A core aspect of CTG's mission is to take an active role in the community of researchers studying and adding to the growing body of knowledge about IT in government. We accomplish this, in part, through our participation in national and international academic conferences.

We play active roles in organizing two major conferences each year:

The Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA) serves the interests of scholars and managers interested in the development and impacts of digital government. The society grew out of the community building efforts of the National Science Foundation Digital Government Research Program. The society now sponsors the annual international digital government research conference, formerly sponsored by NSF. The next conference, "dgo2007 - Bridging Disciplines and Domains" will be held May 20-23, 2007 in Philadelphia.

Deadline for research papers and proposals for panel sessions and pre-conference tutorials and workshops is December 18, 2006.

The Conference Committee particularly encourages interdisciplinary and cross-cutting submissions. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Social Science Research and Citizen Interactions: digital democracy and governance; government processes and decision-making; organization and management; public policy issues and implications. Public values such as privacy and trust; e-participation in democratic processes; digital divide, transparency and usability; universal access to information and services.
• Computer Science and Information Technology Research to Support Government: Collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; human-computer interaction; multiple modalities and multimedia; software engineering for large-scale government projects; service-oriented architectures; technology transition and transfer; the semantic web; grid computing.
• IT-Enabled Government Operations and Government Application Domains: Case studies or evaluation of information technology adoption and diffusion in government; IT tools for government planning; integration of data and services; long-term preservation and archiving of government information; security, privacy, and information assurance, criminal justice , law enforcement, and courts; crisis management, education, emergency response, and security; ecosystems informatics (for ecological research or natural resources management or policy); electronic grants administration; electronic rulemaking; government statistics; national infrastructure for community statistics; health and human services; legislative systems, national and international digital government efforts and cooperation; transportation systems & urban planning.

For complete information, see the full call for proposals www.dgsociety.org/call_for_papers.php

For more information about the Digital Government Society of North America, vist www.dgsociety.org

Conference co-chairs

Judith Bayard Cushing, Evergreen State College

Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany/SUNY

Program co-chairs

Alan Borning, University of Washington

Marijn Janssen, Technical University of Delft

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) brings together highly qualified, international professionals and scholars in an interactive environment to address issues in the areas of computer science, computer engineering, and information systems. It is one of the oldest and most influential conferences in the field of system sciences.

Center staff serve as co-chairs for minitracks for the Electronic Government Track, which includes eight minitracks on:

• E-Government Emerging Topics
• E-Democracy
• E-Government Information Security
• E-Government Architecture, Infrastructure, and Interoperability
• E-Government Organization and Management
• E-Government Services and Information
• E-Policy, Law, and Governance
• Mobile Services and Technologies in Government


• Information Technology for Development
  Note: This Minitrack is hosted within the Organizational Systems and Technology Track.

This year also features the 2nd Annual Symposium of the Global Electronic Government Research and Practice Community

You can also find a short history of the E-Government track at HICSS at http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/Resume/ HICSS_SH_EGOV.html