NOTE: Papers, workshop, and panel proposals due January 29, 2012 Dear Colleagues: The 2012 Digital Government Society Conference (dg.o 2012) marks the 13th annual conference, and will take place at the University of Maryland College Park June 4-7, 2012. The conference will bring together e-Government researchers and practitioners to explore cutting edge research and best practices regarding e-Government initiatives. Accepted papers are published in the ACM Proceedings Digital Library, and selected papers will appear in leading journals such as Government Information Quarterly; Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy; and the International Journal of E-Planning Research. Discussions are ongoing with other journal editors regarding additional special issues. Each year the conference combines: 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. 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. Practice regarding 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. Governments today face unprecedented opportunities and challenges. New technologies provide governments with the opportunity to redefine the relationship between government and the public that they serve, create innovative public services, provide 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 raise a number of policy, technology, and governance challenges. This year, the conference program will focus on the ways governments and the e-Government research community can work collaboratively to leverage information and communication technologies as part of innovative and dynamic approaches to creating and implementing high quality, efficient, and effective e-Government. Research, practice, and collaboration submissions addressing this theme could include but are not limited to: social media and public participation in digital government; effective use of social media by governments; crowd sourcing for government decision making; transformative government; open and transparent government; models of collaboration among government, industry, NGOs, and citizens; data integration, visualizations, and analytics for government decision making; agile and flexible government; financial/economic/social policy making; 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; 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. In addition, we welcome submissions from the broader domain of e-Government research. We invite completed research papers, papers describing management and practice, policy, and case studies, student research papers, 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. More specific conference details are below. Kind regards, John Carlo Bertot, Conference Chair Luis Luna Reyes, Sehl Mellouli, and Yigal Arens, Program Chairs Jing Zhang and Soon Ae Chun, Workshop and Tutorials Chairs Teresa Harrison, Panel Chair Gabriel Puron Cid, Poster and Demo Chair Sharon Dawes, Björn Niehaves, and Jochen Scholl, Doctoral Colloquium Chairs 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012) Bridging Research and Practice University of Maryland, College Park MD Monday– Thursday, June 4-7, 2012 Website: http://dgo2012.dgsna.org General inquiries: dgo2012@easychair.org Paper submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2012 Important Dates: Jan 29, 2012 Papers, doctoral colloquium papers, workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals due March 11, 2012 Paper, doctoral colloquium, workshop, tutorial, and panel acceptance notifications Mar 18, 2012 Poster and demo proposals due Mar 30, 2012 Camera-ready manuscripts due April 6, 2012 Poster and demo acceptance notifications May 4, 2012 Early registration closes Jun 4-7, 2012 dg.o 2012 conference ************************************************************************* John Carlo Bertot, Ph.D. Professor and Co-Director Information Policy & Access Center College of Information Studies University of Maryland 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing College Park, MD 20742 Email: jbertot@umd.edu Web (Bertot): http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jbertot/ Web (Center): http://ipac.umd.edu Phone: 301.405.3267 Fax: 301.314.9145 Editor, Library Quarterly (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/lq/current) Editor, Government Information Quarterly (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf/)