The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2025, under the theme Digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities. The dg.o 2025 will be hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre City, Brazil, June 9-12, 2025. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year, the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory and practice, their focus on relevant and timely topics, and the quality of their writing.<\/p>\n
The dg.o 2025 theme on the Digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities connects with established tracks featured at past dg.o conferences, such as:
\n\u2022 Algorithmic bureaucracy;
\n\u2022 Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector;
\n\u2022 Beyond Bureaucracy & e-Anarchy: self-governance of the public sphere and innovative use of technology by civil society;
\n\u2022 Collaborative intelligence: humans, crowds, and machines;
\n\u2022 Computational methods for data-driven governance;
\n\u2022 Cybersecurity concerns and solutions in the age of Internet of beings;
\n\u2022 Data-driven services in government for evidence-based policy and Public Value;
\n\u2022 Digital democracy & AI;
\n\u2022 Digital government and Sustainable Development Goals;
\n\u2022 Digital government, solidarity and social cohesion;
\n\u2022 Digital platform government and core Public Values;
\n\u2022 Digital Transformation in governments;
\n\u2022 Exploring the impact of open government initiatives: transparency, participation, and governance transformation;
\n\u2022 Government cyberinfrastructure and platforms for discovery and innovation;
\n\u2022 Implications of generative artificial intelligence for government;
\n\u2022 Increasing citizen engagement and active citizenship through digital government;
\n\u2022 Information processing and governance in the digital era;
\n\u2022 Organizational factors, adoption issues and value creation of digital government;
\n\u2022 Smart cities: people-centric innovations in the era of citiverse;
\n\u2022 Social media and government;
\n\u2022 Sustainable public and open data ecosystems;
\n\u2022 Emergent topics;
\n\u2022 Digital government: bachelor and master student track;
\n\u2022 Digital government Latin-America track (in Portuguese and Spanish);
\n\u2022 Digital government practitioner track.<\/p>\n
We encourage past track chairs to update and submit their track. In addition, we invite new tracks to address existing and emerging research challenges related to the dg.o 2025 theme, digital government fostering social cohesion for reducing inequalities.
\nTracks should be related to digital government, but do not have to be limited to the conference theme. Track proposals will be selected based on the reputation of the track chairs in the proposed field, successful track performance in the past, novelty, coherence of the topics covered in alignment with the digital government themes that are of interest to the research and practitioner communities. We also welcome new tracks that were not featured in the past.<\/p>\n
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMATS:
\nSubmit track proposals via e-mail to Edimara Luciano (eluciano@pucrs.br), Jing Zhang (JIZhang@clarku.edu), Yu-Che Chen (ychen@unomaha.edu), and Tomasz Janowski (tomasz.janowski@pg.edu.pl).<\/p>\n