[AISWorld] 9th Scandinavian Workshop on E-government (SWEG 2012)

[Rony Medaglia]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

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*SWEG 2012 - 9th Scandinavian Workshop on E-government*

The 9th Scandinavian Workshop on E-government (SWEG 2012) is held at the 
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark on February 9-10, 2012.

Website: http://www.cbs.dk/sweg2012

Submit your paper in Word format to: sweg2012 at cbs.dk

*Important dates*

-       Submissions due: November 6, 2011

-       Acceptance of Notification: December 22, 2011 (pre-notification 
possible on request if necessary for funding of trip)

-       Registration due: January 23, 2012

-       Workshop in Copenhagen: February 9-10, 2012

The Scandinavian Workshop on E-government is a forum for discussing 
current e-government research issues. The workshop is dedicated to open 
discussions about the current status of e-government research and future 
directions. The focus is thus on informal discussion rather than on 
formal conference presentations. SWEG is open for contributions from any 
country; "Scandinavian" refers only to the location. SWEG is held 
annually in one of the Scandinavian countries.

The theme chosen for SWEG 2012 is "user-centric e-government". With the 
diffusion of ICT in the public sector in countries across the world, and 
the widespread inclusion of digitalization in government strategic 
plans, it is now time for e-government research to shift its focus to 
the citizen role in e-government processes. The emergence of social 
media, the evolution of Web 2.0 platforms, together with rising 
expectations from citizens as users of digital services, highlight the 
need to adopt a user-centric view of e-government design, management, 
and implementation.

The focus of invited submissions thus includes, but is not limited to:

  - Social media and e-government services;

- Citizen-centric e-government maturity models;

- E-democracy and e-participation;

- Transparency and openness in e-government services;

- Engaging stakeholders e-government research;

- User-driven e-government design, management, and implementation;

- Challenges of open-source and open-standard solutions in e-government;

- Methods and concepts of participatory e-government processes;

- Innovative design and prototypes of e-government services.

We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines, such as public 
administration, political science, information systems, knowledge 
management, service management, economics, sociology, and law. Research 
may range from empirical studies to pure conceptual work. Each 
submission will be anonymously peer-reviewed by two reviewers.

The workshop is intended as a venue for discussion and feedback, so we 
invite full research papers, work-in-progress, as well as shorter 
position papers. Each paper will be allocated time for a short 
presentation, however discussion will be the main focus of the allotted 
time for each paper.

Details of the programme will be made available at 
http://www.cbs.dk/sweg2012

Position papers should be maximum 1500 words (approx. 4 pages), and 
should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to 
e-government research including research methods and quality as well as 
focus of studies. Full papers should be max 5000 words, while research 
in progress should be max 3000 words. Irrespective of the form, all 
submissions should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of 
these issues during the workshop.

Contributions with a focus on Scandinavian countries are welcome, but 
the forum is not limited to the Scandinavian research community, and 
aims at including a wide variety of perspectives on e-government research.

Similarly to previous SWEG, instead of publishing proceedings formally, 
we will use this workshop to prepare papers for publication in 
established outlets. Consequently, material presented at SWEG will not 
be copyright protected and can be submitted to other conferences or 
journals without further questions.


*Local organizers *

The 2012 workshop is organized by the Department of IT Management, 
Copenhagen Business School.

Local Organization Chair: Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, 
rm.caict at cbs.dk

*Workshop co-chairs*

Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, karin.axelsson at liu.se

Arild Jansen, University of Oslo, arildj at jus.uio.no

Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, rm.caict at cbs.dk

Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology, samuli.pekkola at tut.fi

*SWEG Founding fathers*

Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, andersen at cbs.dk

Åke Grönlund, Örebro University, Sweden, ake.gronlund at esi.oru.se

Carl E. Moe, University of Agder, Norway, Carl.E.Moe at uia.no

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Rony Medaglia
Assistant Professor, PhD
Department of Information Technology Management (ITM)
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: +45 2479 4327
Skype: rony.medaglia
www.cbs.dk/staff/rony_medaglia

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