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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">EGOV2024 –
<i>eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation</i> </b><br>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b><i>1-5 September </i></b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.266666px; font-weight: 400; color: black;">EGOV2024 is a scientific conference dedicated to the broader areas of eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation
which include facets like Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, AI Governance, GovTech, Algoritmic Governance, and related topics to digitalization in the public sector. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Conference sessions will be hosted 3-5 September in
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the KU Leuven. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">As part of the conference, the University of Ghent hosts a PhD colloquium and a Junior Faculty School in
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1-2 September. The PhD Colloquium is a full day event on 1 September, open only for those who are admitted and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. The Junior Faculty School is a full day event on 2 September, for sharing experiences to advance the career
of young researchers interested in digitalization and government (see conference website for more information). </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Several types of submissions are possible, including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, panels,
and workshops. These submission types follow different review processes and have different publication outlets. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics and a variety of research approaches (conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group on Information Systems in Public Administration (IFIP WG 8.5) 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 emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches for researching 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></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>CONFERENCE VENUE </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">The EGOV 2024 conference is hosted by the University of Ghent and by the KU Leuven in Belgium. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">(Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 15 March 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Poster acceptance 31 May 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 3 June 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Junior Faculty School deadline for application: 3 June 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Junior Faculty School notification of acceptance: 10 June 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PhD Colloquium final version: 1 July 2024 </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2024 (in Ghent) </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Junior Faculty School: 2 September 2024 (in Ghent) </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Conference Sessions: 3-5 September 2024 (in Leuven) </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>CONFERENCE CHAIRS</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Csaba Csáki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thomas Lampoltshammer, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu University, Estonia </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gerhard Schwabe, University if Zurich, Switzerland </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anthony Simonofski, University of Namur, Belgium </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>TRACKS AT EGOV2024 </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>General eGovernment & Open Government Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
covers all eGovernment-related topics except for the special-topics tracks. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>General eDemocracy & eParticipation Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
covers 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></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">David Duenas-Cid, Kozminski University, Poland </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Digital Technologies & Sustainability Development Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black; background-color: white;">:
focuses on research related to sustainability goals.</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Iryna Susha, Utrecht University, The Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Digital Society Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
focuses on citizen-centric governance in the public sector, including digital ecosystems, digital skills and education, digital public health, digital sovereignty, as well as digital society, culture, and democracy. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thomas Lampoltshammer, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Lieselot Danneels, Ghent University, Belgium </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Emerging Issues and Innovations Track:</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> focuses
on innovation and emerging applications driven by technologies and institutional changes at all levels of government, e.g., metaverse, decentralized autonomous organizations, smart contracts, blockchain and quantum computing. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anastasija Nikiforova, Tartu University, Estonia </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium </span></li></ul>
<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
focuses on 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></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>AI Governance and its Societal Challenges
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px; color: black;"><b>Track:
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px; font-weight: 400; color: black;">focuses on the understanding of the impact of AI on society and the role of the public sector in
influencing related changes, as well as the regulation and global governance of AI itself.
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Csaba Csáki, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 107%; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.266666px; color: black;">Roel Dobbe, Delft University of Delft, The Netherlands </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 107%; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.266666px; color: black;">Gregor Eibl, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
covers all aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value including transparency, as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other technologies. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Digital and Social Media Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
focuses on social networking and knowledge sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Governance, Digital Legislation, and Policy Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
focuses on digital governance, digital legislation, regulatory reforms, and policies that shape our increasingly interconnected world, e.g., digital sovereignty, data ownership, digitization projects within government administrations, and the legal challenges
that emerge. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anna-Sophie Novak, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 107%; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.266666px; color: black;">Edimara M. Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Practitioners - Researchers Collaboration Track</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">:
This is a new track ent</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black; background-color: white;">irely devoted to presenting future or ongoing initiatives to foster collaboration
between practitioners and researchers in eGovernment. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Anthony Simonofski, University of Namur, Belgium </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ulf Melin, Linköping University, Sweden </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Francesco Mureddu, Lisbon Council, Belgium </span></li></ul>
<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>PhD Colloquium:</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> The
overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the eGovernment, eDemocracy, and eParticipation 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 published. Application required (see conference website). </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 8pt; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden </span></li></ul>
<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Junior Faculty School:</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> The
overall aim of the Junior Faculty School is to exchange experiences and build connections between young and experienced scholars interested in digitalization in the public sector. The activity is directed towards PhD students, postdoctoral-, and young researchers
who are registered for the full conference. Application required (see conference website). </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden </span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">By making a submission to the EGOV2024 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. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Please note that all accepted submissions to the EGOV2024 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 www.turnitin.com/ </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black; background-color: white;">Accepted
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Full Research papers</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black; background-color: white;"> (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 & e-Participation, ICT & Sustainable development goals, Legal Informatics, Social Media and Digital Society tracks.</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> The
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>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Accepted papers in the categories of
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Ongoing Research (</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">max.
10 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 8 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 style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" id="OWA4f2ba626-25c8-d3c0-1c21-4d9cf4716dab" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://ceur-ws.org/</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; 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></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">A special issue from conference papers is planned by the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) among other journals. 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. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">There are three different best paper awards. 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></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolivar, University of Granada, Spain </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece </span></li><li style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education, Austria </span></li></ul>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="http://dgsociety.org/egov-2024/" id="OWA875bf767-761f-0a0d-c812-dc3e377b4ce4" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://dgsociety.org/egov-2024/</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> </span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2024" id="OWAf8fa14da-3bde-b3ce-053c-c4f1bbf3ca52" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2024</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);"> </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Ida Lindgren</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">EGOV2024 Conference Chair</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">PhD., Associate Professor in
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Information</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Systems </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Research Leader for Division of Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Linköping University (LiU), Sweden</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Phone: +46 13 282669</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Email: ida.lindgren@liu.se</span></div>
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