<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Enclosed is a call for papers for a </font><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital Government in China Call for Papers in DGOV, ACM Digital Government Journal.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif">I'd like to think that the special issue will pay some attention to the worrisome nature of some of the systems of governance by technology that the Chinese government is currently using and pursuing. Some of the language in the call raises alarms including those bolded in the paragraph below. The first bolded area mentions <i>precision</i> social governance which is bound to elicit shivers. The second which discusses "democratic politics" seems a bit dubious considering yesterday's shutdown of Apple Daily in Hong Kong.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Data intelligence technology integrates government affairs data, promotes the digital transformation of governments at all levels, and </span><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">realizes precision social governance</b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. Digital government is changing the traditional governance models and providing strong support for the modernization of the national governance systems and governance capabilities. </span><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Meanwhile it also creates new opportunities, and environments for the development of democratic politics.</b></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some of the measures for ensuring the necessary oversight seem to be built into the process although there is some implication that a paper that was critical of the New Trends might be considered as "commentary" </font><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(via "international colleagues") </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as opposed to a "regular SI paper." (From full Call for Papers)</span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 2"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Regular SI papers</span>: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically by the deadline listed above and should adhere to the ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice guidelines (<a href="http://dl.acm.org/journal/dgov/author-guidelines">dl.acm.org/journal/dgov/author-guidelines</a>). Please submit your papers through the online system (<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgov">mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgov</a>) and be sure to select the "Special Issue on New Trends of Building Digital Government in China" option for the paper-type. We expect 10-15 papers to be featured in this special issue.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 2"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Commentaries</span>: In addition to full paper submissions, we invite international colleagues to submit commentaries to ensure balanced international views on Digital Government trends, and to facilitate discussions of the topics above. This submission type should be within 1,000-2,500 words.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 2"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Review Process</span><span style="color:rgb(35,31,32)">:<br></span></font></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 2"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>The submitted manuscripts will receive at least three reviews by the DGOV editorial board and other international colleagues. </b>The commentaries will be reviewed by two or more editorial board members.</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Our commentary, if any, probably belongs in the SIGCAS-talk thread. (And unfortunately it doesn't seem to be trivial to sign on to the last.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks!</div>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