[EGOV LIST] Call for Minitrack Proposals, AMCIS 2025 Track: Digital Government: Shaping the Future

[Vikas Jain via eGov-list]

***Apologies for Cross Postings***

Dear Colleagues,

We seek minitrack proposals for the Digital Government: Shaping the Future track at The Americas Conference on Information Systems 2025 (AMCIS 2025) to be held on August 14-16, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

Track Description:

Current political, economic, social, and environmental issues present a formidable challenge to governments across the world as they navigate the complex and interconnected world. Managing global issues of immigration, geopolitical tensions, or pandemics requires collaboration and innovative governance. By embracing digital technologies, over years, governments have become more transparent, efficient, and responsive to citizen's needs. The emergence of technologies such as cloud computing, big data analytics, blockchain, and artificial intelligence is paving the way to not only streamline administrative processes but also provide personalized services to citizens. Many of these technologies have the potential to address the issues of economic inequality, social disparities, or rapid changes in the labor markets. However, the rapid advancement of these technologies also highlights the need to develop appropriate regulatory frameworks especially in areas like artificial intelligence, data privacy, and digital currencies. By focusing on inclusive governance, sustainable development, and resilience-building efforts, governments can use intelligent technologies to co-create value with its stakeholders in a rapidly evolving and complex world.

This track welcomes research on the multiple dimensions of innovative transformations that intelligent technologies are heralding for governments of the future. We invite studies on the design, management, and implementation of intelligent technologies in the unique public sector setting that can help unearth the novel challenges that digital government research is facing. Papers that can combine methodological rigor with practical relevance are particularly welcome.

The AMCIS 2025 track descriptions are here:

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Topics for potential minitracks include, but are not limited to:


  *   Digital Government: Challenges to Implementation, Transformation and Diffusion
  *   Beyond e-Government: e-Democracy, e-Inclusion, and e-Participation
  *   Emerging technologies and Digital Government
  *   Trends in Smart City Initiatives: Opportunities and Challenges
  *   Cybersecurity in Digital government
  *   Open Government, Big Data and policy-making

Mini-track Chair Responsibilities:

Mini-track chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their mini-track to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2025; b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the mini-track; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the mini-track.

Important Dates:

September 24, 2024: PCS opens for Mini-track submissions for AMCIS 2025
October 18, 2024: Mini-track submissions are due

Submission Process:

To submit a mini-track proposal via PCS, you will need to include the following information: a) mini-track chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) mini-track title; c) short description of mini-track for the AMCIS 2025 website (up to 150 words); d) a call for papers for your mini-track.

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Society: AIS
Conference: AMCIS 2025
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Please feel free to contact any of the track chairs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Track Chairs:

Vikas Jain, University of Tampa, vjain at ut.edu<mailto:vjain at ut.edu> (primary contact)
Vishanth Weerakkody, University of Bradford, v.weerakkody at bradford.ac.uk<mailto:v.weerakkody at bradford.ac.uk>
Lemuria Carter, UNSW Business School, Lemuria.Carter at unsw.edu.au<mailto:Lemuria.Carter at unsw.edu.au>
Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, rm.digi at cbs.dk<mailto:rm.digi at cbs.dk>

Thank you.

Vikas

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Associate Professor
ITM Department
Sykes College of Business
The University of Tampa
401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa
FL 33606
Ph: 813-257-3968
www.ut.edu/vikasjain<http://www.ut.edu/vikasjain>