CfPs: Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government CeDEM 2014; 21-23 May; at Danube University Krems, Austria

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government CeDEM 2014
21-23 May 2014
Danube University Krems, Austria
www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

Call for Papers
The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM) brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age.
Since 2007, the Centre for E-Governance at the Danube University Krems has been organising conferences on e-democracy and public administration. The E-democracy Conferences began in 2007, and the CeDEM, first presented in 2011, represents the development and continuation of the conference series. In the meantime, the CeDEM also boasts a spin-off in Asia, held for the first time in November 2012.
Papers submitted are peer-reviewed in a double-blind process (with a 50% rejection rate) and if accepted, are published in the proceedings (Edition Donau-Universität Krems), both in paper format and online according to Open Access principles. Workshops proposals, PhD colloquium papers and reflections that have been submitted are selected by the chairs and also published in the proceedings. Authors of the best peer-reviewed papers will be asked to re-submit their revised and extended papers for the autumn issue of the Centre for E-Governance's Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (www.jedem.org).
The CeDEM offers a PhD Colloquium in cooperation with the Danube University Krems' Platform for Political Communication and netPOL (www.netpol.at). The PhD Colloquium provides PhD students the opportunity to present their work and gain feedback from experts as well as meet other PhD students. Students from any stage of their PhD are invited to submit their work.
The CeDEM also provides an Open Space on 23 May, where participants can democratically choose and organise in barcamp style their own presentations, workshops, birds of a feather, events, meetings etc..

Important Dates

• Deadline for the submission of all papers, workshop proposals, reflections: 6 December 2013
• Notification of acceptance: 7 February 2014
• Camera-ready paper submission: 28 February 2014
• Pre-conference event: 20 May 2014
• Conference: 21-22 May 2014
• Open Space, PhD colloquium: 23 May 2014

CeDEM14 Tracks

• E-Democracy and E-Participation
• E-Voting
• Bottom-Up Movements
• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration
• Open Collaborative Government
• Democracy, Globalization and Migration
• Connected Smart City
• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation
• Technology and Architecture
• Self-governance in Complex Networks
• Rethinking Information Visualization for the People
• Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies
• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
• Citizen's Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa
• PhD Colloquium

PhD Colloquium:
Chairs: Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, AT) and Christina Hainzl (netPOL, Danube University Krems, AT)
The CeDEM offers a PhD Colloquium in cooperation with the Danube University Krems' Platform for Political Communication and netPOL (www.netpol.at). The Doctoral Colloquium provides PhD students the opportunity to present their work and gain feedback from experts as well as meet other PhD students. Students from any stage of their PhD are invited to submit their work in relation to any of the conference topics.

Submissions
We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their papers, reflections as well as workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics.

• Research papers: 12 pages maximum (double-blind peer-reviewed);
• Case studies / Project papers: 12 pages maximum (double-blind peer-reviewed);
• Reflections: 6 pages maximum (selected by the chairs);
• Workshops: 4 pages maximum (selected by the chairs);
• PhD Colloquium papers: 3 pages maximum (excluding literature list; selected by the organisers of the colloquium);

Conference Chairs
Noella Edelmann & Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, AT) noella.edelmann@donau-uni.ac.at, peter.parycek@donau-uni.ac.at


Further Details: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/department/gpa/zeg/bilder/cedem/cfp_2014.pdf