The international conference “Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia” (EGOSE 2014) will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on November 18-20, 2014.
The EGOSE 2014 aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society, e-government, e-governance, and e-democracy. The conference provides a platform for networking and collaboration between e-governance experts in the Eurasian area.
The EGOSE 2014 will be held as part of a joint conference titled “Internet and Modern Society” (IMS), which has taken place in St. Petersburg annually since 1998. IMS brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and a number of disciplines relating to Information Society issues. The IMS Conference is “joint” because it contains two collocated conferences:
- The International Conference “Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia” (in English)
- “Information Society Technologies in Science, Education and Culture” (in Russian).
Topics discussed:
The EGOSE 2014 Conference invites paper submissions and speakers on all topics related to e-government and the information system perspective with a special focus on Eurasia regions.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Information society and e-governance
- Open government prospects
- Convergence in e-governance services
- Citizen-centered e-government
- Participatory governance
- Open government data
- E-governance and policy modeling
- E-governance and Eurasian integration
- Social media: Tools for analysis, participation and impact
- Building a smart city
- Smart citizens and quality of life
- Disruptive e-governance and infrastructures
Among the keynote speakers will be:
- Sharon Dawes, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
- Ralph Heinrich, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
- Douglas Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA
- Maria Wimmer, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The best papers will be published in the special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Governance, indexed in Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar etc.
For more information please refer to the conference website.
