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Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:25 AM<br>Subject: 2014 Digital Government Society Conference<br>To: <a href="mailto:CDI-ANNOUNCE@listserv.illinois.edu">CDI-ANNOUNCE@listserv.illinois.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">dg.o 2014</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">15th Annual International Conference on</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Digital Government Research</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Open Innovations and Sustainable Development in Government: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Experiences from around the World</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)</span></p>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Wednesday – Saturday, June 18-21, 2014</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submission deadline—February 1<sup>st</sup>, 2014</span></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Home page: </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://dgsociety.org/conference/2014" target="_blank">http://dgsociety.org/conference/2014</a></span></u><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">General inquiries: </span><span lang="ES-MX"><a href="mailto:dgo2013@easychair.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">dgo2014@easychair.org</span></a></span><u></u><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Twitter: DGSociety, #dgo2014</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Paper submissions: </span><span lang="ES-MX"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2014" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2014</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Governments around the world are embracing different “open innovations” to foster sustainable development such as open government, <span style>policy informatics, smart technologies, semantic technologies,
web services applications, </span>open and transparent government, social media, crowd sourcing, data integration, visualizations, analytics, new collaboration models and practices, data sharing, computing infrastructure models, and cyber-security.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">With the idea of exploring these experiences in the public sphere, the </span><span lang="ES-MX" style="line-height:15.6pt"><a href="http://dgsociety.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Digital
Government Society (DGS)</span></a></span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> announces the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2014. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation,
discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary e-Government and political participation research, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference combines:</span></p>
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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 e-Government.</li>
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Presentations and discussions on new research on e-Government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of information technology research, social and behavioral science research, and the challenges and missions of government.</li>
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A showcase of e-Government projects, implementations, and initiatives that bring together the research and practitioner communities, demonstrate the effectiveness and/or challenges of e-Government, and offer best practices.</li>
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<span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Democracy today faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges. New technologies provide citizens, governments, industry and non-governmental organizations with the opportunity to redefine the relationship
between government and the public that they serve, create innovative and customer-focused services, encourage transparency, promote participatory democracy, facilitate the co-design of services, form new partnerships in service delivery, streamline operations
and reduce costs, and build trust in government. But harnessing and implementing technologies effectively raises a number of policy, technology, and governance challenges.<span style> This year, the conference program will focus on
research and practice related to big data, open innovations, sustainable development in governments and non-profit organizations. The availability of large quantity of data, growth in computing power, and advanced analysis and presentation tools have given
rise to</span></span><span style="line-height:15.6pt"> </span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">new opportunities for developing policy instruments and creating public-private partnerships to improve government services
as well as to create new, innovative practice. Furthermore, the combination of new technology, policy tools, collaborative governance and innovative practices could play transformational roles in fostering sustainable development around the world.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">Submissions addressing this theme could include but are not limited to:</span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> big data, open government, sustainable development,
policy informatics, smart technologies for governments, semantic technologies for e-government, web services applications, </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">open and transparent government; social media and public participation;
effective use of social media by governments, citizens and organizations; crowd sourcing for government decision making; transformative government; models of collaboration among government, industry, NGOs, and citizens; data integration, visualizations, and
analytics for government decision making or public collective problem solving; agile and flexible government; financial/economic/social policy making; policy and governance issues that enable, facilitate, and promote smart government; government productivity
and effectiveness; service quality and customer-centric e-Government; social and health infrastructure; global government collaboration models and practices; infrastructure for data sharing among government agencies or non-governmental organizations or citizens
groups; computing infrastructure models, cyber-security and project management; IT-enabled government management and operations, and interest in program execution; IT and tools to support government security; and methods to measure and evaluate success in
e-Government and private and public participation in governance.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">In addition, we welcome submissions from the broader domain of digital government research. We invite completed research papers, papers describing management and practice, policy and case studies, on-going
research posters, and live demonstrations that demonstrate the use of technology to promote innovative e-Government services. We particularly encourage submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics. We also encourage the submission of suggestions
for panels, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Accepted papers are published in the ACM Proceedings Digital Library, and selected papers will appear in leading journals such as <i>Government Information Quarterly </i>and<i> Information Polity.</i></span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:15.6pt">The conference has six thematic tracks, which accept full research papers as well as management case studies and policy papers (see below for paper submission types), and one track for panel proposals. Each
track has two co-chairs who are responsible for managing the submission and review process for their track. The conference also accepts work in progress and short descriptions of applications on any topic. We also welcome proposals for workshops and tutorials,
which can be submitted directly to the Easychair system. Feel free to get in contact with any track chairs for guidance.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 1. Social Media and Government</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chairs: Andrea Kavanaugh and Rodrigo Sandoval</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The use of social media has been growing rapidly and globally. Governments at all levels have been using these media for public administration and for outreach to citizens. Citizens, businesses and voluntary associations have
been using them to share information, ask questions, and to collaborate on problem solving in neighborhoods, states, industries and nations. The growing use of social media has created new challenges and opportunities for all users, e.g., changes in regulations
and policies, marketing, and more diverse perspectives and feedback. However the staggering number and diversity of messages and topics generated is difficult to process and make sense of, not only on a day-to-day basis, but also during crises. Social media
have also offered broader, more diverse participation in collective problem solving and governance. 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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 2. Transformation and Open Government</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chair: Marijn Janssen, Natalie Helbig and Vishanth Weerakkody</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Many governments are working toward a vision of government-wide transformation that strives to achieve an open, transparent, accountable government while providing demand-driven services. To be successful in this vision fundamental
changes are necessary in practice and new research that examines governments as open systems seeking participation and interaction with their environment is needed. The track solicits papers addressing the issue of public sector transformation between government
and the environment.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 3. Emerging Topics</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chairs: John C. Bertot, Paul Jaeger and Chris Reddick</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The continual development of new technologies, big data applications, policies, and management practices keep digital government research and practice in a state of perpetual evolution. This evolution also provides governments
with ways in which to cultivate innovative, smart, and transformational government services. The Emerging Topics track seeks submissions that provide insights into emerging digital government research and practice.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 4. Organizational Factors, Adoption Issues and Digital Government Impacts</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chair: Chris Hinnant and Lei Zheng</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Public organizations employ information and communication technologies (ICT) to facilitate communication and transactions with many stakeholders such as residents, private sector businesses, non-profit organizations, and other
government agencies. While recent digital government research has often focused on understanding the external impacts of ICT adoption by government, 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, and the organization’s technological culture. 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 on the organizational processes, effectiveness, and innovativeness of public organizations. Research in this tract may examine the adoption, use, and organizational impacts of a variety of innovative technologies
and practices including but not limited to social media technologies, citizen-centric technologies, virtual collaborative work practices, and technologies that facilitate the collection and analysis of large data sets. Furthermore, the tract is also interested
in the adoption of innovative policies or practices that seek to facilitate the strategic use of ICT by public organizations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 5. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and Smart Government</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chair: Soon Ae Chun and Sehl Mellouli</span></i></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Cities, governments and citizens face the challenging issues of sustainability as the existing infrastructure systems are quickly surpassed by growing populations, heightened demands for services and resources, and growing
interdependencies of different systems. The concept of smart cities, smart governments and smart citizens is to utilize technology to create innovative solutions to the quality of life and sustainability and achieve not only the operational efficiencies but
also transforming policy development and governance. This track aims to facilitate theoretical, empirical and technical discussions on approaches towards the smart government, smart cities, smart community and smart citizens. Topics include but not limited
to the technical and policy innovations in the area of energy, transportation, health, education, public safety, buildings, urban planning, environment, business, cyber security and privacy, and others.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b><b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track 6. Panels</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Track chairs: Teresa Harrison and Juan Manuel Gomez-Reynoso</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b><b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
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<b>February 1, 2014</b> - Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals due <span style="color:windowtext">(For panel proposals, please send expressions of interest in proposing a panel earlier, if possible, to Teresa Harrison (</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:tharrison@albany.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">tharrison@albany.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:windowtext">)</span></li>
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<b>March 15, 2014 - Application deadline for 2014 Doctoral Colloquium</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>March 15, 2014</b> - Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panel proposals notifications</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>March 30, 2014</b> - Posters and demo proposals due</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>April 15, 2014 </b>- Camera-ready manuscripts due</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>April 15, 2014</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b></b> - <b>Acceptance notifications</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>May 5, 2014 - Conference hotel block closes</b> - make your bookings before this deadline!</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>May 20, 2014 - Early registration closes!</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>June 18-21, 2014</b> <b>- Dg.o 2014 conference!</b></li></ul>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS</span></b></p>
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Research papers (maximum of 10 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Management, Case Study, or Policy papers (maximum of 6 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Panel descriptions (maximum of 4 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Posters (maximum of 2 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
System demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Pre-Conference tutorial proposals (maximum of 2 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Pre-Conference workshop proposals (maximum of 2 pages)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Doctoral colloquium application (maximum of 10 pages)</li></ul>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission in camera-ready </span><span lang="ES-MX" style="line-height:15.6pt"><a href="https://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ACM
Proceedings format</span></a></span><span style="line-height:15.6pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (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.</span></p>
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Research 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
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All other submissions should follow the same ACM proceedings camera-ready format with author names included on the paper.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work. At least one author for each accepted paper must register before the camera ready version is due in order for it to be included in the proceedings.</li>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submissions are through: </span><span lang="ES-MX"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2014" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2014</span></a></span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Research papers (maximum 10 pages) – blind review</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 6 pages) – blind review</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Panels (maximum 4 pages)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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).</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Posters (maximum of 2 pages)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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. The 2-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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 2 pages)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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 are intended to 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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 2 pages)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> D</span></b><b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">octoral Colloquium (maximum 10 pages, not including references, tables and figures)</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.
The colloquium is planned for Wednesday June 18, 2014. PhD 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 perhaps some 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 from 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.</span></p>
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<b style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS</span></b></p>
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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. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special
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Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories Research papers, Management and policy papers, Posters, and System demonstrations. Papers that reflect the theme of the conference, form E-Government to Smart 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.</li></ul>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION</b></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The dg.o 2014 conference management team includes:</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span lang="ES-MX" style>Gabriel Puron-Cid, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas</span><span lang="ES-MX"></span></li></ul>
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<b>Program Chairs</b><span style>:</span>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style>J. Ramon Gil-Garcia</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="color:black">, </span><span lang="ES-MX" style>Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas</span><span lang="ES-MX"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Jing Zhang, Clark University.</span></li></ul>
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<b>Track Chairs</b><span style>:</span>
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Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Chris Hinnant, Florida State University<span style></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Chris Reddick, University of Texas San Antonio</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
John Bertot<span style>, </span>University of Maryland College Park</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Lei Zheng, Fundan</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Marijn Janssen, Delft University</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Natalie Helbig, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Paul Jaeger, </span>University of Maryland College Park</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span lang="ES-MX">Rodrigo Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Sehl Mellouli, Laval University</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University</span></li></ul>
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<b>Panel Chairs</b><span style>:</span>
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Teresa Harrison, University at Albany</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span lang="ES-MX">Juan Manuel Gomez-Reynoso, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes</span></li></ul>
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<b>Workshop and Tutorial Chair</b><span style> - Soon Ae Chun, </span>City University of New York</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>Poster and Demo Chair</b><span style> - Gabriel Puron Cid, CIDE</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<b>Doctoral Colloquium Chairs</b><span style>:</span>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style>J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Marijn Janssen, Delft University</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style>Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt">
Björn Niehaves, Hertie School of Governance</li></ul>
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University of Maryland<br>
4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing<br>
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Email: <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">jbertot@umd.edu</a><br>
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