[EGOV LIST] CFP: EMCIS2025 Conf. Track: Classical and Emerging Digital Governance – The Artificial Intelligence Era

[Charalampos Alexopoulos via eGov-list]

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting you to submit your recent work to our track in the 22nd
European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information
Systems - EMCIS2025
Conference <https://emcis.eu/> (Group B), which will be held on 11 – 12
September 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus.

*Important Dates*
Electronic Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025
Notification of Acceptance to Authors: July 15, 2025
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: July 25, 2025
Author Registration Deadline: July25, 2025
Early bird registration Deadline: July 25, 2025
Conference Dates: September 11-12, 2025


Best regards,

The Track chairs:
Euripidis Loukis, eloukis[at]aegean.gr, University of Aegean, Greece,
Yannis Charalabidis, yannisx[at]aegean.gr, University of Aegean, Greece
Charalampos Alexopoulos, alexop[at]aegean.gr, University of Aegean, Greece


*Track: Classical and Emerging Digital Governance – The Artificial
Intelligence Era <https://emcis.eu/tracks/>*

The increasing exploitation of ICTs, both traditional and emerging ones, by
government agencies for improving the generation of value for the society,
has led to the rapid development of Digital Governance research and
practice. The first generation of it, usually referred to as Electronic
(Digital) Government 1.0 aimed mainly at the exploitation of ICT for
improving the efficiency and decreasing the cost of the complex processes
and operations of government agencies, as well as of their transactions
with citizens and firms (by developing digital transaction channels based
on the Internet). However, the second generation of it, referred to as
Electronic (Digital) Government 2.0, had a quite different orientation,
focusing on the use of ICTs, and especially the Internet and the social
media, for enhancing government transparency, as well as interaction,
consultation and collaboration with the citizens and firms, and in general
for promoting open and participative government. Also, the opening of
government data to be used for scientific and business purposes, as well as
for enhancing political debates, and making them more ‘evidence-based’, was
another major development of this second generation. Recently, a third
generation of has emerged, referred to as Electronic (Digital) Government
3.0, aiming at the exploitation of ICT in order to improve and enhance the
highest-level functions of government agencies aiming at public policy
making. All these three generations initially focused on the use of ICTs
for supporting existing processes and activities, but then started taking
more innovative directions, aiming at the use of ICT for transforming
existing processes and activities, and governance models in general, and
this gave rise to the development of the transformative stages of these
three generations Electronic (Digital) Governance 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
respectively, and to the gradual digital transformation of the public
sector. Furthermore, all these three generations of digital governance are
continuously evolving, by exploiting and incorporating some emerging
‘disruptive’ technologies, such as business analytics, cloud, Internet of
Things, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain etc.). Especially
artificially intelligence technologies, such as machine learning, has the
potential to provide great benefits to public organizations, concerning the
efficiency and effectiveness of operations, decision making and policy
making, facilitate a new generation of digital transformation of
government, leading to a new ‘artificial intelligence era’ of government.
However, its application can pose serious challenges and risks.
Furthermore, the use of Internet technology in modern cities can lead to
the development of smart cities providing to citizens to higher quality of
life.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• ‘Classical’ efficiency-oriented digital government
• Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance services
• Electronic (Digital) Democracy and Voting
• Digital Divide and e-Inclusion
• Information Society and Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance
policies
• Open Government – Transparency, Participation and Collaboration
• Open government data
• Open government data plat and evaluation
• Open government data ecosystems development
• Citizen-centric Electronic (Digital) Government/Governance
• Innovative Electronic (Digital) Services (Transparent, Anticipatory,
Context-Aware, Co-Created)
• Digital Transformation of government
• Public Values and Digital (Electronic) Government/Governance
• Security, Privacy and Trust in Digital (Electronic) Government/Governance
• Benefits, barriers and risks of Electronic (Digital)
Government/Governance development and adoption
• Government Process Management, Interoperability and Integration
• Social Media in Government
• Policy Modelling/Analytics
• Big data and government
• Cloud Computing in Government
• Artificial Intelligence in government – exploitation and benefits
• Artificial Intelligence in government – challenges and risks
• Artificial Intelligence in government – policies and strategies
• Artificial Intelligence-based digital transformation of government
• Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in government
• Blockchain in Government
• Internet of Things in government
• Smart Cities, Smart Government and Smart Citizens
• Legal Informatics
• Mobile-Government (M-Government)
• Covid-19 and Digital Government/Governance
• Economic crises and Digital Government/Governance