Emerging Topics in Digital Government

Minitrack Description

The Digital Government Emerging Topics Mini-Track provides a home for incubating new topics and trends in Digital Government research. Digital Government as an academic field is evolving; new directions of research and practice are emerging while others are becoming accepted as foundational. These developments take place at the crossroads of different academic disciplines and in close connection to the practices in governments around the globe. This mini-track invites papers positioned in relation to emerging issues and challenges in digital government including changing or emerging needs and trends. Submissions must speak specifically to the emerging nature of the topic and how the research presented builds new understanding by relating the research to the central developments in the field of digital government.

Topics and research areas include but are not limited to:

• Conceptual and practice-based boundaries
• Agendas for Digital Government research
• Ethics of Digital Government from theoretical and practical views
• Digital Government education and competences
• ICT-enabled policy making and Digital Government policy
• IT, government, and the diversity of population and citizens
• Participatory approaches in government, for instance co-production
• Trust in and safe use of Digital Government
• Comparative studies focused on emerging issues or opportunities in the field of Digital Government
• Theories and models to analyze e-government
• Other topics as appropriate to the purposes of the mini-track

More information on the minitrack chairs:

Theresa A. Pardo, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she is also Full Research Professor in Public Administration and Policy. Dr. Pardo serves many advisory roles including as OpenNY Adviser to New York State's Governor Cuomo, as chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Committee, as a member of the steering committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, and as a member of the User Working Group of NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, among others. Dr. Pardo is founder of the Smart Cities, Smart Government Research-Practice Consortium and is a Past-President of the Digital Government Society.

Elin Wihlborg, PhD, has been a professor since 2013 in Political Science at the Department of Management and Engineering, Linkoping University, Sweden. She received her PhD in Technology and Social change. Her areas of interest cover local and multi-level governance, legitimacy, e-government policies, public administration and digital transformation, digital inclusion and e-democracy. She works in inter-disciplinary research groups on digital government as well as on urban planning and sustainable development. She has initiated a summer school for young professionals on e-government - Sustainable e-government for Resilient and Innovative Democratic Public administration (SeGRID). She is vice head of the department and manager of the inter-disciplinary research school at the department.

Robert Krimmer, PhD, is Full Professor of e-Governance within Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at the Faculty of Social Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Robert's research is focused on electronic participation and democracy, as well as e-voting, the transformation of the public sector, and all issues further developing a digital society. Robert is also Associate Editor of the international scientific journal Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), where he is in charge of participation issues. Robert coordinates TOOP, the EU H2020 large-scale pilot on exploring and demonstrating the feasibility of the once-only principle involving 50+ partners from 21 countries inside and outside the European Union.