[Air-L] CFP: eRulemaking at the Crossroads, v2.0 - A dg.o2008 Pre-Conference Workshop

[Stuart Shulman]

eRulemaking at the Crossroads, v2.0 - A dg.o2008 Pre-Conference Workshop
http://tiny.cc/F0a6X

Sunday May 18, 2008 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Overview

The topic of eRulemaking has gained prominence in the Digital Government
research community as well as the federal government. In 2006, a
dg.oworkshop examined "eRulemaking at a Crossroads". Over the past
seven years,
spurred by funding from the NSF's Digital Government program and other US
agencies, government officials, citizens, activists, business leaders, and a
wide range of scholars at Pitt , CMU , USC-ISI , and Cornell , have
converged around the specific problem of building tools to manage the flow
of public comments into the U.S. federal government. At the same time, the
Office of Management and Budget has overseen the development of
government-wide eRulemaking Initiative, now 5 years old, which created
Regulations.Gov , a portal for reviewing all open rulemakings, and a Federal
Docket Management System (FDMS). Meanwhile, a special committee of the
American Bar Association is preparing a report on the "Status & Future of
Federal e-Rulemaking". A vigorous debate still continues about the utility
of mass public comment campaigns and alternate means for promoting citizen
engagement. As a result, despite considerable scholarly and practitioner
interest, eRulemaking is once again at the crossroads.

The target audience for this workshop is a mix of government officials, as
well as researchers from law, public administration, political science,
computer science and other related disciplines. We anticipate presentations
or system demonstrations by the individuals or groups with accepted white
papers. Much of the workshop will be devoted to discussion.
Call for Participation

All presenters at dg.o2008 international research workshops are required to
submit a 2-page white paper to the workshop organizer by April 15, 2008.
White papers must adopt the ACM's 'proceedings' templates that are being
used by all participants in dg.o2008. The ACM's proceedings templates are
for use in Microsoft Word and LaTeX2e. Strict adherence to SIGS style is
expected. The template can be downloaded at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Anyone can register to
attend the workshop without having to prepare a paper or presentation.

Organizers

    * Dr. Stuart W. Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
      shulman at pitt.eduThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots,
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    * Tom Bruce, Cornell University
      tom.bruce at cornell.edu


For more information on the dg.o 2008 conference, please visit:
http://www.dgo2008.org/

-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Director, Sara Fine Institute
School of Information Sciences
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program
University Center for Social and Urban Research
http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
121 University Place, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f)
http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu
Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
http://www.jitp.net