EGOV2019 - Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2019 San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy Call for Papers https://easychair.org/cfp/egovcedemepart2019 The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 represents the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM). The conference is held annually and will be hosted 2-4 September 2019 in San Benedetto del Tronto by the University of Camerino, Italy. The conference focuses on e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, but on several other related topics too, such as the role of social media, digital transformation in society, Artificial Intelligence, policy informatics, smart governance and social innovation. Several different types of submissions can be made, such as completed research, but also ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, workshops. The conference organises a PhD Colloquium and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as from business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their research papers, reflections, posters as well as practitioner papers, panel or workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We also welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics. Important Dates * (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2019 * Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 * Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready) 15 May 2019 * Poster acceptance 1 June 2019 * Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2019 * Conference: 2-4 September 2019 * PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2019 Conference Chairs * Olivier Glassey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria * Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy * Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA * Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece * Shefali Virkar, Danube University Krems, Austria Local Host Chair * Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy Tracks at EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2019 * General E-Government & Open Government Track: all e-government-related topics except the special-topics tracks. In particular, it also covers emerging and special topics in e-government research * Ida Lindgren (lead), Linköping University, Sweden * Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA * Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria * General E-Democracy & eParticipation Track: all eParticipation-related topics except the special-topic tracks. This track aims to present the best of recent developments in electronic participation and electronic democracy as they cover a wide range of technical, political and social areas * Panos Panagiotopoulos (lead), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom * Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Peter Parycek, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany / Danube-University Krems, Austria * Smart Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track: all aspects of smart governance, including frameworks, policies, and the use of technology * Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (lead), University of Granada, Spain * Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden * Nuno Lopes, DTx: Digital Transformation Colab, Portugal * AI, Data Analytics, & Automated Decision Making Track: welcomes research examining the potential, adoption, use, and impacts of various data analytics methods ranging from visualisations and descriptive statistical analyses to machine learning and AI methods in the public sector. * Habin Lee (lead), Brunel University London, United Kingdom * Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece * Tomasz Janowski, Gdansk University, Poland * Social Media Track: Digital networking and information sharing applications, interfaces between governments and their respective publics, digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks, studies that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. * Noella Edelmann (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Sarah Hoffmann (University Bremen) * Marius Rohde Johannessen (University of South-Eastern Norway) * Social Innovation Track: focuses on the intersection between research, practice, and policy related to social innovation. * Gianluca Misuraca (lead), European Commission, Spain * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Csaba Csaki, Corvinus Business School, Hungary * Open Data: Social and Technical Aspects Track: focuses on open government data, public big data sharing and use, data for improving public value and transparency as well as data analytics capitalizing on Linked Open Data and other Technologies. * Efthimios Tambouris (lead), University of Macedonia, Greece * Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Digital Society: focuses on the relationship between all kinds of stakeholders adopting and integrating all kinds of technologies at home, education and recreation. * Thomas Lampoltshammer (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * David Osimo, The Lisbon Council, Spain * Martijn Hartog, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Practitioners’ Track: practitioners are encouraged to provide long abstracts of forthcoming papers, summaries of workshop proceedings, descriptions of project outputs, work experiences, inspiring case studies and best practice examples * * Peter Reichstädter (lead), Austrian Parliament, Austria * Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, United Nations University, Portugal * Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium * Francesco Molinari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * PhD Colloquium: The overall aim of the PhD colloquium is to connect PhD students to the e-government research community. During the colloquium, you will meet other PhD students, younger researchers that have just finished their PhDs, and more experienced scholars. Submitted proposals will not be submitted. * Gabriela Viale Pereira (lead), Danube University Krems, Austria * Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, USA * Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden * Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Evangelos Kalampokis, University of Macedonia, Greece Types of Publications By making a submission to the EGOV 2019 conference you agree that your paper will be available in print and e-print under the licence given. The papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process and the submission should not include author identifiers. Please note that all accepted submissions to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 conference will be screened for possible plagiarism. To support this policy, conference organizers will make use of the plagiarism detection tool, TurnItIn. Further information about this software can be found at http://www.turnitin.com/ Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. The EGOV proceedings covers the general E-Government & Open Government, Smart Cities, AI and Automated Decision Making, and Open Data tracks; whereas the EPART proceedings will cover the general E-Democracy & eParticipation, Social Media, Social Innovation Track, and Digital Society tracks. Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) can be published (but do not need to be) in a special conference issue of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) is published online under open access and provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, and eParticipation. Final decisions on papers will be made by the special issue guest editor based on the results of the peer review process. The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. Conference venue The conference will be held at the premises of University of Camerino in San Benedetto Del Tronto. The city is located at the Adriatic coast and there are many hotels on walking distance. Further details * Website:egov19.dgsociety.org<http://egov19.dgsociety.org/> (available soon) * Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovcedemepart2019