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<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>Call for Papers/Proposals</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b><i>Conference Theme</i><br>
Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>
Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs<br>
National Taiwan University</span><span style="color: black;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Taipei, Taiwan<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">June 11-14, 2024</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><i><a href="http://clicks.memberclicks-mail.net/ls/click?upn=vzlmrmuuvGSoKpx-2BdtS5RBIxzMH-2B-2FVoOMdcEJ5ASXp9FW0dQqV12thZAXiPooiUoBY5lbgYdgCOeSbzScJHx22a7xhPIsmFjAsENrfUYsou7-2BE7hqSmWJ2zofGoF5ZCsJRna_4d8cI2dLtHT7nrcCdvhv8TAVFtu4zRKADNdwhpwheis9mwtDC-2BkAm6IWyYV3cQEBEy805DsXlxNZk6YZUkRxuhxXbtdSIQLz9NCa0AJ4CaSqGl06bdZILN-2BQKOPJOfBqiCF1iDvqnzJBN0zjWOhV903nZraRXiVH6P4j-2F6w3KYDGqt5btSJA-2B85Wl27wBh30qhE03wigoWc3A1xqjhEnMAXavPKo8YEQRaEIaBAtZcxzZs5LfZ1vm-2BmNo6Q35MA44gNJUlXmtDnBHSEzMVZdTqITdTEAx0by4v7w3U-2FNRkafenBTfYFmfhAjXQ-2F7uwIp" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="OWA018ae3c8-468b-c8ff-4e0a-374d27aaebe5" class="OWAAutoLink">https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/</a></i></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Conference Website:
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"><a href="http://clicks.memberclicks-mail.net/ls/click?upn=vzlmrmuuvGSoKpx-2BdtS5RBIxzMH-2B-2FVoOMdcEJ5ASXp9FW0dQqV12thZAXiPooiUoBY5lbgYdgCOeSbzScJHx22a7xhPIsmFjAsENrfUYsou7-2BE7hqSmWJ2zofGoF5ZCsQPou_4d8cI2dLtHT7nrcCdvhv8TAVFtu4zRKADNdwhpwheis9mwtDC-2BkAm6IWyYV3cQEBEy805DsXlxNZk6YZUkRxuhxXbtdSIQLz9NCa0AJ4CaSqGl06bdZILN-2BQKOPJOfBqiCF1iDvqnzJBN0zjWOhV903nZraRXiVH6P4j-2F6w3KYCu3mbbV67dEl-2BOqr7I7W4-2BRdCDVdRwZJ0W1w4zTWY8uOblgVGQyONkT-2FhInnvWZPyVh3Mr2OVChn2wX3UdkR5730DZeg0oUdoXadUwn4YNLYwSW4PrV06QgFqXfbMInia7QF06AyjCbXwPQIq1iF-2BA" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="OWAed056d49-d50d-ac50-57e1-13b9a26cfa8b" class="OWAAutoLink">https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/</a></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Submissions:
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://clicks.memberclicks-mail.net/ls/click?upn=vzlmrmuuvGSoKpx-2BdtS5RBIxzMH-2B-2FVoOMdcEJ5ASXp9FW0dQqV12thZAXiPooiUoBY5lbgYdgCOeSbzScJHx22a7xhPIsmFjAsENrfUYsouqT-2BApACukvc8H9d50EvPcz1cl_4d8cI2dLtHT7nrcCdvhv8TAVFtu4zRKADNdwhpwheis9mwtDC-2BkAm6IWyYV3cQEBEy805DsXlxNZk6YZUkRxuhxXbtdSIQLz9NCa0AJ4CaSqGl06bdZILN-2BQKOPJOfBqiCF1iDvqnzJBN0zjWOhV903nZraRXiVH6P4j-2F6w3KYDw379BFn4eVL-2Fc5JtsfPXDsgblMwiTUt5gPu-2FFkwAMRf6Rhovred-2Fj8iMWfhdLaqULk3dMRUPxf39X4mi0BRf2rp9EkgIJMM8u-2BS6hxJg0ID9HWby93AHuZQWCwcMb5MbvzoIiFaTNEOS0ZJmfTOEl" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="OWAafb47cdd-1f32-2d33-953b-b51e096aac98" class="OWAAutoLink">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research - dg.o 2024, with the theme "<b>Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance</b>" in Taipei, Taiwan on June 11-14, 2024.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The conference’s main host is the Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public
Affairs, College of Social Sciences, at the National Taiwan University. The conference is also co-hosted by the Department of Public Administration at the National Chengchi University, the Department of Public Administration at the Chung Hua University, and
the Taipei City Government.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary
research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year, the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory
and practice, their focus on important and timely topics, and the quality of their writing.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>THEME & TRACK TOPICS:</b> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> (dg.o
2024) will feature the main theme of "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>.</b>" The
conference's central theme – the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable integration, are people-centric, and the creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products. Especially, the post-COVID-19
has forced government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways to deliver services. The workforce shifts to remote working partially or entirely; agencies reconfigure services and the supply chains according to uncertain demand; agencies
create new services for addressing delivery needs in both the public and private sectors. Digital technologies played an essential role in enabling these changes. However, adoption in the public sector needs to be more cohesive.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hence, the dg.o 2024 conference can help bridge the 'digital' gaps among different sectors in various countries
and regions. Further, the theme of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid intelligence, blockchain, open platforms, the internet of things (IoT), wearable devices,
big data, etc., have long been experienced holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will serve as a catalyst and bring a greater focus on integration, collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize topics that showcase
new technologies and help pinpoint where governments can achieve the most significant value.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">January 26, 2024: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Feb 15, 2024: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 8, 2024: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 10, 2024: Posters and demo proposals due</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 15, 2024: Poster/demo author notifications</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 22, 2024: Author registrations are due</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 15, 2024: Doctoral colloquium notification</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 31, 2024: Paper revision due (straight to TAPS)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">March 31, 2024: Early registration closes (this is only on the website)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">April 01, 2024: Regular registration begins</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">April 30, 2024: ACM Copyrights approval and TAPS due)</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 1. Algorithmic Bureaucracy<br>
</b><i>Track Chairs: Hsini Huang (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Matt Young (Leiden University, the Netherlands) & Don-Yun Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)</i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The track delves into the transformative landscape shaped by the integration of emerging digital technologies, such as artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, within diverse governmental domains. This track takes a process-oriented perspective to understand the nuanced and profound impacts of data-driven and algorithm-intensive governance in public organizations.
While concerns about fairness and discrimination in algorithm-assisted decision-making are evident, this track also addresses the potential for algorithms to mitigate human limitations and enhance administrative efficiency. By exploring the transition from
traditional Weberian bureaucracy to a system-augmented algorithmic bureaucracy, the track aims to decipher the intricate dynamics underpinning this evolution. Understanding the interplay between human and algorithmic capabilities becomes crucial as autonomous
intelligent agents play a pivotal role in public organizations. This track aims to discuss the macro-level conditions, meso-level adaptations, and micro-level human competency improvements, propelling a dynamic and comprehensive dialogue on the future of human-AI
collaboration in government.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><br>
<b>TRACK 2. Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector<br>
</b><i>Track Chairs: Sehl Mellouli (Université Laval, Canada), Marijn Janssen (Delft University, the Netherlands) & Adegboyega Ojo (Carleton University, Canada)</i></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The pace of AI adoption in governments has continued to grow at different levels of government and across different domains including
in particular social protection and welfare, public order and safety, environmental and natural resource protection, health, pubic services, housing and education. However, the emergence and rapid diffusion of generative AI applications in society has led
to a growing consensus for developing better AI safety practices and the need for comprehensive regulatory policies to address potential threats that these new AI applications pose to citizens. In response, there is a growing stock of AI Governance frameworks
and tools to support not only AI developers but also AI practitioners in government organisations to ensure the responsible development and deployment of AI in transforming public services and policymaking. However, empirical studies of government use of AI
technologies are sparse. Hence, the purpose of this track is to investigate how AI is being developed, implemented and adopted in governments at different levels, what AI is adding to governments, how the institutional contexts are shaping AI use in government,
and how to ensure that AI adoption in government remains safe and beneficial to the public at large.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><br>
<b>TRACK 3. Beyond Bureaucracy & e-Anarchy: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Alois Paulin (University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany), Robert
Müller-Török (University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany & Austrian Computer Society, Austria) & Zach Bastick (Harvard University, USA & University of Oxford, UK)</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The “Beyond Bureaucracy” track explores innovations in e-government and e-democracy that place the citizen at
the center of governance. While traditional lines of inquiry at the intersection of politics and technology focus on enhancing or supporting existing political institutions, there is an underexplored opportunity for citizens to use technology to shape the
public sphere and to control government more directly. Internet optimists have long anticipated new, digital models of self-governance, including representative, direct, liquid, anarchic models. Critics have argued that technology cannot safely or desirably
support greater citizen involvement. This track covers all aspects of direct, futuristic, radical, exploratory, and critical approaches to digital governance. These include the (un)desirability of using technology to support citizen self-governance; challenges
to self-governance through technology; theoretical and empirical proposals; assessments of technologies to support governance; the impact of developing digital phenomena on self-governance (misinformation, bots, digital collective intelligence); and the ethical,
technological, social, and political implications of existing and potential future models of public governance. The track also welcomes research and case studies on the innovative uses of technologies by NGOs and other non-government actors. The “Beyond Bureaucracy”
track serves as a platform for pro/contra deliberations on the near and distant challenges and potentials of e-democracy.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 4. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans, Crowds, and Machines</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Lisa Hohensinn (Institute for Public Management and Governance, Austria), Seok-Jin Eom (Seoul National University,
South Korea) & Helen K. Liu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The collaborative intelligence track aims to investigate how human, crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance public
services and policies, such as healthcare services, citizen-government communication, bias and discretion reduction, smart city planning, etc. However, while the adoption of AI may enhance the citizens’ participation experience, there are potential ethical
issues and implementation challenges in designing an optimal collaborative intelligence that includes both human collective intelligence and artificial intelligence. The collaborative intelligence track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly
papers that explore the interactions of human, crowd, and/or machine. Possible topics include strategies for collaborative intelligence or platforms in the public sector, designs for machine and human interaction in public services or policy making, comparisons
of outputs and bias from AI, experts, and/or collective intelligence, values in collaborative intelligence management and governance, best practices of collaborative intelligence in the public sector, ethical concerns or guidelines for applying collective
intelligence, or other similar topics and relevant approaches.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 5. Computational Methods for Data-driven Governance</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Loni Hagen (University of South Florida, USA), Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece),
David Valle-Cruz (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México), Shefali Virkar (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) & Kellyton Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)</i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track is for papers that use computational methods in the domain of digital government. We welcome technical
or behavioral studies that include computational approaches to scrutinize, analyze, model, and simulate social phenomena, to provide services to citizens, and to make data-driven decisions.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">For this year's theme, we welcome papers related to empirical studies that include computational methods and/or
big data to enable and enhance human interactions to co-create public services and products. In addition, we are open to other technical studies to develop new models and tools to enhance governments' service delivery, and to bring methodological innovations.
We also welcome studies adopting design science approach to develop and evaluate technical artifacts, or studies reporting best practices of using artificial intelligence and machine learning for government practice and research.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 6. Cybersecurity Concerns and Solutions in the age of Internet of Beings</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Sukumar Ganapati (Florida International University, USA) & Kevin D’Souza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)</i></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track relates to the emerging cybersecurity concerns and their solutions in the context of the DGO conference’s theme, Internet
of Beings. While the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that are people-centric with open platforms for collaboration, they also need to be safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The benefits of various digital technologies, including AI, IoT, blockchain,
wearables, and big data can be compromised if these cybersecurity solutions do not get adequate attention. Generative AI, for example, has got much public attention for being biased, lacking authenticity, and simulating human beings in counterproductive ways
for public good and even being criminalized. As public agencies transform their operations from face to face work schedules to work from anywhere, they face increased challenges of how to deliver public services effectively. The challenges are not only traditional
viruses and ransomware demands, but also false narratives with the mimicry of human beings. Organizations need to be resilient and maintain their operations. Robustness even calls for organizations to be more proactive and sensitive to a range of perturbations
from a security perspective. This track will examine the emerging pedagogical, public policy, and organizational dimensions of cybersecurity problems and solutions in this human context of being connected in the digital world. What should public and nonprofit
managers do? What are the organizational guidelines to work in this environment? What are the pro and reactive policies that governments could take? How can we design resilient and robust organizations? We invite papers that broadly deal with these questions
in the context of public and nonprofit organizations.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 7. Data-Driven Services in Government for Evidence-Based Policy and Public Value</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Hsien-Lee Tseng (National University of Tainan, Taiwan) & Magdalena Ciesielska (Gdañsk University
of Technology, Poland)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The Data-Driven Services in Government track aims to investigate how public sectors can complement services
and policies through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and all kinds of data, such as open data, big data, and linked data, etc. In 2019, the U.S. launched OPEN Government Data Act, taking a step further on implementation of open government
data. The other important aspect is how to benefit from government data openness. Creating value from government data is of particular importance to many stakeholders, including governments, private sector, and citizens. But explaining how government data
contribute to public value creation has also become a challenge. The Data-Driven Services in Government track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate scholarly papers that explore the interactions of data application, data governance, and/or data
policy, as well as data and public value. Possible topics include strategies for government open data sharing, data-driven services, data principles, value of data identification, creation and assessment, and best practices of public and private sector collaboration
on data implementation, or other similar topics and relevant approaches.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 8. Digital Democracy & AI</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Takayuki Ito (Kyoto University, Japan), Jawad Haqbeen (Kyoto University, Japan), Sofia Sahab
(Kyoto University, Japan) & Kwei Jay Lin (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The Digital Democracy & AI track aims to investigate how crowd, and machine can complement each other to enhance
meaningful augmented participatory democratic approaches, such as citizen-government collaborative communication and planning, smart city planning, etc. However, while the adoption of AI may enhance the citizens’ participation experience, there are potential
ethical issues and implementation challenges in designing an optimal collaborative intelligence that includes both human collective intelligence and artificial intelligence. The Digital Democracy & AI track invites researchers and practitioners to accumulate
scholarly papers that explore the literature in four distinct areas: (i) the design and application of AI tools on enhancing democracy as a meaningful conversation; (ii) the design of collaborative planning and decision-making support methodologies and tools
in digital social platforms; (iii) the importance of experiments in democracy and its social impact; and (iv) the ethical concerns or guidelines for applying AI-assisted tools, or other similar technologies and relevant approaches in data and democracy.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 9. Digital Government and Sustainable Development Goals</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Rony Medaglia (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Iryna Susha (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
& Jolien Ubacht (TU Delft, the Netherlands)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including
public opinion, policy, and research. The 17 SDGs, detailed in 169 targets, have an ambition of linking separate goals of sustainable development across different areas, into a unitary vision. The main consequence of this new vision has been to move the focus
beyond the individual instances of e.g., environmental impacts of human activities, or economic inequalities, and to link them in a coherent system within the framework of the Agenda for the Sustainable Development 2030.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Digital government can act as enabler to sustainability, equity and social inclusion and it represents a cross-cutting
objective across several SDGs at both sectoral and horizontal level, with a crucial importance in particular for the goal 16 that aims to ´Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective,
accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels´.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track invites contributions focusing on the potential benefits and challenges of digital government in
supporting the achievement of SDGs and the role of digital technologies to sustain policy developments at both horizontal and sectoral level, including in particular the impact on democratic innovation and institutional reforms of governance systems. We invite
studies on the design, management and evaluation of policies and implementation of digital government strategies in relation to the UN SDGs at global, national and local level. Papers that can combine methodological rigor with practical relevance and policy
implications are particularly welcome.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 10. Digital Government, Solidarity and Social Cohesion</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: David Duenas-Cid (Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland), Elsa Estevez (Universidad Nacional
del Sur and National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET, Argentina) & Tomasz Janowski (Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland and Danube University Krems, Austria)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Solidarity helps creating common objectives, interests, and unity of action, fostering social cohesion and collaboration
embodying human rights, active citizenship, inclusion, equity, empathy, and ethics, being one of the missions of Governments to build solidarity and social cohesion. Digitizing government adds new layers of complexity to this relation can scale up the positive
and the negative impact of government on solidarity, and, in the latter case, undermine its own efficacy. On the other hand, solidarity can enhance digital government by triggering technological innovation, e.g., create tools to help vulnerable citizens during
a crisis, or become a goal for such innovation, e.g., foster more equitable distribution of resources. The relationship between government, technology and solidarity is rich and intense and this track aims to bring together cases and reflections on the relation
between solidarity and digital government.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 11. Digital Government: Bachelor and Master Student Track</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Bettina Distel (University of Münster, Germany), Hendrik Scholta, (University of Münster, Germany)
& Chung-Pin Lee (The National Taipei University, Taiwan)</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track addresses Bachelor and Master students and encourages them to submit and present their work at the
conference. With this format, we aim to provide students with a first-hand experience of how research works and deepen their interest in academia. We want to attract the original work of students, facilitate a constructive and developmental double-blind peer-review
process, and subsequent publication of their works. In contrast to the general research tracks, students will be the first authors of the papers in this track and present their work at the conference. We encourage supervisors to act as co-authors to ensure
a scientifically guided paper development process. All topics in the area of digital government are welcome. For exemplary topics, please take a look at the topics listed in the other tracks. We are open to all conceptual and empirical papers that use all
kinds of research methods. This track gives Bachelor and Master students the opportunity to actively contribute to the digital government community.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 12. Digital Platform Government and Core Public Values</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Jooho Lee (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) & Wookjoon Sung, (Seoul National University
of Science and Technology, South Korea)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The concept of a digital platform government can be traced back to the UK's GOV.UK and the Obama administration's
Open Government Initiative. There is no agreed-upon definition of the concept, so it is more productive to compare it with similar concepts. The digital platform government differs from e-government by focusing on process innovation and being a public-private
partnership service model. It emphasizes active participation of stakeholders and the use of intelligent technologies. Both the digital platform government and e-government models emphasize online citizen participation, but the digital platform government
allows citizens to have a more active role in government decision-making. The core public values pursued by the digital platform government include efficiency, accountability, fairness, participation, collaboration, transparency, narrowing the digital divide,
and digital equity. The digital platform government is operated in various forms depending on its purpose or the role of the government. Scholars have proposed various types of digital platforms based on their purposes and the role of the government. With
this broad understanding about digital platform government, we invite papers that explore the relationship between various digital platform government practices and core public values.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 13. Digital Transformation in Governments</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza (CTG SUNY & IDB, Brazil),</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Thiago José Tavares Ávila (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil), Maria</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Alexandra Cunha (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Digital transformation has become an essential part of the government’s strategic agenda, both at national and
sub-national levels. Such governments seek to offer services through digital platforms with integrated citizen identification systems, digitization of governmental processes, with respect to the privacy of personal data, and digital inclusion of the most vulnerable
population. However, digital transformation initiatives at the subnational level tend to present specific aspects when compared to national initiatives. On the one hand, this track highlights the challenges faced by subnational digital transformation initiatives
in the public sector, as well as national governments that have acted to develop and integrate national digital transformation considering subnational aspects. On the other hand, it seeks to understand the capacities supporting digital transformation at the
subnational level. The track’s objectives are: a) to identify real-world examples/cases of digital transformation projects at the subnational levels (states, regions, territories, provinces, municipalities, etc.); b) discuss the challenges to developing a
digital and integrated government considering national and subnational aspects, especially in federative countries; c) seek to explain these cases in the context of existing or new theoretical frameworks, and, d) create actionable recommendations for researchers,
professional developers, and digital government practitioners at the national and sub-national level.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 14. Exploring the Impact of Open Government Initiatives: Transparency, Participation, and Governance Transformation</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Hsin Chung Liao (National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan) & Jean-Pierre Auffret (George Mason University & International
Academy of CIO, USA)</i></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">In recent years, the concept of open government has gained significant attention as governments worldwide strive to enhance transparency,
engage citizens, and modernize governance practices. The "Impact of Open Government" track aims to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders to delve into the multifaceted effects of open government initiatives. By examining
the outcomes and implications of transparency, public participation, and the transformation of governance structures, this track seeks to foster a comprehensive understanding of open government's broader societal, political, and economic impacts.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 15. Government Cyberinfrastructure and Platforms for Discovery and Innovation</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Richard Knepper (Cornell University, USA), Kerk Kee (Texas Tech University, USA) & Yu-Che Chen (University of Nebraska
Omaha, USA)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Cyberinfrastructure—high performance and cloud computing, networks, storage, software, and the people who build
and use these systems—represents a strategic investment for nations in order to pursue and achieve policy goals. Cyberinfrastructure drives the research and innovation that supports both basic and applied science, catalyzing industry and increasing productivity
in private enterprises, as well as providing analysis, modeling and simulations for weather prediction, resource availability, public health research, and other critical elements that affect citizens’ lives. Government policies around infrastructure investments
for support of research and development are a major factor in support of cyberinfrastructure that provides these functions. This track examines the policy initiatives that stimulate the development of cyberinfrastructure at the national level, models for supporting
computational research and innovation, the development of next generation technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, cooperative ventures such as the United States National Strategic Computing Reserve, the collaborative organizations
that develop, implement, and maintain cyberinfrastructure, and the outcomes of cyberinfrastructure projects that impact the safety, well-being, productivity, and health of citizens.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 16. Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Government</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Fadi Salem (Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, UAE), Gianluca Misuraca (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain & Technology Diplomacy and International Relations of Inspiring Futures, Switzerland) & Theresa A. Pardo (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track includes research papers that critically examine the adoption and impact of Generative AI in government
functions, policies, and public engagement. Its research papers provide in-depth examination of the associated challenges, ethical considerations, and regulatory and policy frameworks associated with the expanding applications of generative AI in government.
Given its rapidly emerging transformations, the track aims to bridge research discussing potential theoretical underpinnings of generative AI implications for government, as well as research addressing practitioners’ experiences with generative AI in public
governance. The themes included in this track are grouped in two pillars: 1) Research on the potential benefits of generative AI for government, such as its ability to improve policy making efficiency, personalize service delivery by tailoring services to
individual needs and preferences through autonomous agents, enhance public engagement by providing citizens with a more interactive and engaging way to participate in government and receive services. 2) Research exploring the risks of generative AI in government
settings, such as its potential to generate faulty information, being misused in citizen-government power dynamics, socio-economic impact, such as automation and job loss in public sector jobs, safeguarding against algorithmic bias, discrimination, abuse of
power, among other ethical considerations of using generative AI in government, such as questions of transparency, inclusion, trust in government and accountability. Moreover, the track seeks comparative research papers that explore the emerging global policy
interventions as well as legal and regulatory frameworks for governing generative AI in government settings. Finally, the track seeks research papers contextually examining generative AI application within diverse geographies, government settings and societal
structures.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 17. Increasing citizen engagement and active citizenship through digital government</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Edimara M. Luciano (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Gabriela V. Pereira (University
for Continuing Education Krems, Austria) & Carmine Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)</i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Citizen engagement has been mentioned as a barrier in several research focused on collecting more benefits from digital government
strategies. Making public institutions open and transparent, and generating public value is a massive challenge that cannot prescind citizens’ participation in the process of thinking, discussing, modeling, approving, implementing, and evaluating public services
and solutions. Consultation and participation processes have been bringing governments and society closer. However, there are new challenges to face, significantly in times when the trust of society in governments is compromised in many parts of the world
and misinformation and disinformation issues are arising. Consequently, it is paramount to advance on understanding of engagement as an institutional, structural, social, cultural, and political phenomenon, as well as the individual cognitive process to decide
to get involved at all levels, from town to nationwide public management discussion. This track focuses on discussing citizen engagement through active participation of citizens in the public discussion aiming at improving digital public services and digital
government impact.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 18. Information Processing and Governance in the Digital Era</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Kwan Nok Chan (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jung Eun Kim (Konkuk University, South Korea) & Terry van Gevelt
(Singapore Management University, Singapore)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Digital technologies have vastly expanded our capacity to collect, manage, and analyze large amounts of high-resolution
and instantaneous data about people's habits, preferences, and behaviors. Because their application entails extensive automation and surveillance, they have the potential to fundamentally reshape the nature of governance in a wide range of public service scenarios.
For example, the transition to digital solutions can make it more difficult to assign accountability in public policy and undercut current privacy protection practices. It can also change the incentives for frontline officers in client interactions and transfer
effective control over community decisions to private, often for-profit, contractors. This track invites scholarly papers that examine similar opportunities and challenges arising from digital technologies and assess the regulatory strategies policymakers
have developed or should adopt in response. Relevant topics include algorithmic bias and mitigation, surveillance designs, biometric data management, data silo integration, and information commons.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 19. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Value Creation of Digital Government</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Luis F. Luna-Reyes (University at Albany, USA), Jing Zhang (Clark University, USA), Chris Hinnant (Florida State
University, USA) & Michael Ahn (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)</i></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The adoption and implementation of new ICTs by public organizations have been influenced by organizational factors such as the availability
of resources (i.e. funding, infrastructure, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust, stakeholder involvement, organization’s structure and culture, as well as inter-organizational dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICTs in government and
society has generated important impacts on the organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations, as well as the new governance structure of the government and the societal impacts. This track solicits research that examines
the organizational factors that influence the adoption and implementation, and investigate the impacts, especially the value creation, of new and emerging innovative technologies such as smart city, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, open data,
social media, citizen-centric technologies, and other novel technologies. Furthermore, this track seek research contribute the theories and practices of the adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to facilitate the strategic use of various ICTs
by public organizations.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Thessaly, Greece) & Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living of local communities through data-driven
innovations to “improve” information services, transactions, and socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data collection, powerful cloud-based data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine Learning models that are the backbone
of the city transformations and innovations. While the initial focuses on the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we also need smart city initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be sustainable, with advanced and self-evolved
public services, with engaged communities and responsible private sector innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI, metaverse using VR and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for future smart cities where
people’s experience and engagement will be the center of innovations.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in the era of “Citiverse”, smart city in the
metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as public good</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging, equitable, fair, responsible, resilient,
and sustainable services in response to the people’s needs and</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart city research and practices</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the people-centricity topic such as</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the CitiVerse era etc. Findings can range from ideations,
theories/design models, implementation cases, and to evaluation studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people’s engagement, experience, diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming potential risks from unresponsible application
of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely for smart city, and addresses this year’s topic for co-designed and people-centric public services in the era of metaverse.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 21. Social Media and Government</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><i>Track chairs: Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México), J. Ignacio Criado (Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid, Spain) & Nadzeya Sabatini (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The potential of social media and government maintains its growing interest for scholars and managers in parallel
with the evolution of technologies and advances in the field. As it has been experienced during the last years, this area of digital government research is one of the most dynamic including the attention to new audiences, metrics, platforms, uses, and regarding
evolving every year. During the last years, we have learned about the risks for governments and political institutions using social media. At the same time innovation capabilities have emerge from the last evolutions of social media and government. Among other
issues, TikTok or virtual reality, and other social platforms and areas have abruptly emerged as global players in the entertainment sector, promoting government and other actors to engage with new audiences and social groups. Besides, some political and public
institutions challenges remain in process of evolution. Here, some of the key aspects include polarization of the public sphere, growing claims about the potential harm of social media for our democratic communities, or the potential limitations of institutional
communications with citizens because of the lack of trained human resources and government specialists. For this year's theme, we especially will welcome papers related to the conference's central theme – the Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies
that enable integration, are people-centric, and the creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create services and products. Particularly, the post-COVID-19 has forced government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways
to deliver services, and this is especially important using social media technologies. In addition, we are open to other aspects of governments' service delivery and social media, including theoretical and conceptual advancements, methodological and data innovations,
or case and practical implications coming from diverse contexts. We will welcome papers on both traditional and emerging issues, including opportunities, risks, and policies in public services delivery in cross-national contexts, social media motivations to
use and audiences, political mobilizations and polarization, social media contents and sentiment analysis, fake news, artificial intelligence and algorithms-based systems and virtual agents in government, instant messaging apps in government, entertainment
platforms for political engagement, or social media for crisis and emergency management. Also, we will continue working on including exciting research questions, rigorous empirical studies, and in-depth case studies to enrich the theories, research methods,
data, and available cases and practical applications in this research area.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK 22. Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems<br>
</b><i>Track Chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu, Estonia), Anthony Simonofski (Université de Namur ASBL, Belgium), Anneke Zuiderwijk (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) & Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (University of Granada, Spain)</i></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Public and open data ecosystems promise the transformation of government data-driven actions, the fostering of public sector innovations
and the collaborative smartification of cities, society and life, triggering value-adding sustainable development goals-compliant smart living and society 5.0. New research is needed to help public managers and politicians for (1) implementing emerging technologies
and technological innovations, (2) improving the achievement of sustainable development goals for increasing transparency, participation, and cooperation, and (3) meeting the stakeholders’ expectations, needs, regulations and demands. This track welcomes contributions
covering, but not limited to:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- The concepts of theoretical approaches toward Public Data ecosystems, Open Data ecosystems, Data Spaces, and Data Marketplaces;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- Infrastructures supporting Public and Open Data Ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- The role of emerging technologies in Public and Open Data ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- Institutional aspects of implementing sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- Other sustainability dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- Stakeholder-centric dimensions of Public and Open Data Ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- Case studies of Public and Open Data Ecosystems;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">- The impact of Public and Open Data Ecosystems on Individuals, Organizations and Society.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Workshops are half- or full-day facilitated discussions. Short presentations by workshop participants typically
stimulate discussions. Individuals proposing workshops will be responsible for identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and conducting workshop activities. Tutorials are half-day or full-day presentations or hands-on experiences offering deeper
insight into the scientific or government domains, research topics or methods, technologies, or field experiences of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>Panels</b><br>
Panel discussion proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that spotlight practice and application. Proposals from practitioners at all levels of government featuring experiences
with, perspectives on, and evaluations of digital government practice are encouraged. Individuals interested in submitting panel proposals are invited to consult the program co-chairs about their ideas before developing their submissions.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>Posters and System Demonstrations</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research
in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>Doctoral Colloquium</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">The doctoral colloquium is a full-day and highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and
discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>PUBLICATIONS</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">All accepted research, management, or policy papers and panel, poster, and system demonstration descriptions
will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM Press and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. Workshop and tutorial descriptions can also be published in the conference proceedings, depending on the authors, and decided
by the program chairs.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to the special issues of
various journals. Several special issues are considered in relation to the conference, including with:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Government Information Quarterly</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Digital Government: Research and Practice</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Transforming Government: People, Process, Policy</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">International Journal of E-Government Research</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Information Polity</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">International Journal of E-Planning Research</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age</span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>BEST PAPER AWARDS</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in four categories:</span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">research category,</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">management and policy category, and</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">poster category</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">reflected and related to the local context on Taipei city (sponsored by the Taipei City Government)</span></li></ul>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Selection criteria for awards include:</span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work,</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance),</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">the importance and reach of the topic, and</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">the quality of writing and communicating the work to a broad audience.</span></li></ul>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS</b></span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Research papers </span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Management, Case Study, or Policy papers</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Panel descriptions</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Posters</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">System demonstrations</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Pre-Conference tutorial proposals</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Pre-Conference workshop proposals</span></li><li style="line-height: 10.5pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Doctoral colloquium application</span></li></ul>
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“submission guidelines”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Research, Management, Case Study, and Policy papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process.
Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review process. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">All other submissions should use ACM proceedings submission template but include author names. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work.
</b>At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the work. All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered for the conference for it to be included in the conference proceedings. The authors of more than two papers
can register for and present at most two co-authored papers. Some other co-author registration and presentation are required from the third paper onwards.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Research papers - blind review:
</i></b>Research papers present innovative digital government research results in the form of formal scholarly papers. Papers on any digital government topic and using any research methodology are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or
policies must be explicit. Research papers are limited to approximately 8,000 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Management, case study, or policy papers - blind review:
</i></b>Management or policy papers describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Management or policy papers
are limited to approximately 5,000 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Panels:
</i></b>Panel proposals should include information about the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees, and how well-suited
the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone numbers of the
contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). Panel proposals are limited to approximately 1,300 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Posters:</i></b><i>
</i>Poster summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Posters prepared for the conference should measure 36″ x 48″. Each poster station will be provided with a table
and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. Poster summaries are limited to approximately 1,300 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>System Demonstrations:</i></b><i>
</i>System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to accompany good food and professional fellowship. The 1-2 page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o
attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should include authors’ names and contact information according to that format. Each station has a table, an easel, and Internet
access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions. System demonstration summaries are limited to approximately 1,300 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Pre-conference Tutorials</i>:</b> Tutorials are half-day or full-day presentations offering deeper insight
into digital government research, practice, methodologies, technologies, or field experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good practices, research strategies, uses of specific technologies such as social media, and other insights into digital
government that would benefit researchers and practitioners. Tutorial proposals are limited to approximately 1,300 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Pre-conference Workshops</i>:</b> Workshops are half-day or full-day events intended to offer interactive
sessions in which the workshop host and participants discuss and engage in activities designed to facilitate joint learning and further exploration of a particular subject. We seek workshop proposals on any e-government research or management topic. The proponents
will be responsible for identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and conducting workshop activities. Workshop proposals are limited to approximately 1,300 words.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b><i>Doctoral Colloquium</i>:</b> The doctoral colloquium is a highly interactive full-day forum in which Ph.D.
students meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. Ph.D. students can submit papers describing their planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering
any research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally, student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal idea and preliminary findings but have yet to reach
the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this study stage to gain the most value from feedback on their work and the more general discussions of doctoral programs and scholarly careers. See the detailed announcement for complete information
on the colloquium and how to apply. The material provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However, we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo. Doctoral
colloquium applications are limited to approximately ten pages, not including references, tables, and figures.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><br>
<b>CONFERENCE CHAIRS</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jing Zhang, Clark University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Edimara Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>PROGRAM CHAIRS</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hsin-Chung Liao, National Chengchi University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">David Duenas Cid, Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Marie Anne Macadar, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Flavia Bernardini, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>TRACK CHAIRS</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Michael Ahn, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Charalampos (Harris) Alexopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jean-Pierre Auffret, George Mason University/ International Academy of CIO, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Thiago José Tavares Ávila, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Zach Bastick, Harvard University, USA & University of Oxford, UK</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Carmine Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Manuel Pedro Rodríguez, Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Kellyton Brito, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Kwan Nok Chan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Don-Yun Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Magdalena Ciesielska, Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Kevin D’Souza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Bettina Distel, University of Münster, Germany</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">David Duenas-Cid, Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Seok-Jin Eom, Seoul National University, South Korea</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur and National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET, Argentina</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Terry van Gevelt, Singapore Management University, Singapore</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Loni Hagen, University of South Florida, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jawad Haqbeen, Kyoto University, Japan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Lisa Hohensinn, Institute for Public Management and Governance, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hsini Huang, Leiden University,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(31, 31, 31);">the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Tomasz Janowski, Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland, & Danube University Krems, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Marijn Janssen, Delft University,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(31, 31, 31);">the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Kerk Kee, Texas Tech University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jung Eun Kim, Konkuk University, South Korea</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Richard Knepper, Cornell University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Beatriz Barreto Brasileiro Lanza, CTG SUNY & IDB, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Chung-Pin Lee, The National Taipei University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jooho Lee, University of Nebraska at Omaha, U.S., USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hsin Chung Liao, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Kwei Jay Lin, Chang Gung University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Helen K. Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Edimara M. Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Luis F. Luna-Reyes, University at Albany, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Sehl Mellouli, Université Laval, Canada</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain & Technology Diplomacy and International Relations of Inspiring Futures,
Switzerland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Robert Müller-Török, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany, and Austrian Computer Society, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Anastasija Nikiforova, University of Tartu, Estonia</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Adegboyega Ojo, Carleton University, Canada</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Theresa A. Pardo, University at Albany, SUNY, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Alois Paulin, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Gabriela V. Pereira, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Nadzeya Sabatini, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Sofia Sahab, Kyoto University, Japan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Fadi Salem, MBR School of Government, UAE</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hendrik Scholta, University of Münster, Germany</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Anthony Simonofski, Université de Namur ASBL, Namur, Belgium</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Iryna Susha, Utrecht University,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(31, 31, 31);">the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Hsien-Lee Tseng, National University of Tainan, Taiwan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jolien Ubacht, TU Delft, the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Shefali Virkar, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Matt Young, Leiden University,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(31, 31, 31);">the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Jing Zhang, Clark University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology,
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: rgb(31, 31, 31);">the Netherlands</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Catherine L. Dumas, Simmons University, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">David Valle-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Nina Rizun, Gdañsk University of Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CHAIRS</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, SUNY, USA</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;"><b>FINANCE CHAIR</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%; color: black;">Mila Gasco, University at Albany, SUNY, USA</span></p>
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