Dg.o2007- BRIDGING DISCIPLINES AND DOMAINS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA - MAY 20-23, 2007 http://www.dgsociety.org/call_for_papers.php ********************************************************************** FINAL REMINDER: BOFs, POSTERS, and DEMOS deadline - February 26, 2007 - Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. For details please see the full call at www.dgsociety.org/call_for_papers.php. Submissions should include author's names and contact information according to that format. - All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. - Selected demo and poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the reserach sessions. ********************************************************************** The complete call follows: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Dg.o2007- BRIDGING DISCIPLINES AND DOMAINS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA - MAY 20-23, 2007 http://www.dgsociety.org/call_for_papers.php The Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA) serves the interests of scholars and managers interested in the development and impacts of digital government. The society grew out of the community building efforts of the National Science Foundation Digital Government Research Program. The society now sponsors the annual international digital government research conference, formerly sponsored by NSF. The next conference, "dgo2007 - Bridging Disciplines and Domains" will be held May 20-23, 2007 in Philadelphia. Deadline for research papers and proposals for panel sessions and pre-conference tutorials and workshops is December 18, 2006. The Conference Committee particularly encourages interdisciplinary and cross-cutting submissions. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following: * Social Science Research and Citizen Interactions: digital democracy and governance; government processes and decision-making; organization and management; public policy issues and implications. Public values such as privacy and trust; e-participation in democratic processes; digital divide, transparency and usability; universal access to information and services. * Computer Science and Information Technology Research to Support Government: Collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; human-computer interaction; multiple modalities and multimedia; software engineering for large-scale government projects; service-oriented architectures; technology transition and transfer; the semantic web; grid computing. * IT-Enabled Government Operations and Government Application Domains: Case studies or evaluation of information technology adoption and diffusion in government; IT tools for government planning; integration of data and services; long-term preservation and archiving of government information; security, privacy, and information assurance, criminal justice , law enforcement, and courts; crisis management, education, emergency response, and security; ecosystems informatics (for ecological research or natural resources management or policy); electronic grants administration; electronic rulemaking; government statistics; national infrastructure for community statistics; health and human services; legislative systems, national and international digital government efforts and cooperation; transportation systems & urban planning. IMPORTANT DATES December 18, 2006 - Deadline for research papers, panel sessions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. February 15, 2007 - Research paper, panel, and pre-conference tutorial and workshops authors notified of review status. February 26, 2007 - Submission deadline for Birds of a Feather (BOF), posters, and system demonstrations. March 21, 2007 - Poster, system demonstration, and BOF authors notified of review status CHAIRS Conference co-chairs Judith Bayard Cushing, Evergreen State College Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany/SUNY Program co-chairs Alan Borning, University of Washington Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany/SUNY Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York Student Chair Travis Kriplean, University of Washington Panel Chair Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin, Madison Tutorial and Workshop Chair Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University Finance Chair Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, Government Liaison Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation MORE INFORMATION: For complete information, see the full call for proposals www.dgsociety.org/call_for_papers.php For more information about the Digital Government Society of North America, visit www.dgsociety.org.