[AISWorld] Invitation to a synchronous session of the HICSS-54 "Emerging Topics in Digital Government" Minitrack - January 7th

Mon Jan 4 14:59:15 EST 2021

Dear Colleagues,

We hope this email finds you well and healthy.

We would like to invite you to attend a synchronous session of the HICSS-54 "Emerging Topics in Digital Government" Minitrack. The session will take place this Thursday, January 7, 2021 from 12:00 to 13:00 UTC (For your convenience, go here and add your home town to see what it converts to your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210107T120000&p1=136).

Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86764766481?pwd=NXNkNE41dHV6VngrR0tZRTJiS3JWZz09

The format of the session will include a very short presentation up to 3 minutes of the authors on the key take-away of their work presented in their paper that they would like to share with the audience. And then the floor will be open to questions from the audience and discussion on emerging trends.

At the end of this email, you will find an overview of the Emerging Topics in Digital Government Minitrack and a brief description of each of the paper. We hope you can join us.

For more information, please, contact Andriana Prentza (aprentza at unipi.gr<mailto:aprentza at unipi.gr>).

Stay safe,

Andriana, Robert, and Ramon
Co-chairs Emergent Topics in Digital Government Minitrack
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-government/#emerging-topics-in-digital-government-minitrack

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Overview of Emerging Topics in Digital Government Minitrack

The Digital Government Emerging Topics Mini-Track provides a home for incubating new topics and trends in Digital Government research including, among other, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotic Technologies. Digital Government as an academic field is evolving towards the Next Generation Digital Government; new directions of research and practice are emerging while others are becoming accepted as foundational. These developments take place at the crossroads of different academic disciplines and in close connection to the practices in governments around the globe. However, the foundations of the field still need to be spelled out more explicitly and rigorously. This mini-track invites papers positioned in relation to the foundations of Digital Government contributing to the evolution of the field, to clarifications and conceptualizations, or addressing novel issues, trends, and uses of technology in the public sector.

This mini-track welcomes papers that speak specifically to the emerging nature of the topic and how the research presented builds new understanding by relating the research to the central developments in the field of digital government with a preference to innovative and creative analyses than best practices, to strong conceptual and empirical analysis (both qualitative and quantitative) rather than descriptive cases or opinion pieces. This year's mini-track attracted eleven paper submissions from which six were accepted to the conference. All six papers provide interesting contributions on different emerging topics in Digital Government.

Brief description of each of the papers

In the paper Blockchain Framework in Digital Government for the Certification of Authenticity, Timestamping and Data Property, Francesca Fallucchi, Marco Gerardi, Michele Petito, and Ernesto William De Luca propose a framework to promote digital government, to fight corruption and increase transparency and openness by exploiting blockchain technology in order to certify digital data in a decentralized, more secure and trustworthy way, while ensuring its ownership and authenticity. The authors implement a decentralized application and evaluate the framework with a case study.

The paper Relevance of Public Administrations: Visualization of Shifting Power Relations in Blockchain-Based Public Service Delivery by Maik Brinkmann explores the challenges that blockchain governance raises in the public sector for delivering public services and how power relations in the context of public administration shift with the introduction of blockchain. The paper identifies and maps stakeholders' influence on a policy focus over time spanning across multiple stakeholder levels.

The paper Business Model Canvas to Create and Capture AI-enabled Public Value by Samar Fatima, Kevin Desouza, Christoph Buck, and Erwin Fielt explores AI-enabled value creation in the public sector. The authors adapt the conventional business model canvas for the public sector to the specific needs of public agencies in line with the Design Science Research approach as a value creation-and-capturing tool for AI-enabled public services. The authors deliver five design principles that public agencies must follow to design and deploy AI-enabled public services.

In the paper Truth or Dare? - How can we Influence the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Municipalities?, Cindy Schaefer, Kristina Lemmer, Kret Samy Kret, Maija Ylinen, Patrick Mikalef, and Bjoern Niehaves investigate challenges faced by municipalities in Germany when adopting AI and which factors have more likely affect successful adoption by taking an explorative approach based on qualitative interviews. The authors extended the Technology Organization-Environment (TOE) framework for public administrations along an employee's perspective.

The paper Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making: the question of Accountability by Francesco Gualdi and Antonio Cordella studies two controversial cases of AI adoption in the public sector and focuses on how the use of AI algorithms can influence decision-making and, by doing so, have an impact on public accountability. The paper builds on the theory of assemblages to describe the entanglements between technology and legislation that influence accountability in the public sector and makes the case for a new approach to AI supported public sector decision-making accountability.

Finally, in their contribution Chain Action - How Do Countries Add Value Through Digital Government?, Jaromir Durkiewicz and Tomasz Janowski examine how countries develop and benefit from Digital Government and introduce a new assessment scheme based on the Digital Government value chain concept. The authors use data taken from the UN and the World Bank and create a new theoretical model, which consists of three stages - readiness, uptake, and impact; and two transitions - readiness-to-uptake and uptake-to-impact.

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Dr. J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, MPA
Research Director
Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY
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Tel.: (518) 442-3892
E-mail: jgil-garcia at ctg.albany.edu<mailto:jgil-garcia at ctg.albany.edu>
www.ctg.albany.edu<http://www.ctg.albany.edu>

Author of the book "Enacting Electronic Government Success: An Integrative Study of
Government-wide Websites, Organizational Capabilities and Institutions"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2015-6

Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
135 Western Avenue, Milne Hall 317, Albany, NY 12203
Tel.: (518) 442-5282
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