CFP

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

Topics: digital society cyber security big data transformation of government services

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