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Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV) is an interdisciplinary Gold Open Access journal that focuses on the potential and impact of technology on governance innovations and its transformation of public institutions. It promotes applied and empirical research from academics, practitioners, designers, and technologists, using political, policy, social, computer, and data sciences methodologies. The journal publishes on a quarterly basis.
DGOV aims to appeal to a wider audience of research and practice communities with novel insights, disruptive design ideas, technical solutions, scientific and empirical knowledge, and a deep understanding of digital impact in the public sector. The major areas include the new forms of governance and citizen roles in the inter-connected digital environment, as well as the governance of new technologies, including governance of automation, sensor devices, robot behavior, artificial intelligence, and big data. Whether it is governing technology or technology for governing, the goal is to offer cutting-edge research and concepts designed to navigate and balance the competing demands of transparency and cybersecurity, innovation and accountability, and collaboration and privacy. It covers computational, technical, social scientific, behavioral, analytical, theoretical, and integrative approaches.
Research-focused articles will require scientific rigor, and the practice papers will emphasize the real-world problems faced and the process by which they were solved through a variety of methods. DGOV encourages authors to share their experimental data, observational data, or prototype systems to enhance the transparency of their studies.
Topics of interest include the following but not limited to:
Innovations in Government
- Big data analytics for e-Governance
- Blockchain in Government
- Citizen participation
- Collective intelligence, decision making and Innovations
- Connected Society and Governance
- Crowd Law
- Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation
- Expert systems and expert networking
- Intelligent Systems, AI, Machine Learning and Robotics in government
- IT Standards and guidelines
- m-Government
- Open data—infrastructures, strategies, and governance
- Open government
- Nudges and RCTs
- Policy analytics and innovations
- Sensors, IoT, Cloud in government
- Social media in government
Democracy and Participation
Technology and legitimacy
Alternative models to representative and direct democracy
Digital citizenship, Digital Identify
Digital divide, digital literacy
E-Democracy
Participatory government
Public and group behavior monitoring, modeling and analytics
Security, privacy, and trust
Surveillance in government
Strategies and organizational issues
- Cloud, mobile and social computing strategies
- Compliance, accountability in government
- Evidence-based policymaking, E-Governance
- Digital workforce and capacity building
- Information and service sharing among government agencies
- Interoperability
- Knowledge capturing, reuse and management
- Private, public partnership
- Public service provisions and value creation
- Systems design, acquisition and IT adoption strategies
- Transformations and innovations in public sector
- Ethical governance
Applications and Services
- Cyber policy standards and guidelines
- Disaster and Emergency management
- Environmental monitoring and planning
- E-Justice
- E-Election, E-Voting
- Emergency Response and Management
- Food Security
- Government IT contracting and acquisition
- Homeland security
- Public safety
- Smart agriculture
- Smart cities and smart infrastructure
- Smart health, e-health, health policy making
- Smart Transportation