International Research Workshops - Abstracts, CFPs & Schedules
Research for Effective Government"
What are dg.o International Research Workshops?
dg.o 2006 International Research Workshops, first introduced at dg.o 2005, are half-day pre- and post-conference meetings for researchers starting or advancing multi-country projects. The dg.o 2006 Program Committee invites proposals on any topic of shared interest among digital government researchers in different countries. Of particular relevance are topics of interest to researchers and government officials in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the European Union.
dg.o 2006 Workshop Titles and Fee Schedule:
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On site Conference Registration Begins May 21, 2006
Sunday - May 21, 2006
- Understanding eParticipation - (All Day)
- Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning, and Sustainable Management - (All Day)
Research on Public Returns to Government Investment in ICT-(Canceled)
Wedensday Afternoon - May 24, 2006
- "eRulemaking at the Crossroads" - (Half Day)
- Implementing Identity Management Architectures for e-Government: Challenges and Key Issues - (Half Day)
Call for Participation for dg.o 2006 Workshops and Schedules:
SUNDAY - May 21, 2006
Workshop Title:
Understanding eParticipation
Date: Sunday - May 21, 2006 (All Day - time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Workshop organizer's name and e-mail address
Ann Macintosh
International Teledemocracy Centre
Napier University
A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk
Overview
The goal of the workshop is to identify and understand the barriers facing the eParticipation research community in its efforts to advance research in the area and to share its results globally. eParticipation, for the purposes of this workshop, describes efforts to broaden and deepen political participation by enabling citizens to connect with one another and with their elected representatives using information and communication technologies.
The workshop has the following objectives:
- facilitate close and sustained co-operation between eParticipation researchers from different academic disciplines, in order to improve the quality of research and understanding on all sides,
- assess and compare research already made on eParticipation in cities, regions and countries across the US and Europe,
- identify eParticipation research challenges for both researchers and government.
This is an exciting and challenging research area, which requires a novel combination of technical, social and political measures. This workshop seeks research white papers on issues such as:
- Barriers to eParticipation across the US and Europe,
- Research discourse analysis techniques to explore agenda setting, and alliance building at different levels,
- Current and emergent eParticipation technological infrastructures,
- Current and emergent eParticipation methods, and
- Emerging criteria which allow evaluation of eParticipation initiatives to be undertaken in a systematic and standardised.
Call for Participation
Authors must submit a proposed 2-page white paper for presentation at the workshop to the conference organizer (A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk) by April 1, 2006. Acceptance and rejection notices will be sent out by April 8. Authors may be asked to revise their white paper. Camera-ready copy must be submitted by April 15, 2006.
White papers must adopt the ACM's SIGS 'proceedings' templates that are being used by all participants in dg.o2006. The ACM's SIGS proceedings templates are for use in either Microsoft Word or LaTeX2e - Strict adherence to SIGS style is expected. The template can be downloaded at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Workshop Program Committee:
EU:
(Main Contact) Professor Ann Macintosh
International Teledemocracy Centre
Napier University
Professor Stephen Coleman
The University of Leeds
Dr. Jeremy Rose
Aalborg University
USA:
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Yigal Arens
USC/Information Sciences Institute
Dr. Eduard Hovy
USC/Information Sciences Institute
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Workshop Title:
Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning, and Sustainable Management
Date: Sunday - May 21, 2006 (All Day - time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Workshop organizer's name and e-mail address
Ganapati P. Patil
Distinguished Professor and Director,
Penn State Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics
Principal Investigator,
NSF Digital Government Research Project for Hotspot GeoInformatics
Former Visiting Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental and Ecological Statistics
Fellow ASA, IMS, AAAS, RSS, ISI, IISA, NIE, DSEA
gpp@stat.psu.edu
Overview
Geoinformatics for spatial and temporal hotspot detection and prioritization is a critical need for the 21st Century. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection, prioritization, early warning, and sustainable management. A hotspot can mean an unusual phenomenon, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, critical area. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, early warning, or management. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental, or intentional. The five year NSF DGP project has been instrumental to conceptualize hotspot geoinformatics partnership among several interested cross-disciplinary scientists in academia, agencies, and private sector around the world.
Our efforts are driven by a wide variety of case studies of interest to agencies, academia, and private sector involving critical societal issues, such as public health, ecosystem health, ecohealth, biodiversity and threats to biodiversity, emerging infectious disease, water management and conservation, carbon sources and sinks, persistent poverty, environmental justice, crop pathogens, invasive species management, biosurveillance, biosecurity, disease biogeoinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, hospital networks and syndromic surveillance, video mining, early warning, tsunami inundation, remote sensing, and disaster management. Also space-time disease, poverty, pollution, object identification and tracking, early detection, early warning, hotspot trajectories and trends with examples of West Nile Virus, urban poverty patch dynamics, etc. The project emphasis is on development of geoinformatic hotspot system. The system has two methodological components: hotspot detection and prioritization.
Keywords:
Hotspot geoinformatics, hotspot detection, hotspot prioritization, space-time disease clusters, poverty patch dynamics, crime mapping and hotspots, crop pathogens, watershed management, social networks, sensor networks, object identification and tracking, early detection and warning, sustainable management.
Call for Participation
The emphasis of the proposed full day workshop is on geoinformatics of hotspot detection and prioritization in a wide variety of subject areas and critical issues confronting agencies, academia, and industry. You are invited to participate in a manner most productive for your purposes, whether presentation of a paper with live case studies, attendance in a timely, informative, and insightful workshop, or both. You will have the benefit of a veteran crossdisciplinary scientist as perceptive expositor, workshop leader, and editor of resulting publications. And, of course, an opportunity to strengthen, advance, and accelerate your in-house research and work plan involving geoinformatics and hotspot dynamics.
The proposed overview part will provide up-to-date exposition with live examples and illustrations. The proposed workshop part will emphasize presentations of case studies using preferably the methodology and software available. The participants will be encouraged to be in contact with the workshop organizer before and after the workshop to help formulate and finalize their case studies for workshop presentation and publication.
For general information on Short Courses and Workshops, please see
http://www.stat.psu.edu/hotspots/pdfs/OverallInfo_ShortCourseandWorkshops.pdf
WEDNESDAY - May 24, 2006
Workshop Title:
“eRulemaking at the Crossroads”
Date: May 24, 2006 (afternoon - time: 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm)
Workshop organizer's name and e-mail address
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate
Qualitative Data Analysis Program, Director
University Center for Social and Urban Research
University of Pittsburgh
Shulman@pitt.edu
Overview
The topic of “eRulemaking” (electronic rulemaking) has gained prominence in the Digital Government research community and with personnel working in the federal government Over the past five years, with funding from the Digital Government program, government officials, citizens, activists, business leaders, and a range of scholars from several disciplines have converged around the specific problem of building tools to manage the flow of public comments into the U.S. federal government. At the same time, the Office of Management and Budget has overseen the development of government-wide eRulemaking Initiative, which created a portal for reviewing all open rulemakings and a Federal Docket Management System (FDMS). Recent acts of Congress have called attention to the funding authority for the FDMS and have also raised issues about how best to adopt a common information management system for over 180 distinct regulatory agencies and sub-agencies. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing debate about the utility of encouraging massive numbers of public comments via electronic means. As a result, despite considerable scholarly and practitioner interest and hopes for a better rulemaking system, eRulemaking is at the crossroads. The target audience is a mix of federal government officials, as well as scholars from law, public administration, as well as the social and computational sciences. For information see:
Call for Participation
All presenters at dg.o2006 international research workshops are required to submit a 2-page white paper to the workshop organizer (Shulman@pitt.edu) by April 1, 2006. Acceptance and rejection notices will be sent out by April 8, 2006. Authors may be asked to revise their white paper. Camera-ready copy must be submitted by April 15, 2006.
White papers must adopt the ACM's SIGS 'proceedings' templates that are being used by all participants in dg.o2006. The ACM's SIGS proceedings templates are for use in either Microsoft Word or LaTeX2e - Strict adherence to SIGS style is expected. The template can be downloaded at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Workshop Title:
Implementing Identity Management Architectures for e-Government: Challenges and Key Issues
Date: Wednesday - May 24, 2006 (afternoon - time: 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm)
Workshop organizer's name and e-mail address
Dr. Philip Seltsikas
School of Management
University of Management
seltsikas@surrey.ac.uk
Overview
The workshop brings together speakers from the US and Europe who have had recent experience of Identity Management (IdM) implementations in e-Government. The speakers will share their experience and explicate the major issues and challenges that they faced in bringing IdM in e-Government to life.
Recommended reading:
Monge, P.R. & Contractor, N. S. (2003). Theories of Communication Networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
As governments are increasingly required to embrace electronic means of transacting with customers, the need for IdM is unavoidable. With traditional government transactions ‘moved’ to the e-government setting, the remoteness of the users (normally over the Internet) produces a strong and obvious requirement to ensure the person transacting is indeed who they say they are and fully entitled to the benefits and services they are attempting to access. Identity Management solutions and technologies are needed as there are serious issues with e-government such as threats to homeland security, large government losses due to fraud and the pressure to cut costs, as well as the overriding drive to enable genuine convenience to citizens and business in government transactions.
Globally, there are three notable efforts to produce coordinated Identity Management architectures – these are, the United States General Services Administration’s (GSA) E-Authentication Programme, project GUIDE funded by the European Commission, and the Liberty Alliance, which is an alliance of more than 150 companies, non-profit and government organizations, based on OASIS SAML. The challenges that each of these groups has faced in implementing IdM will be the focus of this workshop with additional presentations from implementers who have recently gone live with their IdM technology in other national contexts.
Call for Participation
All presenters at dg.o2006 international research workshops are required to submit a 2-page white paper to the workshop organizer (p.seltsikas@surrey.ac.uk) by April 1, 2006. White papers must adopt the ACM's SIGS 'proceedings' templates that are being used by all participants in dg.o2006. The ACM's SIG proceedings templates are for use in either Microsoft Word or LaTeX2e - Strict adherence to SIGS style is expected. The template can be downloaded at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html