CFP: CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government

The deadline for the submissions is nearing quickly (8 December 2014), so we kindly ask you to disseminate the CeDEM15 CfP in your networks, to your students (we have a PhD Colloquium and grants for them too), colleagues, etc. You are welcome to use the text below, forward the whole CfP or focus on your track in particular (copy & paste from the cfp)! Will you be submitting a paper?

CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
20 - 22 May 2015

 www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

 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 from to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age.

Tracks at CeDEM15 include:

• E-Democracy and E-Participation
• E-Voting
• Bottom-Up Movements
• Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration
• Open Collaborative Government
• Democracy, Globalization and Migration
• Connected Smart City
• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation
• Technology and Architecture
• Self-governance in Complex Networks
• Rethinking Information Visualization for the People
• Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies
• Design and Co-creation for E-democracy
• Citizen's Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa
• Open Access

 ..... at CeDEM15 you can also submit papers for the:

•  PhD Colloquium
• Workshop Proposals
• Reflections
• Open Space

 .... and we are pleased to offer PhD students bursaries:

•  3 bursaries for the best PhD submissions: a 3-day conference fee waiver and accommodation at the Kolping Hotel (Krems) for the duration of the CeDEM15 conference
• 3 bursaries: a 3-day conference fee waiver http://bit.ly/1mqhBPV

 Our confirmed keynotes are:
 Alon Peled  (Hebew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
 Theresa A. Pardo (University at Albany, USA)
 Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 Shauneen Furlong (University of Toronto and University of Ottawa, Canada)

 .... and finally:

•  Co-located with CeDEM15 will be the 4th SharePSI Workshop. Share-PSI 2.0 is a EU funded project for the exchange of experience and ideas around implementing open data policies in the public sector. Attendees of CeDEM 15 will be granted free entrance to the SharePSI public meetings and presentations. For more information about SharePSI see the projects website http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/

 Important Dates:

• Deadline for the submission of all papers, workshop proposals, reflections: 8 December 2014
• Notification of acceptance: 9 February 2015
• Camera-ready paper submission: 2 March 2015