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Paper Session 1: Trust and Ethical Digital Governance for the World We Want (1)
  • Equitable AI Audits: evaluating the evaluators in today's world
    • Monique Munarini (University of Piza, Italy),
    • James Brusseau (PACE University, USA),
    • Lorenzo Angeli (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Positive E-Government - Theories and Approaches to Support Citizens' Well-Being
    • Daniel Wessel (University of Lübeck, Germany) 
  • Public administrators' perception of ethical issues in public sector co-creation processes and outcomes: A meta-synthesis of cases
    • Noella Edelmann, Jessica Voigt Pereira (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria) 
  • Framing Ethical e-Governance: A Plaidoyer for a Human-Rights based Digital Democracy Approach
    • Evelyne Tauchnitz (University of Lucerne & Centre for International Governance Innovation, Switzerland).
Paper Session 2: Digital transformation and innovation in the Public Sector (1)
  • Leveraging Technology for Farmers' Welfare: An Impact Assessment of the Krushi Samiksha Kendra (KSK) in Odisha
    • Maansi Sood, Gayatri Doctor (CEPT University, India)
  • Accelerating the use of mobile phone capabilities to maximise the effectiveness of public emergency alerts in South Africa
    • Tsumbedzo Mukange, Bayanda Mokoto, Tumelo B Moipolai, Zimasa Ndamase (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) 
  • Promoting Multi-actor Collaboration for New Online Service during Public Health Emergency: Roles of an Innovation Lab at Local Government 
    • Qianli Yuan (Fudan University, China) 
  • Digital Public Infrastructure for e-Government in Nigeria: Exploring Citizen Freedoms
    • Salihu Dasuki (Nigeria Government),
    • Lydia Yisa-Doko, Shuhdah Ahmed (Office of the Vice President, Nigeria)
  • Towards unravelling the co-creation mechanism: Insights from a public organization
    • Foteini Vagena, Eriks Sneiders (Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) 
Paper Session 3: New perspectives of digital governance measurement, assessment, and monitoring (1)
  • On the Semantic Analysis of Open (Government) Data Portals' Metadata Provision and Schema
    • Maria Ioanna Maratsi (University of the Aegean, Greece),
    • Charalampos Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece),
    • Yannis Charalabidis (University of the Aegean, Greece) 
  • E-Participation as a Research Domain: Analysis of Publication Patterns and Current Tendencies
    • Radomir Bolgov (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia),
    • Olga Filatova (St.-Petersburg State University, Russia & ITMO University, Russia), Daniil Volkovskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
  • A Study on the Jurisdiction and Regulation of offshore Online Gambling between trading countries
    • Sang-Jo Ko, Hun-Yeong Kwon (Korea University, Korea (South)
  • Introducing co-creation into transformational Government
    • Foteini Vagena (Stockholm University, Greece),
    • Eriks Sneiders (Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  • Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in European Legislation using Hybrid AI
    • Michele Corazza(Università di Bologna, CIRSFID ALMA-AI, Italy) ,
    • Monica Palmirani (Università di Bologna, CIRSFID ALMA-AI, Italy),
    • Franco M. T. Gatti (Università di Bologna, CIRSFID ALMA-AI, Italy),
    • Salvatore Sapienza (Università di Bologna, CIRSFID ALMA-AI, Italy) 
Paper Session 4: Smart Sustainable Cities and Communities for People
  • Decision Support for Building Permit Application Preparation
    • Ronny Weinkauf (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany),
    • Judith Fauth (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 
  • Integrating University and Local Government to Address Strategic Planning Goals in Smart Cities: The Case of Niterói and Fluminense Federal University
    • Flavia Bernardini, Eduardo Oliveira, Matheus M Cruz, José Viterbo (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil),
    • José Augusto Paixão Gomes (Niterói City Hall, Brazil) 
  • A Comprehensive Review of Citizen Science Projects for behavioural change towards Sustainable Urban Environments
    • Christos Karelis, Zoi Lachana, Gerasimos Kontos, Yannis Charalabidis (University of the Aegean, Greece) 
  • Whose Future is Smart? A Systematic Literature Review of Smart Cities and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
    • Ahmed Kaharevic, Elin Wihlborg (Linköping University, Sweden) 
Paper Session 5: Social media and digital platforms
  • Does government hear citizenry? The quality of deliberative practice between authorities and citizens on social media in Russia
    • Daniil Volkovskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia),
    • Olga Filatova (St.-Petersburg State University, Russia & ITMO University, Russia),
    • Svetlana Bodrunova, Radomir Bolgov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
  • Polviz: Assessing Opinion Polarization in Social Media through Visual Analytics and Argumentation
    • Gabriela Diaz, Dana Urribarri, M. Ganuza, Carlos Chesñevar, Ana Maguitman (ICIC CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina),
    • Elsa Estevez (National University of the South, Argentina) 
  • Social Media for Predicting the Mexican Presidential Election: Beyond X and Facebook
    • Héctor Gutiérrez, Alejandro De León Languré, Mahdi Zareei (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico),
    • Kellyton dos Santos Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil) 
  • Portuguese political leaders on Twitter/X during the 2024 electoral campaign: An exploratory study
    • Gonçalo Dias (University of Aveiro, Portugal) 
  • Towards a Methodology for Analyzing Visual Elements in Social Media Posts of Politicians
    • José Santana, Maria Gabrielly Anísio De Santana, Pablo Azevedo Sampaio, Kellyton dos Santos Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil) 
Paper Session 6: Focus on the Global South Digital Transformation (1)
Paper Session 7: Trust and Ethical Digital Governance for the World We Want (2)
  • Towards the regulation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI use in the Brazilian Government: the case of a State Court of Accounts
    • Karine Alves, Edney Santos, Matheus Fidelis Silva (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil),
    • Ana Carolina Chaves Machado de Morais, José André Fernandes (Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Pernambuco, Brazil),
    • George Valença, Kellyton dos Santos Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)
  • Using Generative AI Chatbot for enhancing people´s digital participation
    • Fernando Pinto, Marie Anne Macadar (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 
  • Approaching Fairness in Digital Governance: A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Layered Framework
    • Yasaman Yousefi (University of Bologna, Italy) 
  • Privacy and data protection regulations for AI using publicly available data
    • Won Kyung Jung (Korea University & Samsung Electronics Co., Korea) 
Paper Session 8: Digital transformation and innovation in the Public Sector (2)
  • Active Ownership as an E-Service Management Practice in Transformational Government
    • Eriks Sneiders (Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology) 
  • Leveraging digital transformation for inter-departmental coordination and governance towards seamless digital delivery of citizen-centric urban services: Case of India
    • Aparajita Dubey, Manpreet Singh (National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), India)
  • Sustainable Tokenisation Model for the Public Sector: Selecting the most suitable business process
    • Fernando Escobar, Henrique M. D. Santos,
    • Teresa Pereira (University of Minho, Portugal) 
  • Navigating Local Open Data Ecosystems: Exploring the Dynamics in the Articulation of Social Use-Value of Local Government Open Geodata
    • María Elena López-Reyes (Aalborg University, Denmark) 
Paper Session 9: New perspectives of digital governance measurement, assessment, and monitoring (2)
  • Benchmarking of Government Websites: An Approach Towards Good Governance
    • Alka Misra,
    • Durga Prasad Misra,
    • Lokesh Joshi,
    • Ashutosh Prasad Maurya (National Informatics Centre (NIC), India) 
  • A Generic Architecture for the Digitization of Government Procurement Processes
    • Irapuan Noce (Mato Grosso Federal University, Brazil),
    • João Álvaro Carvalho (Universidade do Minho & UNU-EGOV, Portugal),
    • Luís Amaral (University of Minho - ALGORITMI, Portugal),
    • João Cerejeira (University of Minho, Portugal),
    • Pedro J. Camões (University of Aveiro, Portugal),
    • Isabel Maria Freitas Soares Ferreira, Sandra Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) - School of Management, Portugal) 
  • ‘Not what we want': Why do (not) citizens use e-government services? Evidence from St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Dmitriy Arkatov (HSE University & eGovernance Center, Russia),
    • Olga Filatova (St.-Petersburg State University, Russia & ITMO University, Russia) 
  • Assessment of Municipal Governance Portals (MGPs) and its Online Service Delivery by applying Local Online Service Index (LOSI) Methodology - A study in Gujarat, India
    • Devanshi Shah, Gayatri Doctor (CEPT University, India)
  • Assessing digital government at the local level: An analysis of worldwide municipalities' survey
    • Demetrios Sarantis, Delfina Soares (United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), Portugal),
    • Deniz Susar (UN, USA), Vincenzo Aquaro (UNDESA, USA),
    • Angelica Marie Zundel (United Nations, Switzerland)
  • Causes and Consequences of States' Responsiveness to the UN E-Government Survey: Exploring the Role of the Member States Questionnaire
    • Yury Kabanov (HSE University & ITMO University, Russia) 
Paper Session 10: Focus on the Global South Digital Transformation (2)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain Technologies in Advancing Sustainable Healthcare Development in Kenya: A Critique of Dependency Theory
    • Tlhokomelo Rethabile Monethi (University of the Free State, South Africa) 
  • Exploring the Current Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Kenyan Academic Libraries
    • Johnson Mulongo (University of Embu, Kenya),
    • Frankline Mugambi (Gretsa University, Kenya),
    • Daniel Muthee (Kenyatta University, Kenya) 
  • Mitigating Risks: Safe, Wise and Secure Use of Digital Technologies by Migrant Communities in South Africa
    • Maria Rosa Lorini, G. Harindranath, Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 
Paper Session 11: Public and Private Sector Governing Digital Economies (1)
  • The Impact of Digital Regulations on Government Expenditure Efficiency: A Study in Saudi Arabia
    • Fahad Al-Thobaiti (Digital Government Authority, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Almohaimeed (Digital Government Authority, Saudi Arabia)
  • Assessing the Impact of Taxpoynt Platform on Small Business Tax Compliance through Digitization
    • Mukhtar Tanimu (Federal High Court of Nigeria, Nigeria) 
  • Digital-ready policymaking: digitalising legislation in Europe and beyond
    • Claudia Oliveira (European Commission, Belgium),
    • Noémie Custers, Tommaso Zonta (Wavestone, Luxembourg) 
  • Unified Data Exchange: Accelerating India's Data Ecosystem
    • Ritu Ghai, Alka Misra, Durga Prasad Misra, Usha Saxena, Sanjay Mahendru, Sitansu Sekhar Mahapatra (National Informatics Centre (NIC), India),
    • Sumandro Chattapadhyay (India) 
  • Data Sovereignty and International Sovereignty Principles
    • The Data Sovereignty Observatory - Diego Adetayó Assumpção, Alberto Blumenchein (RedDrummer, Brazil) 
  • Judicial Virtual Desk Service: Brazil's Approach to Broadening Access to Justice
    • Cinara Maria Rocha (University of Minho, Portugal),
    • João Álvaro Carvalho (Universidade do Minho & UNU-EGOV, Portugal)
Paper Session 12: Future-ready Digital Workforce and Infrastructure Development
  • Deploying scalable Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in Nigeria: An Institutional Theory Perspective
    • Mohammed Agbali (University of Salford), Abubakar A. Dahiru, Amina Sambo, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi,
    • Muhammad Aminu Lawal (National Information Technology Development Agency, Nigeria) 
  • Post-CoVID-19 Tele-work Practices in German and Austrian Public Sector Organizations: A cross-case analysis
    • Noella Edelmann (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria),
    • Nadine Baumann (Hochschule Rheinmain Academy, Germany) 
  • Leveraging Recommender Systems to Enhance 足球竞彩app排名-Industry Alignment in Industrial Placements
    • Daniel Ndolo, John Kandiri (Machakos University & Kenyatta University, Kenya)
Paper Session 13: Digital transformation and innovation in the Public Sector (3)
  • Digital Competency and Public Sector Digital Transformation in Nigeria - Adeyinka Patrick Adewumi (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nigeria), Ugochukwu Abasilim David (Covenant University, Nigeria) 
  • A new perspective for longitudinal measurement and analysis of public education in Brazil based on open data and machine learning - Matheus Silva, Abílio Ferreira, Karine Alves, George Valença, Kellyton dos Santos Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil) 
  • Tracking WHO reporting requests using hybrid AI - Monica Palmirani (Università di Bologna, Italy), Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese (ISTC, Italy), Francesco Poggi (CNR Italy, Italy), Jane Nicholson (WHO-UN Switzerland, Italy), Jorge Estevez (World Health Organization, Switzerland) 
Paper Session 14: New perspectives of digital governance measurement, assessment, and monitoring (3)
  • How Government Agencies Evaluate Cybersecurity Capacity Building Outcomes: A Case of Malawi - Chimwemwe Mtegha, Wallace Chigona, Teofelus Tonateni Tuyeni (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 
  • Ensuring online usability and value: A comparative analysis of the design standards, criteria, and governance models in Denmark, Portugal, and the UK - Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, Luís Nuno Barbosa (United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) Portugal)
  • LOSI Pilots Insights: The Distribution of Online Services across Government Systems - A Cross-National Analysis - Angelica Zundel (United Nations, Switzerland), Deniz Susar (UN, USA), Vincenzo Aquaro (UNDESA, USA), Delfina Soares, Demetrios Sarantis (United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), Portugal)
  • Usability of statistics and transparency open data portals in regional governments - Ricardo Kadouaki (FGV EAESP, Brazil), Maria Alexandra Cunha (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil), Bruno Andrade de Figueiredo (FGV EAESP, Brazil) 
Paper Session 15: Early Research Track
  • Implementing ethical principles of AI through the establishment of national organization for the ethics of AI - Galbaatar Lkhagvasuren (National University of Mongolia) 
  • Creating an enabling environment for Education 5.0 in Zimbabwe - Freeman Mateko (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  • Reflecting the Emotions of the City: Developing a Contextual Sentiment Analysis Method for Social Media Texts - Anna Chizhik, Katarina Cokrlic (Saint Petersburg State University & ITMO University, Russia) 
  • Does Centralization Lead to Equality in E-Participation Provision? Evidence from the Russian Regions - Yury Kabanov (HSE University & ITMO University, Russia), Anna Kuzmenko (HSE University, Russia), Andrei V. Chugunov, Georgiy Olegovich Panfilov (ITMO University, Russia) 
  • Exploring the Potential of India's Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs) in Disrupting Digital Economies - From Payments to Products, can India Replicate UPI's Success in Digital Commerce with ONDC? - Garima Sogani (NITI Aayog & National Informatics Centre, India), Mrityunjay Sharma, Mahendra P. Kulshreshtha (NITI Aayog, India)
  • The Brazilian Blockchain Network and CBDC: searching for creating a Digital Public Infrastructure - Vanessa Almeida (BNDES, Brazil), Marie Anne Macadar (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 
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