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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Information Systems Colleague,
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please consider submitting your work to the forthcoming EGOV2023 conference on digitalization in the public sector:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">IFIP EGOV2023 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPart2023</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Budapest, Hungary</span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">5-7 September</span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The annual IFIP EGOV2023 will be hosted 5-7 September 2023 in
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Budapest</span></strong> by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. The conference focuses on e-Government, Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, GovTech, eParticipation and
e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation, Digital society, artificial intelligence, policy information, policy informatics, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible, including completed
research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. </span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Part of the conference is a PhD Colloquium, which offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research
approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods). The PhD colloquium will be held on Monday 4 September 2023.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group (WG8.5) and the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information
systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The WG8.5 emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches for information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested
in the development and impacts of digital government. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">(Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 31 March 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 20 May 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Poster acceptance 31 May 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PhD Colloquium final version: 15 July 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Conference: 5-7 September 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CONFERENCE CHAIRS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Csaba Csáki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany/Danube-University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white">
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">TRACKS AT EGOV2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">General E-Government & Open Government Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: all e-government-related topics except for
the special-topics tracks. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden (lead)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: all eParticipation-related topics except for
the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Marius Rohde Johannessen (lead), University of South-Eastern Norway</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">ICT and Sustainability Development Goals Track</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">: All research related to the UN sustainability
goals</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Society</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting
and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thomas Lampoltshammer, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging issues and innovations</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and
public sector, including public-private ecosystems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu Unversity, Estonia</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Csaba Csáki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">:
adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics and AI methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and other AI methods in the public sector.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Smart and digital Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: all aspects of smart
cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Joep Cromvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: focuses on open government data, public
big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency, as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other technologies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Digital and Social Media Track</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: Digital networking and knowledge sharing applications,
interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Legal informatics</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">: Legal, policy and execution are more and more interrelated and becoming
dominant in the government domain.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Anna-Sophie Novak, Danube University Krems, Austria
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Peter Parycek (lead), Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="DE-AT">Hun-Yeong Kwon – Korea University, South-Korea</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">PhD Colloquium:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> The overall
aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals
will not be submitted.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:-18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">By making a submission to the IFIP EGOV2023 conference you agree that your paper will not be submitted elsewhere and if accepted that the conference fee will be paid and the consent
to publish will be signed. All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please note that all accepted submissions to the IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2023 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will
make use of the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Further information about this software can be found at
<a href="http://www.turnitin.com/">www.turnitin.com/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Accepted full research papers (max. 16 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceeding’s covers the general
E-Government & Open Government, Emerging Issues and Innovations, Smart Cities, AI, Data Analytics and Automated Decision Making, and Open Data tracks, whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation, ICT & Sustainable development
goals, Legal Informatics, Social Media and Digital Society tracks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">he Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media (formerly Springer-Verlag) since 1973. The LNCS proceedings are always well-downloaded and read.<br>
Accepted papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 10 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages)
will be published (but, if desired, can be excluded) by in the CEUR-WS proceedings series (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">http://ceur-ws.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">).
The CEUR Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) is a free open-access publication service at Sun SITE Central Europe operated under the umbrella of RWTH Aachen University. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will
not be published.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">A special issue from conference papers is planned by the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). JeDEM is published online under open access and provides researchers and
practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart
special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">BEST PAPER AWARD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Each year the best papers are invited to submit to Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) and JeDEM. The best paper winners will be invited to submit their revised papers to GIQ,
the premier journal in e-government field, following a fast-track reviewing process, runners up will be invited to submit to a JeDEM special issue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">o Evangelos Kalampokis,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">University of Macedonia, Greece</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CONFERENCE VENUE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The EGOV 2023 conference is hosted by Corvinus University of Budapest. The institution offers state-of-the-art knowledge, a professional network and a secure future for its 10k+ students.
The institution builds on more than hundred years old history. Regarding numbers, the university has 120+ years of history, 10,000+ students, 1,500 international students from 80+ nationalities. The institution is reported in the Top 300 in the QS World rankings
for 2021 in the fields of Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CONTACT</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Email:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="mailto:egov2023@easychair.org"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">egov2023@easychair.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">CFP website:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV2022"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">https://easychair.org/cfp/EGOV202</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">3</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Website:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="http://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/"><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">http://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">
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