[Air-L] Call for Papers: dg.o 2008 Montreal, May 18-21, 2008

Stuart Shulman stuart.shulman at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 12:50:21 PDT 2007


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

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.

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



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