[open-government] CeDEM15: Track on Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation: Call for Papers

Mon Nov 10 15:19:20 UTC 2014

Dear colleagues,

please consider to submit a paper for CeDEM15 conference, the
conference for eDemocracy and Open Government. CeDEM15 hosts a track on
Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation.
Co-located with CeDEM15 will be the fourth public meeting of SharePSI
2.0, the European network for the exchange of experience and ideas
around implementing open data policies in the public sector
http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/.

=== Important deadlines === 

Submission deadline: 8 December 2014 using the conference web site
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference/edem/vid/20773/index.php?URL=/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference/20773&cursor=5

Date of acceptance: 9. February 2015
Conference date: 20.5. 2015 - 22. 5. 2015, @ Danube University Krems,
Austria

=== Topics === 

●	Open data policy and politics: opportunities and challenges for
governments; the global spread of open data policy; transparency and
accountability, economic innovation, drivers for open data; benefits and
challenges for developing countries
●	Licensing and legal issues: copyright vs. open li censes &
creative commons; Freedom of Information and the ‘right to data’;
information sharing and privacy.
●	Open data technologies: technical frameworks for data and
meta-data; mash-ups; data formats, standards and APIs; integration into
backend systems; data visualisation; data end-users and intermediaries;
●	 Open innovation and co-production: open data enabled models of
public service provision; government as a platform; making open data
innovation sustainable; data and democracy; connecting open data and
crowdsourcing; data and information literacy;
●	Evidence and impacts: costs and benefits of providing or using
open data; emerging good practices; methods for open data research;
empirical data measuring open data impacts.
●	Open data as a social movement: How can the global trend towards
open data be conceptualized as a form of collective action? How do
challengers and incumbents organize and change? How is the data branch
embedded in the field of open movements?

For more information please visit the main conference web site
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference/edem/vid/20773/index.php

Best regards,
   Johann Höchtl

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Dr. Johann Höchtl
Zentrum für E-Governance
Donau-Universität Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
A-3500 Krems
Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2304
Mail: Johann.hoechtl at donau-uni.ac.at