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dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government 
Research

Theme: Innovations and Transformations in Government

City University of New York

College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY

June 7-9, 2017

http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/

Twitter handle: #dgo2017

***Submission Deadline is Feb 3, 2017 (extended and firm deadline)****


***** Special Joint Event with Intelligent Community Forum *****

The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 18th Annual 
International Conference on
Digital Government Research - dg.o 2017, with the theme "Innovations and 
Transformations in
Government."  The dg.o 2017 conference will be hosted by the City 
University of New York,
College of Staten Island Campus, NY, June 7--9, 2017.

The dg.o conference is an established forum for presentation, 
discussion, and demonstration of
interdisciplinary research on digital government, political 
participation, civic engagement, and
the impact of technology and innovation on government and governance. 
Each year the conference
brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and 
innovative nature of their
work, their contributions to theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), 
and their focus on
important and timely topics. The conference program combines:

*Keynote and track presentations and discussions on new research on 
digital government
at the intersections of information technology research, social and 
behavioral science
research, and the challenges and missions of government.

*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 digital 
government.

*A showcase of digital government projects, implementations, and 
initiatives that bring
together the research and practitioner communities, demonstrate the 
effectiveness
and/or challenges of digital government and offer best practices.


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JOINT EVENT WITH INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM

*Two global communities, the Digital Government Society (DGS) and the 
Intelligent
Community Forum (ICF), will partner in June 2017 to build new bridges 
between
research and practice, with a shared goal of creating new 
interdisciplinary, multi-sector
partnerships within the world's communities focused on innovation. Both 
DGS and the
ICF have convened respective communities in cities all around the world. 
This year they
are bringing their communities together in New York to share knowledge, 
allow each
group to network at a deeper level and explore new partnerships to 
advance urban and
rural innovation.

*On June 7, 2017, the DGS and ICF's representatives will host the joint 
program at the
City University of New York Staten Island campus for the ICF's annual 
Summit and the
dg.o conference. For one day, members of both communities will present a 
set of joint
and complementary sessions that provide attendees with a chance to hear 
from global
leaders from across the world's leading regions, cities and towns. 
Attendees will
participate in master classes and workshops, and seek to build 
collaborations focused
on advancing the scholarship, policy and practice of urban and rural 
innovation. The
capstone of the collaboration of these two communities will be the 
announcement of
the world's Top7 intelligent communities at a joint reception in 
Manhattan on the
evening of June 7th.

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THEMES AND TRACK TOPICS
The 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research 
will feature the
main theme of Innovations and Transformations in Government. 
Technological advances,
such as big data and collective intelligence, together with policy 
innovations including open
government, open data, and the creation of new public data labs have 
been a catalyst for
disruptive innovations in government, causing radical re-thinking of the 
traditional assumptions
and expectations regarding how governments should function. Public goods 
and services once
considered exclusively the responsibility of government agencies are now 
often initiated and
produced through collaborations with citizens, non-profits, and/or 
private sector partners.
The conference theme will highlight challenges and solutions in 
harnessing innovations and
transformations in government.  Innovative designs in all aspects of 
government, including
people, services, data, policy, governance, collaboration, and 
democracy, require leadership
talent, creative ideas and implementation strategies, and clear success 
criteria for evaluating
solutions.  We welcome research and practice contributions from around 
the world on the
topics including but not limited to innovation strategies, policy 
innovations, citizen services,
engagement innovations, and data-driven decision innovations that 
address various current
societal, environmental and economic challenges, across all the eight 
tracks below.
Each track will accept full research papers as well as research in 
progress, management case
studies and policy papers.  Panel, tutorial, workshop, poster and 
demonstration proposals are
also invited. Each conference element has co-chairs who are responsible 
for managing the
submission and review process for their track. Feel free to contact 
track chairs for guidance as
necessary.

Track 1. Social Media and Government
Track Chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh (kavan at cs.vt.edu) and Rodrigo Sandoval

The use of social media has been growing rapidly and globally. 
Governments at all levels have
been using microblogs, such as Twitter, and social network sites, such 
as Facebook, among
other platforms and tools for public administration and outreach to 
citizens.  Citizens,
businesses and voluntary associations have been using these tools and 
affordances to share
information, ask questions, and compete or collaborate on problem 
solving within and among
neighborhoods, industries, states, and nations. The growing use of 
social media has created
new challenges and opportunities for many users, e.g., changes in 
regulations and policies,
marketing, and more diverse perspectives and feedback. Analysis of 
communication behavior,
messages, and systems and institutions, should contribute to our 
knowledge of the ways these
media are affecting collective problem solving and public policy 
development. Future trends in
social media and government point to new synergies, as well as 
disruptions, among public
agencies and users. This track welcomes research and practice papers 
addressing a range of
similar or related topics on social media analysis on content, metrics, 
case studies or theoretical
models to advance this area of research.

Track 2. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government 
Impacts
Track chairs: Jing Zhang (jizhang at clarku.edu), Yu-Che Chen, and Lei Zheng

Public organizations employ information and communication technologies 
(ICT) to facilitate
communication and transactions with many stakeholders in public and 
private sectors. The
adoption and implementation of new ICT by public organizations is 
influenced by organizational
factors such as the availability of resources (i.e. funding, 
technological knowledge, and
personnel), leadership, trust, organization's technological culture, as 
well as inter-
organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICT in government 
and society has
generated important impacts on the organizational effectiveness, 
efficiency, and
innovativeness of public organizations. This track solicits research 
that examines the
organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation of 
new ICT as well as the
impact of new ICT. Research papers in this track examine the adoption, 
use, and organizational
impacts of a variety of innovative technologies and policies or 
practices that include but are not
limited to social media, citizen-centric technologies, virtual 
collaboration, open data, big data,
and modeling tools.

Track 3.  Opening Government: From Open Data Infrastructures to 
Collaboration
Track chairs: Marijn Janssen (m.f.w.h.a.janssen at tudelft.nl), Vishanth 
Weerakkody, and Adegboyega Ojo

Governments are utilizing the Internet to achieve an open, transparent 
and accountable
government while providing responsive services. This extensive 
transformation is required both
within the government and in the way governments engage with the public. 
The opening and
sharing of data, the deployment of tools and instruments to engage the 
public, collaboration
amongst public organizations and between governments and the public are 
important drivers
for realizing these goals. Governments initiate open data portals, 
develop apps, and open more
data to engage with the public to create more value. To successfully 
achieve this vision,
fundamental changes in practice and new research on governments as open 
systems are
needed. Successful cases, measurement instruments, information sharing, 
adoption,
stakeholder analysis and theoretical models and frameworks are necessary 
to advance this
field. In particular, this track solicits papers addressing the issue of 
public sector transformation
achieved through open government, collaboration amongst actors and 
information sharing
within and between public and private organizations.

Track 4. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments
Chairs: Sehl Mellouli (sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca), Yigal Arens

The slogan "Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments" refers to 
the promise of using
linked and intertwined technologies to create innovative and intelligent 
solutions to life in a city
that will result not only in operational efficiency, but also in 
government transformation
through co-creative governance. Topics for this track include but are 
not limited to:
Applications and collaborations based on the "internet of things"; Smart 
sensors; Big data
analytics; The Civic Technology Movement, and Intercity and 
intergovernmental collaborations;
Intelligent solutions for cities and governments.  Descriptions of 
research and development
efforts that demonstrate advances in technology and/or policy 
innovations in the areas of
energy, transportation, health, education, public safety, structures, 
natural environment, and
business, are all welcome, as are related issues of cybersecurity and 
privacy, community-based
infrastructure resilience, urban informatics and governance.

Track 5. Cybersecurity and Government
Track Chairs: Loni Hagen (lonihagen at usf.edu), Hun-Yeong Kwon, Wookjoon 
Sung and Soon Ae Chun

Increasing threats of domestic and international cyber-attacks, and 
growing dependencies on
inter-connected cyberspace, require a need for national and global 
collaborations to develop
secure and resilient cyber infrastructure. This track focuses on 
technical, policy and social
dimensions of cyber security research, including theoretical and 
empirical models and
frameworks, to address ever-expanding cyber security challenges. Topics 
include but not
limited to: information security in e-government, cybercrimes, cyber 
incident response, critical
infrastructure protection, national and global information sharing, 
surveillance and privacy,
cryptography policy governance, security governance and strategies, 
civil engagement and
public awareness. We also invite domain-specific cases and innovative 
approaches on security
challenges, cybernational defence, private/public joint efforts, and 
education, such as
workforce training and retention.

Track 6. Beyond Bureaucracy, Co-Producing Governance & New Models of 
Governance
Track Chairs: Alois Paulin (alois at apaulin.com) and Leonidas Anthopoulos

The Beyond Bureaucracy track aims to outline and discuss challenges 
along the boundaries of
society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established 
e-governance research
paths and priorities. Where well-established e-government / e-governance 
research ambitions
focus on providing and/or studying technology that supports the work and 
mission of
government agencies and governmental agents (incremental innovation), 
Beyond
Bureaucracy addresses the question how radical technological innovation 
transforms the power
of citizens and the conceptual sovereign body to actively control 
(rather than passively observe
and follow) government agencies and governmental agents. The Beyond 
Bureaucracy track
invites contributions that discuss pending technological (design 
science) challenges, promotes
the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and 
serves as a platform
for pro/con deliberations on Beyond Bureaucracy thought and knowledge. 
Research keywords
includes but not limited to: Liquid Democracy, Informating Governance, 
e-Anarchy,
Participatory Budgeting & Bottom-Up Excise, Non-Bureaucratic Government, 
etc.

Track 7. Participatory Democracy
Track Chairs: Claudia Cappelli (claudia.cappelli at uniriotec.br), 
Cristiano Maciel, Jose Viterbo Filho

E-participation comprises the use of information and communication 
technologies to broaden
and deepen political participation by enabling citizens to connect with 
one another and with
their elected representatives. It can lead to new methods of producing 
public policies and
services that contrast with transaction-based methods of service 
delivery, in which citizens
consume public services solely conceived and provided by governments. In 
the novel co-
production-based approaches, citizens are not only consulted but are 
part of the conception,
design, steering, and management of public policies and services, 
instrumenting Participatory
Democracy. Major topics in this track will discuss methods, techniques 
and tools that can
support or contribute to the coproduction of public services through 
different processes of e-
participation.

Track 8. Open Government Data Policies & Politics
Track chairs: Boyi Li (b.li at exeter.ac.uk) and Kyung Ryul Park

A growing body of literature has been focused on the benefits, 
motivations, as well as best
practices to adopt open data in government sectors. Many theorizing 
efforts regard
institutional structures as critical barriers to promote open innovation 
paradigm in public
sector. In this track, we discuss the impact and change of these 
institutional structures by
inviting research papers that examine open data initiatives as either 
government policies or
politics. The policy lens critically analyses the policy documents and 
reveals how open data
policies are drafted, interpreted and implemented in a specific context. 
The politics lens is
mainly concerned with the power relations between the state, civil 
society, and business. It
leads to a critical reflection on the agenda of open data movement in 
the context of power
structures of informational capitalism. Therefore, we particularly 
welcome the content and
discourse analysis of open data documents, and the storytelling of 
government-business
collaboration in open data innovations.

Panels
Chair:  Teresa Harrison

Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the 
tracks for the conference.
Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that put a spotlight on 
practice and application.
Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring 
experiences with,
perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are 
encouraged. Individuals
interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the 
panel co-chairs about their
ideas prior to developing their submissions. Please send expressions of 
interest for panel
development to Teresa Harrison (tharrison at albany.edu).

Poster and Demonstration
Poster and Demo Chairs: Kellyton dos Santos Brito and Murray Scott

The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, 
allows presenters to
discuss research in progress, application projects, or government 
policies and program
initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the 
conference.

Tutorials and Workshops
Workshop/Tutorial Chairs:  Rony Medaglia and Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar

Pre-conference tutorials are half- or full-day presentations that offer 
deeper insight into e-
government research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or 
field experience. Pre-
conference workshop proposals may cover any e-government research or 
management topic.
Workshops are half- or full-day events intended to offer interactive 
sessions, in which the
workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed 
to facilitate joint
learning and further exploration of a particular subject.

PUBLICATIONS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student 
papers, panels, posters,
and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings 
and included in the
ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers 
will be invited for
different journals, such as Government Information Quarterly, 
Information Polity, Journal
Informatics, Int. Journal of E-Planning Research, . Int, Journal of 
Public Administration in the
Digital Age (IJPADA).

BEST PAPER AWARDS
Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories 
Research papers,
Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and System 
demonstrations. Papers that
reflect the main theme of the conference, Innovations and 
Transformations in Government, will
be preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and 
innovative nature of the
work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and 
practice (relevance), the
importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for 
communicating to a broad
audience.

IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 3, 2017:    Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due 
(Firm deadline)
March 1, 2017:     Application deadline for 2017 doctoral colloquium
March 1, 2017:     Author notifications
March 15, 2017: Posters and demo proposals due
April 1, 2017:     Poster/demo author notifications
April 5, 2017:     Camera-ready manuscripts due
May 5, 2017:       Early registration closes!

SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS
*Research papers (maximum of 10 pages)
*Management, Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages)
*Panel descriptions (maximum of 4 pages)
*Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
*System demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
*Pre-Conference tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages)
*Pre-Conference workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages)
*Doctoral colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages)

Submission Site:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2017

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for 
each type of
submission in camera-ready ACM Proceedings format (double column, single 
spaced pages).
Please do not use page numbers. Paper titles should be on the first page 
of text, rather than on
a separate cover page.

- Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed 
through a double-
blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information 
must be omitted
from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed 
in the paper to
assist the program committee in the review process.

- All other submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings 
camera-ready format, but
include author names.

- All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered 
for the conference before the camera-ready copy is due for it to be 
included in the conference proceedings.

- At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present 
the work.

Research papers (8 - 10 pages) - blind review
These submissions report innovative digital government research results 
in the form of a
formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all 
research
methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, 
goals, or policies
must be explicit.

Management, case study, or policy papers (4 - 6 pages) - blind review
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government 
projects or initiatives,
discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management 
approaches to digital
government initiatives and programs.

Panels (2 - 4 pages) - Proposals should include information about the 
theme and goals of the
panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the 
panel will address,
statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and 
how well suited
the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should 
include information about
the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. 
Please include names,
institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers 
of the contact person,
moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (1 - 2 pages) - Two-page summaries should outline the nature of 
the research, policy,
or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o 
attendees. Posters prepared
for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster 
station is provided
with a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to 
give an oral
presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (1 - 2 pages) - System demonstrations are held 
concurrently with the
poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional 
fellowship. The 2-page
summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the 
demonstration is
likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest 
include systems under
development or in active use in research or practice domains. 
Submissions should include
authors' names and contact information according to that format. Each 
station is provided
with a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available 
for rent. Selected demo
submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference 
sessions.

Pre-conference Tutorials (1 - 2 pages) - dg.o tutorials are half- or 
full-day presentations that
offer deeper insight into e-government research, practice, research 
methodologies,
technologies or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide 
insights into good practices,
research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as social 
media, and other insights
into e-government that would benefit researchers and practitioners.

Pre-conference Workshops (1 - 2 pages) - We invite workshop proposals on 
any e-government
research or management topic. Workshops are half- or full-day events 
intended to offer
interactive sessions, in which the workshop host and participants 
discuss and engage in
activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration 
of a particular subject.
Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of 
identifying and selecting
participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities.

Doctoral Colloquium (7 - 10 pages, not including references, tables and 
figures) - The doctoral
colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. 
students meet and discuss
their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of 
disciplines associated
with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers 
describing their planned
or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering any research areas 
relevant to digital
government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two 
years of doctoral
study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured 
proposal idea and
preliminary findings, but have not reached the stage of defending their 
dissertations. We
expect students at this stage of study will gain the most value from 
feedback on their work
and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly 
careers. See the detailed
announcement for complete information on the colloquium and how to 
submit an
application. Material provided in applications to the doctoral 
colloquium will not be published
in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished 
research to one of
the paper tracks or as a poster or demo.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Chairs
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York (CUNY), US
Beth Simon Noveck, New York University and Yale Law School, US
Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, US

Organizing Chairs
Paolo Cappellari, CUNY College of Staten Island, US
Rob Domanski, CUNY College of Staten Island, US

Program Chairs
Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US
Adegboyega, Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Track Chairs
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US
Jing Zhang, Clark University, US
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Rodrigo Sandoval, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US
Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK
Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, US
Loni Hagen, South Florida University, US
Hun-Yeong Kwon,  Korea University, S. Korea
Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, S. Korea
Kyung Ryul Park, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Boyi Li, University of Exeter, UK
Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences  (TEI) of Thessaly, 
Greece
Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska Omaha, US
Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China
Claudia Cappelli, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cristiano Maciel, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Brazil
Jose Viterbo Filho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Panel Chairs
Teresa Harrison, University at Albany, SUNY, US
Richard Flanagan, CUNY College of Staten Island, US

Workshop and Tutorial Chair
Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Manuel Pedro Rodriguez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain

Poster and Demo Chair
Kellyton dos Santos Brito, Pernambuco Rural Federal University, Brazil
Murray Scott, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs
Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, 
SUNY, US
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Center for Technology in Government, University at 
Albany, SUNY, US

Publicity and Web Chairs
Yoo Jung An, Essex County College, US
Chulwoo Kim, Pace University, US

Liaison and Outreach Chairs
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany, USA
Norman Jacknis, Intelligent Community Forum, USA

Registration Chairs
Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Catherine Dumas, University at Albany, US

Finance Chair
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.dgo2017.dgsociety.org/content/program-committee