Last Reminder: National Conference on Digital Government Research

Dear Colleagues:

The March 5 deadline for submission of papers and proposals to the National 
Conference on Digital Government Research is approaching fast. I wanted to 
remind you of it, and to give you two other bits of information that you may 
have missed. 

For complete details on submission guidelines and procedures, I recommend you 
visit the Call for Papers and Proposals on the conference website at the 
Digital Government Research Center: http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2003/papers/ .

First of all, dg.o2003 welcomes proposals for papers, panels, system 
demonstrations, birds-of-a-feather themes, and case studies relating to any 
aspect of digital government, including (but not limited to) the following 
example topics:

     IT-Enabled Government-Citizen Interaction: Integration of Data and Services
    * Universal Access to Information and Services
    * Public Policy and Organizational Management
    * Digital Democracy and Governance
    * Impact of More Transparent and Understandable Government Processes and 
Decision-Making
    * IT Adoption in Government
    * National and International Digital Government Efforts and Cooperation

      IT Research:
    * Geographic Information Systems
    * Semantic Web
    * The Grid
    * Modalities, Multimedia Interfaces, and HCI
    * Trust, Confidentiality, Ownership, Reliability
    * Large Scale Data and Information Acquisition and Management
    * Software Engineering of Large-Scale Government Projects
    * Technology Transition
    * Collaboration Tools

      Government Application Domains:
    * Electronic Grants Administration
    * Environmental Management
    * Electronic Rulemaking
    * Interoperable Data, Networks and Architectures
    * Long Term Preservation and Archiving of Government Information
    * Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance
    * Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
    * Crisis Management and Emergency Response
    * Federal Statistics 

This year we would like to feature ÒMultidisciplinary Aspects of Digital 
Government ResearchÓ. Therefore, the conference organizers specifically 
encourage the submission of papers describing multidisciplinary projects.  
These are projects that advance the state of research in more than one field of 
endeavor simultaneously and significantly.

For inspiration and guidance in drafting successful papers and proposals for 
the 2003 conference, dg.o recommends that you explore these Web pages:

dg.o2002, 2001 and 2000 Proceedings: 
http://www.dgrc.org/conferences/2002_proceedings.jsp

Digital Government-funded projects:
http://www.diggov.org/ProjectSearch?commonName=a&action=all

Second, we have rounded out our program committee with academics and government 
folks from all facets of digital government research to review your submissions 
when they come in. The committee is:

    * Chaitan Baru, University of California, San Diego
    * Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
    * Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
    * Sharon Dawes, SUNY University at Albany
    * Lois Delcambre, Oregon Health Sciences University
    * Jane Fountain, Harvard University
    * Mike Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
    * Carol Hert, Syracuse University
    * Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute
    * Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
    * Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    * Les Miller, Iowa State University
    * Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
    * Charlie Rothwell, National Center for Health Statistics
    * Stuart Shulman, Drake University
    * Tony Stefanidis, NCGIA, University of Maine
    * Sue Stendebach, National Science Foundation / Environmental Protection 
Agency
    * Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside
    * Pat Wood, General Services Administration 

Papers must be submitted in PDF, Microsoft Word, postscript or plaintext (PDF 
is preferred) via email to dg.o2003-submit-hmfM6qiptS0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by the 
close of business on March 5, 2003.

If you have any questions about the program or the conference itself, please 
don't hesitate to contact me directly. We on the program commitee look forward 
to seeing your work.

Best wishes,

Peggy Agouris
dg.o2003 Program Chair
University of Maine
peggy-FkJKxAlp8y17tfSOMOqMUYdd74u8MsAO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~peggy
http://dipa.spatial.maine.edu
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