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CFP: Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government

12. October 2011 – 17:16 by Centre for E-Government

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. >> https://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

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.

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!