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12. October 2011 – 17:16 by Centre for E-Government
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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. >> http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem
CeDEM12 presents the following tracks:
- E-Participation
- Government 2.0
- Social/Web Media and Public Administration
- E-Politics and E-Campaigning
- European Citizen Initiative
- Participatory Budgeting
- Bottom-Up Movements
- Open Data and Open Access
Submission Deadline: 12/12/2011
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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.
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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.
You can download last year’s conference proceedings at the conference website!
Important Dates:
- Deadline for the submission of papers and workshop proposals: 12 December 2011
- Conference: 3-4 May 2012
Further Information
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15. October 2008 – 12:49 by Centre for E-Government
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At the Centre for E-Government, Danube University Krems (we hosted the EDem08, remember us?) we have a couple of ideas we would let to get started on- the first one is to establish an online open access journal alongside the yearly EDem conference. It will address theoretical and applied topics from e-democracy to e-government. If you are interested in participating, read below and get in touch with me (noella.edelmann@donau-uni.ac.at)!
Details ( please note that if you are interested, we are open to your ideas and suggestions as well as what role you would like to have):
The e-journal will address an international audience being at least bi-lingual, German and English. It will be published twice a year. All content will be available for free for readers on the Internet under a creative commons license. It is the journals intention to be a full open access journal. Thus also authors should have free access to publish their works. Of course the online open access journal will follow the highest standards of peer review. Thus the e-journal intends to be another attractor for young as well as experienced scholars to connect with the Centre for e-Government at the Danube University of Krems.
The e-journal is asking for your participation as a joint international partner organization or your personal board membership including peer reviewing responsibilities.
To receive at hoc the best visibility on the web the Centre will execute its e-journal with the well-established open source platform Open Journal System by the Public Knowledge Project, which was developed at Stanford University. This platform will distribute the contents with its sophisticated metadata possibilities at once in all relevant search engine databases including Google scholar and scientific content harvesters like the Open Archives Harvester. Furthermore the e-journal will be announced in all relevant open directories including the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Librarians’ Internet Index, and many more. It is the journals mission to promote the published articles of its authors at its best.
The Open Access Journal will be promoted via the EDem conference and other conferences addressing the topics, plus extensive community relations within the scientific communities interested in the topics as well as within diverse social software applications and mailing lists on the web. Furthermore the international relations with university libraries will ensure the availability of the e-journal to future students and researchers.
I look forward to hearing from you!
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