The 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government, dg.o 2009, is coming up May 17-20, 2009 in Puebla, Mexico and looks quite interesting. From their call for papers:
The dg.o 2009 conference theme “Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government” focuses on Web 2.0 technology, the emerging Social Web, and social network systems that allow large scale distributed collaboration, information sharing and creation of collective intelligence in government areas. The Social Web that includes blogs, wikis, facebook, flickr, youtube, etc., is emerging and evolving through massive participation of users in creating, managing, and sharing multimedia data by linking people and forming virtual interactive communities. Governments are facing unprecedented transparency and openness through electronic grassroots mobilizations using social network technology. This conference focuses, in particular, on the policy implications of open government and the innovative applications of Web 2.0, Social Web, as well as technologies throughout the domain.
Sessions include:
- New Research on Public Deliberation and Information Technology
- Citizen Participation
- Collective Deliberative Processes and Decision-making
The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA):
The Digital Government Society of North America was formed in 2006 to serve the interests of a community of scholars and managers interested in the development and impacts of digital government. It is built on a foundation made possible by the US National Science Foundation Digital Government Research Program which sponsors research and community building at the intersections of computer and information science, social and behavioral sciences, and the needs and problems of government. Membership is open to all interested people and organizations.
Mission
The Society is a global multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners engaged in and committed to democratic digital government. Digital (or electronic) government fosters the use of information and technology to support and improve public policies and government operations, engage citizens, and provide comprehensive and timely government services.
DGS equips its members with a professional support network focused on both scholarship and effective practices that nurture technical, social, and organizational transformation in the public sector.
The society welcomes members from all sectors, endorses diverse, multi-, and interdisciplinary research undertakings relevant to both theory and practice, and strongly encourages practitioner-researcher exchanges at local, regional, national, and international levels.
The conference has a wiki, a social network, a Facebook group, as well as a Twitter channel – coverage should be easy to follow.
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