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<span style="font-size:20pt" lang="EN-US">Call for Papers</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:18pt" lang="EN-US">dg.o 2013</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-US">14th Annual International Conference on</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-US">Digital Government Research</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:20pt" lang="EN-US">From e-Government to Smart Government</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" lang="EN-US">Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" lang="EN-US">Monday – Thursday, June 17-20, 2013</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submission deadline– February 1<sup>st</sup>, 2013</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<b>Home page: </b></span><b><u><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://dgo2013.dgsna.org/" target="_blank">http://dgo2013.dgsna.org</a></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<b>General inquiries: </b></span><b><u><span style="color:blue" lang="FR"><a href="mailto:dgo2013@easychair.org" target="_blank">dgo2013@easychair.org</a></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<b>Twitter: DGSociety, #dgo2013<br>
Paper submissions: </b></span><b><u><span style="color:blue" lang="FR"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013</a></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue" lang="FR"><a href="http://dgsociety.org/" target="_blank">Digital
Government Society (DGS)</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> announces
the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
- dg.o 2013. The dg.o conferences are
an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of
interdisciplinary e-Government research, technology innovation,
applications, and practice. Each year the conference combines:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Presentations
and discussions on new research on e-Government as an interdisciplinary
domain that lies at the intersections of information technology
research, social and behavioural science research, and the challenges
and missions of government.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A
showcase of 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 and 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 raises a number of
policy, technology, and governance challenges. This year, the conference
program will focus on research and practice related
to the adoption of smart technologies by governments, citizens as well
as private and non-profit organizations. More and more, the adoption of
smart technologies by individuals and organizations is opening new
opportunities for creating public-private partnerships
to improve current government services as well as to create new,
innovative ones.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Submissions
addressing this theme could include but are not limited to: smart
technologies for governments, semantic technologies for e-government,
web services applications, open and transparent government; social
media and public participation; effective use of social media by
governments; crowd sourcing for government decision making;
transformative 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; policy and governance issues
that enable, facilitate, and promote smart government;
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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">In
addition, we welcome submissions from the broader domain of digital
government research. We invite completed research papers, papers
describing
management and practice, policy and case studies, 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Accepted papers are published in the ACM Proceedings Digital Library, and selected papers will appear
in leading journals such as <i>Government Information Quarterly </i>and<i> Information Polity.</i></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The
conference has six thematic tracks, which accept full research papers
as well as management case studies and policy papers (see below
for paper submission types), and one track for panel proposals. Each
track has two co-chairs who are responsible for managing the submission
and review process for their track. The conference also accepts work in
progress and short descriptions of applications
on any topic. We also welcome proposals for workshops and tutorials,
which can be submitted directly to the Easychair system. Feel free to
get in contact with any track chairs for guidance.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 1. Social Media and Government</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chairs: Rodrigo Sandoval and Andrea Kavanaugh</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Social
media use in public administration has been growing rapidly around the
world. Since the launch of web 2.0 many governments and public
officials use new online tools to communicate among themselves, with
other organizations and with their constituents. This growing use has
created new challenges for government users (e.g., regulations,
policies), and an overwhelming increase in messages and
other communications from citizens that are difficult to accommodate.
These outcomes have started changing government interaction among their
own personnel and with citizens and other agencies.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 2. Transformation and Open Government</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chair: Marijn Janssen, Natalie Helbig and Vishanth Weerakkody</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Many
governments are working toward a vision of government-wide
transformation that strives to achieve an open, transparent, accountable
government
while providing demand-driven services.. To be successful in this
vision fundamental changes are necessary in practice and new research
that examines governments as open systems seeking participation and
interaction with their environment is needed. The track
solicits papers addressing the issue of public sector transformation
between government and the environment.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 3. Emerging Topics</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chairs: John C. Bertot, Paul Jaeger and Chris Reddick</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Digital
government, both as an academic discipline and in practice, continues
to evolve. As new technologies, big data applications, policies,
and management practices develop; governments seek ways in which to
provide innovative, smart, and transformational government services. The
Emerging Topics track seeks submissions that provide insights into
emerging digital government research and practice.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 4. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chair: Chris Hinnant and Theresa A. Pardo</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Over
the past decade, many public organizations have adopted information and
communication technologies (ICT) to facilitate communication and
transactions with many stakeholders such as residents, private sector
businesses, non-profit organizations, and other government agencies.
While recent digital government research has often focused on
understanding the external impacts of ICT adoption by government,
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),
managerial leadership, and the organization’s technological
culture. 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 on the organizational processes,
effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 5. Smart Government Technologies</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chair: Soon Ae Chun, Tomasz Janowski</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Smart
government is achieved through innovation, transformation and
re-structuring in policies, strategies, and technologies to create
improved
public sector process efficiency and service integration and delivery,
and to support better decision making and collaboration with the public.
Intelligent systems, new platforms for communication and collaboration,
data collection, sharing and analytics,
shared services, sensors and ubiquitous computing are all the key
ingredients to transform the government that benefit the public and
business, and to improve the quality of life. This track aims to
facilitate theoretical and practical discussions on approaches
towards smart government, smart cities, smart community, and smart
citizens by technology and policy innovations in the area of energy,
transport, health, public safety, buildings, urban planning,
environment, business and others.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 6. Smart Cities and Smart Work</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track Chairs: Jungwoo Lee and J. Ramon Gil-Garcia</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">World
population is increasingly concentrating in cities. People work and
live in and around cities
and information technologies have transformed their lives as well as
the public and private services being provided to them. Therefore, smart
cities and smart work could be considered highly interrelated and,
actually, two sides of the same coin. City administrators
are facing daunting tasks in order to accommodate emerging
characteristics of urban life and promote better quality of life and
improved work life balance, while enhancing efficiency and effectiveness
of administrative services. This track invites theoretical
and empirical papers concerning smart cities and smart work. Suggested
topics include but are not limited to the followings: smart city
services, ICT driven city development, cooperative policy development,
participative governance, novel service typologies
of smart ubiquitous cities, community forums for service development,
spaces and mediated presence, smart work centers, telecommuting,
flextime, mobile work, quality of city life, work life balance, urban
mobile learning, creative cooperatives, skill changes
of labor force, and urban human capital management.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track 7. Panels</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track chair: Teresa Harrison, Jana Hrdinova</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">REVISED DATES</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<s><span lang="EN-US">February 1, 2013</span></s><span lang="EN-US"> February 15, 2013 - Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due
</span><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">(For panel proposals, please send expressions of interest in proposing a panel earlier, if possible, to Teresa Harrison (</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:tharrison@albany.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none" lang="EN-US">tharrison@albany.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">)
and Jana Hrdinova (</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:jhrdinova@ctg.albany.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none" lang="EN-US">jhrdinova@ctg.albany.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">March<b> 15, 2013 - Application deadline for 2013 Doctoral Colloquium</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">March 15, 2013</span></s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> March 30, 2013 - Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals notifications</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">March 30, 2013</span></s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> April 15, 2013 - Posters and demo proposals due</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">April 15, 2013</span></s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> April 30, 2013 - Camera-ready manuscripts due</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">April 15, 2013 - Notification for acceptance into 2012 Doctoral Colloquium</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">April 15, 2013</span></s><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> April 30, 2013 - Poster and demo acceptance notifications</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">May<b> 6, 2013 - Conference hotel block closes</b> - make your bookings before this deadline!</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">May<b> 15, 2013 - Early registration closes!</b></span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">June 17-20, 2013 - Dg.o 2013 conference!<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Research
papers (maximum of 10 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Management,
Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Panel descriptions
(maximum of 4 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Posters (maximum of 2
pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">System demonstrations
(maximum of 2 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Pre-Conference
tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Pre-Conference
workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Doctoral
colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission in camera-ready</span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue" lang="FR"><a href="https://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates" target="_blank">ACM
Proceedings format</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="FR"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">(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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Research
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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">All other
submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings camera-ready format with author names included on the paper.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">All
accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are
expected to present their work. At least one author for each accepted
paper must register before the camera ready version is due in order for
it to be included in the proceedings.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Submissions are through: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue" lang="FR"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br>
<strong>Research papers (maximum 10 pages) – blind review</strong></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 6 pages) – blind review</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Panels (maximum 4 pages)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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).</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Posters (maximum of 2 pages)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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. The 2-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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 2 pages)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 are intended
to 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 2 pages)</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Doctoral Colloquium (maximum 10 pages, not including references, tables and figures)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br>
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. The colloquium is planned for
Monday June 17, 2013. PhD 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 perhaps some 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 from 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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. Selected papers may
be invited for a journal special issue.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Outstanding
achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers,
Management and policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations.
Papers that reflect the theme of the conference, form E-Government to
Smart 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br>
<strong>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION</strong></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The dg.o 2013 conference management team includes:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Conference
Chair</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> - Sehl Mellouli, Laval University.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="ES">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="ES"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">Program Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="ES">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="ES"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">Luis Luna-Reyes,
Universidad de las Americas Puebla</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Jing Zhang
Clark University.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Track Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">John Bertot, University
of Maryland College Park</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Soon Ae
Chun, City University of New York</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Natalie
Helbig, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Chris
Hinnant, Florida State University</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Paul Jaeger, University
of Maryland College Park</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Marijn
Janssen, Delft University</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Andrea
Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Theresa
A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Chris
Reddick, University of Texas San Antonio</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="ES">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="ES"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">Rodrigo Sandoval,
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Vishanth
Weerakkody, Brunel University</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Tomasz
Janowsky, Center for Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jungwoo Lee, Yonsei University</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="IT">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="IT"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="IT">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia,
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Panel Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Teresa
Harrison, University at Albany</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Jana Hrdinova,
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Workshop
and Tutorial Chair</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> - Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:36pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Poster
and Demo Chair</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> - Gabriel Puron Cid, CIDE</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Doctoral
Colloquium Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Sharon
Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Björn
Niehaves, Hertie School of Governance</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:72pt;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'" lang="IT">o</span><span style="font-size:7pt" lang="IT"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="IT">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia,
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br>
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