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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Please consider submitting a paper to the special issue on
<b><u>Innovation through Open Data</u></b><u> </u>of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER). (Full paper submissions due to 1 August 2013)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Apologies for cross-postings.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">_______________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Call for Papers: Innovation through Open Data<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Guest Editors: Marijn Janssen, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Natalie Helbig, Anneke Zuiderwijk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">The
<i>Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research</i> is planning a special issue on Innovation through Open Data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">The opening of data has been hailed for its innovative capacity and transformative power. Over the last years, many politicians, companies,
 scientists, and citizen communities have paid considerable attention to the demand of opening data of both public and private organizations. An important event in this context was the release of the EU Public Sector Information (PSI) directive in 2003, in
 which a common legislative framework was presented, which regulates making data of public sector bodies available for re-use<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn1" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a>. In 2009, the
 Obama Administration stated that its primary goal was the establishment of an unprecedented level of openness of the Government<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn2" href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></a> and published
 an Open Government Directive some months afterwards<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn3" href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3]</span></a>. Building on former policies, the European Commission has recently presented an Open
 Data Strategy for Europe, in which more evident rules on making the best use of government-held information are presented<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn4" href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></a>. In 2012, the
 Obama Administration published the Digital Government Strategy, which aims to 1) enable the American people to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device; 2) seize the opportunity to procure and manage
 devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways; and 3) unlock the power of government data to spur innovation and improve the quality of services for the American people<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn5" href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[5]</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">In addition to these policy documents, various studies have shown that opening data by public and private organizations has considerable
 potential to provide citizens, researchers, companies and other stakeholders with many advantages, such as a growing economy by stimulating innovation, developing new businesses and obtaining new insights in the public and private sector by creating new ways
 of understanding problems and interpreting data. Open data enable new ventures to develop new business models and innovative services. Often the added value is generated from combining multiple sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Open data have the potential to enable different types of innovation, such as innovation through the provision, processing and use of
 open data, innovation through open data technologies, and innovation through impact and public value creation from open data initiatives (transparency, accountability and collaborative governance approaches). Open data can contribute to open government. However,
 although open data research is performed increasingly, research about the way innovation can take place through open data is still lacking. For this reason, innovation through open data is the main focus of this Special Issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="FirstPara" style="margin-top:3.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:9.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="FirstPara" style="margin-top:3.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:9.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:CA">Subject Coverage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">We specifically encourage papers related to innovation with open data. Particular topics to be addressed might include, but are not limited
 to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">1. Open data provision and use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Barriers, costs and benefits of open data provision and use;
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">National and international challenges and opportunities for open data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Requirements, principles and strategies for publishing and using open data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Practice of open data; innovative ways of publishing and using open data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Privacy and provenance issues; reliability and trustworthiness of open data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Comparative studies; comparisons of open data initiatives;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Case studies for domain/sector-specific open data strategies (smart cities, environmental and geospatial research, social media);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open data usability, user interaction and case studies with lessons learned;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open innovation for public services;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Legal, licensing and political issues: creative commons vs. copyright, freedom of information, information sharing, data visualization;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open data policies, strategies; policy guidelines and frameworks;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Benchmarks and metrics in open data usage.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Information systems and services for open data gathering and provision;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Technical frameworks and platforms of open data/access;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Mashing platforms;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open data formats;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Application Programming Interfaces (APIs);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Metadata;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Data linking;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Semantic technologies;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open data infrastructures, open data platforms;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open access.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">3. Impact of open data initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Public value and benefit creation and realization, such as transparency, public participation and accountability);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open government, collaborative governance approaches involving the use of open data; open participation;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Open data and citizen participation in information gathering / crowdsourcing; open data policy-making and co-creation;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Business models, marketplaces and crowdsourcing platforms for open data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Linking data, innovative services and applications;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Evaluation of open data initiatives;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:CA">Government transformation, process reengineering.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Prof. Dr. Marijn Janssen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Ramon Gil-Garcia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Associate Professor in Public Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="title"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Se</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">nior Program Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Center for Technology in Government / SUNY Albany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Anneke Zuiderwijk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Visiting Researcher at Research and Documentation Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:345:0090:0096:EN:PDF</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government.html</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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