[AISWorld] CFP: Open Government & Open and Big Data Track at EGOV / ePart 2016

[Marijn Janssen - TBM]

15th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV 2016)
8th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart 2016)
September 5 to 8, 2016
Guimarães, Portugal
www.egov-conference.org<http://www.egov-conference.org>, www.epart-conference.org<http://www.epart-conference.org>
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Open Government & Open and Big Data Track



The dual 15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and the 8th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2016 will be held from Monday, September 5 to Thursday, September 8, 2016 in Guimarães, Portugal. The dual conference will be hosted by the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV, http://egov.unu.edu/) and the University of Minho(http://www.uminho.pt/en).



TRACK CHAIRS

- Bram Klievink (lead), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

- Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden

- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands



SCOPE

The annual international IFIP EGOV conference is the top-2 ranked core conference in the domain of e-government or ICT in the public sector and the public sphere. As part of this conference, the Open Government & Open and Big Data Track focuses on practices and methods of transparency, accountability, open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and data analytics.

Public sector organisations increasingly develop and use big and open data solutions and platforms for data exchange, including sensor data and vast amounts of data from a plentitude of other sources, including digital assets of the private sector. The explosive growth in data, the opening of data, large-scale data exchange platforms, data provided by the Internet of Things and increasing computational power creates new opportunities for public sector innovation. These developments are transforming the government and used to open up government, engage with stakeholders, create new value, improve transparency, and inform decision and policymaking. It even allows for the development of social innovations and commercial services by making 'smart' combinations of big and/or open data. This leads to a shift in the positions of government and other parties, and has brought forward a host of instruments and tools to deal with big data to deal with societal issues. It also brings social and technical challenges and questions related to information quality, implementation considerations, policy implications, regulation, supervision, integrity, the dominance of the private sector, and changing relationships between stakeholders, amongst many others.

This year's track specifically calls for papers on cross-sector (e.g. public, private) collaborations for creating value out of big and open data innovations, for papers on cross-domain applications and their impact and for papers dealing with the challenges of big and/or open data and their use

Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

?         Smart Big data apps and dashboards for decision making

?         The role of big and open data in public sector innovation

?         Data governance and quality

?         Open Data or Big Data policies

?         Privacy and data management

?         Cross-sector collaborations for open or big data driven innovations

?         Impact on society and/or public administration

?         The role of public, private and societal stakeholders in data sharing and use

?         Data processing, analyzing and visualization

?         Data Science in government

?         Predictive and pattern modeling on big and open linked data

?         Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, shared services

?         Service-oriented architectures, orchestration and composition

?         Cloud computing in government

?         Metadata, ontologies and semantic approaches

?         Infrastructure and enterprise architecture

?         Openness, transparency and accountability

?         Value of data and apps

?         The Internet of Things from a big-data perspective

?         Practical applications of open or big data, in research or practice

?         Critical reflections on open and big data



FORMATS

Across its tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2016 conference hosts several distinct formats of contributions:

?         Completed research papers (max. 12 pages, published in either IFIP EGOV or IFIP ePart proceedings of Springer LNCS)

?         Ongoing research and innovative projects (max 8 pages, published in alternate proceedings by IOS Press)



Beyond the tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2016 conference also hosts

?         Posters (max. 2 pages), to be exposed along the welcome reception on Tuesday evening and included in the alternate proceedings,

?         Workshops and panels on pertinent issues, short abstracts (2 pages) to be included in the alternate proceedings, and

?         PhD colloquium submissions (max. 8 pages) to be included in the alternate proceedings by IOS Press.



These formats encourage both scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art as well as innovative research approaches, work in progress, and studies of practical e-government or e-governance projects along with papers on system implementations.



PROCEEDINGS

All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be published by IOS Press. After the conference, both volumes will be submitted to Thompson Reuters for evaluation in order to be indexed in Web of Science Conference Proceedings.



PHD COLLOQUIUM

Prior to the conference (that is, on Sunday, September 4), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students with an international forum guided by senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.



Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the conference website:

www.egov-conference.org<http://www.egov-conference.org> < http://www.egov-conference.org/ >

 www.epart-conference.org<http://www.epart-conference.org> < http://www.epart-conference.org/ >



IMPORTANT DATES:

March 15, 2016-Submission of papers

April 15, 2016-Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions

April 30, 2016-Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers

May 15, 2016-Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions

May 31, 2016-Camera-ready papers of accepted completed research/ongoing research/workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions



SUBMISSION SITE:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2016



2016 DUAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA (jscholl at uw.edu<mailto:jscholl at uw.edu>)

Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl<mailto:M.F.W.H.A.Janssen at tudelft.nl>)

Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (wimmer at uni-koblenz.de<mailto:wimmer at uni-koblenz.de>)

Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece (tambouris at uom.gr<mailto:tambouris at uom.gr>)

Tomasz Janowski, UNU-EGOV, Portugal (janowski at unu.edu<mailto:janowski at unu.edu>)

Delfina Sá Soares, University of Minho, Portugal (dss at dsi.uminho.pt<mailto:dss at dsi.uminho.pt>)



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Prof.dr.ir. Marijn Janssen
Full Professor in ICT & Governance
Head of the ICT section
(http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/over-faculteit/afdelingen/engineering-systems-and-services/sectie-ict/)
Co-editor Government Information Quarterly
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/government-information-quarterly/)

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