Tomasz Janowski is the Head of the Department of Informatics in Management at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly. Previously, he was the head of unit and Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University in Macau and Portugal, member of the evaluation panel of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center, co-chair of the e-Government Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium, founder and chair of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance series, etc. His research interests include digital government, sustainable digital transformation, and digital transformation for sustainability. He co-authored over 270 academic publications and technical/policy reports and led over 20 international projects. His research and projects were funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank, International Development Research Centre, International Telecommunication Union, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Bank, etc. He earned MSc degree in Mathematics, PhD degree in Computer Science, and DSc-equivalent degree in Management.

My motivation for running for the membership in the Digital Government Society (DGS) board is three- fold. First, I recognize the unique value that DGS, as the international community of researchers and practitioners engaged in and committed to the principles of democratic digital government, can deliver to its members and the society. I also appreciate DGS relying on the strength of individual members and the members’ institutions but not being dominated by any single one. Second, I see the potential of DGS extending its activities beyond the organization of annual conferences. By pooling resources, contacts, competencies, etc. contributed by individual members and their institutions, jointly developing research and development projects, education programs, policy proposals, etc. and collectively approaching government agencies, funding agencies and international organizations. Third, while DGS has been evolving over the years from the national to regional to global arena, and the composition of the membership and the location of the DG.O conferences reflects this evolution, DGS is still present in relatively few and mostly high-income countries, and lacks established connections to relevant international organizations to increase its reach and impact. If elected, I would contribute to any committee work that strengthens DGS in these areas.

Helen K. Liu is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, National Taiwan University. With a background in business (the Ohio State Univ.), economics (the University of Texas at Austin), and public affairs (Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington), she researches crowdsourcing platform designs for the public sector. Recently, she received an Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan. Helen had five years of experience serving on the board at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. She also serves on the editorial board of Government Information Quarterly. She is a co-chair of dg.o 2024 on June 11-14, 2024, at the National Taiwan University.

I am honored to be nominated to help serve DGS, a critical research and practice institution in digital government studies that has embraced me since my doctoral studies and has helped guide my career and research. I appreciate this opportunity to pay it forward to others. I am committed to helping continue to build the community to advance digital government research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. I am excited to apply my management background to advancing the digital government society and tap into my research network in Asia to grow the international membership for the society. I will work with the existing DGS board members to share responsibilities in any DGS committees where my services or expertise are needed.

Edimara M. Luciano is a Professor in the Management Graduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a Guest Professor in the Department for e-Governance and Administration at the University for Continuing Education Krems (UWK), Krems, Austria. She holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was elected for two terms at ANPAD – Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Management, as a Scientific Committee Member, and as the Coordinator of the Information System Division, being a Conference Co-Chair in three editions of the Brazilian Academy of Management (ENANPAD), and ANPAD Information Systems Conference (ENADI). She has been contributing with AMCIS, ICEGOV, and dg.o as a co-track chair. She coordinated and was a team member of several projects funded by Brazilian and international research agencies. She was the local coordinator of the ERASMUS Capacity Building Project CAP4CITY, and the coordinator of a CAPES PRINT Internationalization Mobility Project, CAPES Global South Strategic Cooperation, and Inter-American Development Bank Capacities for Digital Transformation at the Brazilian Subnational Level. Her research interests are digital government, smart and sustainable cities, open government, collaborative governance, digital transformation governance, public value, and social innovation.

The DGS stated values of inclusion, relevance, and collaboration drive my planned contribution focus. Regarding inclusion, I could collaborate to increase the support for Brazilian and Latin-American researchers and practitioners to get access to the highly qualified DGS-related conferences and journals. On relevance, my activities could contribute to a national-wide discussion aiming to increase the readiness for submissions and the chances of approval for DGS-related conferences and journals. The relevance can be approached by articulating the academy, government, and other digital government quadruple helix actors as a way to contribute to the global digital government debate and agenda. By bringing the Brazilian and Latin American context (success cases, good practices, issues, wicked problems, necessities, culture, and modus operandi) closer to the discussion, DGS can expand its scientific and social impact, to help fulfill its mission. I believe I can contribute to the Linking Research and Government Management committee, joining the efforts to integrate practitioners and government management, more specifically, Brazilian government representatives. I believe a new committee focused on diversity and inclusion could support the better articulation of the current initiatives, and I would be happy to participate in it, especially with the development of a diversity and inclusion policy. Additionally, the possibility of being a DGS board member can be an opportunity to interact with my Brazilian pairs to accomplish the creation of the DGS Brazilian chapter, which can be the utmost articulator of the intended activities and contribute to the declared values.

Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D., is Isaacson Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Professor at the School of Public Administration. Dr. Chen serves as the Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Public Administration and the Director of the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab. Dr. Chen received his Master of Public Affairs and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University-Bloomington. His current research interests are public governance of artificial intelligence, cyberinfrastructure governance, and collaborative digital governance. He has served as PI or Co-PI of NSF and other external grants with a total award of over $3.5 million. Dr. Chen’s most recent book is the co-edited volume: The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. He published a single-authored book Managing Digital Governance with Routledge and served as lead editor for two other books. In addition, he has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, proceeding papers in digital government and governance. He is Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Section on Science and Technology in Government (SSTIG) for the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and as the conference co-chair of dg.o 2024.

I am honored to run for the President-Elect of the Digital Government Society (DGS) to serve this esteemed global interdisciplinary community of digital government scholars. The DGS has been a source of intellectual inspiration and a platform for research collaboration for digital government scholars worldwide. My vision is to build on the DGS’s strengths in intellectual leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community building. I will take a collaborative approach to developing a shared vision of the DGS community while recognizing the salience of rigor in interdisciplinary research and the opportunity to engage the next generation of digital government scholars. My current and past service to the DGS provides an in-depth understanding and relevant experiences for servant leadership. I currently serve as the conference co-chair of dg.o 2024. I also served as the lead conference chair of dg.o 2021 and the lead program chair of dg.o 2019. Moreover, I served as a two-term DGS board member (2018-2019, 2020-2021) with additional focused service on the Journal Liasion and Student Support committees. My role as Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice and my scholarship in digital governance allow me to contribute to the DGS’s intellectual leadership.

Congratulations to our dg.o 2023 Award Winners:

Best Paper Award:

“A relational view of knowledge sharing in public-private IT outsourcing relationships”
by Francois Duhamel, Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez and Luis F. Luna-Reyes

Best Management Award:

“Challenges in designing inclusive Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending systems”
by Reni Sulastri and Marijn Janssen

Best Poster Award:

“From Conventional Open Government Data Portals to Storytelling Portals: The StoryOGD Prototype”
by Abiola Paterne Chokki and Benoit Vanderose

Fellows Award:

For Distinguished and Sustained Scholars Contribution and Achievement
John Carlo Bertot

Distinguished Service Award:

For Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Digital Government through Sustained Service, Creative Leadership and Innovative Problem Solving
Teresa M. Harrison

We are delighted to introduce the first installment of our customized webinar series designed to assist digital government researchers! In this first seminar, PhD students will connect with senior academics and journal editors and acquire knowledge on presenting and publishing their interdisciplinary research in the field of digital government, in addition to transferring their expertise to practical applications through policy and projects.

• Date:May 17th, 2023
• Time:15:00 – 17:00 CET /9-11 AM EST
  

Agenda:

• Welcome keynote on ‘Publishing strategy’ byTomasz Janowski(Politechnika Gdanska)
• Lightning talks by the panelists Estevez Elsa (Universidad Nacional del Sur), David Duenas-Cid (Politechnika Gdanska) and Ida Lindgren (Linköpings universitet)
• Panel discussion: During the panel discussion, students will have the opportunity to pitch their own work idea and receive feedback from the panelists.

We kindly ask that you prepare your questions and brief idea presentations beforehand. Make sure you have an active DGS membership! Check it here: https://lnkd.in/dzR8w8vv

Register for the webinar here by May 15th: https://lnkd.in/dsEijNeA

The meeting link will be sent shortly before the event. We look forward to it!

Student Support Committee:

Ida Lindgren
Gabriela Viale Pereira
Stanislav Mahula

is nearing this Friday, January 20, 2023. DGS welcomes eight types of submissions and looks forward to your participation!

Call for Papers Guidelines.

Submit your paper.

Officers:

• Jing Zhang | President elect
• Mila Gasco | Treasurer
• Gabriela Viale Pereira | Secretary

Board Members:

• Ignacio Criado
• Ida Lindgren
• Fadi Salem
• Loni Hagen
• Efthimios Tambouris
• Gabriel Puron-Cid

On Jan 1, 2022 the elected shall take office. The DGS Election Committee and DGS Board would like to extend their gratitude for service  to the Officers and Board Members who have completed their terms at this stage. We would like also to take this opportunity to wish everybody Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

In case you missed it, 2 inaugural recipients of the DGS Fellows Award were named during the Awards Ceremony at the 2021 dg.o conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska. The two awardees are Prof. Ramon Gil-Garcia of the University at Albany and Prof. Hans Jochen Scholl of the University of Washington.  

Ramon Gil-Garcia was recognized by nominators as one of “the most prolific researchers” in the field of digital government for having published 80 articles in peer‐reviewed journals and 50 book chapters.  He is also the author or co‐author of 4 books and the editor of 6 peer‐reviewed books, 3 conference proceedings, and 12 special issues in academic peer‐reviewed journals.  His work has received over 14,000 Google Scholar citations.  Prof. Gil-Garcia has also been recognized for research excellence by the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the University at Albany, and the Chancellor of the State University of New York. 

Hans Jochen Scholl was nominated as well for prolific publication addressing research trends, methods, and key questions in the field of digital government.  However, he is also known to many for his creation of the Digital Government Reference Library and its curation for more than 15 years.  The current version includes more than 15,000 references to peer reviewed work in digital government.  The Reference Library, which is used regularly by scholars in bibliometric and demographic analyses, has been a vital tool for disseminating digital government research around the world.

Stay tuned for the next call for nominations for the DGS Fellows Award and be sure to nominate a scholar that you believe should be honored at dg.o  2022.  For more information about this award, contact the chair of the DGS Awards Committee, Teresa M. Harrison at tharrison at albany.edu.

We are only few weeks away from dg.o 2021, with the central theme of “Digital Innovations for Public Values: Inclusive Collaboration and Community.” The Conference will include 2 plenary sessions, more than 60 papers, 6 panels and almost 20 posters.

We are going to have a fully online conference that combines the advantages of synchronous and asynchronous activities to improve the experience of participants and the opportunities to connect to others in our global community. Registration includes a one-year membership to the Digital Government Society.

Register here

The DGS Distinguished Service award was created to recognize one individual each year for extraordinary service to the digital government scholarly community. Areas of service could  include, but are not limited to: service to the Digital Government Society and/or other  scholarly societies; conference organization; representation of DGS in other organizations,  including academic, government and community organizations; or influential service to a  government agency, resulting in positive effects on the field of digital government. Nominators should submit the following nominating information: 

• Candidate’s Name (first, middle initial, last), Contact Information (including email address), and Affiliation.
• A letter of nomination from the nominator providing the following information:
  • Record of Service: List up to five principal positions of service to DGS or the  digital government community, and briefly describe the primary responsibilities  for each position.
  • Other relevant information: additional information related to the service  contributions of the candidate.

• At least one other letter of reference endorsing the nomination and providing information regarding the service contributions of the nominee.
• Proposed Citation: to appear on the award certificate — citation should begin “For contributions to the field of digital government through sustained service …” followed by a phrase of not more than 20 carefully edited words that reflect this candidate’s  demonstrated service to the community 
• Nominators may submit one nomination; both nominators and nominees must be DGS members.
• The nomination deadline is March 29, 2021.

Please submit your nomination materials by March 29, 2021 to DGS Awards Committee Chair Teresa Harrison, tharrison at albany.edu