Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

JOHN BERTOT; ELSA ESTEVEZ; SEHL MELLOULI

ACM

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2016 p. 360

978-1-4503-3640-6

ForewordThe 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2016) took place under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 1 to 3 March 2016. It was co-organized by the Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society of Uruguay (AGESIC) and the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) in collaboration with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).The ICEGOV series focuses on the use of technology to transform relationships between government and citizens, businesses, civil society and other arms of government (Electronic Governance). ICEGOV was established in 2007 by the Center for Electronic Governance at the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), which in 2014 moved from Macau, China to Guimarães, Portugal and transformed into UNU-EGOV. The series looks beyond the traditional focus on technology-enabled transformation in government (Electronic Government) towards new forms, new paradigms, and new foundations for technology-enabled governance, collaboration and development. ICEGOV is a forum where researchers, policy-makers and practitioners meet; where theories are tested, insights are shared, and experiences are reported; where network-building takes place vis-à-vis the scientific program and keynote lectures, and where paper tracks are complemented by plenary discussions and invited sessions; where truly global participation includes developed, developing and transition countries, and representatives from government, academia, industry, international organizations and NGOs. The ICEGOV series travelled globally from Macau (ICEGOV2007) to Cairo (ICEGOV2008), Bogotá (ICEGOV2009), Beijing (ICEGOV2010), Tallinn (ICEGOV2011), Albany (ICEGOV2012), Seoul (ICEGOV2013), Guimarães (ICEGOV2014), and Montevideo (ICEGOV2016).Continuing the ICEGOV tradition, ICEGOV2016 featured a rich academic, capacity-building and network-building program of keynote lectures, plenary discussions, thematic sessions, invited sessions, a poster exhibition, and a doctoral colloquium, all built from submitted or invited contributions by researchers, experts, policymakers and practitioners from around the world. The conference engaged authors, reviewers, committee members and resource persons from 64 countries and economies: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Korea, Palestine, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UnitedKingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. The details of the submissions and the program are provided below.In response to the call for papers, ICEGOV2016 received 164 submissions written by 362 authors from 50 countries and economies. After the double-blind peer-review process carried out by the Programme Committee, 393 reviews were performed, including three independent reviews obtained for most submissions. On this basis, 119 papers were accepted including: 29 full papers, 37 short papers, 44 posters and 9 doctoral research papers. With few exceptions, all accepted papers, revised to address the comments received from the reviewers, were presented at the conference as part of thematic sessions, the poster exhibition and the doctoral colloquium, and are included in different sections of this volume. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit substantially extended and revised versions of their papers for possible inclusion in the ICEGOV2016 special issue of the Government Information Quarterly, published by Elsevier.The conference included six keynote lectures by: 1) Juan Andrés Roballo, Prosecretary of the President of the Republic, Uruguay; 2) Getachew Engida, Deputy Director General of UNESCO; 3) Mario Maniewicz, Deputy Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau of ITU; 4) Wojciech Cellary, Professor, Poznań University of Economics, Poland; 5) Theresa Pardo, Director of the Center of Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA; and 6) Cecilia Giordano and Álvaro Casalins, Deloitte, Argentina. Four plenary discussions expanded on the topics of the keynote lectures: 1) ?Digital Government and Knowledge Societies? chaired by Chafica Haddad (Chair of UNESCO?s intergovernmental Council of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) Council) and attended by Getachew Engida (UNESCO), José Clastornik (AGESIC) and Tomasz Janowski (UNU-EGOV); 2) ?From ubiquitous connectivity to intelligent society?? chaired by Sehl Mellouli (Laval University, Canada) and attended by Mario Maniewicz (ITU), Carlos Chesñevar (National University of the South, Argentina) and Gianluca Misuraca (JRC-IPTS, European Commission, Spain); 3) ?Big data era: better living and less freedom?? chaired by António Tavares (University of Minho, Portugal) and attended by Wojciech Cellary (Poznań University of Economics, Poland), María Isabel Jaramillo (Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Colombia) and Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, Austria); and 4) ?Open Data-driven policy processes and SDG? chaired by John Bertot (University of Maryland, USA), and attended by Theresa Pardo (Center of Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA), Jeremy Millard (Brunel University, UK) and Peter Winstanley (Scottish Government, UK).The program also included 14 thematic sessions devoted to specific topics covered by submitted papers and chaired by experts on these topics: 1) ?Transparency and Accountability? chaired by Gabriel Delpiazzo and António Tavares; 2) ?Citizen Empowerment? chaired by Elsa Estevez and Ana Rivoir; 3) ?National EGOV Studies? chaired by Dimitrii Trutnev and Linda Veiga; 4) ?Digital Inclusion and EGOV? chaired by Sunil Choenni and Gianluca Misuraca; 5) ?Public Service Innovation? chaired by Wojciech Cellary and Frances Slack; 6) ?Context-Specific EGOV? chaired by Nadzeya Kalbaska and Peter Parycek; 7) ?Social Innovation? chaired by Matias Dodel and Jeremy Millard; 8) ?Social Media and EGOV? chaired by John Bertot and Louise Thomasen; 9) ?Open Government Data? chaired by Adegboyega Ojo and Peter Winstanley; 10) ?Smart Sustainable Cities? chaired by Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen and Theresa Pardo; 11) ?IntelligentInformation Systems? chaired by Carlos Chesñevar and Horacio Nemeth; 12) ?Open Government? chaired by Jean-Patrick Villeneuve; 13) ?Government Transformation? chaired by Tomasz Janowski; and 14) ?Government Information Management? chaired by Lorena Etcheveverry and Sehl Mellouli. Each session hosted presentations of research and experience papers related to the theme of the session, and moderated discussions between the authors and the audience on these presentations.The program also included four invited sessions organized by the organizations active in the area: 1) AGESIC, chaired by Jorge Abin; 2) UNESCO, chaired by Paul Hector; 3) Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Colombia, chaired by María Isabel Mejía Jaramillo; and 4) the joint session by UNU-EGOV and the University of Minho, Portugal, chaired by Linda Veiga. A poster exhibition was organized in a reception style to allow authors to present their ongoing work, receive feedback, and engage in discussions and networking. A total of 34 posters were accepted and presented at the conference. Finally, an interactive Doctoral Colloquium took place on 4 March 2016, providing doctoral students from different disciplines an opportunity to present their accepted papers and discuss a variety of Electronic Governance topics and issues associated with their research work, dissertations, and career plans. The colloquium was co-chaired by João Álvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal; Adegboyega Ojo, INSIGHT Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Ireland; John Bertot, University of Maryland, USA, and Sehl Mellouli, Laval University, Canada. During the Colloquium, seven PhD students presented their research work and received feedback. The conference also organized the awards process in the Best Research Paper, Best Experience Paper and Best Poster categories. The nominees for the Best Research Paper award were: 1) ?Exploring the Nature and Impact of ICT-enabled Social Innovation in Support of Public Sector Reform: the Potential of Integrated Approaches to Social Services Delivery to Promote Social Investment Policies in Europe? by Gianluca Misuraca and Clelia Colombo; 2) ?Each in their own Garden: Obstacles for the Implementation of Open Government in the Public Sector of the German-speaking Region? by Peter Parycek, Ralph Schöllhammer and Juditch Schossböck; and 3) ?Online Discourse as a Microdemocracy Tool: Towards New Discursive Epistemics for Policy Deliberation? by Andrei Chugunov, Olga Filatova and Yuri Misnikov; and the winner was ?Online Discourse as a Microdemocracy Tool: Towards New Discursive Epistemics for Policy Deliberation?. The nominees for the Best Experience Paper award were: 1) ?Social Innovation for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development: SomeGovernance and Policy Perspectives? by Jeremy Millard, Vishanth Weerakkody, Farouk Missi, Kawaljeet Kapoor and Gayani Fernando; and 2) ?Managing Consistency in e-Government Transactions: the Case of Uruguay? by Raúl Ruggia, Andrea Delgado, Jorge Abin, Laura Gonzalez and Pablo Garbusi; and both nominated papers won the award. Finally, the Best Poster award was granted to ?Institutional Networks for Digital Citizen Empowerment? by Valeria Colombo and Dinorah Alifa as well as ?The Use of Open Government Data to Citizen Empowerment ? the Case of Caring for my Neighborhood? by Gisele S. Craveiro, Jorge A. S. Machado and Jutta S. Machado.Many institutions and individuals contributed to the organization of ICEGOV2016. We wish to thank the official patron of ICEGOV2016 ? the Presidency of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, for endorsing and supporting the conference. We also warmly thank the local organizer ? AGESIC for their efforts in hosting the conference, and UNESCO, and particularly the Information for All Programme (IFAP) for providing high-level support to the conference and for creating an important connection between EGOV and Knowledge Societies. We wish to express our most sincere thanks to the key sponsors, whose generous contributions allowed participation in the conference by many practitioners and experts from developing countries. Last but not least, we are most grateful to the ICEGOV2016 Conference Committee, Steering Committee,Programme Committee and Organizational Committee, as well as to all speakers, panelists, moderators, chairs and authors for their contributions to the ICEGOV2016 programme and to these proceedings.Finally, we would like to thank the Tunisian Management Scientific Society and the Government of the Republic of Tunisia for their efforts in preparing ICEGOV2015, which edition was planned to take place in Tunis in October 2015 but had to be moved to Montevideo.We sincerely hope that ICEGOV2016 will further contribute to building a global Electronic Governance research and practice community able to cross national, institutional and thematic borders, and that the contacts, discussions and ideas initiated in Montevideo in March 2016 will continue well after the conference and towards ICEGOV2017 in New Delhi, India.Montevideo, March 2016John Bertot, University of MarylandElsa Estevez, United Nations UniversitySehl Mellouli, Laval University