CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010 E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy A book edited by Dr. Aroon Manoharan (Kent State University) and Dr. Marc Holzer (Rutgers University) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=792 Introduction Governments across the world are rapidly transforming to Internet to provide public services and public administrators are increasingly implementing various strategies to enable this transformation. The move towards e-governance not only impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of public service but also has the potential to transform the nature of government interactions with both individuals and businesses. E-governance includes both e-government (delivery of public service) and e-democracy (citizen participation in governance). In the development of e-democracy, information disclosures and two-way communication are prerequisites for establishing and sustaining a high quality of political debate. The Internet is also a convenient mechanism through which government can conduct citizen-participation exercises with the potential to decentralize decision-making. The use of information and communication technology also facilitates effective public reporting by the government to ensure an informed citizenry. Objective of the Book The proposed publication will focus on how governments across the world engage their citizens online and the resulting impact on citizens. The book will consist of chapters from academicians and practitioners on online civic engagement that specifically examine how e-governance facilitates – online public reporting by governments to their citizens, online citizen participation in decision-making and citizen satisfaction with e-governance. The book will focus on issues and challenges involving adoption and implementation of online civic engagement initiatives globally, and will help guide governments in their transformation to e-governance. Target Audience The prospective audience for the edited book will be academicians, practitioners, and government officials primarily in the information technology and e-governance field across the world. Another audience would be scholars and practitioners from the fields of civic engagement, performance management, public relations, and related fields. The publication will be used in academic libraries, and will form part of the curriculum for courses relating to e-governance, civic engagement, citizen participation, public relations, and performance measurement among others. In addition to existing publications, the proposed book will provide a unique focus on public reporting/e-reporting and citizen satisfaction with online governance along with online citizen participation. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Online Civic Engagement - Online Decision Making - E-Participation and E-Deliberation - E-Governance and Citizen Trust - Online Privacy/Security - E-Governance and Digital Divide - Accessibility and Usability Issues - Performance Measurement Indicators - E-Governance and Citizen Satisfaction - E-Reporting and Performance Reporting - E-Governance and Public Relations - Transparency Issues in E-Governance - Accountability Issues in E-Governance - E-Petition and E-Rulemaking - Electronic Voting/Opinion Polls - Online Political Activism - Online networks and social capital - Web 2.0 - Non Internet-based Technology - Mobile Government - Customer Relationship Management - Open Source Solutions - Comparative E-Governance Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 15, 2010, a 1-2 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 1, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011. Important Dates March 15, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline April 1, 2010: Notification of Acceptance July 15, 2010: Full Chapter Submission September 30, 2010: Review Results Returned November 30, 2010: Final Chapter Submission December 30, 2010: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Aroon Manoharan Department of Political Science 302 Bowman Hall Kent State University, Kent OH 44242 USA Fax: 330-672-3362 <email obscured>
Doctoral Colloquium on Digital Government Research at dgo2010 in Puebla, Mexico Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2010 dgo2010 is the annual international conference of the Digital Government Society of North America.The Doctoral Colloquium is a new feature of dg.o 2010. It is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government research. The colloquium is planned for Monday, May 17, 2010. We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government from anywhere in the world. Participation is limited to 12-15 students who will give short, informal presentations of their work during the colloquium, followed by extensive small group discussion, feedback, and mentoring. . For more information, please see the details on the conference website: Spanish: http://dgo2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=30 &lang=es <http://dgo2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=3 0&lang=es> English: http://dgo2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=30 &lang=en <http://dgo2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=3 0&lang=en> Co-chairs of the Colloquium Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany Bjoern Niehaves, University of Muenster Jochen Scholl, Unviersity of Washington
Hi I would be interested in submitting an idea for a short presentation and workshop on E Voting and Union Participation. A case study on removing Union Hall intimidation through remote voting. This would be viable workshop demonstrating the ways and means to gain remote participation mainly to the retiree membership Background In Oshawa, Ontario Canada the largest CAW ( Canadian Auto Workers) have workers and retirees( The retirees are 9 out of the 10 eligible voters and many leave in Florida and elsewhere) the union votes are held in an union hall which could not accommodate all these members. The workshop would demonstrate the challenges to provide online voting protocals and procedures, public opinion, participation rates and benefits for remote voting.
A call you may be interested in: The 2nd International conference on eParticipation (ePart) 2010 29 August 2 September 2010; Lausanne, Switzerland (co-organised with EGOV 2010) www.demo-net.org/epart Call for Papers The scope of the ePart 2010 covers the whole range of research in eParticipation. Its principal aim is to review research advances in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation. This second ePart conference focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics around eParticipation: * The Research landscape, directions and foundations * Research methods, method integration and techniques * Cultural and normative differences in eParticipation * Comparative analyses of eParticipation practices * eParticipation projects: design, implementation, evaluation, quality and impact * Technologies for eParticipation, policy modelling, simulation and visualisation * Online conversation and deliberation, eConsulation, ePoling, eLegislation, eElectioneering, eVoting, Social networking * Education, training courses, and curricula The conference allows for four distinct types of submissions: * Completed research papers * Ongoing research and innovative projects * Workshops and panels on pertinent issues * PhD colloquium submission. ePart is closely aligned with EGOV 2010 - the IFIP eGovernment conference and the EGOV community. Note that this year both conferences will be located for the first time outside the DEXA cluster of conferences. ePart 2010 is sponsored by IFIP, WG8.5. Important Dates Submission of papers: 15 February 2010 Submission of workshop/panel proposals: 15 March 2010 Submissions to PhD colloquium: 15 March 2010 Notification of acceptance for papers: 30 March 2010 Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels: 30 April 2010 Publication All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag. Ongoing research and innovation projects papers will be published by Trauner Druck. Outstanding research papers from the conference might be selected for further development and publication in a special issue of a relevant journal. Conference chairs Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece Olivier Glassey, IDHEAP- University of Lausanne, Switzerland Program committee Georg Aichholzer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College, Norway Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Fiorella de Cindio, University of Milan, Italy Clelia Colombo, Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain Simon Delakorda, Institute for Electronic Participation, Slovenia Annelie Ekelin Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden Olivier Glassey, Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique, Switzerland Tomas Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems, Germany Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide, Australia Ake Grnd, ebro University, Sweden Konstantinos Koskinas, Panteion University, Greece Patrizia Lombardi, Politec di Turin, Italy Euripides Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ann Macintosh, Leeds University, United Kingdom Ursula Maier-Rabler, Salzburg University, Austria Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark David O'Donnell, Intellectual Capital Research, Institute of Ireland, Ireland Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria Cristian Peraboni, Universita degli Study di Milano, Italy Vassilios Peristeras, DERI, University of Ireland, Ireland David Price, Thoughtgraph Ltd., United Kingdom stein S, University of Agder, Norway Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece Ella Taylor-Smith, International Teledemocracy Center, United Kingdom Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Scott Wright, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Alexandros Xenakis, Panteion University, Greece
<<...OLE_Obj...>> 2010 iGov Research Institute July 18-25, 2010 The Hague & Delft, The Netherlands The Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany is pleased to announce the 2010 iGov Research Institute held in the Netherlands, from July 18-25, 2010. Supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute was created for doctoral students from around the world who are interested in the impacts of information and communication technologies on government and governance. The iGov Institute includes both academic sessions and practical field work and is organized around the experiences of a city or region using advanced information policies and technologies for economic, cultural, and social benefits. The faculty team comprises internationally known researchers as well as senior government officials. This year our field venue is The Hague in the Netherlands. Our local university partner and residential location is TU Delft. Past iGov students have given the program high praise, calling it "the best experience in collaborative interdisciplinary research" connected to practical e-governance challenges. I hope you will identify and encourage qualified doctoral students to apply to this week-long, intensive residential program focused on ways to advance, study, and understand digital government research in an international context. Please also share this announcement with your colleagues. For more details about the program design, please read summaries <http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute?sub=past> of programs from previous years. The 2010 iGov application submission deadline is March 15, 2010. To learn more and to apply, please visit the institute website <http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute> .
Hi all, I thought this may be of interest to some people on this list. Sincerely, Robert Goodspeed PhD Student M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning <email obscured> +1 202-321-2743 Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students
Dear Colleagues, Attached is the call for proposals for the Comparative E-government Minitrack at the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) to be held August 12-15, 2010 in Lima, Peru. Along with my co-chairs, Bjoern Niehaves and Herbert Kubicek, I encourage you to submit manuscripts that address this theme. The aim of the track is to discuss the state of the art as well as conceptual and methodological challenges for establishing Comparative eGovernment Studies as an interdisciplinary field of research. You can find more information about AMCIS 2010 at http://www.amcis2010.org/ <http://www.amcis2010.org/> <<AMCIS comp egov cfp.pdf>>
Dear all, This is to inform you that the deadline for submissions to the symposium 'Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics' has been extended to 11 January 2010. Please see our Call for Papers below for further details. Apologies for cross-posting. Best regards,
<<...OLE_Obj...>> 2010 iGov Research Institute July 18-25, 2010 The Hague & Delft, The Netherlands The Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany is pleased to announce the 2010 iGov Research Institute held in the Netherlands, from July 18-25, 2010. Supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute was created for doctoral students from around the world who are interested in the impacts of information and communication technologies on government and governance. The iGov Institute includes both academic sessions and practical field work and is organized around the experiences of a city or region using advanced information policies and technologies for economic, cultural, and social benefits. The faculty team comprises internationally known researchers as well as senior government officials. This year our field venue is The Hague in the Netherlands. Our local university partner and residential location is TU Delft. Past iGov students have given the program high praise, calling it "the best experience in collaborative interdisciplinary research" connected to practical e-governance challenges. I hope you will identify and encourage qualified doctoral students to apply to this week-long, intensive residential program focused on ways to advance, study, and understand digital government research in an international context. Please also share this announcement with your colleagues. For more details about the program design, please read summaries <http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute?sub=past> of programs from previous years. The 2010 iGov application submission deadline is March 15, 2010. To learn more and to apply, please visit the institute website <http://www.ctg.albany.edu/institute> .
Dear all, Please see call for papers below. Apologies for cross-postings. Best regards,
Does anyone know of any ontologies mapping out Internet policy issues? There are ontologies and XML markup standards for transactional data in e-government, but I haven't been able to find any classification of policy issues. Has anyone tried?
Rob, Thank you for writing. Material such as you suggested can be posted, however we reserve the right to review it to ensure it meets Department of Education standards for middle and high schools. Please send us what you have. Also, I'm willing to help you on e-democracy issues. For example, we will be using an online voting practice platform that will also serve as our election platform for the Mock Elections in VA and NJ. You may wish to keep an eye on this development as it presages a move to national use in schools in 2010. Stay in touch! Gil
Hello all, I am a graduate student interested in e-democracy issues. I was wondering whether list subscribers could post reading lists or class syllabi that contain what they consider important books and articles on the topic? I have accumulated some materials in an ad-hoc way, but I suspect more comprehensive resources exist. I am also interested in other materials related to research design on e-democracy or e-participation issues. Sincerely, <http://www.goodspeedupdate.com> Robert Goodspeed PhD Student | Urban Information Systems M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning <email obscured> | +1 (202) 321-2743 www.goodspeedupdate.com
Over the last three years with the support of my Ashoka Fellowship, I agreed not to "moonlight" and focus on E-Democracy.Org full-time. So, we've expanded from 5 Issues Forum in 5 communities to 15 communities to 25 forums across three countries. Not bad. More to do, particularly as we take the model down to the neighborhood level and gather funding to address the social inclusion opportunity in areas with the greatest needs. Anyway, my plan is to spend 1/4 to 1/2 of my paid time starting in 2010 back in my "expert" and convener role linking up researchers and practitioners on an international basis and the rest of my time leading E-Democracy.Org. One idea I have is to affiliate with a few research institutes/Universities for a reasonable amount to engage in some next generation research and strategic convening. One per continent would be sufficiently international. :-) I would, except perhaps for a yearly lecture visit, be virtual research associate and your institution would receive profile acknowledgment on DoWire.Org as well. If you'd like your institution to be considered in my initial prospecting, please let me know: <email obscured> Cheers, Steven Clift http://stevenclift.com
OK, thank you for your feedback. Hearing no one opposed, going once, going twice, ... I''ll create a consolidated member list from everyone on the consult@ code@ us@ ukie@ research@ europe@ groups and combine them with the sub-groups we never opened for discussion. Then we will have one big giant opt-out call for the mega-group before the Exchange@ opens. That's where you can vote with your feet so to speak. Cheers, Steven Clift P.S. Digest mode or the full text web feed will definitely be something for those who want to move beyond separate e-mails. More later.
Good idea to merge categories ! Very good idea to blend in twitter posts Dont forget the many edem Fbook groups too ... is there any work flow possible to bring in contents from there ? On the other hand ... I think it is time we move beyond mail lists ... I cannot possibly follow a discussion with 20+ replies to a mail... I guess there are today better ways of running a discussion than email ... Lets talk about what these better ways could be Regards from Brussels Christoforos Korakas
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> I still find the more democratic two-way nature of e-lists/forums to > be far superior for exchange than more elite expert blogs (where the > topics are chosen typically by one person and only those who have the > time to maintain blogs have contributions which are easy to access) > and most groups/sub-groups on social networking sites are not much > more than a nice collection of people's pictures in our niche. > I'll echo this, and add that email is critical - at least for me, if it doesn't show up in my inbox, I won't see it - there aren't enough hours in a day to go look at various forums. A forum view makes a good alternate interface, for looking at threads, and for archival purposes - and the ability to subscribe to a thread isn't bad either.
Sounds fine with me. Perfectly rational. Carlos Cunha >>> Steven Clift <email obscured>> 08/14/09 8:44 AM >>> The other week a round of introductions on the research@ forum at DoWire.Org brought out a number of very interesting practitioners who had joined that forum. Combine this with the fact that the e-democracy world has moved beyond "Consultation" which represented the roots of the consult@ group and the huge diffusion of online groups/blogs/twitter hash tags/Facebook groups etc. outside DoWire and we have a real challenge... Too many online spaces diffusing attention such that it is difficult to host a critical mass international discussion on e-democracy ANYWHERE. I still find the more democratic two-way nature of e-lists/forums to be far superior for exchange than more elite expert blogs (where the topics are chosen typically by one person and only those who have the time to maintain blogs have contributions which are easy to access) and most groups/sub-groups on social networking sites are not much more than a nice collection of people's pictures in our niche. So here is my proposal: 1. Open a catch-all simple *international* <email obscured> forum. Definitely merge the existing consult@ and code@ groups there. Close consult@ and code@ to new postings. This will be *the* place for exchange on an international level on e-democracy and related topics. 2. Give existing members on the proposed online groups that I *never opened* a chance to opt-out of joining the merged super discussion group. 3. Ask existing members on ukie@ europe@ and us@ if they object to being moved over while at the same time keeping there existing groups for at least a year to see if they remain useful. I've done opt-out moves before and rarely get more than a few "not me" please requests ... as long as I am clear about what is happening. If folks object, I'll leave that group out. 4. Use exchange@ as a place to extend remarks from the very useful link exchanging we see on Twitter. Declare #edem the official Twitter hashtag of the e-democracy world (inclusive of those involved with e-participation, e-transparency, e-advocacy, e-campaigning, etc.) and post new topic alerts from the exchange@ into Twitter (now working with New-Online - http://twitter.com/newsonlineposts ) tagged #edem. Figure out a way to post a daily digest of #edem Twitter posts to exchange@ creating a historical archive and access to non-Twitter users. 5. Recruit new members to the exchange@ from the many relatively dead post-Barcamp e-mail lists across the Net and reduce my own cross-posting on those forums to save many of you from multiple postings. 6. Encourage e-democracy related blog, newsletters, social nets, etc. to display discussion feed to their sites. 7. So DoWire would promote the following core exchange options: A. Newswire - Moderated announcements w/2500 members B. Exchange - International knowledge exchange on e-democracy w/1000? members C. Research - Focused research exchange w/400 members E. News-Online - Special group about online news and journalism - w/300 members D. Consider relaunching the DoWire Feeds aggregator to highlight the best blog, twitter tags, etc. resources in this space. Baseline to update from: http://politicalbs.com/DoWireFeeds/ So any feedback, comments? Send them to: <email obscured> Cheers, Steven Clift
The other week a round of introductions on the research@ forum at DoWire.Org brought out a number of very interesting practitioners who had joined that forum. Combine this with the fact that the e-democracy world has moved beyond "Consultation" which represented the roots of the consult@ group and the huge diffusion of online groups/blogs/twitter hash tags/Facebook groups etc. outside DoWire and we have a real challenge... Too many online spaces diffusing attention such that it is difficult to host a critical mass international discussion on e-democracy ANYWHERE. I still find the more democratic two-way nature of e-lists/forums to be far superior for exchange than more elite expert blogs (where the topics are chosen typically by one person and only those who have the time to maintain blogs have contributions which are easy to access) and most groups/sub-groups on social networking sites are not much more than a nice collection of people's pictures in our niche. So here is my proposal: 1. Open a catch-all simple *international* <email obscured> forum. Definitely merge the existing consult@ and code@ groups there. Close consult@ and code@ to new postings. This will be *the* place for exchange on an international level on e-democracy and related topics. 2. Give existing members on the proposed online groups that I *never opened* a chance to opt-out of joining the merged super discussion group. 3. Ask existing members on ukie@ europe@ and us@ if they object to being moved over while at the same time keeping there existing groups for at least a year to see if they remain useful. I've done opt-out moves before and rarely get more than a few "not me" please requests ... as long as I am clear about what is happening. If folks object, I'll leave that group out. 4. Use exchange@ as a place to extend remarks from the very useful link exchanging we see on Twitter. Declare #edem the official Twitter hashtag of the e-democracy world (inclusive of those involved with e-participation, e-transparency, e-advocacy, e-campaigning, etc.) and post new topic alerts from the exchange@ into Twitter (now working with New-Online - http://twitter.com/newsonlineposts ) tagged #edem. Figure out a way to post a daily digest of #edem Twitter posts to exchange@ creating a historical archive and access to non-Twitter users. 5. Recruit new members to the exchange@ from the many relatively dead post-Barcamp e-mail lists across the Net and reduce my own cross-posting on those forums to save many of you from multiple postings. 6. Encourage e-democracy related blog, newsletters, social nets, etc. to display discussion feed to their sites. 7. So DoWire would promote the following core exchange options: A. Newswire - Moderated announcements w/2500 members B. Exchange - International knowledge exchange on e-democracy w/1000? members C. Research - Focused research exchange w/400 members E. News-Online - Special group about online news and journalism - w/300 members D. Consider relaunching the DoWire Feeds aggregator to highlight the best blog, twitter tags, etc. resources in this space. Baseline to update from: http://politicalbs.com/DoWireFeeds/ So any feedback, comments? Send them to: <email obscured> Cheers, Steven Clift