CeDEM16 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 18-20 May, Danube University Krems, Austria

The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. Topics: http://bit.ly/1HgatxV

The Centre for E-Governance at the Danube University Krems has been organising conferences on e-democracy and public administration since 2007: the E-democracy Conferences began in 2007, and the CeDEM, first presented in 2011, represents the development and continuation of the conference series. The CeDEM is also held biennially in Asia (CeDEM Asia).

We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their papers, reflections as well as workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics.

The CeDEM offers a PhD Colloquium in cooperation with the Danube University Krems’ Platform for Political Communication and netPOL (www.netpol.at). The PhD Colloquium provides PhD students the opportunity to present their work and gain feedback from experts as well as meet other PhD students. Students from any stage of their PhD are invited to submit their work. The CeDEM also provides an Open Space, where participants can democratically choose and organise in a barcamp style their own presentations, workshops, birds of a feather, events, meetings etc..

We are pleased to announce that as from 2016, CeDEM is Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Full papers are peer-reviewed in a double-blind process and if accepted, are published by the  IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and available online on IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  Workshop proposals, PhD colloquium papers and reflections that have been submitted and selected by the chairs are published in the paper with  Edition Donau-Universität Krems and also available online according to Open Access principles.