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Registration Open
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The early-bird-rate is available until 29 February 2012.
Submission officially closed
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Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2012
3-4 May 2012, Danube University Krems, Austria
We would like to invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as business, public authorities, NGO, NPOs and education institutions to submit their papers, reflections as well as workshop proposals. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the emerging conference topics. This year we want to encourage practitioners to submit papers as we provide a specific section for non-academics. Conference language is English.
Peter Parycek & Noella Edelmann (Chairs)
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Call for Papers
In modern democracies, people are to be empowered by means of information and communication technologies. Transparency and access to data, new ways of interacting with government and democratic institutions cause profound changes in society. Social media and the new forms of societal behaviour, including content generation, collaboration and sharing as well as network organisation change our understanding of politics and business. Governmental and private internet services have increased the citizens’ independence and flexibility. However, enthusiastic ideas and projects often failed to produce the expected results as technology is only the basis for new forms of organisation and interaction. CeDEM12 seeks to critically analyse present and future developments in e-democracy and open government.
CeDEM12 presents the following tracks:
Track: E-Participation
Track Chairs: Julia Glidden (21c Consultancy Ltd., UK), Francesco Molinari (Parterre project, IT)
- Participation and collaboration: social media & networks, engagement and accountability, generation of content and knowledge, collaborative culture, collaboration between C2C & G2C
- Sustainability of e-participation and citizen engagement
- Cooperative politics, future concepts
- Different perspectives of citizens, government, NGOs, NPOs, practitioners, service providers
- Critical perspectives: wrongdoings, worst and bad experiences, hype but not reality
Track: Government 2.0
Track Chairs: Reinhard Riedl (University of Zurich, CH), Philipp Müller (Universität Salzburg, AT)
- Open government initiatives; transparency, participation and collaboration in government
- E-Government modelling and simulation, technological developments, smart/mobile democracy
- Architecture, concepts & effects: access and openness, network effects, power laws, long tail, crowd sourcing for government, social web, semantic web
Track: Social/Web Media and Public Administration
Track Chairs: Sylvia Archmann (EIPA, NL), Peter Mambrey (Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE), Rebecca Schild (University of Toronto at Scarborough, CA)
- Administration and media, social media and social networks
- Information provision, mobile devices, service delivery via new communication channels
- New journalism, blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, e-learning
Track: E-Politics and E-Campaigning
Track Chairs: Ralf Lindner (Fraunhofer ISI, DE), Andy Williamson (Hansard Society, UK)
- Political online campaigning, mass communication
- Mobilisation via social media, networks vs. traditional party-structure
- Social and political self-organisation, revolution via web 2.0
Track: European Citizen Initiative
Track Chairs: Manuel J. Kripp (e-voting.cc, AT), Daniel van Lerberghe (Politech EurActiv, BE), Gregor Wenda (Federal Ministry for the Interior, AT)
- The impact on European politics, society and European integration
- National vs. European interests, regions in Europe
- On-going projects, realisations, relations to the connected society
- Expectations, hopes and risks
Track: Participatory Budgeting
Track Chair: Norbert Kersting (Universität Münster, DE)
- Prerequisites for participatory budgeting; objectives and outcomes
- Examples, scenarios and concepts; best practices and unsuccessful cases
- Linking online and offline activities to include all person groups
Track: Bottom-Up Movements
Track Chairs: Axel Bruns (ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, AU), Elin Wihlborg (Linkoping University, SE)
- Online communities, innovation, bottom-up vs. top-down
- NGOs/NPOs in a connected society
- Online spaces for self-organisation and citizen engagement
- User generated content, peer production
Track: Open Data and Open Access
Track Chairs: Johann Höchtl (Danube University Krems, AT), Jörn von Lucke (Zeppelin University, DE)
- Legal, licensing and political issues: freedom of information, information sharing, data visualization, transparency, opportunities and limitations
- Technical frameworks of open data/access and mashing platforms, open data formats and API's
- Costs and benefits of open data provision, principles and good practice of open data; open access and crowd sourcing
- The role of scholarly communication democracies; implications of open access for citizens, governments, research and universities;
- The impact of open access and transparency on e-participation
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Important Dates
- Extended deadline for the submission of papers and workshop proposals: 16 January 2012
The submission portal will be opened at the beginning of November 2011. - Notification of acceptance: 2 March 2012
- Camera-ready paper submission: 21 March 2012
- Conference: 3-4 May 2012
Publications
The conference proceedings will be published with the Edition Danube University; additionally, the complete proceedings will be made accessible online. A selection of best research papers and case studies of CeDEM12 will be published with the Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government. (www.jedem.org)
- Research papers shall be 12 pages maximum and will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
- Case studies/project papers shall be 12 pages maximum and will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
- Reflections shall be 4 pages maximum and will be selected by the chairs.
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