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::::   5th ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH:
::::   NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
::::   May 24-26, 2004 in Seattle, Washington

Call for Research Papers, Demonstrations, Posters, Birds-of-a-Feather 
Sessions, and (new this year) Project Highlights from NSF Digital 
Government Projects

The National Science Foundation and the Digital Government Research 
Center (DGRC) invite you to submit to dg.o2004, the 5th annual National 
Conference on Digital Government Research. http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2004

This year, we focus on:

• 	reflecting on the practical aspects and unique opportunities 
presented by digital government research projects, projects that are 
inter-disciplinary with the collaboration of government partners,
• 	highlighting the breadth and depth of current digital government 
projects, and
• 	exploring the nature of digital government research as a new and 
growing research area.

Digital government research is interdisciplinary and multi-sector, with 
a focus on research at the intersections of computer and information 
sciences, IT-related social, political, and behavioral sciences, and 
the problems and missions of government agencies. Correspondingly, the 
conference attracts researchers in the varied disciplines, government 
agencies representatives, policy specialists, business experts, 
representatives from the software industry, and members of the public.

New for dg.o 2004:

• 	A new type of submission - Project Highlight- for active NSF Digital 
Government projects to describe their accomplishments, success stories, 
broader impact, challenges/barriers, and research value.
• 	A longer format for formal research papers where the best papers 
will be considered for inclusion in either a special issue of an 
existing scholarly journal or for a possible new Digital Government 
Research Journal currently under discussion. We encourage submission of 
papers that advance the emerging field of digital government research.

Note: We expect to invite the best submissions in all categories to an 
NSF Digital Government workshop, to be held in the Washington, D.C. 
area following the conference.

Formal research papers, posters, demonstrations, and proposals for 
Birds-of-a-Feather discussion groups may address any aspect of digital 
government research, including but not limited to the following:

IT-Enabled Government Operations:

• 	Integration of Data and Services
• 	IT Adoption in Government
• 	Evaluation of IT Adoption in Government
• 	Interoperable Data, Networks and Architectures
• 	Long Term Preservation and Archiving of Government Information
• 	Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance

Citizen Interactions

• 	Universal Access to Information and Services
• 	Privacy and trust
• 	Transparency and usability
• 	Public participation in democratic processes

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
• 	Interoperable Data, Networks and Architectures
• 	Long Term Preservation and Archiving of Government Information
• 	Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance

Social Science Research:

• 	Public Policy Issues and Impacts
• 	Organizational and Management Issues
• 	Digital Democracy and Governance
• 	Impact of More Transparent and Understandable Government Processes 
and Decision-Making

Government Application Domains:

• 	Electronic Grants Administration
• 	Environmental Management
• 	Electronic Rulemaking
• 	National and International Digital Government Efforts and Cooperation
• 	Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
• 	Crisis Management and Emergency Response
• 	Federal Statistics
• 	Health and human services

For inspiration and guidance in drafting successful papers and 
proposals for the 2004 conference, you may wish to consult proceedings 
from past dg.o conferences available on the web at:
http://www.digitalgovernment.org/archive/library/dgo2003

You may also consult the database of Digital Government-funded projects 
at:
http://www.digitalgovernment.org/ProjectSearch?commonName=a&action=all

POINTS OF CONTACT

General Conference Chairs:
Sharon Dawes (CTG (make clickable at www.ctg.albany.edu), University at 
Albany): sdawes at ctg.albany.edu
Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI and DGRC): hovy at isi.edu

Program Chair:
Lois Delcambre (OGI/OHSU): lmd at cse.ogi.edu

Financial Chair:
Yigal Arens (USC/ISI and DGRC): arens at isi.edu

Government Liaison:
Valerie Gregg (NSF): vgregg at nsf.gov

Communications:
Mack Reed (USC/ISI and DGRC): mack at isi.edu

VENUE

This year the conference will take place in Seattle, Washington. For 
more information consult:
http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2004/venue/

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Method: This year the ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM MUST BE USED for all 
formal research papers, posters, system demos, project highlights and 
Birds-of-a-Feather proposals. After submission, you will be able to use 
the system to track the progress of your paper through the review 
process, and to read comments made by the reviewers upon acceptance or 
rejection of your submission by the program committee.

Timing: The system will be ACCESSIBLE ONLY FROM JANUARY 16, 2004 to 
FEBRUARY 6, 2004 at this address:
http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2004/papers/ All submissions must be made via 
this system.

We will not accept early or late submissions or revisions. ***  NO 
EXCEPTIONS.  ***

If your research paper, poster, demonstration, project highlight, or 
Birds-of-a-Feather proposal is accepted for the conference, you will be 
granted access to the system once again. You must make final revisions 
based on the recommendations of the reviewers and the program 
committee. Finally, you must submit a camera-ready copy of your work to 
the online submission system.

Format: All submissions must be in .pdf format, 11 point font, in a 
serif font such as Times New Roman or Palatino, with 1 inch margin, all 
around. Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages for 
each type of submission, as indicated below.

Research papers (maximum of 10 pages)
These report innovative Digital Government research results, in the 
form of a formal scholarly paper. Relevance to digital government 
should be made explicit. Authors must identify the research topic(s) 
being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the 
review process.

Student research papers (maximum of 10 pages).
Research papers on any aspect of digital government that are authored 
by students alone should be submitted to the Student Session, which 
will be chaired by a student. Papers accompanied by system 
demonstrations are particularly welcomed; in this case, please submit 
both a paper and a demo submission. Student papers will be evaluated by 
the students organizing the student session and activities. The session 
will also include time for a discussion of typical graduate student 
issues.

Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages) of digital government projects.
One of the highlights of dg.o conferences is the demonstration 
sessions, held in special sessions to the accompaniment of good food. 
We invite short papers outlining a system demo. We encourage demos that 
accompany papers or project highlights (in which case, please submit 
both a system demo description and a paper or project highlight). Each 
demo station will have a table, an easel, and Internet access.

Posters (maximum of 2 pages) of digital government projects.
Posters are meant to describe research contributions less substantial 
or complete than those described in research papers.

Birds-of-a-Feather proposals (maximum of 2 pages) about a topic of 
general interest.
We invite short descriptions of themes for the Birds-of-a-Feather 
session, a set of roundtable discussions about relevant topics. This 
session serves to introduce people and support the formation of 
nationwide communities of people with like interests.

NEW THIS YEAR:

Project highlights (10 MS PowerPoint slides, as described below) that 
describe the most interesting recent developments of projects funded by 
the NSF's Digital Government program. All currently active NSF Digital 
Government projects are strongly encouraged to submit a Project 
Highlight describing current activities, summarizing published or 
unpublished research contributions, and identifying successes, 
challenges, and plans for the coming year. Submissions may include urls 
referencing relevant project information.

PIs are encouraged to describe interesting, exciting, and challenging 
aspects of their projects here, in the categories listed below. We are 
asking for PowerPoint submissions in order to make it easy for the NSF 
program directors to use your material when they describe the Digital 
Government Program. Note that each project described in a Project 
Highlights submission will be invited to write a 2-page project 
description that will appear in the printed proceedings for the dg.o 
2004 Conference. The 2-page description will be submitted through the 
website as a “camera ready” version of the Project Highlight. In other 
words, a Project Highlight must be submitted as a PowerPoint file by 
the submission deadline of February 6, 2004 and then as a 2-page write 
up of the project (in a .pdf file) by the camera-ready deadline of 
April 2, 2004.

Prepare one MS Powerpoint (or equivalent) presentation in a .pdf file 
with one slide addressing each of the following topics. Note, you can 
use additional slides to describe individual categories, e.g., if you 
have more than one collaboration example or success story.

1.	Project title
2.	Types of collaboration with government partner (e.g., through 
cost-sharing, direct support, advice and feedback) and with other 
closely related grants
3.	Scientific research objective
4.	Accomplishments
5.	Management structure for the project, including government partners
6.	Collaboration examples and success stories
7.	Broad impact
8.	Challenges/barriers
9.	Research value when working in DG domain
10.	Recommendations for improving DG program

All project highlights (in the form of a 2-page paper, as described 
above) will be included in the proceedings. The original PowerPoint 
submission  will be reviewed:

1.	to provide suggestions for improvement
2.	to determine how the project highlight is to be included in the dg.o 
2004 Conference Program, and
3.	to evaluate whether the project will be invited for presentation at 
the proposed NSF Digital Government Research workshop to be held 
following the d.go 2004 conference. The Project Highlights PowerPoint 
file must be submitted by February 6, 2004.

REVIEWING AND DEADLINE DETAILS

Reviewing:
Review of all submissions will be performed by the Program Committee.

Program Committee:

Lois Delcambre, Program Committee Chair
Sharon Dawes, Research Paper Chair
Valerie Gregg, Project Highlights Chair
Eduard Hovy, System Demo Chair
Judith Cushing, Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions Chair
Sudarshan Murthy, Student Session Chair

Peggy Agouris, University of Maine
Yigal Arens, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information 
Sciences Institute
Chaitan Baru, University of California San Diego
Annie (Shirley) Becker, Northern Arizona University
Rob Bertini, Portland State University
Shawn Bowers, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC, San Diego
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Judy Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon S. Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at 
Albany/SUNY
Lois Delcambre, Oregon Health & Science University
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Genevieve Giuliano, University of Southern California
Mike Goodchild, University of California - Santa Barbara
Jane Fountain, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Carol A. Hert, Syracuse University
Eduard Hovy, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information 
Sciences Institute
Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Marianne Koch, OGI School of Science & Engineering/OHSU
Kincho Law, Stanford University
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sudarshan Murthy, Oregon Health & Science University
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Charlie Rothwell, National Center for Health Statistics
Stuart Shulman, Drake University
Nicole Steckler, Management in Science & Technology Dept., OGI/OHSU
Anthony Stefanidis, NCGIA, University of Maine
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside
Paul Waddell, University of Washington

Important Dates

NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Website open for submission: January 16, 2004
Submission deadline: February 6, 2004
Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2004
Camera ready, submitted through the submission website: April 2, 2004

Conference: May 24-26, 2004

INQUIRIES

For up-to-date conference information please visit the conference Web 
site at http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2004/ . For detailed inquiries please 
contact the appropriate person (see Points of Contact above) or send an 
e-mail to dg.o2004info at dgrc.org

_________________________________
::::..... mack reed
::::..... Communications Manager
::::..... Digital Government Research Center
::::..... USC Information Sciences Institute
::::..... 310.448.8494 ... mack at isi.edu
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