Digital Government / e-Government

Governments are increasingly transforming their administrative structures, service delivery processes, decision-making mechanisms, and relationships with citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders through digital technologies such as ICT, web-based platforms, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data analytics, and digital public infrastructure. In this context, digital government has become an increasingly important research area in public administration, management information systems, public policy, and governance studies.

Digitalization creates significant opportunities for societies and economies by enabling more accessible, efficient, transparent, responsive, and citizen-oriented public services. It can also strengthen civic participation, evidence-based policymaking, public-sector innovation, and the development of knowledge-based societies and economies. At the same time, digital transformation brings important risks, including digital inequality, exclusion, privacy loss, exposure to cybercrime, algorithmic bias, misinformation, and the manipulation of public opinion.

Digital government is therefore not merely a technological issue. It also involves institutional transformation, legal and ethical governance, organizational capacity, public value creation, citizen trust, democratic participation, and inclusive service design. This track welcomes theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions addressing digital government and e-government from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Key Topics

1. Digital transformation in government
2. Digital democracy and e-participation
3. Artificial intelligence applications in public administration
4. Responsible AI, algorithmic accountability, transparency, and public-sector ethics
5. AI-based and data-driven public services
6. Blockchain technologies, interoperability, and digital public infrastructure
7. E-municipalities, smart cities, and local digital governance
8. Digital identity, e-signature, cybersecurity, privacy and resilience in public services
9. Digital inclusion, accessibility, digital literacy, and the digital divide
10. Green digital government, digital circular economy, and sustainable public-sector technologies
11. Deepfakes, misinformation, and manipulation in digital governance
12. Sectoral applications, including e-health, e-learning, e-justice, digital agriculture, and digital forest management
13. International digital integration, cross-border data sharing, and interoperability in digital public services
14. Digital government applications for reducing informality, enhancing transparency, and combating corruption
15. Digital government applications in education, e-learning, lifelong learning, and data-driven governance of educational services
16. Digital government in disaster, crisis, and emergency management
17. Digital sovereignty, data localization, and platform dependency