[Students-l] dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, CUNY, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY, June 7-9, 2017

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CALL FOR PAPERS 

dg.o 2017: 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Research 

Theme: Innovations and Transformations in Government 

City University of New York 

College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY 

June 7-9, 2017 

http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/ 

Twitter handle: #dgo2017 

The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 18th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2017,
with the theme "Innovations and Transformations in Government." The dg.o
2017 conference will be hosted by the City University of New York,
College of Staten Island Campus, NY, June 7--9, 2017. 

The dg.o conference is an established forum for presentation,
discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital
government, political participation, civic engagement, and the impact of
technology and innovation on government and governance. Each year the
conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary
and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory
(rigor) and practice (relevance), and their focus on important and
timely topics. The conference program combines: 

- Keynote and track presentations and discussions on new research on
digital government at the intersections of information technology
research, social and behavioral science research, and the challenges and
missions of government. 

- Presentations of effective partnerships and collaborations among
government professionals and agencies, university researchers, relevant
businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance
the practice of digital government. 

- A showcase of digital government projects, implementations, and
initiatives that bring together the research and practitioner
communities, demonstrate the effectiveness and/or challenges of digital
government and offer best practices. 

JOINT EVENT WITH INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM 
Two global communities, the Digital Government Society (DGS) and the
Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), will partner in June 2017 to build
new bridges between research and practice, with a shared goal of
creating new interdisciplinary, multi-sector partnerships within the
world's communities focused on innovation. Both DGS and the ICF have
convened respective communities in cities all around the world. This
year they are bringing their communities together in New York to share
knowledge, allow each group to network at a deeper level and explore new
partnerships to advance urban and rural innovation. 

On June 7, 2017, the DGS and ICF's representatives will host the joint
program at the City University of New York Staten Island campus for the
ICF's annual Summit and the dg.o conference. For one day, members of
both communities will present a set of joint and complementary sessions
that provide attendees with a chance to hear from global leaders from
across the world's leading regions, cities and towns. Attendees will
participate in master classes and workshops, and seek to build
collaborations focused on advancing the scholarship, policy and practice
of urban and rural innovation. The capstone of the collaboration of
these two communities will be the announcement of the world's Top7
intelligent communities at a joint reception in Manhattan on the evening
of June 7th. 

THEMES AND TRACK TOPICS 
The 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
will feature the main theme of Innovations and Transformations in
Government. Technological advances, such as big data and collective
intelligence, together with policy innovations including open
government, open data, and the creation of new public data labs have
been a catalyst for disruptive innovations in government, causing
radical re-thinking of the traditional assumptions and expectations
regarding how governments should function. Public goods and services
once considered exclusively the responsibility of government agencies
are now often initiated and produced through collaborations with
citizens, non-profits, and/or private sector partners. 

The conference theme will highlight challenges and solutions in
harnessing innovations and transformations in government. Innovative
designs in all aspects of government, including people, services, data,
policy, governance, collaboration, and democracy, require leadership
talent, creative ideas and implementation strategies, and clear success
criteria for evaluating solutions. We welcome research and practice
contributions from around the world on the topics including but not
limited to innovation strategies, policy innovations, citizen services,
engagement innovations, and data-driven decision innovations that
address various current societal, environmental and economic challenges,
across all the eight tracks below. Each track will accept full research
papers as well as research in progress, management case studies and
policy papers. Panel, tutorial, workshop, poster and demonstration
proposals are also invited. Each conference element has co-chairs who
are responsible for managing the submission and review process for their
track. Feel free to contact track chairs for guidance as necessary. 

Track 1. Social Media and Government 
Track Chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh (kavan at cs.vt.edu) and Rodrigo Sandoval 
The use of social media has been growing rapidly and globally.
Governments at all levels have been using microblogs, such as Twitter,
and social network sites, such as Facebook, among 
other platforms and tools for public administration and outreach to
citizens. Citizens, businesses and voluntary associations have been
using these tools and affordances to share information, ask questions,
and compete or collaborate on problem solving within and among
neighborhoods, industries, states, and nations. The growing use of
social media has created new challenges and opportunities for many users
such as changes in regulations and policies, marketing, highly diverse
perspectives, and feedback. Analysis of communication behavior,
messages, and systems and institutions, should contribute to our
knowledge of the ways these media are affecting collective problem
solving and public policy development. Future trends in social media and
government point to new synergies, as well as disruptions, among public
agencies and users. This track welcomes research and practice papers
addressing a range of similar or related topics on social media analysis
on content, metrics, case studies or theoretical models to advance this
area of research. 

Track 2. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government
Impacts 
Track chairs: Jing Zhang (jizhang at clarku.edu), Yu-Che Chen, and Lei
Zheng 
Public organizations employ information and communication technologies
(ICT) to facilitate communication and transactions with many
stakeholders in public and private sectors. The adoption and
implementation of new ICT by public organizations is influenced by
organizational factors such as the availability of resources (i.e.
funding, technological knowledge, and personnel), leadership, trust,
organization's technological culture, as well as inter-organizational
dynamics. Similarly, the adoption of ICT in government and society has
generated important impacts on the organizational effectiveness,
efficiency, and innovativeness of public organizations. This track
solicits research that examines the organizational factors that
influence the adoption and implementation of new ICT as well as the
impact of new ICT. Research papers in this track examine the adoption,
use, and organizational impacts of a variety of innovative technologies
and policies or practices that include but are not limited to social
media, citizen-centric technologies, virtual collaboration, open data,
big data, and modeling tools. 

Track 3. Opening Government: From Open Data Infrastructures to
Collaboration 
Track chairs: Marijn Janssen (m.f.w.h.a.janssen at tudelft.nl), Vishanth
Weerakkody, and Adegboyega Ojo 
Governments are utilizing the Internet to achieve an open, transparent
and accountable government while providing responsive services. This
extensive transformation is required both within the government and in
the way governments engage with the public. The opening and sharing of
data, the deployment of tools and instruments to engage the public,
collaboration amongst public organizations and between governments and
the public are important drivers for realizing these goals. Governments
initiate open data portals, develop apps, and open more data to engage
with the public to create more value. To successfully achieve this
vision, fundamental changes in practice and new research on governments
as open systems are needed. Successful cases, measurement instruments,
information sharing, adoption, stakeholder analysis and theoretical
models and frameworks are necessary to advance this field. In
particular, this track solicits papers addressing the issue of public
sector transformation achieved through open government, collaboration
amongst actors and information sharing within and between public and
private organizations. 

Track 4. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments 
Track chairs: Sehl Mellouli (sehl.mellouli at fsa.ulaval.ca), Yigal Arens 
 The slogan "Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Smart Governments" refers to
the promise of using linked and intertwined technologies to create
innovative and intelligent solutions to life in a city that will result
not only in operational efficiency, but also in government
transformation through co-creative governance. Topics for this track
include but are not limited to: Applications and collaborations based on
the "internet of things"; Smart sensors; Big data analytics; The Civic
Technology Movement, and Intercity and intergovernmental collaborations;
Intelligent solutions for cities and governments. Descriptions of
research and development efforts that demonstrate advances in technology
and/or policy innovations in the areas of energy, transportation,
health, education, public safety, structures, natural environment, and
business, are all welcome, as are related issues of cybersecurity and
privacy, community-based infrastructure resilience, urban informatics
and governance. 

Track 5. Cybersecurity and Government 
Track Chairs: Loni Hagen (lonihagen at usf.edu), Hun-Yeong Kwon, Wookjoon
Sung and Soon Ae Chun 
Increasing threats of domestic and international cyber-attacks, and
growing dependencies on inter-connected cyberspace, require a need for
national and global collaborations to develop secure and resilient cyber
infrastructure. This track focuses on technical, policy and social
dimensions of cyber security research, including theoretical and
empirical models and frameworks, to address ever-expanding cyber
security challenges. Topics include but not limited to: information
security in e-government, cybercrimes, cyber incident response, critical
infrastructure protection, national and global information sharing,
surveillance and privacy, cryptography policy governance, security
governance and strategies, civil engagement and public awareness. We
also invite domain-specific cases and innovative approaches on security
challenges, cybernational defence, private/public joint efforts, and
education, such as workforce training and retention. 

Track 6. Beyond Bureaucracy, Co-Producing Governance & New Models of
Governance 
Track Chairs: Alois Paulin (alois at apaulin.com) and Leonidas Anthopoulos 
The Beyond Bureaucracy track aims to outline and discuss challenges
along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach
beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities. Where
well-established e-government / e-governance research ambitions focus on
providing and/or studying technology that supports the work and mission
of government agencies and governmental agents (incremental innovation),
Beyond Bureaucracy addresses the question how radical technological
innovation transforms the power of citizens and the conceptual sovereign
body to actively control (rather than passively observe and follow)
government agencies and governmental agents. The Beyond Bureaucracy
track invites contributions that discuss pending technological (design
science) challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new
technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con
deliberations on Beyond Bureaucracy thought and knowledge. Research
keywords includes but not limited to: Liquid Democracy, Informating
Governance, e-Anarchy, Participatory Budgeting & Bottom-Up Excise,
Non-Bureaucratic Government, etc. 

Track 7. Participatory Democracy 
Track Chairs: Claudia Cappelli (claudia.cappelli at uniriotec.br),
Cristiano Maciel, José Viterbo Filho
 E-participation comprises the use of information and communication
technologies to broaden and deepen political participation by enabling
citizens to connect with one another and with their elected
representatives. It can lead to new methods of producing public policies
and services that contrast with transaction-based methods of service
delivery, in which citizens consume public services solely conceived and
provided by governments. In the novel coproduction-based approaches,
citizens are not only consulted but are part of the conception, design,
steering, and management of public policies and services. Hence, this
track focuses on e-participation approaches that instrument
Participatory Democracy, supporting cooperation among citizens and
governments on regular basis. Its major topics will discuss strategies,
methods, techniques and tools that can contribute to the coproduction of
public services. 

Track 8. Open Government Data Policies & Politics 
Track chairs: Boyi Li (b.li at exeter.ac.uk) and Kyung Ryul Park 
 A growing body of literature has been focused on the benefits,
motivations, as well as best practices to adopt open data in government
sectors. Many theorizing efforts regard institutional structures as
critical barriers to promote open innovation paradigm in public sector.
In this track, we discuss the impact and change of these institutional
structures by inviting research papers that examine open data
initiatives as either government policies or politics. The policy lens
critically analyses the policy documents and reveals how open data
policies are drafted, interpreted, and implemented in a specific
context. The politics lens is mainly concerned with the power relations
between the state, civil society, and business. It leads to a critical
reflection on the agenda of open data movement in the context of power
structures of informational capitalism. Therefore, we particularly
welcome the content and discourse analysis of open data documents, and
the storytelling of government-business collaboration in open data
innovations. 

Panels 
Chair: Teresa Harrison
Panel proposals may address themes or topics related to any of the
tracks for the conference. Additionally, we welcome panel proposals that
put a spotlight on 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 panel co-chairs about their ideas prior to
developing their submissions. Please send expressions of interest for
panel development to Teresa Harrison (tharrison at albany.edu). 

Poster and Demonstration 
Poster and Demo Chair: Kellyton dos Santos Brito and Murray Scott 
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. 

PUBLICATIONS 
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student
papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in
the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library and the
DBLP bibliography system. Selected papers will be invited for a journal
special issue. 

BEST PAPER AWARDS 
Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories
Research papers, Management, Case Study and Policy papers, Posters, and
System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the main theme of the
conference, Innovations and Transformations in Government, will be
preferred. Other selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and
innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between
theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the
topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad
audience. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
January 15, 2017: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due 
March 1, 2017: Application deadline for 2017 doctoral colloquium 
March 1, 2017: Author notifications March 15, 2017: Posters and demo
proposals due 
April 1, 2017: Poster/demo author notifications 
April 5, 2017: Camera-ready manuscripts due 
May 5, 2017: Early registration closes! 

SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS 

. Research papers (maximum of 10 pages) 

. Management, Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages) 

. Panel descriptions (maximum of 4 pages) 

. Posters (maximum of 2 pages) 

. System demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages) 

. Pre-Conference tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages) 

. Pre-Conference workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages) 

. Doctoral colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages) 

Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2017 

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for
each type of submission in camera-ready ACM Proceedings format (double
column, single spaced pages). Please do not use page numbers. Paper
titles should be on the first page of text, rather than on a separate
cover page.

. 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. 

. All other submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings
camera-ready format, but include author names. 

. All accepted submissions require at least one author to be registered
for the conference before the camera-ready copy is due for it to be
included in the conference proceedings. 

. At least one author is expected to attend the conference to present
the work. 

Research papers (8 - 10 pages) - blind review 
These submissions report innovative digital government research results
in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital
government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance
to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. 

Management, case study, or policy papers (4 - 6 pages) - blind review 
These submissions 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. 

Panels (2 - 4 pages) - 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 contact numbers
of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s). 

Posters (1 - 2 pages): Two-page 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 approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided with a
table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an
oral presentation in the conference sessions. 

System Demonstrations (1 - 2 pages): System demonstrations are held
concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food
and professional fellowship. The 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 is provided with 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. 

Pre-conference Tutorials (1 - 2 pages): dg.o tutorials are half- or
full-day presentations that offer deeper insight into e-government
research, practice, research methodologies, technologies or field
experience. In particular, tutorials provide insights into good
practices, research strategies, uses of particular technologies such as
social media, and other insights into e-government that would benefit
researchers and practitioners. 

Pre-conference Workshops (1 - 2 pages): We invite workshop proposals on
any e-government research or management topic. Workshops are half- 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. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility
of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for
conducting workshop activities. 

Doctoral Colloquium (7 - 10 pages, not including references, tables and
figures): 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 not reached the stage of defending their
dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will 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
submit an application. 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. 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 

Conference Chairs 
. Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York (CUNY), US 

. Beth Simon Noveck, New York University and Yale Law School, US 

. Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, US 

Organizing Chairs 
. Paolo Cappellari, CUNY College of Staten Island, US 

. Rob Domanski, CUNY College of Staten Island, US 

. Richard Flanagan, CUNY College of Staten Island, US 

Program Chairs 
. Chris Hinnant, Florida State University, US 

. Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland 

Track Chairs 
. Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US 

. Jing Zhang, Clark University, US 

. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 

. Rodrigo Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico 

. Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada 

. Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US 

. Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK 

. Adegboyega Ojo, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland 

. Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, US 

. Loni Hagen, South Florida University, US 

. Hun-Yeong Kwon, Korea University, S. Korea 

. Wookjoon Sung, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, S.
Korea 

. Kyung Ryul Park, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 

. Boyi Li, University of Exeter, UK 

. Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 

. Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of
Thessaly, Greece 

. Yu-Che Chen, University of Nebraska Omaha, US 

. Lei Zheng, Fudan University, China 

. Claudia Cappelli, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil 

. Cristiano Maciel, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Brazil 

. José Viterbo Filho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil 

Panels Chair
. Teresa Harrison, University at Albany, SUNY, US 

Workshop and Tutorial Chair 
. Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 

. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain 

Poster and Demo Chairs 
. Kellyton dos Santos Brito, Pernambuco Rural Federal University, Brazil


. Murray Scott, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland 

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs 
. Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at
Albany, SUNY, US 

. J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Center for Technology in Government, University
at Albany, SUNY, US 

Publicity and Web Chairs 
. Yoo Jung An, Essex County College, US 

. Chulwoo Kim, Pace University, US 

Liaison and Outreach Chairs 
. Theresa Pardo, University at Albany, USA 

. Norman Jacknis, Intelligent Community Forum, USA 

Registration Chairs 
. Lukasz Porwol, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland 

. Catherine Dumas, University at Albany, US 

Finance Chair
. Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech, US 

 
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