[Air-l] FINAL REMINDER: dg.o 2007 BoFs, Posters, and Demos deadline - February 26, 2007

[Yigal Arens]

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

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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.


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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.