Monthly Archives: November 2007

Getting Bi, 2nd edition

CALL FOR ESSAYS

–Do you have something to say about being bisexual?
–Do you have a story about coming out as bi?
–Do you feel you could identify as bisexual but choose not to?
–Do you find connections (or conflicts) between your bisexuality and other parts of your identity or life?
–Do you have something to say about desire? About relationships? About religion? About community? About politics? About the position of bisexuals in the place or community you call home?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, we want to publish you!

_We seek short personal essays or poems (200-1000 words) by bisexuals from Central or South America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. We seek Muslim voices from anywhere in the world. _

If you don’t want your name in print, you can write under a pseudonym. If you think you’re not a “real” writer and would like to be included in this anthology, we want you. If you’re not comfortable writing, we can interview you. If you are not comfortable writing in English, write in your native language and we will translate your essay.

Essays will be published in the second edition of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. The new anthology will be published in 2009, in dual editions (English and Spanish).

The first (2005) edition includes personal narratives by people from 32 different countries, on 6 continents, ranging in age from 15-79. Please help us make this amazing collection even broader in scope!

Send submissions to Robyn Ochs (robyn@robynochs.com) by June 30, 2008.

Thank you!

Robyn Ochs (www.robynochs.com) & Sarah E. Rowley, Editors

Getting Bi is one of the most important recent contributions to the global struggle for human rights. By enriching our understanding of bisexuality within so many cultural and geographic contexts, this anthology serves as a magnificent tool for building support and respect for the sexual rights of each one of us.
— Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Book on women and aging

Men can’t really imagine how hard it is to tie your sneakers when you’re nine months pregnant. Or concentrate in a meeting when a hot flash strikes and all you feel like doing is standing in front of an open freezer door. You just have to be a woman. We discovered that when we started eating lunch together.

Bouncing from shop talk to husbands to aging parents, we always ended up at menopause, and that was when the laughter started. We finally decided that we were having too much fun to keep the conversation to ourselves. So if you’re a woman pushing 50 (or 60 or 70 or beyond) who has traded in her tampons for calcium pills and fiber supplements, we want to hear your stories and share them with others.

We want to hear it all: inspirational, funny, freaky, sad, or sublime, stories about
your experiences. Tell us about

Physical changes–mirror, mirror, who is that person looking back?
Relationships–parents, friends, lovers, husbands, in-laws, children, grandchildren, pets
Doctors and other strangers
Sex, exercise, and mood rings
Food–gooey or good for you
Money–you can’t take it with you
Risk-taking–what you can and still can’t afford to lose
Hobbies from arts and crafts to exotic dancing
Aging with style (and tummy tucks)
Survival Strategies (I went through menopause and lived to tell about it!)
Advice (only if you’ve already taken it)

or stories about other things that you’d like to share (like the day I had to work all afternoon without underwear!)

Please send your stories to MENOPLUS@psu.edu. Our sources will remain anonymous, but please send contact information so we can get in touch with you to let you know well be printing your story.

Ruth Pflueger and Terri Caruso
Department of English
Penn State Behrend

9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada – May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 – Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 – Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 – Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 – All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors’ names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36″ x 48.” Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors’ names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada – Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China – Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India – Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy – Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico – Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands – Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal – Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena – Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea – Jae Moon – Yonsei University
Sweden – Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey – Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States – Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada – May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 – Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 – Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 – Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 – All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors’ names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors’ names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36″ x 48.” Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format – following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors’ names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada – Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China – Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India – Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy – Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico – Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands – Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal – Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena – Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea – Jae Moon – Yonsei University
Sweden – Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey – Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States – Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

LITA Forum

Do you have a new or innovative way of providing services to your users? The LITA 2008 National Forum is a great way of sharing your knowledge with others.

Due Date for proposals: December 15, 2007

The 2008 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 11th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Netherland Plaza hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio from October 16-19, 2008

Theme: Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library

The Forum Committee is interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that aren’t quite ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome.

Some possible ideas for proposals might include:

Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, etc.
User created content: Book reviews, tagging, etc.
Mobile connectivity: iPhones, iPods, handhelds
Virtual worlds
Multiplayer Gaming in Education and Libraries
Open Source Software: creative uses of OSS, technology on a budget.
Federated and Meta-Searching: design and management, integrated access to resources, search engines
Digital Libraries/ Institutional Repositories: developments in resource linking, preservation, maintenance, web services
Authentication and Authorization: Digital Rights Management (DRM), authentication, privacy, services for remote patrons
Web design: information architecture, activity-centered design, user-centered design, usability testing
Technology Management: project management, geek management, budgeting, knowledge sharing applications
Internet Law: privacy, copyright, filtering
RFID in libraries

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length. Forum 2008 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after the event.

Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):

Title
Abstract and brief outline
Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic
Full contact information
Is this proposal for a concurrent session?
Is this proposal for a poster session?
If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might it be considered for a poster session?
How did you hear about the 2007 Forum call for proposals?

The 2008 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January 2008. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of February 2008.

Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2007 to:
Mary Taylor
mtaylor@ala.org
Executive Director
Library and Information Technology Association

ACRL National Conference, Seattle, WA

Join ACRL in Seattle for the 14th ACRL National Conference, March 12-15, 2009!

Join your colleagues at the premier professional development event for academic and research librarians and staff. The ACRL 14th National Conference will challenge you to push your boundaries and promises the opportunity to explore new ideas, engage in new learning, and extend the collective vision of the future of academic and research libraries.

Engage in professional learning and development in both structured and informal settings. In addition to program sessions, the conference planners are also building in time to have fun, share informal conversations and meals with colleagues, and explore Seattle. ACRL will continue to offer virtual conference presentations and will embrace social networking tools in order to “amplify” the impact of the National Conference. This year ACRL will implement more “green” practices than ever before, challenging us all to help reduce the meeting’s ecological footprint.

The Call for participation can be found at: http://acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/seattle/program/program09.cfm

EBSS Research Forum

The Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee is holding its second annual Research Poster Session and Discussion Forum during the second ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, Saturday, July 26, 2007. The forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers an opportunity to present research in progress, and receive collaborative feedback on their work and recommendations for future publishing. Research/posters will be simultaneously presented and discussed in small informal groups.

Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in research-related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind review process.

Selection criteria
Proposals will be evaluated based on the extent to which they:

1. Measure and/or investigate library and information aspects in the fields of communication, psychology, social work and education.

2. Represent an original research project.

3. Clearly identify what stage in the research project has been completed and estimate a timeline for the remainder of the project.

4. Represent the current interest to the membership of EBSS.

Note: Research that has been previously published or accepted for publication by December 1, 2007 will not be considered.

Proposal submission instructions

1. Proposals should be no more than three pages.

2. The first page should include:
• Date of submission
• Name of applicant(s)
• Institution(s)
• Applicant address(es)
• Phone number(s)
• Email address(es)
• Title of the proposal

3. The second page should include:
• Title of the proposal
• Statement of the research question
• Research goals and objectives
• Description of the methodology
• Conclusions
• Format
• Double-spaced
• 12 pt. font
• One inch margins

4. Email or mail your submissions by December 7, 2007 to

Melissa Cast-Brede
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Criss Library
6001 Dodge St.
Omaha, NE 68182
mcast@mail.unomaha.edu

ECOOP 2008: 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

http://2008.ecoop.org/

Call for Workshop Proposals

ECOOP 2008 is held in July 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus.

ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas
of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for
exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage.
They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging
approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology.

Workshops may last one or two days.

December 26, 2007 – Deadline for Proposals

March 2, 2008 – Notification of acceptance

For more information visit http://2008.ecoop.org/workshop.html

24th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education

The 24th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in
Higher Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, invites
submission of papers, projects, posters, artistic works, and
works-in-progress that highlight research by women and/or about women’s
or gendered issues. Submissions from all fields of study are invited.
The conference will be held on February 29, 2008. Invited speakers
include Dr. Alice Hogan, National Science Foundation, and Dr. Kimberlee
Kearfott, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan.
Registration is required of all presenters: the fee is $10 for students
and $45 for faculty, staff, administrators, and professionals, and lunch
is included with paid registration. Proposals should include a cover
page with name and contact information, an abstract not exceeding 100
words, and a summary of 1000 words, sent as an attachment via e-mail to
all.university.conference@ttu.edu; type “WS Submission” in the subject
line. Cash awards for best student papers. Deadline for submissions is
January 14, 2008. If you have questions, please contact Texas Tech’s
Women’s Studies Program, 806-742-4335.

IFLA Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding
10-14 August 2008, Qu�bec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS
Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections

The Information Literacy (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Sections of IFLA will be holding a joint open program at the IFLA General Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2008. IL educators or practitioners are invited to submit proposals for papers related to the theme:

Return on Investment: Learners’ Outcomes in Information Literacy. Do they really learn?

From high school to university current trends indicate a small but growing number of studies about learning outcomes for IL. Effective assessment of student learning outcomes is a critical component to improving information literacy programs.

In this call for papers, we are interested in a wide range of techniques that provide objective measures for assessing students’ information competencies. We are looking for speakers who can relate experiences from a practitioner’s perspective, as well as presentations of research on assessment of IL programs. The focus can be on diagnoses concerning incoming students, evaluating students’ progress towards achieving IL skills or exit assessments. Here are some questions to consider:

How are they used to evaluate the IL courses quality and their cost-effectiveness?
What indicators should be identified to measure competency or fluency?
What comparison can be made between different contexts, levels or disciplines?
Do assessment tools vary according to program needs?
What is the impact on pedagogical methods?

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
The proposal should include a title, an abstract of 200-400 words and a one-page biographical sketch for each author, with current employment information and title, containing a selected list of previous presentations and publications. Submissions will be rated on how well they fit with the program theme. Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted as a MS Word file by e-mail, in English, no later than 30 January 2008 to:
Agnes Colnot
Service commun de documentation – CS 64302
Universit� Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne
F-35043 RENNES Cedex
Email : agnes.colnot@wanadoo.fr

Submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Successful applicants will be informed of the outcome of the review panel by 1 March 2008. Papers (3-21 pages) are required to meet IFLA guidelines posted at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/callinfo-en.htm . Presentations at the conference will be limited to approximately 20-30 minutes and will be a summary of the original paper and may use PowerPoint. An electronic version of this call will be posted at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/call-papers-en.htm

The full paper is due no later than 1 May 2008 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers may be written and presented in any of the IFLA working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) however, simultaneous translation is not guaranteed.

Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact Agnes Colnot.