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EDITION AND THEME<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Digital Governance in the Era of Disruptive Technologies and Globalisation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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23 – 25 September 2020<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020), originally scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece, from 1 to 3 April 2020, was held instead on 23-25 September 2020 as a fully online conference in real-time. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought massive disruption to most countries of the world, including lockdowns, travel bans, and closure of borders, conditions that did not allow people to physically meet, as is usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the theme Digital Governance in the Era of Disruptive Technologies and Globalisation<\/em>, ICEGOV 2020 explored how existing and emerging digital technologies can be effectively harnessed to foster inclusiveness, equality, and sustainability. It also addressed the implications and costs associated with the use of such technologies. Several tracks on diverse themes were available for paper submission, ranging from broad topics in the field, such as digital transformation, to more specific topics, such as smart cities, security and privacy, open government, digital citizenship or government research and policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like its past editions, the conference featured a rich programme of Keynote Lectures (6), Plenary Sessions (4), Paper Sessions (16), Invited Sessions (6), and a Poster Exhibition during its 3-day duration. Further to this, 5 Workshops and the Doctoral Colloquium took place on the pre-conference day. All was based on submitted or invited contributions by researchers, experts, policy-makers, and practitioners from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call for Papers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Due to the unusually long organisational period of the conference (around 15 months), two Call for Papers were issued: the regular Call for Papers<\/em> in June 2019 and a Special Call for Short Papers<\/em> in July 2020. In response to both calls, the conference received a total of 209<\/strong> paper submissions written by 288<\/strong> authors from 51<\/strong> countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, there were two double-blind peer-review processes carried out by the Programme Committee, which was composed of 221<\/strong> people from 53<\/strong> countries. This review process resulted in 478<\/strong> reviews and 122<\/strong> accepted papers written by 308<\/strong> authors, which are published in the conference proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Paper Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The winning papers in each category are shown below. The choices were carried by the Awards Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Research Paper:<\/strong> Mapping crime descriptions to law articles using deep learning<\/a> (M. Vink, N. Netten, M. S. Bargh, S. van den Braak, S. Choenni).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Ongoing Research Paper:<\/strong> A first approach towards integrating computational argumentation in cognitive cities<\/a> (C. I. Ches\u00f1evar, M. P. Gonz\u00e1lez, A. Maguitman, E. Estevez).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Short Paper:<\/strong> Agility in public sector IT projects<\/a> (M. Dietel, M. Heine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Poster Paper:<\/strong> Modeling city land use with an ontology<\/a> (N. Chichkova, A. Begler, V. Vlasov).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to obtain more data than what is available on this page, please email your request to icegov@icegov.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendance:<\/strong> 341 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n