Dear colleagues,
due to the upcoming spring breaks and other holidays in many countries,
as well as due to a number of requests for granting some extension of
deadline to submit the paper, we decided to keep the submission system
for IFIP EGOV-ePart 2016 open until Thursday, March 31, 2016. This will
give you more time to finalise your submissions.
However, by the deadline (March 15, 2016), we kindly ask you to register
your submission(s) at Easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2016 ) with
a) The complete list of co-authors
b) The final title of the paper
c) The abstract of the submission
If you have already submitted a paper, please feel free to update/edit
it until the system closes.
Best wishes,
Maria A. Wimmer
Call for papers distributed earlier:
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15th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV 2016)
8th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart 2016)
September 5 to 8, 2016 — Guimarães, Portugal
www.egov-conference.org<http://www.egov-conference.org><http://www.egov-conference.org>,
www.epart-conference.org<http://www.epart-conference.org><http://www.epart-conference.org>
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
OVERVIEW
The dual 15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and the 8th Electronic
Participation (ePart) Conference 2016 will be held from Monday,
September 5 to Thursday, September 8, 2016 in Guimarães, Portugal. The
dual conference will be hosted by the United Nations University
Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV,
http://egov.unu.edu/) and the University of Minho
(http://www.uminho.pt/en).
The annual international IFIP EGOV conference is the top-2 ranked core
conference in the domain of e-Government or ICT in the public sector and
the public sphere. Each year, scholars from all over the globe present
the most recent advancements and findings of research and innovations in
e-Government, e-Governance and related fields of study. The annual
international ePart conference is the top-ranked conference in the
domain of electronic participation and the 5th-ranked overall conference
dedicated to information technologies in the context of public
administration and the public sphere.
The dual conference is organized by the IFIP Working Group 8.5 on
information systems in the public sector. Since the beginnings of EGOV
in 2001 and the inauguration of ePart in 2009, the two conferences have
provided important guidance for research and development in this
fast-moving domain of study. The dual IFIP EGOV—ePart conference brings
together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and
from a number of disciplines.
The 2016 edition of the dual IFIP (WG 8.5) conference will continue to
host five topical tracks. Two general tracks will maintain the tradition
of EGOV and ePart in the way, with which former conference attendees
have become familiar. In addition, three special-topics tracks are
intended to expand the reach and scope of the dual IFIP WG 8.5 conference:
⎯ The General E-Government Track (EGOV LNCS Proceedings)
⎯ The General eParticipation Track (ePart LNCS Proceedings)
⎯ The Open Government & Open and Big Data Track (EGOV LNCS Proceedings)
⎯ The Policy Modeling and Policy Informatics Track (ePart LNCS Proceedings)
⎯ The Smart Governance, Smart Government, & Smart Cities Track (EGOV
LNCS Proceedings)
Although the five tracks overlap in certain areas, they cover and
emphasize distinct areas of research and appeal to specific and
important sub-communities within the overall EGOV—ePart scholarly
community. Therefore the tracks have their separate and detailed call
for papers, a short version of which is shown below.
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TRACKS
For the dual 15th IFIP EGOV and 8th IFIP ePart conference we seek
contributions that include but are not limited to:
The GENERAL EGOV TRACK (Track Chairs: Marijn Janssen (lead), and Maria
Wimmer, and Hans Jochen Scholl)
The General EGOV Track serves as an umbrella for all
e-Government-related topics except the special-topics tracks on Open
Government & Big Data and the Smart Governance, Smart Government, &
Smart Cities (see below). In particular, it also covers emerging and
special topics in e-Government research.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
⎯ Foundations of e-government and e-governance research including
theories, standards of inquiry, methods and frameworks as well as multi-
and interdisciplinary approaches to e-government research
⎯ Innovation management, transformation and change management,
collaboration (including new strategic demands such as the once-only
principle)
⎯ Design approaches for ICT solutions in the public sector, including
stakeholder engagement, social media, citizen co-creation, and crowd
sourcing
⎯ Special topics (for example, disaster management, cybersecurity, etc.)
and novel topics (for example, ICT4D, e-Justice, etc.)
⎯ E-government architecture, interoperability, infrastructure, and
project success and failure cases
⎯ ICT usage, acceptance, measurement, benchmarking, benefit management
and performance of technology-supported public sector activities
⎯ Sustainability of ICT investments in the public sector
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The GENERAL ePARTICIPATION TRACK (Track Chairs: Efthimios Tambouris
(lead), Panos Panagiotopoulos, and Oystein Saebo)
The General ePart Track serves as an umbrella for all
eParticipation-related topics, except the special-topic track on Policy
Modeling and Policy Informatics Track (see below). It focuses on
research topics regarding citizen engagement in public affairs, and, in
particular, on research that studies participation facilitated by
information and communication technologies.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
⎯ The eParticipation research landscape, its directions, foundations,
theories, and methods
⎯ Online deliberation and discourse, eConsultation, ePolling,
eLegislation, eElectioneering, eCampaigning, eVoting, social
networking, and social media
⎯ eParticipation-related simulation, impact assessment and visualization
methods and tools eParticipation-related conceptual models, tools and
technologies
⎯ Current practices in eParticipation: Projects, designs,
implementations, evaluations, quality standards, and impact assessment
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The OPEN GOVERNMENT & BIG DATA TRACK (Track Chairs: Bram Klievink
(lead), Ida Lindgren, and Marijn Janssen)
The Open Government & Big Data Track focuses on practices and methods of
transparency, accountability, public big data sharing, data for
improving public value and data analytics.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
⎯ Open data and big data applications and dashboards for decision making
⎯ Data Science in government including predictive and pattern modeling
on big and open data (technical challenges, information quality,
implementation considerations, policy implications, among others)
⎯ Open government, transparency, and accountability
⎯ Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, and shared services
⎯ Service-oriented architectures, orchestration and composition
⎯ Infrastructure and enterprise architecture planning
⎯ Cloud computing in government
⎯ Metadata, ontologies, and semantic approaches
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The POLICY MODELING AND POLICY INFORMATICS TRACK (Track Chairs: Maria
Wimmer (lead), Theresa Pardo, and Yannis Charalabidis)
The Policy Modeling and Policy Informatics Track has the focus on
supporting public policy making with innovative ICT therewith involving
relevant stakeholders. The scope ranges from policy analysis and
conceptual modeling to programming and visualization of simulation
models, to help policy makers and stakeholders deliberate and evaluate
policy decisions as well as explore new models of governance.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
⎯ Model building, evaluation, and stakeholder acceptance
⎯ Modeling and simulating dynamics of social-environmental interactions
⎯ Decision-making in the public sector through data- and
information-centric as well as model-based analyses of evidence
⎯ Designing, managing, and evaluating information systems and
infrastructures for policy construction, analysis, and implementation
⎯ Public policy issues including modeling and simulation and use of
social media
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The SMART GOVERNANCE, SMART GOVERNMENT, & SMART CITIES TRACK (Track
Chairs: Peter Parycek (lead), Mila Gascó, and Olivier Glassey)
The Smart Governance, Smart Government, Smart Cities & Smart Regions
Track focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart
governance practices, smart public administration, smart resource and
talent leverage in urban and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses
of ICTs and other technologies.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
⎯ Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and
regional environments (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart
governance)
⎯ Smart government (focal areas, examples, current practices, cases,
potential pitfalls)
⎯ Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple helix, public-private
partnerships, citizen participation)
⎯ Smart cities and smart regions (cases, rankings and comparisons,
critical success factors)
⎯ Smart grids and the Internet of Things (infrastructure,
transportation, education, governance, environment, health care, safety,
security, and energy)
⎯ Smart carbonless and clean individual and public mobility
⎯ Smart devices and their novel use in public management
⎯ Smart (technology-facilitated) practices such as payment systems,
identification systems, etc.
⎯ SMART as a public-sector planning and management principle (Specific,
Measurable, Action-oriented, Results-based, and Time-bound)
⎯ New cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in smart technologies
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FORMATS
Across its tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV—ePart 2016 conference hosts three
distinct formats of contributions:
⎯ Completed research papers (max. 12 pages, published in either IFIP
EGOV or IFIP ePart proceedings of Springer LNCS)
⎯ Ongoing research and innovative projects (max 8 pages, published in
alternate proceedings by IOS Press)
Beyond the tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV—ePart 2016 conference also hosts
⎯ Posters (max. 2 pages), to be exposed along the welcome reception on
Tuesday evening and included in the alternate proceedings
⎯ Workshops and panels on pertinent issues, short abstracts (2 pages) to
be included in the alternate proceedings, and
⎯ PhD colloquium submissions (max. 8 pages) to be included in the
alternate proceedings by IOS Press
These formats encourage both, scientific rigor and discussions of
innovative research approaches, work in progress, and studies of
practical e-Government, e-Governance or e-Participation projects along
with papers on system implementations.
PROCEEDINGS
All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer
Verlag (LNCS). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be
published by IOS Press. After the conference, both volumes will be
submitted to Thompson Reuters for evaluation in order to be indexed in
Web of Science Conference Proceedings.
PHD COLLOQUIUM Prior to the conference (that is, on Sunday, September
4), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students
with an international forum guided by senior scholars for presenting
their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.
Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the
conference website:
www.egov-conference.org<http://www.egov-conference.org><http://www.egov-conference.org>
<http://www.egov-conference.org/>
www.epart-conference.org<http://www.epart-conference.org><http://www.epart-conference.org>
<http://www.epart-conference.org/>
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 15, 2016—Submission of papers—due to extension requests, spring
breaks and holidays: submission system closes on March 31, 2016
April 15, 2016—Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium
contributions
April 30, 2016—Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers
May 15, 2016—Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/posters/PhD
colloquium contributions
May 20, 2016—Camera-ready papers of accepted completed research/ongoing
research/workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions (fixed
date,no extensions can be granted!)
SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2016
2016 DUAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
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Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
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Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece
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Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University Operating Unit on
Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV, Portugal
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Delfina Sá Soares, University of Minho, Portugal
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