Highlights from the conference include:
* Keynote presentations by Chris Vein, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Government Innovation; Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House; Randeep Sudan, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, Information and Communication Technologies Sector, The World Bank; Don Kettle, Dean, School of Public Policy, the University of Maryland College Park, and and Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
* Innovative workshops and tutorias on June 4 by leading researchers and practitioners. Topics include Humans and Machines Learning Together: Using DiscoverText to Gather and Classify Big Text Data Sets (Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst); Node XL for Social Network Analysis (Cody Dunne, University of Maryland College Park); Security and Privacy in Government (Jaideep Vidya, Rutgers University); and Linking Open Data: Changes and Solutions (Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology; Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology; and Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens). Full conference registrants receive one complementary workshop/tutorial of their choice.
* Over 30 research and management papers; numerous panels; and a wide range of posters from leading digital government scholars and practitioners from government, industry, and universities from across the globe.
Important Dates:
May 18, 2012: Early registration ends
May 13, 2012: Hotel room block (information on the conference website) ends; book before this date to receive the conference discount
John Carlo Bertot, Conference Chair
Luis Luna Reyes and Sehl Mellouli, Program Chairs
Jing Zhang and Soon Ae Chun, Workshop and Tutorials Chairs
Teresa Harrison, Panel Chair
Gabriel Puron Cid, Poster and Demo Chair
Sharon Dawes, Björn Niehaves, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, and Jochen Scholl, Doctoral Colloquium Chairs
Thank you to our sponsors: Elsevier, IOS Press, Information Policy & Access Center, the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland College Park.