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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Digital Government and Wicked Problems:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Climate Change, Urbanization, and Inequality<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">May 27-30, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://spa.asu.edu/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">School
of Public Affairs</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.asu.edu/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Arizona State University</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Phoenix, Arizona, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Visit the dgo.2015 website:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://dgo2015.dgsociety.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">http://dgo2015.dgsociety.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Key Deadlines - 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">January 15</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">
- Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">March 1</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> - Application
deadline for doctoral colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">March 1</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> - Paper,
workshop, tutorial, and panel proposal notifications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">March 15</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> -
Posters and demo proposals due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">March 15</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> -
Revise and resubmit due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">April 1</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> - Acceptance
notifications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">April 5</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> - Camera-ready
manuscripts due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">April 15</span></b><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX"> -
Early Registration closes!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Track Themes
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://dgo2015.dgsociety.org/call-for-papers"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue">click
here for more details</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 1. Social Media and Government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 2. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 3. Open Government, Open data, and Collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 4. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and Smart Government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 5. Digital Government and (In)Equality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 6. Technology, Governance, and Solutions to Natural and Manmade Crisis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Track 7. Emerging Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Submission Types and Formats</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://dgo2015.dgsociety.org/submission-information"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue">click
here for more details</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Research papers (maximum 10 pages) – Blind review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Management, Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum 6 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Panel descriptions (maximum 4 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Posters (maximum 2 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">System demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Pre-Conference tutorial proposals (maximum 2 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Pre-Conference workshop proposals (maximum 2 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:ES-MX">Doctoral colloquium application (maximum 10 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">* Proceedings included in the ACM digital library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">** Selected Papers may be published in special issues of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/government-information-quarterly/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue">Government
Information Quarterly</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.iospress.nl/journal/information-polity/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue">Information Polity</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-planning-research-ijepr/44994"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Centaur","serif";color:blue">International
Journal of E-Planning Research</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Associate Professor of Management Information Systems</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Graduate School of Management</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Clark University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Tel: (508)793-7102</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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