Courtesy of Larkin Dudley and Andrea Kavanaugh:
"Call
for Papers
dg.o
2013
14th
Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Research
From
e-Government to Smart Government
Laval
University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Monday – Thursday, June 17-20,
2013
Submission deadline– February 1st
Twitter: DGSociety, #dgo2013
The
Digital Government
Society (DGS) announces the 14th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2013. The dg.o
meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion, and
demonstration of interdisciplinary e-Government research, technology innovation,
applications, and practice. Each year the conference combines:
· Presentations
of effective partnerships and collaborations among government professionals and
agencies, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as
grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of
e-Government.
· Presentations
and discussions on new research on e-Government as an interdisciplinary domain
that lies at the intersections of information technology research, social and
behavioral science research, and the challenges and missions of
government.
· Practice
regarding e-Government projects, implementations, and initiatives that bring
together the research and practitioner communities, demonstrate the
effectiveness and/or challenges of e-Government, and offer best
practices.
Governments today face unprecedented opportunities and
challenges. New technologies provide governments with the opportunity to
redefine the relationship between government and the public that they serve,
create innovative public services, provide customer-focused services, encourage
transparency, promote participatory democracy, facilitate the co-design of
services, form new partnerships in service delivery, streamline operations and
reduce costs, and build trust in government. But harnessing and implementing
technologies effectively raise a number of policy, technology, and governance
challenges. This year, the conference program
will focus on research and practice related to the adoption of smart
technologies by governments, citizens and other private and non-profit
organizations. More and more, the adoption of smart technologies by individuals
and organizations is opening new opportunities for creating public-private
partnerships to improve current government services as well as to create new,
innovative ones.
Submissions addressing this theme could include but are not
limited to: smart technologies for governments,
semantic technologies for e-government, web services applications, open
and transparent government; social media and public participation; effective use
of social media by governments; crowd sourcing for government decision making;
transformative government; models of collaboration among government, industry,
NGOs, and citizens; data integration, visualizations, and analytics for
government decision making; agile and flexible government;
financial/economic/social policy making; policy and governance issues that
enable, facilitate, and promote smart government; government productivity and
effectiveness; service quality and customer-centric e-Government; social and
health infrastructure; global government collaboration models and practices;
infrastructure for data sharing among government agencies; computing
infrastructure models, cyber-security and project management; IT-enabled
government management and operations, and interest in program execution; IT and
tools to support government security; and methods to measure and evaluate
success in e-Government.
In addition, we welcome submissions from the broader domain of
digital government research. We invite completed research papers, papers
describing management and practice, policy, and case studies, on-going research
posters, and live demonstrations that demonstrate the use of technology to
promote innovative e-Government services. We particularly encourage submissions
on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics. We also encourage the submission
of suggestions for panels, and pre-conference tutorials and
workshops.
Accepted papers are
published in the ACM Proceedings Digital Library, and selected papers will
appear in leading journals such as Government Information
Quarterly and Information Polity.
The conference has five thematic tracks, which accept full
research papers as well as management, case studies and policy papers (see below
for paper submission types), each with chairs responsible for managing the
submission and review process for that track. The conference also accepts work
in progress as well as short descriptions of applications in any topic on a
poster and demo track, and panels, workshops and tutorials also in separate
tracks. Feel free to get in contact with any track chair for
guidance.
Track 1. Social Media and
Government
Track chairs: Rodrigo Sandoval and Andrea
Kavanaugh
Social media use in public
administration has been growing rapidly around the world. Since the launch of
web 2.0 many governments and public officials use new online tools to
communicate among themselves, and with organizations and citizens. Recently this
growing use has been creating new challenges for government users (e.g.,
regulations, policies), and an overwhelming increase in messages and other
communications from citizens that are difficult to accommodate. These outcomes
have started changing government interaction among their own personnel and with
citizens and other agencies.
Track 2. Transformation and Open
Government
Track chair: Marijn Janssen, Natalie Helbig and Vishanth
Weerakkody
Many governments are striving towards a vision for
government-wide transformation to achieve an open, transparent, accountable and
demand-driven government,. This requires fundamental changes and the concept of
transformational government is pushed forward. At the same time governments have
become open system and seek for participation and interaction with their
environment. The track solicits for papers addressing the issue of public sector
transformation between governments and their environment.
Track 3. Emerging Topics
Track chairs: John C. Bertot, Paul Jaeger and Chris
Reddick
Digital government both as an academic discipline and in
practice continues to evolve. As new technologies, big data applications,
policies, and management practices develop, governments seeks ways in which to
provide innovative, smart, and transformational government services. The
Emerging Topics track seeks submissions that provide insights into emerging
digital government research and practice.
Track 4. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and
Digital Government Impacts
Track chair: Chris Hinnant and Theresa A.
Pardo
Over the past decade, many public organizations have adopted information and
communicational technologies (ICT) to facilitate communication and transactions
with many stakeholders such as residents, private sector businesses, non-profit
organizations, and other government agencies. While recent digital government
research has often focused on understanding the external impacts of ICT adoption
by government, the adoption and implementation of new ICT by public
organizations is influenced by organizational factors such as the availability
of resources (i.e. funding, technological knowledge, and personnel), managerial
leadership, and the organization’s technological culture. This track solicits
research that examines the organizational factors that influence the adoption
and implementation of new ICT by as well as the impact of new ICT on the
organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public
organizations.
Track 5. Smart Government
Technologies
Track chair: Soon Ae Chun, Tomasz
Janowski
Smart government is achieved through innovation, transformation
and re-structuring in policies, strategies, and technologies to create improved
public sector process efficiency and service integration and delivery, and to
support better decision making and collaboration with the public. Intelligent
systems, new platforms for communication and collaboration, data collection,
sharing and analytics, shared services, sensors and ubiquitous computing are all
the key ingredients to transform the government that benefit the public and
business, and to improve the quality of life. This track aims to facilitate
theoretical and practical discussions on approaches towards the smart
government, smart cities, smart community, smart citizens by technology and
policy innovations in the area of energy, transport, health, public safety,
buildings, urban planning, environment, business and others.
Track 6. Smart Cities and Smart
Work
Track Chairs: Jungwoo Lee and J.
Ramon Gil-Garcia
World population is increasingly
concentrating in cities. People work and live in and around cities and
information technologies have transformed their lives as well as the public and
private services being provided to them. Therefore, smart cities and smart work
could be considered highly interrelated and, actually, two sides of the same
coin. City administrators are facing daunting tasks in order to accommodate
emerging characteristics of urban life and promote better quality of life and
improved work life balance, while enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of
administrative services. This track invites theoretical and empirical papers
concerning smart cities and smart work. Suggested topics include but are not
limited to the followings: smart city services, ICT driven city development,
cooperative policy development, participative governance, novel service
typologies of smart ubiquitous cities, community forums for service development,
spaces and mediated presence, smart work centers, telecommuting, flextime,
mobile work, quality of city life, work life balance, urban mobile learning,
creative cooperatives, skill changes of labor force, and urban human capital
management.
IMPORTANT DATES
· February 1, 2013 - Papers,
workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due
· March 15, 2013 - Application
deadline for 2013 Doctoral Colloquium
· March 15, 2013
- Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals notifications
· March 30, 2013
- Posters and demo proposals due
· April 15, 2013
- Camera-ready manuscripts due
· April 15, 2013
- Notification for acceptance into 2012 Doctoral Colloquium
· April 15, 2013
- Poster and demo acceptance notifications
· May 15, 2013 - Early registration
closes!
· May 20, 2013 - Conference hotel block
closes - make your bookings before this deadline!
· June 17-20, 2013 - Dg.o 2013
conference!
SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS
· Research
papers (maximum of 10 pages)
· Management,
Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages)
· Panel
descriptions (maximum of 4 pages)
· Posters
(maximum of 2 pages)
· System
demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
· Pre-Conference
tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages)
· Pre-Conference
workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages)
· Doctoral
colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages)
Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages
specified for each type of submission in camera-ready
ACM
Proceedings format (double column, single spaced pages). Please
do not use page numbers. Paper titles should be on the first page of text,
rather than on a separate cover page.
· Research and
Policy papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore,
author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions.
Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the
program committee in the review process.
· All other
submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings camera-ready format with
author names included on the paper.
· All accepted
submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present
their work. At least one author for each accepted paper must register before the
camera ready version is due in order for it to be included in the
proceedings.
Research papers (maximum 10 pages) – blind
review
These submissions report innovative digital government research
results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital
government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to
digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit.
Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 6
pages) – blind review
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital
government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and
evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and
programs.
Panels (maximum 4 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a
summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will
address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees
and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the
proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and
panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional
affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person,
moderator, and presenter(s).
Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system
demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application
projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one
conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries
should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why
the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the
conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is
provided with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to
give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.
System Demonstrations (maximum 2
pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster
session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The
2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the
demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of
interest include systems under development or in active use in research or
practice domains. Submissions should include authors' names and contact
information according to that format. Each station is provided with a table, an
easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo
submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference
sessions.
Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 2
pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer
deeper insight into e-Government research, practice, research methodologies,
technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials are intended to
provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of particular
technologies such as social media, and other insights into e-Government that
would benefit researchers and practitioners.
Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops
(maximum 2 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any e-Government research or
management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer
interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants discuss and
engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further
exploration of a particular subject. Individuals proposing workshops will assume
the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop
and for conducting workshop activities.
Doctoral Colloquium (maximum
10 pages, not including references, tables and figures)
The Doctoral
Colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet
and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of
disciplines associated with digital government research. The colloquium is
planned for Monday June 17, 2013.PhD students can submit papers describing their
planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas
relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have
completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their
research to have a structured proposal idea and perhaps some preliminary
findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We
expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from feedback on
their work and from the more general discussions of doctoral programs and
scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information on the
colloquium and how to submit an application. Material provided in applications
to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we
encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as
a poster or demo.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
· All accepted
management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters,
and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and
included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a
journal special issue.
·
Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the
categories Research papers, Management and policy papers, Posters, and System
demonstrations. Papers that reflect the theme of the conference, form
E-Government to Smart Government, will be preferred. Other selection criteria
include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its
contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the
importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for
communicating to a broad audience.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
The dg.o 2013 conference
management team includes:
· Conference Chair - Sehl Mellouli, Laval
University.
· Program Chairs:
o Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas
Puebla
o Jing Zhang Clark University.
· Track Chairs:
o John Bertot, University of Maryland College
Park
o Soon Ae Chun, City
University of New York
o Natalie Helbig,
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany
o Chris Hinnant,
Florida State University
o Paul Jaeger, University of Maryland College
Park
o Marijn Janssen,
Delft University
o Andrea Kavanaugh,
Virginia Tech
o Theresa A. Pardo,
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany
o Chris Reddick, University of Texas San
Antonio
o Rodrigo Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de
México
o Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel
University
o J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económicas
o Jungwoo Lee, Yonsei University
· Workshop and Tutorial Chair - Soon Ae Chun, City University of New
York
· Poster and Demo Chair - Gabriel Puron Cid, CIDE
· Panel Chairs:
o Teresa Harrison,
University at Albany
o Jana Hrdinova,
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany
· Doctoral Colloquium Chairs:
o Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government,
University at Albany
o Björn Niehaves,
Hertie School of Governance
o J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económicas"
