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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, Charalampos Alexopoulos, 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, Monica Palmirani, Franco M. T. Gatti, 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 Student-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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