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Connecting Government and the People
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Building on the very successful workshop dg.o 2000,
dg.o 2001
is the first national conference to bring together
top computer science researchers, government agencies, e-commerce, the
software industry, and members of the public with the aim of making online
government systems available to citizens.
dg.o 2001
is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
Sessions
will address the most vital technical, social, and economic issues in
digital government for the new millennium:
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Government and social policy
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Privacy and security
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Delivery and
tracking of public services
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Commercial
and economic incentives for Digital Government
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Useful and
user-friendly interfaces, also for the disabled
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Multimedia
presentations and human-computer interaction
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Delivery
of geospatial, textual, audiovisual, statistical, and other
information
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Delivery of
public surveys and data gathering
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Data integration
and statistics
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Cooperation
among federal, state, and local government agencies
Day 1 (Monday May 21) will focus on research projects in the NSF
Digital Government Program. Days 2 and 3 will include a keynote
address, panel discussions on key issues, research presentations and
system demonstrations of new online technologies, poster sessions, and
Birds-of-a-Feather roundtable discussions.
We invite
original papers, posters, system demonstrations, and suggestions for
panels and Birds of a Feather roundtable discussions to be included in
the program.
Papers
will be either long (approx. 30 minutes) or short (approx. 20
minutes). A poster session will be held to describe work that is
in an earlier stage of development. System demonstrations will
be featured in two evening sessions. System demonstrators will
be given a table, easel, power, and a high-speed internet connection,
but no computer or projection equipment.
Submitters
are encouraged to present both a paper (or poster) and a system demo.
Students
are especially encouraged to submit papers. The registration for
students is free.
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Submission details
Papers and posters:
Abstracts of papers and posters should be about
unpublished work, no longer than 4 pages (11 point font), and aimed at
one or more of the topics of the conference. Submitters who wish
to present both a paper and a system demo of the same work should
indicate this on the first page. The first page should
include:
PAPER (or PAPER AND DEMO), title, author(s),
addresses, email addresses, URLs, topic area(s), and whether the paper
is preferred long, short, or poster. If the author is a student please
state sthis prominently.
Since time is limited, some long papers will be accepted as short
papers, and possibly some long and short papers will be accepted as
posters.
System demonstrations:
Abstracts of system demonstrations without
accompanying papers should be no longer than 3 pages (11 point font)
and aimed at one or more of the topics of the conference. The
first page should include:
DEMO, title, author(s), addresses, email
addresses, URLs, topic area(s), speed of internet connection desired
(default: 1 Mbit/sec).
Panels:
Abstracts of suggested panels
should be no longer than 1 page (11 point font), and focused on a topic
of general interest. A list of likely panelists should be included.
Ideally, the panelists will represent various stakeholder perspectives.
The first page should include:
PANEL, title, moderator(s), addresses,
email addresses, URLs, topic area keywords.
Birds of a Feather roundtable discussions:
Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (11 point font), focused on
a topic of interest. The first page should include:
BOF SESSION, title, moderator(s), addresses,
email addresses, URLs, topic area keywords.
Please email submissions to
or send
them to
Eduard Hovy
dg.o 2001
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
USA
Submissions
should arrive no later than Friday March 2,
2001.
Submitters will receive acceptance or rejection
notification by March 19 and be asked to
submit camera-ready copy of the full paper by
April 20, for inclusion in the proceedings.
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Program Committee area chairs:
- Information Technology:
Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute (chair)
- Government:
Valerie Gregg, National Science Foundation
- Information Use in Public and Private Organizations:
Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government
- Privacy and Security: Data and Metadata:
Dan Gillman, Bureau of the Census
- Statistics and Data:
Cathy Dippo, Bureau of the Census
- User Issues and Interfaces:
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina
- Databases and Data Access:
Jose-Luis Ambite, USC Information Sciences Institute
- Social Impacts:
Bill Dutton, University of Southern California
- Birds of a Feather meetings:
Judith Klavans, Columbia University
Carol Hert, Syracuse University
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Other Information
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For any other queries, please send email to
dg.o2001@dgrc.org
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