7.0. Retrieved from: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/ 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 From egov-list at u.washington.edu Wed Apr 24 08:01:57 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Peter ROENNE via eGov-list) Date: Wed Apr 24 10:23:06 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] Last CFP E-Vote-ID 2024 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR TRACK 1 & TRACK 2 E-Vote-ID 2024 Ninth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Tarragona, 2-4 October 2024 www.e-vote-id.org (Main Submission Date: 15 May 2024) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://e-vote-id.org/ and https://www.e-vote-id2024.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID Hashtag: #EVoteID2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ninth edition of the leading international event for e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Tarragona in October 2024. 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 eight editions, over 270 presentations were discussed, gathering more than 1200 participants. The format of the conference is an in-place three-day 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 (Kozminski University, Poland) R?nne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Local Chairs: Castell?, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) and Barrat, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Budurushi, Jurlind (DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany) and Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - (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, UK) and Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) - Present real-world cases related to technology use in elections or referenda, including experiences with implementation, insights and assessments; - This can include cases of actual e-voting, but also wider technology application (e.g., voter registration, results management systems, etc.). Cases may include operation, preparation, observation, lawmaking, case law, political debate, and other relevant subjects. Contributions need not be academic papers, but should be properly grounded and evidence-based. Contributions stemming from or addressing issues in current academic research are also very welcome. Acceptance criteria include relevance for other practitioners from EMB?s, international organizations, civil society organisations (CSOs), or actors from the private sector. 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. Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties: type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is published). Track 5: PhD Colloquium Chairs: Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) and Passanti, Cecilia (Universit? Paris Cit?, France) 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, 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 page limit is 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). - Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers. This year we also introduce the SoK paper category. These papers evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. The papers will be reviewed according to the same standards as other research papers, but the emphasis will be on value to the community rather than novel research contributions. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words. - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 GI. 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 whereas some submissions will be selected for the GI proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions accepted in Tracks 3 are published in GI 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=evoteid2024 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 2024 will take place in Tarragona, in the south of Catalonia, and will be hosted by Universitat Rovira i Virgili. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Board The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that served in the previous two editions. It is continuously renewed with former chairs. 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 aresult of current chairs submitting papers to the conference. The current members of the Steering Board are: Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Thomas Hofer, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Peter Y.A. Ryan, Mihkel Solvak, and Vanessa Teague. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues): 15 May 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May). 23 June 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 23 July 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and Track 5 (PhD Colloquium) 10 July 2024? 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July 2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July). 14 August 2024 - Notification of Acceptance. 15 September 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions. Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session) 15 September 2024 ? Submission deadline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Par?, Brazil) Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft, USA) Bernhard, Matthew (Enhanced Voting, USA) Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, USA) Collazos, C?sar (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia) Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey, England) Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Gaudry, Pierrick (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom, France) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Gj?steen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University, Australia) Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz, Germany) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Haines, Thomas (The Australian National University, Australia) Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Ku?sters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany) Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar, Germany) Pereira, Olivier (Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security, Germany) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, England) Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, England) Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Syta, Ewa (Yale University, USA) Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity, Australia) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas GmbH, Germany) Vukcevic, Damjan (Monash University, Australia) Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, Estonia) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Track 2: Governance Issues Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) Barrat i Esteve, Jordi (Election Observation and Democracy Support, Belgium) Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Eenmaa, Helen (University of Tartu, Estonia) Fern?ndez Riveira, Rosa M? (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Germann, Micha (University of Bath, England) Goodman, Nicole (Brock University, Canada) Kersting, Norbert (University of Muenster, Germany) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, England) Montathar, Faraon (Kristianstad University, Sweden) Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland) Pammett, Jon (Carleton University, Canada) Pe?a-L?pez, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia) Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna, Austria) Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences, France) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, Hungary) Serdu?lt, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney, Australia) Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu, Estonia) Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham, England) Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia) Von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (Universit? Catholique de Lille, France) Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences Bailey, Matt (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden) Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant, The Netherlands) Chanussot, Thomas (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Chaudhary ,Tarun (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) Chelleri, Riccardo (European Commission, Belgium) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum fu?r Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University, Switzerland) Erni, Barbara (State Chancellery of Thurgau, Switzerland) Giroud, Kayle (Global Cyber Alliance, Belgium) Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securit?, Switzerland) Lecl?re, Olivier (State of Geneva, Switzerland) Levine, David (German Marshall Fund, USA) Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, England) Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions, USA) McDermott, Ronan (Mcdis, Switzerland) Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia, Estonia) Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) Plante, St?phanie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Thornton, Laura (German Marshall Fund, USA) Van Kerckhoven, David (Federal Public Service Home Affairs, Belgium) Vollan, K?re (Quality AS, Norway) Wenda, Gregor (BMI, Austria) Wolf, Peter (IDEA, Sweden) Yard, Michael (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) From egov-list at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 29 06:38:50 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Gualdi,F via eGov-list) Date: Mon Apr 29 10:22:39 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] HICSS-58 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 2nd edition of the HICSS Digital Government Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on the day before the main conference on January 6, 2025. Deadline: 30 June 2024 More details below and here: Doctoral Consortium ? HICSS (hawaii.edu) 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 DG 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 2025. PhD students accepted into the Consortium receive a 20% discount on Conference registration fee. Schedule 8:30 Networking and Welcome 9:00 Paper session 1 10:30 Break 10:45 Meet the Mentors Activity 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Paper session 2 14:30 Break 15:00 Digital government panel 16:30 Wrap-up 18:00 Reception Faculty Mentors TBD Important Dates for HICSS-58 The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2024 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time. Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17, 2024. 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 egov-list at u.washington.edu Mon May 6 07:35:45 2024 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Gualdi,F via eGov-list) Date: Mon May 6 09:27:27 2024 Subject: [EGOV LIST] CFP Design, Implementation, and Management of Digital Government Policies and Strategies mini track - HICSS58 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 the 58th HICSS conference (January 7-10, 2025, Big Island, Hawaii). Important dates June 15, 2024: Papers due August 17, 2024: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 4, 2024: Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript September 22, 2024: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2024: 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 aims to provide an opportunity and an open forum for discussion of different technological, socio-political, institutional, legal, and organizational strategies that inform the design, implementation, and management of digital reforms in the public sector. Specifically, this track seeks papers that discuss theories and/or present cases and empirical studies 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 the failure of such projects. Papers which examine or discuss external or contextual factors that affect or influence digital government, such as the political state; organizational culture; institutional factors or normative arrangements are also invited. By digital government action, we mean both macro-level institutional design and micro-level collaboration and competition between diverse stakeholders. Contributions to literature cover different areas and topics. New and emerging technologies, not to mention new thinking about public administration and government itself, often demand new ways of thinking and innovative approaches to frame these deployments. In the current global society, these new demands become increasingly important. Digital technologies provide in fact new opportunities and challenges for adaptive and agile governance, yet they have also impacted the way by which public administration?s processes and activities are structured and executed. Papers which address these challenges are particularly welcomed this year. 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, regulatory, and organisational implication of the deployment of emerging and disruptive technologies are particularly welcomed. 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 privacy and data protection policies and strategies * Digital by default and its implications * E-justice and ethics of emerging technologies * ICT for efficiency and effectiveness in government action * Regulatory challenges associated with ICTs deployments * 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 * Examine the impact of digital technologies on the structure and execution of public administration processes and activities * Discuss how the external and internal context in public administration and government is shaping digital strategies and deployments * Impact on the digital mindset on governmental strategies and policies 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. 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 Kristina Lemmer -- 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