EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019: EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 University of Camerino San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, September 2-5, 2019

Conference website	http://dgsoc.org/egov-2019/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovcedemepart2019

The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 represents the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually, and will be hosted 2-4 September 2019 in San Benedetto del Tronto by the University of Camerino, Italy.

The conference focuses on e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation in society, artificial intelligence, policy information, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. The conference organises a PhD Colloquium and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods).

The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group in collaboration with the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The Working Group’s special emphasis lays on interdisciplinary approaches towards information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government.

• (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2019
• Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019
• Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready) 15 May 2019
• Poster acceptance 1 June 2019
• Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2019
• Conference: 2-4 September 2019
• PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2019

• Olivier Glassey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
• Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria
• Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy
• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
• Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
• Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, Austria

• Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy

 

• General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. This track also covers emerging and special topics in e-government research
  • Ida Lindgren (lead), Linköping University, Sweden
  • Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
  • Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
• General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except for the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas
  • Panos Panagiotopoulos (lead), Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria
• Smart Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology
  • Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (lead), University of Granada, Spain
  • Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Nuno Lopes, DTx: Digital Transformation Colab, Portugal
• AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track: adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics and AI methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and other AI methods in the public sector.
  • Habin Lee (lead), Brunel University London, UK
  • Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece
  • Tomasz Janowski, Gdansk University of Technology, Polland/ Danube University Krems, Ausria
• Social Media Track: Digital networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks.
  • Noella Edelmann (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria
  • Sarah Hoffmann, University Bremen, Germany
  • Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
• Social Innovation Track: focuses on the intersection between research, practice, and policy related to social innovation.
  • Gianluca Misuraca (lead), European Commission, Spain
  • Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Csaba Csaki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary
• Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other Technologies.
  • Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA
• Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation.
  • Thomas Lampoltshammer (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria
  • David Osimo, The Lisbon Council, Spain
  • Martijn Hartog, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Practitioners’ Track: practitioners are encouraged to provide long abstracts of forthcoming papers, summaries of workshop proceedings, descriptions of project outputs, work experiences, inspiring case studies and best practice examples
  • • Peter Reichstädter (lead), Austrian Parliament, Austria
    • Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, United Nations University, Portugal
    • Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium
    • Francesco Molinari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be submitted.
  • Gabriela Viale Pereira (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria
  • Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA
  • Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Types of Publications

By making a submission to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2019 conference you agree that your paper will not be submitted elsewhere and if accepted that the conference fee will be paid and the consent to publish will be signed. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers.

Please note that all accepted submissions to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2019 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will make use of the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Further information about this software can be found at http://www.turnitin.com/

Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government Track, Smart Cities Track, AI data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track, and Open Data Social and Technical Aspects Track, whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation track, Social Media track, Social Innovation Track, and Digital Society track.

Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) can be published (but do not need to be) in a special conference issue of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published.

The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) is published online under open access and provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference.

JeDEM Conference Special Issue Guest Editor

Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, Austria

Best Paper Awards committee

• Gabriela Viale Pereira (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria
• Marius Rohde Johannessen, University College Southeast Norway
• Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Conference venue

The conference will be held at the premises of University of Camerino in San Benedetto Del Tronto. The city is located at the Adriatic coast and there are many hotels on walking distance.

• CFP website: https://easychair.org/cfp/egovcedemepart2019  
• Website: egov19.dgsociety.org
• Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovcedemepart2019