[open-government] Call for papers IFIP EGOV2016 - Smart cities track

[Mila Gascó]

15th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV 2016)
8th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart 2016)
September 5-7, 2016
Guimarães, Portugal
www.egov-conference.org / www.epart-conference.org

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Smart Governance, Smart Government, Smart Cities and Smart Regions (Smart GOV) Track 

OVERVIEW

The dual 15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and the 8th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2016 will be held from Monday, September 5 to Thursday, September 7, 2016 under the local auspices of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) and the University of Minho in Guimarães, Portugal - http://egov.unu.edu/ and http://www.uminho.pt/en.

The annual international IFIP EGOV conference is the top-2 ranked core conference in the domain of ICT in the public sector and the public sphere. As part of this conference, the Smart Governance, Smart Government, Smart Cities & Smart Regions Track focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart resources and talent leverage in urban and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and other technologies.

Areas of focus and interest include, but are not limited, to the following topics:

- Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart governance)
- Smart government (focal areas, examples, current practices, cases, potential pitfalls)
- Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple helix, public-private partnerships, citizen participation)
- Smart cities and smart regions (cases, rankings and comparisons, critical success factors)
- Collective intelligence for cities and regions
- Smart grids and the Internet of Things (infrastructure, transportation, education, governance, environment, health care, safety, security, and energy)
- Smart carbonless and clean individual and public mobility
- Smart devices and their novel use in public management
- Smart (technology-facilitated) practices such as payment systems, identification systems, etc.
- New cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in smart technologies
- SMART as a public-sector planning and management principle (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Results-based, and Time-bound)

Track Chairs: 

- Peter Parycek (lead), Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Mila Gascó, Institute of Public Governance and Management, ESADE Business & Law School (Spain)
- Olivier Glassey, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)

FORMATS

Across its tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2016 conference hosts several distinct formats of contributions:

- Completed research papers (max. 12 pages, published in the IFIP EGOV proceedings of Springer LNCS)
- On-going research and innovative projects (max. 8 pages, published in alternate proceedings by IOS Press)
 
Beyond the tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2016 conference also hosts:

- Posters (max. 2 pages) to be exposed along the welcome reception
- Workshops and panels on pertinent issues
- Short abstracts (2 pages)
- PhD colloquium submissions (max. 8 pages)
 
all to be included in the alternate proceedings published by IOS Press.
 
These formats encourage both scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art as well as innovative research approaches, work in progress, and studies of practical e-government or e-governance projects along with papers on system implementations. 
 
Prior to the conference, a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students with an international forum guided by senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the conference website: http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2016 
 
IMPORTANT DATES: 
 
- March 15, 2016 - Submission of papers (hard deadline-no late submissions allowed)
- April 15, 2016 - Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions
- April 30, 2016 - Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers 
- May 15, 2016 - Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions
- May 31, 2016 - Camera-ready papers of completed research on-going research, posters, workshop and panel descriptions
 
SUBMISSION SITE:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2016
 
2016 DUAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
 
- Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University (EGOV), Portugal
- Delfina Sá Soares, University of Minho, Portugal

Mila Gascó, PhD
Institute of Public Governance and Management/Instituto de Gobernanza y Dirección Pública/Institut de Governança i Direcció Pública

  Av. Pedralbes 60-62. E-08034 Barcelona Tel. + 34 932 806 162 
mila.gasco at esade.edu

www.esade.edu/igdp

 

 

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