Dg.o 2025 Call for Track Proposals
The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2025, under the theme Digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities. The dg.o 2025 will be hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre City, Brazil, June 9-12, 2025. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year, the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory and practice, their focus on relevant and timely topics, and the quality of their writing.
The dg.o 2025 theme on the Digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities connects with established tracks featured at past dg.o conferences, such as:
• Algorithmic bureaucracy;
• Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector;
• Beyond Bureaucracy & e-Anarchy: self-governance of the public sphere and innovative use of technology by civil society;
• Collaborative intelligence: humans, crowds, and machines;
• Computational methods for data-driven governance;
• Cybersecurity concerns and solutions in the age of Internet of beings;
• Data-driven services in government for evidence-based policy and Public Value;
• Digital democracy & AI;
• Digital government and Sustainable Development Goals;
• Digital government, solidarity and social cohesion;
• Digital platform government and core Public Values;
• Digital Transformation in governments;
• Exploring the impact of open government initiatives: transparency, participation, and governance transformation;
• Government cyberinfrastructure and platforms for discovery and innovation;
• Implications of generative artificial intelligence for government;
• Increasing citizen engagement and active citizenship through digital government;
• Information processing and governance in the digital era;
• Organizational factors, adoption issues and value creation of digital government;
• Smart cities: people-centric innovations in the era of citiverse;
• Social media and government;
• Sustainable public and open data ecosystems;
• Emergent topics;
• Digital government: bachelor and master student track;
• Digital government Latin-America track (in Portuguese and Spanish);
• Digital government practitioner track.
We encourage past track chairs to update and submit their track. In addition, we invite new tracks to address existing and emerging research challenges related to the dg.o 2025 theme, digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities.
Tracks should be related to digital government, but do not have to be limited to the conference theme. Track proposals will be selected based on the reputation of the track chairs in the proposed field, successful track performance in the past, novelty, coherence of the topics covered in alignment with the digital government themes that are of interest to the research and practitioner communities. We also welcome new tracks that were not featured in the past.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMATS:
Submit track proposals via e-mail to Edimara Luciano (eluciano@pucrs.br), Jing Zhang (JIZhang@clarku.edu), Yu-Che Chen (ychen@unomaha.edu), and Tomasz Janowski (tomasz.janowski@pg.edu.pl).
Use this Template to submit track proposals: DGO2024-Track-Proposal-Template