[EGOV LIST] 2025 pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government

[Sara Hofmann via eGov-list]

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to invite you to submit an extended abstract to our pre-ICIS workshop on e-Government! Please help us spread the word and find all relevant information below.

Best regards from your SIG eGov Team
Sara Hofmann, Francesco Gualdi and Tatiana Martinez

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

2025 Pre-ICIS Workshop on Digital Government
Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 14 December 2025

AIS Special Interest Group on eGovernment (SIG e-Gov)

*      Submissions due: October 7, 2025
*      Notification of acceptance: October 14, 2025

Please submit your abstracts to: sigegov25 at gmail.com

You are invited to submit an extended abstract for presentation and discussion at the 2025 pre-ICIS Workshop on digital government, organized by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on e-Government (SIG e-Gov), to be held on 14 December 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee as an ancillary event of the ICIS conference. Abstracts should introduce a new or emerging topic, issue, or research question of relevance to researchers and practitioners within the e-government/digital government community.

Workshop objective and format
As with previous SIG eGovernment workshops, this joint workshop will be designed to provide the maximum opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion of the abstracts submitted. The workshop will include short presentations and deepening discussions designed to help facilitate knowledge sharing among participants and to lay the foundation for future collaborations in digital government research. The discussions will be moderated to ensure an opportunity for full participation.

Workshop focus
Extended abstracts should address outstanding questions and issues related, but not limited to, the topics below:

- Artificial Intelligence and eGovernment
- IoT and eGovernment
- Blockchain and eGovernment
- eGovernment and Sustainable Development
- Smart Cities
- Capture, management and use of (Big) Data in government
- Open innovation in eGovernment
- Open-source and open-standard solutions in eGovernment
- Transparency and openness in eGovernment services
- Co-production of eGovernment
- Social media and eGovernment services
- eParticipation; eDemocracy
- eGovernment security
- eGovernment and ethical challenges
- GovTech and new challenges
- eGovernment and policymaking

Submission and review
Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages, excluding references. Each abstract submitted will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. Authors submitting to the workshop commit to doing a review by October 25. Abstracts selected for inclusion in the workshop will be those considered best ready to serve as catalysts for knowledge sharing and debate among workshop participants on new and emerging research and practice issues and challenges in the e-government/digital government community. There will not be produced proceedings, and authors will retain full authorship rights to their submitted work.

Document Format: please align to the requirements of the ICIS template<https://icis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/paper-templates-pcs-guide-for-authors>.

Details on workshop registration will be available through the ICIS 2025 website: https://icis2025.aisconferences.org/register/
Important dates
*      Submissions due: October 7, 2025
*      Notification of Acceptance: October 14, 2025

For any questions, please contact the workshop chairs:

Tatiana Martinez, University of Manchester, UK, tatiana.martinez at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:tatiana.martinez at manchester.ac.uk>
Francesco Gualdi, Regent's University London, UK, francesco.gualdi at regents.ac.uk<mailto:francesco.gualdi at regents.ac.uk>
Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway, sara.hofmann at uia.no<mailto:sara.hofmann at uia.no>

--
Sara Hofmann
Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems
University of Agder
Phone: +47 38 14 13 43<tel:+4738141343>
E-mail: sara.hofmann at uia.no<mailto:sara.hofmann at uia.no>
www.uia.no/en<http://www.uia.no/en>
www.uia.no/kk/profil/sarah<http://www.uia.no/kk/profil/sarah>