[Air-L] CFP: 9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)

[Jennifer Stromer-Galley]

Call for Papers

9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008 at easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for
presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government
research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The
conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North
America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science
Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on
information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve
linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This
theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy
perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach
higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year
the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government
professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs,
as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of
digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that
lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral
science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy
papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as
proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype
demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and
pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee
particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and
crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics
include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis
management, education, emergency response; international initiatives
and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and
criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management,
grants administration, government statistics, regulation and
rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and
urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital
government organization and management strategies, decision-making
processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program
planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information
sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of
government information, information assurance, service integration, as
well as technology transition and transfer.
* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital
democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public
participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust,
and universal access to information and services.
* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as
collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government
domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic
information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction;
information integration; interoperable data, networks and
architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and
management; mobile government; national and international
infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities
and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social
networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.
We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant
contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote
speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 - Conference submission website becomes available.
The submission site is located at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 - Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 -  Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials
and workshops
* February 1, 2008 - Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF)
sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 - Acceptance notification for pre-conference
tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due