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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">14th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV2015)</span></p>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">7th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart2015)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">31 August – 2 September 2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Thessaloniki, Greece </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">www.egov-conference.org, www.epart-conference.org</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">General eParticipation Track</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">eParticipation refers to the use of Information and Communication Technologies to enhance political participation and citizen engagement. eParticipation is by definition a multidisciplinary field of study. Today, eParticipation
is particularly timely and relevant in various contexts and in diverse environments, e.g. digital democracy; participatory public service design; use of open government data in eParticipation initiatives; use of social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) by citizens,
governments and civil servants; top-down and bottom-up eParticipation initiatives related to the economic and welfare issues, etc. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The General eParticipation Track serves as an umbrella for all eParticipation-related topics except the special-topics track of Policy Modelling and Policy Informatics (separate track). In particular, it also covers emerging
and special topics in eParticipation research. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics:</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• eParticipation research including theories, methods, models and approaches; </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• The role of social and mobile media and Web 2.0 in eParticipation; </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Transparency and open access for eParticipation;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Design and co-creation of participatory public services; bottom-up initiatives;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Privacy, security and ethical considerations in eParticipation;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Advances in eParticipation Domains: Online deliberation and discourse, participatory budgeting, eConsultation, ePolling, and eLegislation, eElectioneering, eCampaigning and eVoting; </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Advances in participatory policy making using policy modelling, simulation, impact assessment and visualisation methods and tools;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• eParticipation and big data; </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Smart cities and the role of citizens;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Environmental Information Systems and citizen participation;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• The role of eParticipation in national and global crisis situations;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Comparative analyses of eParticipation practices; </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Impact assessment and public value considerations of eParticipation on real world decision making;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Digital literacy and its consequences for eParticipation;</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• eParticipation projects: design, implementation, evaluation, quality and impact.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Formats</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">This track hosts two distinct formats of contributions: </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Completed research papers (max. 12 pages, published in the IFIP ePart proceedings of Springer LNCS) </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Ongoing research and innovative projects (max. 8 pages, published in alternate proceedings by IOS Press) </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Beyond the tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2015 conference also hosts: </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Posters (max. 2 pages), to be exposed along the welcome reception on Tuesday evening</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• Workshops and panels on pertinent issues, short abstracts (2 pages), and </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• PhD colloquium submissions (max. 8 pages),</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">all to be included in the alternate proceedings published by IOS Press.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Prior to the conference (that is, on Sunday and Monday, August 30 and 31), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students with an international forum guided by senior scholars for presenting their work,
networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the conference website. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Important Dates</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• March 15, 2015—Submission of papers (hard deadline-no late submissions allowed) </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• April 15, 2015—Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• April 30, 2015—Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• May 15, 2015 — Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">• May 31, 2015—Camera-ready papers of completed research, of ongoing research/PhD colloquium papers, posters, workshop and panel descriptions</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Submission</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">All papers should be submitted to: </font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2015</a> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Track Chairs</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Øystein Sæbø, Agder University, Norway</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Program Committee</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Please check the conference website for an updated list.</font></div>
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