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.
Nominations are made by the track chairs, based on the reviews. The Best Paper Awards is organized by a committee , consisting of:
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain
Noella Edelmann, University for Continuing Education, Austria
TBA
2024 Award Winners
Category 1 (research contribution/case study): Getting Rid of It: An Unlearning Perspective on Digital Government Competences. Michael Koddebusch, Bettina Distel, Marco Di Maria, Paul Brützke and Jörg Becker
Category 2 (critical reflection): Automated Decision-making in the Public Sector: A multidisciplinary literature review. Aya Rizk and Ida Lindgren.
Category 3 (practical concept): Theory Development in Digital Government Research: Status and Ways Forward. Peter André Busch.
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
Special Issues
Winners of the Best Paper Award are invited to submit their work to Government Information Quarterly. Those who have been nominated to Best Paper, but not won, are invited to submit their work for inclusion in eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government (JeDEM). Papers from the conference are included in the following issues of JeDEM:
2022: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/61
2021: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/60
2020: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/57
2019: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/55
2018: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/issue/view/52