Dear colleagues, please consider to submit your paper in the domains Open data policy and politics: opportunities and challenges for governments; the global spread of open data policy; transparency and accountability, economic innovation, drivers for open data; benefits and challenges for developing countries;Licensing and legal issues: copyright vs. open licenses & Creative Commons; Freedom of Information and the ‘right to data’; information sharing and privacy;Open data technologies: technical frameworks for data and meta-data; mash-ups; data formats, standards and APIs; integration into backend systems; data visualisation; data quality; data end-users and intermediaries;Open data as a valuable resource towards the European data market: Open Data and Public Sector Information as a source for Business Intelligence; Open Data, closed data and data market intermediaries; New market models, roles and responsibilities;Open data as a social movement: How can the global trend towards open data be conceptualized as a form of collective action? How do challengers and incumbents organize and change? How is the data branch embedded in the field of open movements?Open innovation and co-production: open data enabled models of public service provision; government as a platform; making open data innovation sustainable; data and democracy; connecting open data and crowdsourcing; data and information literacy;Evidence and impacts: costs and benefits of providing or using open data; emerging good practices; methods for open data research; empirical data measuring open data impacts, public value generation and open data. for CeDEM17, to be held 17.-19.5.2017 in Krems, Austria. Submission Templates: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference... Deadlines: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference... Best, Johann -- Dr. Johann Höchtl Zentrum für E-Governance Donau-Universität Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2304 Mail: Johann.hoechtl@donau-uni.ac.at