Find out who won the best papers awards at the recent EGOV2020 digital conference!

The EGOV2020 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2020 conference this year took place in early September as a completely digital event. Each year, the conference organizers run a 'Best Paper' competition and three awards (sponsored by IOS Press) were granted for the 2020 event. The best paper winners (listed below) will now be invited to submit their revised papers to GIQ following a fast-track reviewing process, and the runners up invited to submit to a JeDEM special issues which will be published in 2021.

Best Winners 2020!

• Leif Skiftenes Flak and Sara Hofmann – The impact of smart city initiatives on human rights
• Mecati Mariachiara, Flavio Emanuele Cannavò, Antonio Vetrò and Marco Torchiano – Evaluating Risk of Discrimination in Automated Decision Making Systems with Measures of Disproportion
• Devin Diran and Anne Fleur van Veenstra – Barriers to Data-driven Policy Making for the Municipal Energy Transition in the Netherlands

The awards are sponsored by:

Award Categories

Three types of paper awards are used. These are loosely aligned with the types of papers the IFIP EGOV-EPART conference was looking for:

Category 1 – The most innovative research contribution or case study. Awards the paper with the most out-­of‐the‐box and forward-looking idea and concept. Relevance is more important than rigor.

Category 2 – The most compelling, critical research reflection. Awards the paper with the most compelling critical reflection on and discussion of a relevant research topic.

Category 3 – The most promising practical concept. Awards the paper delivering a concept or solution with the highest potential to have a high impact in e-government implementations and applications.

Selection Process

Step 1 (after submission): Nomination All research and ongoing papers submitted to the conference are “eligible” for the prize. Papers submitted to the conference are reviewed by independent reviewers and nominated as for one of the Awards during the double-blind review process.

Step 2: Shortlist On the basis of the papers that gained the greatest number of nominations and highest peer-review scores during from the review process, the Outstanding Paper Awards Committee prepares a shortlist of papers for each of the 3 Award categories.

Step 3: Selection All the Track Directors review the shortlisted camera-ready papers on the basis of the following criteria per awards category: The originality of this paper’s contribution to knowledge (usefulness of the information and generalisability to research and/or policy development); The quality of the paper’s writing (accuracy, clarity readability, and organisation of the paper)

Step 4: Final Decision The Awards Committee considers the papers suggested and may take a final decision in case of a tie.

Best Paper Awards committee

Chairs
Noella Edelmann (Danube University Krems) and Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Committee Members

• Katarina L. Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, SE
• Ramon Gil‑Garcia University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
• Natalia Kadenko, Delft University of Technology, NL
• Habin Lee, Brunel University; UK
• Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, SE
• Gianluca Misuraca, European Commission, JRC-IPTS
• Francesco Mureddu, Lisbon Council Panos Panagiotis Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, UK
• Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, NL