The area of Electronic Government has up to now been tackling important problems for administrations and societies such as service provision, automation in the public sector, interoperability and common standards, information systems, security and authentication and legal issues. The major scope is to increase public value (efficiency, transparency, accountability, trust, engagement and collaboration) and to serve citizens towards their well-being. Government 1.0 was more focused on the efficiency part, while Government 2.0 on the collaboration and citizens’ engagement following the…

The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2018, with a theme: "Governance in the data age". The dg.o 2018 conference will be hosted by Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands from 30 May till 1 June, 2018. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year the conference brings…

The 8th edition of SEMIC, the annual semantic interoperability conference, will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 14 June 2018. The event, organised by the ISA2 Programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, will bring together policy makers, IT practitioners and researchers interested in topics related to semantic interoperability for public administration. This year, the theme of the conference will be "Linked Digital Public Administrations". Nowadays, public administrations exchange data with each other…

The 5th International Summer School on Government 3.0 “Framing Government 3.0: Concepts and Research Objectives 2 - 7 July 2018, Samos, Greece   The Summer School is organized by the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean and Gov 3.0 consortium and provides a unique opportunity for participants to interact with internationally acclaimed scientists and researchers in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance, to develop their skills in the areas of policy modelling, information management, social media…

  The 8th Samos 2018 Summit On ICT-enabled Governance : “Government 3.0" 2 - 4 July 2018, Samos, Greece in conjunction with The 5th International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance 2 - 7 July 2018, Samos, Greece     Scope and Objectives The 8th Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance offers an unprecedented opportunity to see, interact with and influence cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies research projects and initiatives. Attended by high caliber experts from research, administrations and enterprises…

A Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that saves transactions on thousands of computers around the globe. Blockchain, the technology underlying the infamous Bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been receiving considerable attention in recent years, as new use cases in the public and private sector are identified. What started as a mechanism to avoid the double spending problem with digital money is being experimented in scenarios where a trusted third party (e.g. a notary or a bank) was normally required. Using this…

E-Government research has demonstrated its relevance to practice and, consequently, influences and shapes government strategies and implementations. Conversely, e-Government practice also inspires e-Government research. Both research and practice in the field have now moved beyond the use of ICT simply to obtain internal (public administration) efficiency gains and deliver transactional digital services. Therefore, this track seeks new and unpublished research contributions from academia, public administration and businesses on these and a wide range of other topics which include, but are…

Electronic Government, or more recently Smart Government, is a multidisciplinary research domain, which studies the use of information and technology in the context of public policy making (smart governance, open government, and digital divides), smart government operations (transformation, management, organization, infrastructure, interoperability, emergency management, safety, and security), citizen engagement and interaction (e-participation, transparency, collaboration, and digital democracy), and government services (including using social media). Numerous disciplines contribute to this intersection of research such as computer science, information systems, information science,…