Our second edition of JeDEM this year (Vol. 12 issue 2) comprises the ongoing papers submitted to our platinum open access journal that made it through our double-blind review process.
In line with our thematic focus of JeDEM throughout the years, this issue stays true to one of our most covered topics: e-participaton and digital transformation.
JeDEM strives to improve its already rapid publishing process in the future, so if you have any feedback or suggestions, we are always happy to hear from you! One additional feature related to our OASPA membership is that we now also show submission and acceptance date with publications.
Enjoy reading the last issue of the year, and see you on the other side, in 2021! Until then, stay safe.
Editors: Gregor Eibl, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Wei Jeng, Mila Gasco-Hernandez
Background
In many countries, President Obama’s executive order on open government data in 2009 and the PSI-directive development in Europe marked the increased attention for open government data. These policies made open and machine-readable data the new default for government information in the United States and Europe. Likewise, developments in many other countries worldwide boosted research into the benefits, barriers, and challenges of open data.
Veränderungen, die durch Digitalisierung in der Verwaltung, in der Wirtschaft und in der Gesellschaft hervorgerufen werden, sind regelmäßig Diskussionsthemen im Rahmen des govamp vienna. Es ist das Wesen eines Barcamp, dass das Programm von den TeilnehmerInnen – beim govcamp vienna Interessierte aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – vor Ort das Programm gestalten. Vorschläge für Inhalte einzelner Sessions können zwar, müssen aber nicht im Vorfeld abgegeben werden. Durch die gemeinsame Festlegung des Sessionplans soll genau jenen Themen eine Plattform gegeben werden, die den TeilnehmerInnen wichtig sind. Registrierung und Teilnahme sind kostenlos.
Motto 2019: Digitaler Raum – frei & sicher?
Die TeilnehmerInnen des govcamp vienna sind eingeladen, sich am 29.11.2019 ab 9:00 Uhr im Regierungsgebäude in 1010 Wien, Stubenring 1 zu treffen. Unser gemeinsames Ziel ist, dass angeregt durch kurze Vorträge oder Präsentationen und in Workshop-Settings viele fruchtbare Diskussionen entstehen.
Das Motto “Digitaler Raum – frei & sicher?” schließt viele Themen mit ein, soll aber TeilnehmerInnen nicht daran hindern, eigene Themen einzubringen. Auch diese Offenheit kennzeichnet Barcamps. Das govcamp vienna ist offen für Diskussionen, die im weiteren Sinn mit Digitalisierung und öffentlicher Verwaltung zusammenhängen. Erfahrungsgemäß gibt es immer wieder Beiträge zu Themen wie E-Government oder Daten, deren Schutz und Sicherheit, elektronische BürgerInnenbeteiligung oder Smart City.
Wie erleben Sie Freiheit und Sicherheit im digitalen Raum?
Zum Austausch über diese und viele andere Fragen sind alle Interessierten und Aktiven aus der Zivilgesellschaft, VertreterInnen aus Verwaltung, Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft eingeladen, aktiv an den Sessions mitzuwirken und sich in den Zeiten zwischen den Sessions zu vernetzen.
Eckdaten der Veranstaltung
Wer?
Akteure aus Verwaltung, Politik, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
Was?
Debatte über Digitalisierungsthemen
Wann?
29.11., 9:00 Uhr
Wo?
Regierungsgebäude in 1010 Wien, Stubenring 1, Marmorsaal
Was muss ich tun um teilzunehmen?
Bitte registrieren Sie sich und geben Sie – wenn Sie mögen – gleich bekannt, was Sie bewegt und worüber Sie sich mit anderen ganz besonders austauschen möchten.
Was erwartet mich dort?
Hier sehen Sie einige Highlights aus den Jahren 2018, 2017, 2016 und 2015
Thank you for your understanding and we hope to see you in Singapore in 2021!
Call for Papers
CeDEM Asia 2020 aims to bring together academics, policy-makers, industry professionals, and civil society activists to discuss the role of social media, mobile technology, big data, and digital innovation in the future of citizenship and governance in Asia and worldwide. The conference aims to promote the exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration on the topics of citizen engagement, political campaigning, misinformation, political polarization, populism, e-government, smart cities, and other emerging topics.
Main conference themes: digital participation, social media weaponization, campaigning, populism, civic engagement, e-government, smart cities.
Track 1: Social Media and Citizen Engagement
Track 2: Weaponizing Digital Media
Track 3: E-government, Smart Cities, and Emerging Topics
Important Dates
New Conference Date: October, 2021 (please revisit the page for furhter information)
New Submission Deadline: tba.
New Notification Deadline: tba.
Location
Singapore
Currently we cannot provide information about travel support grants.
Registration rates
tba.
Conference Chairs
Marko M. Skoric, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria
NojinKwak, University of Michigan, USA
Christoph Grabitz, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Singapore
Previously Local Chairs: Bradley Freeman & Pauline Leong, Sunway University
This track will investigate how social media platforms are altering the nature of civic engagement. Social media platforms have molded and transformed many traditional forms of civic engagement, such as political participation, political discussion, protests and activism, and relevant debates remain as to what degree social media platforms are enhancing or limiting democratic processes. So, we invite submissions that investigate this topic from empirical and critical methodological approaches, and from diverse socio-political contexts. Possible sub-topics include:
Social movements and citizen networks
Social media and political polarization
Online campaigning and elections
Digital divide and literacy
Social media, citizen mobilization & engagement; Sustainability of e-participation
Social media-enabled crisis and disaster management
It has only been 30 years since the World Wide Web was introduced in 1989, and the Web has never been further away from Tim Berners-Lee’s “utopian” vision of the Web being a space for the free exchange of information and democratic discourse. Both state and non-state actors alike have made use of the Web to amplify vulnerabilities and prejudices, manipulate individual and group behaviours and stir hostility towards their opponents. The past decade has seen the rise of how the Web is being weaponised: disinformation campaigns to subvert democracy and manipulate public opinions, the flow of information through firewalls and shutdown of targeted sites and applications, surveillance and profiling, and online nudges which has been linked to the radicalisation in certain contexts. Presentations in this track seek to address one or more of the following:
What are the threats to digital democracy? How can they be addressed?
Cases of platform weaponisation in Asia, including strategies employed by state and non-state actors
Critical analysis of dominant platforms and current policy approaches to govern them
Data-fication of Asian societies and the social, security and personal implications
Weaponisation of creative content, including pop-culture
Methodological approaches and innovations used to study weaponisation, including ethical implications
Track 3: E-government, Smart Cities, and Emerging Topics
Track Chairs: Robert Krimmer, Yueping Zheng, Gabriela Viale Pereira
Open data, transparency, participation and collaboration in government
Big Data, data-driven decision making, automatization, governance and artificial intelligence
Cultures of governance, access and openness, crowdsourcing for government
Electronic identity, Internet freedom and censorship; surveillance, privacy, and cyber-security
Cross-border interoperability of e-government artefacts – approaches and standards
Becoming a smart city: best practices, failures and practical challenges;
Successful technologies for integrating all dimensions of human, collective, and artificial intelligence within the city
The internet of things and co-production; interoperability
Relations of innovative technologies, democratic societies & concepts of “smartness“
Social implications of technology, social cities, the best options for citizens, avoiding the negative impacts of technology
General Submission Guidelines
The conference proceedings will be published and made available online under a Creative Commons License for open access. In addition, a selection of best papers and case studies from CeDEM Asia 2020 will be published with the OA eJournal of E-Democracy and Open Governement (www.jedem.org).
Submission must be made in English. Authors can choose among the following categories:
Research papers, case studies and policy papers should be 12 pages maximum and will be peer-reviewed. If you submit in this category, please follow the instructions for peer-review as below.
Reflection papers, work-in-progress and ongoing research papers should 6 pages maximum and will be selected by the chairs.
Abstract only submissions shall not contain more than 500 words main text. Abstracts can present presentations or papers to be submitted.
Workshop proposals should be no more than 2 pages and will be selected by the chairs.
To ensure the integrity of the double-blind peer-review for submissions to this conference, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors being known to reviewers. The authors of the document shall replace their names in the text, references, footnotes and metadata with “Authors” only.
Programme Committee
Ahmed, Saifuddin, Nanyang Technological University Anthopoulos, Leonidas, University of Thessaly Charalabidis, Yannis, University of the Aegean Edelmann, Noella, Danube University Krems Freeman, Bradley, Sunway University Malaysia Kaigo, Muneo, University of Tsukuba Kobayashi, Tetsuro, City University of Hong Kong Lampoltshammer, Thomas, Danube University Krems Leong, Pauline, Sunway University Malaysia Nahon, Karine, University of Washington and the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya Pang, Natalie, National University of Singapore Park, Han Woo, YeungNam University Paulin, Alois, Vienna University of Technology Putnik, Konstantin, OneSpan GmbH Sachs, Michael, Danube-University Krems Schoßböck, Judith, City University of Hong Kong and Danube University Krems Shen, Chris Fei, City University of Hong Kong Skoric, Marko, City University of Hong Kong, Soon, Carol, Institute of Policy Studies Van Kranenburg, Rob, Council theinternetofthings.eu Viale Pereira, Gabriela, Danube University Krems Zhou, Baohua, Fudan University
Department for E-Governance 