[AISWorld] ICEGOV2012 Second Call for Submissions - 6th International Confer ence on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 22-25 October 2012, Albany, New York, United States.

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ICEGOV2012

6th International Conference on

Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

22 - 25 October 2012, Albany, New York, www.icegov.org

SECOND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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IMPORTANT DATES

First Submission Deadline - 2 April 2012

Notification Deadline - 8 June 2012

Financial Support Application Deadline - 22 June 2012

Financial Support Announcements - 29 June 2012

Final Submission Deadline - 6 July 2012

Author Registration Deadline - 22 August 2012

CONFERENCE PATRON

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

CONFERENCE SERIES ORGANIZER

UNU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance, Macao SAR, China

PUBLICATIONS

- Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, planned to be
published, as in previous years, by ACM Press.

- Selected papers will appear in a special issue of Government Information
Quarterly, published by Elsevier.

CONTACT

Email: icegov at icegov.org

URL: www.icegov.org

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1. INTRODUCTION

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Worldwide, governments are wrestling with a wide range of social and
political challenges and are looking to innovations in technology, in the
institutions of government and in the interactions between government and
citizens to help them meet these challenges. Serving citizens efficiently
and effectively, engaging interested parties in decision making, and
creating sustainable economies, are among the many ways innovations in
policy and practice can directly impact the public value created from any
Electronic Governance investment. To justify continued or new investments in
Electronic Governance, decision makers must increasingly provide evidence
that the innovations they are supporting create public value. 

This year's conference program calls attention to the role of openness in
fostering transparency, participation, accountability and smarter
government. In addition, ICEGOV encourages participants to push thinking on
measurement and evaluation beyond current models and techniques and to pay
particular attention to the ways research and practice can effectively align
Electronic Governance initiatives with major policy programs to ultimately
provide value to citizens.

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
(ICEGOV) series focuses on the use of technology to transform relationships
between government and citizens, businesses, civil society and other arms of
government (Electronic Governance). The Series looks beyond the traditional
focus on technology-enabled transformation in government (Electronic
Government), towards establishing foundations for good governance and for
sustainable development.

The 2012 edition of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of
Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2012) welcomes research and practice
submissions that directly address this theme or generally contribute to
strengthening the foundations of the electronic governance domain through
the development of theories, methods, techniques, or tools.

The Series, established in 2007, brings together practitioners, developers
and researchers from government, academia, industry, and non-governmental
(NGO) and international organizations to share the latest in theory and
practice of Electronic Governance. After five successful conferences, Macao
(ICEGOV2007), Cairo (ICEGOV2008), Bogota (ICEGOV2009) Beijing (ICEGOV2010)
and Tallinn (ICEGOV2011), ICEGOV has established itself as one of the
leading venues for knowledge exchange among researchers, practitioners, and
policy makers.

1) A Global Conference - ICEGOV consistently attracts submissions from more
than 50 countries, with up to 60% representation from developing and
transition countries.

2) A Multi-Stakeholder Conference - ICEGOV is well attended by all major
stakeholders of technology-enabled innovation in government: government,
academia, industry and NGOs.

3) A Networking Conference - ICEGOV brings participation from across
thematic, national, and development borders, with common interests in
transformational use of technology in government.

4) A Research and Practice Conference - ICEGOV includes a healthy balance of
research-, practice- and solution-related work - looking at technology, at
the processes surrounding its implementation and management, or at the wider
context of Electronic Governance.

5) A Capacity Building Conference - ICEGOV features a rich program of
invited talks, sessions, tutorials, workshops, panel discussions, posters,
demos, etc. all taught, moderated or organized by leading researchers and
practitioners in the area.

6) An International Development Conference - The focus on Electronic
Governance helps consider how government investments in technology,
resulting in expected social and economic benefits, contribute to the
fulfillment of sustainable development goals.

7) A UN Conference - With international development focus, with United
Nations University as the founder of and a force behind its editions, and
with several UN organizations being actively involved, ICEGOV exhibits a
strong UN character.

In addition, ICEGOV promotes close interactions between government,
academia, industry and NGO stakeholders so that each group can contribute to
as well as benefit from the interactions with others:

- Government - The stakeholders from government can share the knowledge of
concrete initiatives as well as lessons learnt and challenges faced when
carrying them out. In return, they can learn about the latest research
results, and how they are implemented by industry, non-governmental
organizations and other governments to address the challenges they face.

- Academia - The stakeholders from academia can share the models, theories
and frameworks which extend the understanding of Electronic Governance and
upon which concrete solutions can be built. In return, they can learn about
specific challenges faced by governments, gain access to concrete cases, and
identify opportunities to implement and deploy research prototypes.

- Industry and NGOs - The stakeholders from industry and NGOs can share
technological and socio-organizational solutions to be used in government
practice. In return, they can learn about the challenges faced by
governments, and the latest research findings available for developing
solutions.

The program will include four types of invited contributions: Keynotes,
Workshops, Thematic Sessions and Plenary Sessions. The program will also
include a Doctoral Colloquium and a series of social events for networking
and community building.

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2. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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The ICEGOV2012 Program Committee invites submissions of unpublished,
original work - completed or in progress - in the form of papers,
demonstrations, posters, and tutorial proposals:

1) Papers - Completed Work

- Research - Providing the results of mature work based on rigorous academic
research in one or more aspects of Electronic Governance, with proven or
potential capability to advance the state-of-the-art in the field.

- Practice or policy innovations - Describing innovations in government with
specific attention to case descriptions and insights on what was learned
within a particular context.

2) Short Papers - Work in Progress

- Research - Providing the results of work in progress based on rigorous
academic research in one or more aspects of Electronic Governance, with
promising results.

- Practice or policy innovations - Describing ongoing innovations in
government with specific attention to case descriptions and insights on
issues and challenges encountered and how they are being addressed.

3) Demonstrations - Demonstrating how solutions are being applied in the
practice of Electronic Governance, consequently giving rise to new research.

4) Posters - Presenting new ideas and ongoing work related to research,
practice or solutions for Electronic Governance, with proven or potential
capacity for bridging two or more dimensions.

5) Tutorial Proposals - Describing the learning objectives and scope of the
proposed tutorial in one of the specific topics of interest listed in
Section 3, and what new knowledge and perspectives will be gained by the
target audience.

Contributions may originate from: 1) Government - Experiences, case studies
and lessons learned while planning, developing, executing and evaluating
Electronic Governance initiatives; 2) Academia - Foundations of Electronic
Governance, including development, validation and implementation of relevant
theories, models and specifications; or 3) Industry and NGOs - Technologies,
methods and tools upon which concrete solutions for Electronic Governance -
systems, processes, services and organizations - can be built.

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3. TOPICS

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ICEGOV2012 particularly welcomes: a) contributions that aim to establish
connections between research and practice in the area of alignment of
Electronic Governance initiatives with policy programs at local, national,
and international levels of government; b) interdisciplinary papers that
show how the impacts of Electronic Governance initiatives could be measured
and assessed, and c) papers documenting experiences of governments or
industry in the implementation of technological or organizational
innovations. Particular topics of interest include:

1) Emerging measurement and evaluation models and techniques for Electronic
Governance

2) Technology and women in the developing context

3) Open data

4) Open government

5) Smart cities

6) Mobile government

7) Social media and democratization

Contributions on any aspect of the lifecycle of Electronic Governance
initiatives from planning through architecture and implementation, to
operations, are also welcome:

PLANNING

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Law and regulations

Funding arrangements

Readiness assessment

Policy development

Strategy development

Partner management

Stakeholder

Leadership

Whole-of-Government

Reform alignment

Policy alignment 

ARCHITECTURE

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Interoperability

Enterprise architecture

Open standards

Best practices

Agency collaboration

Information sharing

One-stop government

Connected governance

Open data

Multi-channel delivery

Public sector innovation 

IMPLEMENTATION

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Acquisition

Procurement

Cloud infrastructure

Electronic public services

Service middleware

Services and applications

Crowd sourcing

New technology adoption

Project management

Program management

Organizational change 

OPERATIONS

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Service agreements

Monitoring

Software maintenance

Adoption and scale-up

Access and accessibility

Digital content

Digital rights

Digital divide

Benefit management

Disaster management

Performance management

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4. SUBMISSION PROCESS

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All submissions should conform to the following process:

1) Preparation - All submissions must be written in English and prepared
using the Word template available at
http://www.icegov.org/resources/word.zip, with page limits of: Papers
(Completed Works - 10 pages, Short Papers - 4 pages), Demonstrations - 2
pages, Posters - 2 pages, and Tutorials - 4 pages.

2) Submission - All submissions must be submitted through the conference
submission website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov2012
by 2 April 2012. One author may not co-author more than two submissions for
ICEGOV2012. 

3) Review - All submissions will undergo a double-blind review by the
Program Committee. Authors will be notified about the acceptance or
rejection of their submission by 8 June 2012.

4) Revision - All accepted submissions will have to be revised to address
reviewer comments and resubmitted using
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icegov2012 by 6 July 2012.
Authors will also be required to transfer the copyright of their work as
part of the final submission process. 

All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings on the
condition that at least one author registers before 22 August 2012.

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5. PUBLICATIONS

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Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, planned to be
published, as in previous years, by ACM Press. Selected papers will appear
in a special issue of Government Information Quarterly, published by
Elsevier.

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6. AWARDS

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Best Submission Awards will be selected in three categories:

- Research - The submission that makes the best contribution to the
development of Electronic Governance theories, policies, strategies and
action plans.

- Innovations in Practice - The submission that presents the most innovative
Electronic Governance initiative, with well-presented insight, the greatest
impact potential on Electronic Governance policy and practice and the
overall development context.

- Research and Practice - The submission that best links Electronic
Governance research and practice - how the practice can be improved through
research and how research can be strengthen through practice.

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7. FINANCIAL SUPPORT 

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Each year the ICEGOV conference provides an opportunity for authors of
accepted submissions from developing and transition countries to apply for
financial support to help defray the costs of attending the conference.
Financial support awards typically cover the registration fee, accommodation
(i.e., hotel) or both. This year, ICEGOV will also accept applications for
financial support from students of accepted submissions, regardless of their
country of origin. Priority will be given to authors from developing and
transition and to the first authors. 

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8. GOVERNMENT INNOVATION EXHIBIT

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We invite governments to showcase their Electronic Governance innovations as
part of the new ICEGOV Government Innovation Exhibit (GIE). The GIE offers
governments at all levels the opportunity to demonstrate the accomplishments
of their Electronic Governance efforts while sharing experiences and lessons
learned with others. For more information contact icegov at icegov.org.

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9. COMMITTEES

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Conference Co-Chair - David FERRIERO, Archivist of the United States,
National Archives and Records Administration, USA

Conference Co-Chair - Theresa PARDO, Director and Research Professor, Center
for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA 

Conference Co-Chair - Haiyan QIAN, Director, Division for Public
Administration & Development Management (DPADM), UN Department of Economic
and Social Affairs, USA 

Program Co-Chair - J. Ramon GIL-GARCIA, Associate Professor and Director,
Data Center for Applied Research in Social Sciences, Centro de Investigacion
y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

Program Co-Chair - Natalie HELBIG, Senior Program Associate, Center for
Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

Program Co-Chair - Adegboyega OJO, Academic Program Officer, Center for
Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST, Macao SAR

Organization Chair - Jana Hrdinova, Program Associate, Center for Technology
in Government, University at Albany, USA

Fundraising Chair - Meghan Cook, Program Manager, Center for Technology in
Government, University at Albany, USA

Publicity Chair - Alison Heaphy, Communication Manager, Center for
Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE

John Carlo BERTOT, Professor and Co-Director, Information Policy and Access
Center (iPAC), University of Maryland, USA

Francisco CAMARGO, Director General Programa Gobierno en Linea, Colombia

Wojciech CELLARY, Professor, Department of Information Technology, Poznan
University of Economics, Poland

Samuel CHAN, Member of Administrative Committee, Science and Technology
Development Fund, Macao SAR, China

Jim DAVIES, Professor and Director, Software Engineering Programme,
Department of Computer Science and Governing Body Fellow, Computing
Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

Sharon DAWES, Senior Fellow & Professor Emeritus of Public Administration,
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

Matthias FINGER, Professor, Faculty of Technology and Management, Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Tomasz JANOWSKI, Senior Research Fellow and Head, UNU-IIST Center for
Electronic Governance, Macao SAR, China (Series Coordinator)

Lorenzo MADRID, Chief Technology Officer for the Latin America Region and
World Wide Director for the Government Interoperability Initiative,
Microsoft Corporation, USA

Henk G. SOL, Professor and Founding Dean, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands

Maurice TCHUENTE, Pro-Chancellor University of Buea, Cameroon

Saleem ZOUGHBI, Regional Adviser (ICT), UN Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia, Lebanon

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

Cary COGLIANESE, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political
Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
Law School

Jim HENDLER, Tetherless World Chair, Departments of Computer Science and
Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

David L. McCLURE, Ph.D., Associate Administrator, Citizen Services and
Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration

Miriam NISBET, Director of the Office of Government Information Services
(OGIS), National Archives and Records Administration

Beth NOVECK, Professor of Law, Director, Democracy Design Workshop, New York
Law School

Douglas ROBINSON, Executive Director, National Association of State Chief
Information Officers

Chris VEIN, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, the White House Office for
Science and Technology Policy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Gustav AAGESON, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Gbenga ADEBUSUYI, National e-Government Strategies, Nigeria

Rodrigo SANDOVAL-ALMAZAN, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México, Mexico

Kim ANDERSEN, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 

Jean-Pierre AUFFRET, International Academy of CIO, USA 

Johanna Ekua AWOTWI, Center for e-Governance, Ghana 

Joerg BECKER, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design,
USA

Jaro BERCE, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Deepak BHATIA, World Bank, USA

Melanie BICKING, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Nikolaj BJORNER, Microsoft Corporation, USA 

Brian BURKE, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

Luis CAMARINHA-MATOS, UNINOVA, Portugal

Donna CANESTRARO, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany,
USA

Alejandra CECHICH, National University of Comahue, Argentina

Wojciech CELLARY, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Yannis CHARALABIDIS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 

Venkatesh CHOPPELLA, IIIT Hyderabad, India 

Eleni CHRISTODOULOU, University of Ciprus, Ciprus

Gabriel PURON-CID, Centro de Investigación y Docencias Económicas, México

Soon Ae CHUN, University of New York, USA

Meghan COOK, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

Antonio CORDELLA, Information Systems and Innovation Group at the Department
of Management at the London School of Economics, UK

Anthony CRESSWELL, Center for Technology in Government, University at
Albany, USA

Ignacio CRIADO, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Jim DAVIES, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

Sharon DAWES, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA

Zamira DZHUSUPOVA, Center for Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST, Macao SAR

Elsa ESTEVEZ, Center for Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST, Macao SAR 

Enrico FERRO, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy

Pablo FILLOTRANI, National University of the South, Argentina

Simon FONG, University of Macau, Macao SAR

Mila GASCO, Institute of Governance and Public Management, ESADE, Spain 

Rimantas GATAUTIS, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Jeremy GIBBONS, University of Oxford, UK

Mary GRIFFITHS, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Thad HALL, University of Utah, USA

Steve HARRIS, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK 

Karim HAMZA, Maastricht school of Management, Netherlands

Paul HENMA, University of Queensland, Australia

Andrew HOPPIN, New Amsterdam Ideas LLC, USA

Sirajul ISLAM, Bangledesh Center for eGovernance & Örebro University,
Sweeden 

Tomasz JANOWSKI, Center for Electronic Governance, UNU-IIST, Macao SAR 

Marijn JANSSEN, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Atreyi KANKANHALLI, School of Computing, National University of Singapore,
Singapore 

Andrea KAVANAUGH, Virginia Tech, USA 

Jay KESAN, University of Illinois, USA 

Ralf KLISCHEWSKI, German University in Cairo, Egypt 

Trond KNUDSEN, Research Council of Norway, Norway

Padmanabhan KRISHNAN, Bond University, Australia 

Kincho LAW, Stanford University, USA 

Christine LEITNER, Center for European Public Administration, Danube
University Krems, Austria

Calvin LEONG, SAFP, Macao SAR Government, Macao SAR 

Nikos LOUTAS, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

Luis LUNA-REYES, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico

Albert MEIJER, University of Utrecht, Netherlands 

Vassilis MENEKLIS, University of Piraeus, Greece 

Ines MERGEL, Syracuse University, USA

Jeremy MILLARD, Danish Technological Institute, Centre for Policy and
Business Analysis, Denmark

Gianluca MISURACA, EC Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies, Spain 

Hrushikesha MOHANTY, University of Hyderabad, India 

Fawzi MULKI, Social and Economic Directorate, Royal Hashemite Court, Jordan

Toshio OBI, Waseda University, Japan 

Marco PERES USECHE, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia 

Vasillios PERISTERAS, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

Chris REDDICK, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Scott ROBERTSON, University of Hawaii, USA 

Tomáš SABOL, Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic 

Steve SAWYER, Syracuse University, USA

Apetipe SEAKOW, Stamford International University, Thailand 

Jochen SCHOLL, University of Washington, USA

Charles SCHWEIK, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Aadya SHUKLA, Harvard University, USA

Maddalane SORRENTINO, University of Milan, Italy

Evgeny STYRIN, Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russia 

Ivar TALLO, e-Governance Academy, Estonia 

Efthimios TAMBOURIS, University of Macedonia, Greece 

Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Brunel University, UK 

Gamel WIREDU, University of London, UK

Peter WINSTANLEY, Scottish Government, UK 

Jing ZHANG, Clark University, USA

Lei ZHENG, Fudan University, China

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