Special Issues

For EGOV2025, we have three special issues planned:

  1. A conference specific Special Issue in Government Information Quarterly. The research papers of highest quality will be invited to this special issues.
  2. Fast-track publication in eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government (JeDEM), for full research papers of high quality and practical importance.
  3. The track chairs of the AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track will guest edit a special issue with enhanced versions of the best papers from this track in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy (Springer Verlag – Social Sciences Citation Index).

 

Past Special Issues

Best Paper Awards

Three types of paper awards are awarded:

  • Category 1 – The most innovative research contribution or case study. Awards the paper with the most out-­ofthebox 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