Award Categories

Three types of paper awards are used:
Category 1 – The most innovative research contribution or case study. Awards the paper with the most out-­of‐the‐box and forward-looking idea and concept. Relevance is more important than rigor.
Category 2 – The most compelling, critical research reflection. Awards the paper with the most compelling critical reflection on and discussion of a relevant research topic.
Category 3 – The most promising practical concept. Awards the paper delivering a concept or solution with the highest potential to have a high impact in e-government implementations and applications.

2023 Award Winners

Category 1 (research contribution/case study): Robot colleagues in Swedish municipalities: How RPA affects the work situation of employees. Daniel Toll, Maria Booth and Ida Lindgren

Category 2 (critical reflection): The Human Likeness of Government Chatbots – an Empirical Study from Norwegian Municipalities. Asbjørn Følstad, Anna G. Larsen and Nina Bjerkreim-Hanssen

Category 3 (practical concept): The Maturity of Knowledge-based Management in Finnish Central-Government Organizations: The Need for Managing the Knowledge-based Management. Emma Partanen, Pasi Raatikainen, Pasi Hellsten and Jussi Myllärniemi

2022 Award Winners

Category 1 (research contribution/case study): Dismantling digital cages: Examining design process practices for public algorithmic system design – Sem Nouws, Marijn Janssen and Roel Dobbe

Category 2 (critical reflection): Sharing, Cooperation or Collective Action? A Research Agenda for Online Interaction in Digital Global Governance – Tove Engvall, Leif Skiftenes Flak and Øystein Sæbø

Category 3 (practical concept): A Methodology for Aligning Categories from Open Government Data Portals to a Comprehensive Set of Categories – Higor Pinto, Raissa Barcellos, Flavia Bernardini and Jose Viterbo

2021 Award Winners

Category 1 (research contribution/case study): Elisabeth Gebka and Annick Castiaux: A Typology of Municipalities’ Roles and Expected User’s Roles in Open Government Data Release and Reuse

Category 2 (critical reflection): Iikka Pietilä, Jenni Kallio, Jari Varsaluoma and Kaisa Väänänen: Youths’ digital participation in the early phases of COVID-19 lockdown

Category 3 (practical concept): Dian Balta, Mahdi Sellami, Peter Kuhn, Ulrich Schöpp, Matthias Buchinger, Nathalie Baracaldo, Ali Anwar, Mathieu Sinn, Mark Purcell and Bashar Altakrouri: Accountable Federated Machine Learning in Government: Engineering and Management Insights

2020 Award Winners

Leif Skiftenes Flak and Sara Hofmann – The impact of smart city initiatives on human rights

Mecati Mariachiara, Flavio Emanuele Cannavò, Antonio Vetrò and Marco Torchiano – Evaluating Risk of Discrimination in Automated Decision Making Systems with Measures of Disproportion

Devin Diran and Anne Fleur van Veenstra – Barriers to Data-driven Policy Making for the Municipal Energy Transition in the Netherlands

2019

This issue 12(1) of JeDEM comprises the keynote papers and a selection of papers nominated for the Best Paper Award at the IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference 2019, as well as ongoing submissions.- https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/55

2018

This issue 10(2) of JeDEM comprises the keynote papers and a selection of papers nominated for the Best Paper Award at the IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference 2019, as well as ongoing submissions.- https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/52