New international conference on eParticipation and call for contributions, September 2009

4. December 2008 – 12:59 by Danish Technological Institute

Received a piece of news concerning a new international conference on eParticipation which may be of interest to you.

As some of you probably know, 2009 will be the first time, ePart, a new International Conference on eParticipation (www.demo-net.org/epart), will take place following the 8^th international EGOV conference 2009 (part of the DEXA conference cluster, www.dexa.org). ePart is dedicated to topics on eParticipation and eDemocracy. ePart will take place 3-4 September 2009 in Linz (AT), i.e. right after EGOV conference 30 August to 2 September 2009 with which ePart will be co-located.

A call for papers and workshops/panels is published for both the 2009 ePart and (EGOV www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009).

Contributions may be in the form of scientific papers (distinguishing between completed research and ongoing research), project presentations, and workshops. Each format encourages scientific rigor and discussions of the state-of-the-art, innovative research in progress, studies of practical eGovernment/eGovernance, eParticipation and eDemocracy projects, as well as system implementations.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Ongoing research and project papers will be published in the Trauner (Linz, AT) proceedings.

Important dates include:

• Submission of papers:  28 February 2009
• Submission of workshop/panel proposals: 15 April 2009
• Submission of PhD projects:  15 April 2009
• Notification of acceptance for papers: 15 April 2009
• Notification of workshops/panels/PhD projects: 15 May 2009
• EGOV conference: 30 August to 2 September 2009
• ePart conference: 3-4 September 2009

Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Danish Technological Institute

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