![]() | NGGS '21: Next Generation Government Symposium Mektory (Raja 15) Tallinn, Estonia, April 7-8, 2021 |
Conference website | https://egov.ee/projects/ngss-2021/# |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nggs21 |
Submission deadline | February 15, 2021 |
Notification of acceptance under condition of revision: | March 1, 2021 |
Revisions submission | March 24, 2021 |
Camera-ready submission | March 31, 2021 |
The conference aims to bring together stakeholders from academia, government, and the private sector to help better understand next generation government issues from interdisciplinary perspectives in information sciences, social sciences, law and public administration. Collaborative vision for the next generation of technology and architecture ensures that the public sector’s delivery of e-services engage citizens, increase efficiency and foster innovation within the state. The NGGS is open for submissions by Masters students and PhD researchers in topics related but not limited to:
Topics of Interest
- Big Data
- Data management
- Event-driven architecture
- Real-time analytics and decision-making
- Data system design for big data
- Unstructured/structured data management at-scale
- Big data application (smart-city, smart healthcare, smart manufacturing)
- Data exploration and visualization for Big Data
- Linked and open Big Data
- AI and Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Virtual agents
- Predictive analysis
- Artificial neural networks
- Open Digital Society
- Building smart cities
- Silver economy
- Participatory e-budgeting
- e-Participation
- Social media
- Participatory process of society
- Future democracy (liquid democracy, direct democracy)
- Citizen assemblies and initiatives
- Cybersecurity
- Risk Assessment/analysis
- Novel cryptographical methods
- Preparing for quantum computing
- Network and operating systems vulnerabilities
- Cyber-physial security
- Offensive Technology
- Cyber-hygiene & awarness training methods
- Blockchain Technologies
- Public sector implementation
- Digital Competencies and Culture
- Digital literacy & information literacy
- Change of digital culture in context (company/group/teams/community...)
- Participation, Remediation, Bricolage
- Surveillance Capitalism
- Transparency represented for contextual /situated learning
- Cultural data analytics
- Repurposing cultural data in the Society
- Digital Transformation of Government Services
- Proactive e-services
- Cross-border interoperability
- eIDAS
- Collaborative service design
- Cross border functionality of eID
- Change management
- E-service use-cases
Submission Guidelines
Academic citation/paper format styles accepted: APA Edition 6/7
For LaTex template, please see: https://www.overleaf.com/project/5fba97cbdcb2800f2606f4b1
We invite four types of contributions (all page limits include references):
- Abstract extensions (2 pages)
- Research proposals (2-4 pages)
- Short papers (5-8 pages)
- Research papers/works in progress (8-15 pages)
All papers will be reviewed by the editing committee
Presenting submitted work at the NGGS is required.
NB! When submitting, please add relevent research track and topic name to keyword section
NB! ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED WITHOUT AUTHORS NAME IN SUBMISSION FILE (FOR DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEW). SELF-REFERENCES MUST BE BLACKED OUT.
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Ingrid Pappel (TalTech University)
- Merja Bauters (Tallinn University)
- Eric Jackson (TalTech University)
- Riccardo Tommasini (Tartu University)
Program Committee
- Gert Jervan (TalTech University)
- Peeter Normak (Tallinn University)
- Regina Erlernheim (TalTech University)
- Tobias Ley (Tallinn University)
- Sadok Ben Yaha (TalTech University)
- Merja Bauters (Tallinn University)
Editing Committee
- Regina Erlernheim (TalTech University)
- Alex Norta (TalTech University)
- Rain Ottis (TalTech University)
- Sadok Ben Yaha (TalTech University)
- Tobias Ley (Tallinn University)
- James Sunney Quaicoe (Tallinn University)
- Abiodun Ogunyemi (Tallinn University)
- Kai Pata (Tallinn University)
- Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University)
- Arto Lanamäki (Tallinn University)
- Riccardo Tommasini (Tartu University)
- Ahmed Awad (Tartu University)
- Feras Awayshesh (Tartu University)
Invited Speakers
- Siim Sikkut, CIO of the government of Estonia
- Annet Linno, Citizen OS
- Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
Publication
NGGS 21' proceedings will be published in a yet to be determined special edition journal
Venue
Mektory, Raja 15,
Tallinn, Estonia
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to eric.jackson@taltech.ee
Sponsors
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia, TalTech University, Tallinn University, Tartu University, Helsinki University, Citizen OS