[AISWorld] 2012 Digital Government Society Conference Call for Papers

[Luis Felipe Luna Reyes]

Dear Colleagues:

Preparations for the 2012 Digital Government Society Conference (dg.o 2012) are underway, and we would welcome your participation in the conference. This marks the 13th annual conference, demonstrating a strong and vibrant international community of research and practice. Taking place at the University of Maryland College Park June 4-7, 2012, the conference will bring together e-Government researchers and practitioners to explore cutting edge research and best practices regarding e-Government initiatives.

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 the ways governments and the e-Government research community can work collaboratively to leverage information and communication technologies as part of innovative and dynamic approaches to creating and implementing high quality, efficient, and effective e-Government.

Research, practice, and collaboration submissions addressing this theme could include but are not limited to: social media and public participation in digital government; effective use of social media by governments; crowd sourcing for government decision making; transformative government; open and transparent 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; 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 e-Government research. We invite completed research papers, papers describing management and practice, policy, and case studies, student research papers, 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.

We hope to see you in Maryland in June 2012.

Kind regards,

John Carlo Bertot, President-Elect and Conference Chair
Hans Jochen Scholl, President

More specific conference details are below.

13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012)
Bridging Research and Practice
University of Maryland, College Park MD
Monday– Thursday, June 4-7, 2012
Website (under development): http://dgo2012.dgsna.org
General inquiries: dgo2012 at easychair.org<mailto:dgo2011 at easychair.org>
Paper submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2012


Important Dates:

Jan 22, 2012                Papers, doctoral colloquium papers, workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals due
March 7, 2012 Paper, doctoral colloquium, workshop, tutorial, and panel acceptance notifications
Mar 16, 2012   Poster and demo proposals due
Mar 30, 2012   Camera-ready manuscripts due
April 6, 2012               Poster and demo acceptance notifications
May 4, 2012                Early registration closes
Jun 4-7, 2012  dg.o 2012 conference
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John Carlo Bertot, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director
Information Policy & Access Center
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing
College Park, MD 20742
Email: jbertot at umd.edu<applewebdata://BCB57281-51DC-4941-8002-4D53BCEF3FAC/jbertot@umd.edu>
Web (Bertot): http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jbertot/
Web (Center): http://ipac.umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.3267
Fax: 301.314.9145

Editor, Library Quarterly (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/lq/current)
Editor, Government Information Quarterly (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf/)

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