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DGOnline Newsletter
Volume 9: August 2007
Welcome to dgOnline, the electronic newsletter of the Digital Government Society of North America. dgOnline is a monthly summary of news and events of interest to the DG community. To submit material for inclusion in future issues, please contact Denise Dreany
In this issue:
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
The Call for Papers has gone out for the Digital Government Society of North America's 9th annual conference, dg.o 2008, to be held at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, May 18-21, 2008. Major support for the conference comes 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, NGO's, and businesses.
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.
Important dates are as follows:
November 1, 2007 Conference submission web site launched. 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 notifications for posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions.
March 15, 2008 All camera ready versions are due.
Elections Coming Up
The Nominating Committee is now being formed to solicit candidates for the open positions of officers and board members of the Society. Elections will be held in November of this year and new officers and board members will begin serving their terms on January 1, 2008. Sharon Dawes is heading up the Nominating Committee, along with Chris Hinnant (GAO).
Anyone wishing to serve on the Nominating Committee, or interested in running for office should contact Sharon Dawes, Chris Hinnant, or Lester Diamond. We welcome candidates from government, NGO's and academics, and from all three countries in North America.
New Library Resources
Take a new look at the Library and Archives at the DGSNA web site. Providing a unique benefit , this resource gives members access to an End Notes Library which includes over 2,100 peer-reviewed articles, the majority of which are downloadable, compiled by Jochen Scholl and his students at the University of Washington.
Workshop Reports from the National Science Foundation's Digital Government Research Program dating from 1997 are housed at the Library. Direct links to all dg.o Conference Proceedings including conference reports, research papers, posters and demos, Birds-of-Feather sessions and keynote summaries are also available to members, and are searchable on their home base at the ACM Digital Library.
The library contains links to web sites of interest, online journals, newsletters, reports series, government portals, international information sites, and lists of related research and policy organizations. The DGSNA Library is now a convenient access point to a growing array of relevant e-government information and publications.
Articles and Reports of Interest:
Public CIO reports that managers in the public and private sectors are increasingly turning to business process management (BPM) as a more benign methodology to implement process-oriented change.
State E-Government Strategies: Identifying Best Practices and Applications
A CRS Report for Congress by the LBJ School of Public Affairs identifies some of the best practices in e-government strategies and management being carried out by state governments.
The Pew Center on the States reports that the states are now placing money in pools for research and development in order to stir innovation and create new jobs, attempting to replace federal dollars which have declined for R&D investment.
The sixth annual survey by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University reports that Asian countries again dominate the e-government ratings by capturing three out of the top four sports.
Social Security Administration Needs Strategic Commitment to E-Services
In order to meet the needs of the baby boomer generation, the Social Security Administration must make a strategic commitment to enhance and promote use of its online services, says a new report from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
Conferences and Calls for Papers:
Calls for Papers
Call for Volume Chapters and Reviewers
Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS)
Volume on Electronic Government: Information, Technology and Transformation
Dr. Hans J. Scholl, AMIS EG Volume Editor
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Contact Dr. Hans J. Scholl
International Journal of Electronic Democracy Special Issues – Call for Papers:
Democratic Internet - Foundations, Ideas, Approaches, and New Perspectives www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=641
Deadline: October 15, 2007
Free/Libre and Open Source Software as a Foundation for E-Democracy
www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=642
Participation in Democracy for All - the Society of Active Citizens, an E-Democracy Primer
www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=643
2nd International Conference on Legal Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law - Call for Papers
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 5-7, 2007
Deadline: October 27, 2007
The Georgetown Public Policy Review - Call for Papers
2008 Edition - Democracy in Practice: Campaigns, Elections, and Voters
Deadline: November 1, 2007
Contact: Betsey G. Hawkins
dg.o 2008 "Partnerships for Public Innovation"
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal Canada, May 18-21, 2008
Deadline: December 1, 2007
www.dgo2008.org/images/pdfs/cfpdgo2008_v18.pdf
Conferences
6th International EGOV Conference 2007
Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007
Workshop on Design & Evaluation of E-Government Applications and Services (DEGAS '2007)
Held in conjunction with IFIP TC 13 Conference INTERACT '2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007
European Group for Public Administration Conference
Madrid, Spain, September 19-22, 2007
1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling E-Government (MeTTeGo7)
Camerino, Italy, September 27-28, 2007
www.conferences.cs.unicam.it/metteg07/
3rd International Conference on E-Government (ICEG) 2007
University of Quebec at Montreal
Montreal, Canada, September 27-28, 2007
www.academic-conferences.org/iceg/iceg2007/iceg07-home
NASCIO Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, September 30-October 3, 2007
www.nascio.org/events/2007Annual
i-Society 2007
International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007)
Merrillville, Indiana, U.S., October 7-11, 2007
9th Public Management Research Association (PMRC) Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, October 25-27, 2007
http://www.pmranet.org/conferences/ProConf.html
eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition
The Hague, The Netherlands, October 24-26, 2007
www.echallenges.org/e2007/default.asp?page=c4p
ICEGOV 2007
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Macao SAR, China, December 10-13, 2007
41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 41)
Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2008
Grant Opportunities:
Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence
Proposal Deadline for Medium Projects: October 23, 2007
Proposal Deadline for Large Projects: November 19, 2007
Proposal Deadline for Small Projects: December 10, 2007
www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_keynsf07577
Cyber Trust (CT) 06-500
Full Proposal: November 14, 2007
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=CISE
Broadening Participation in Computing (BCP) 07-548
Full Proposal: May 21, 2008
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=CISE
Contact Denise Dreany for questions or to submit material for future newsletters.
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