AIS SIG E-GOV pre-ECIS workshop
Full-day workshop on Digital Government
June 14, 2026 – Milan (Italy)
Call for extended abstracts
You are invited to submit an extended abstract for presentation and discussion at the 2026 pre-ECIS Workshop on Digital Government, co-organized by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on e-Government (SIG e-Gov). Abstracts should introduce a new or emerging topic, issue, or research question of relevance to researchers and practitioners within the digital government community.
Workshop objective
As with previous SIG eGovernment workshops, this workshop will be designed to provide the maximum opportunity for knowledge sharing and discussion of the abstracts submitted. The workshop will include short presentations and deepening discussions designed to help facilitate knowledge sharing among participants and to lay the foundation for future collaborations in digital government research. The discussions will be moderated to ensure the opportunity for full participation.
Workshop focus
Our workshop focuses on the digitalisation of the public sector, with a particular emphasis on digital government as a core domain of inquiry within the Information Systems (IS) community. From an IS perspective, digital government represents a rich context in which technologies, data, institutions, and human actors interact in complex and often unpredictable ways. While digital technologies offer significant opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and inclusion, they also introduce risks, unintended consequences, and new forms of inequality and control. Issues such as algorithmic bias, data governance, surveillance, and the reconfiguration of public service delivery highlight the need for theoretically informed and empirically grounded IS research that engages critically with these developments.
The workshop calls for papers and extended abstracts to explore the phenomenon of responsible digitalisation within the public sector. Contributions should address outstanding questions and issues related, but not limited to, the topics below:
- Artificial Intelligence and eGovernment
- IoT and eGovernment
- Blockchain and eGovernment
- eGovernment and Sustainable Development
- Smart Cities
- Capture, management and use of (Big) Data in government
- Open innovation in eGovernment
- Open-source and open-standard solutions in eGovernment
- Transparency and openness in eGovernment services
- Co-production of eGovernment
- Social media and eGovernment services
- eParticipation; eDemocracy
- eGovernment security
- eGovernment and ethical challenges
Submission and review
Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages, excluding references. Each abstract submitted will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs. Authors submitting to the workshop commit to act as discussant to other works. Abstracts selected for inclusion in the workshop will be those considered best ready to serve as catalysts for knowledge sharing and debate among workshop participants on new and emerging research and practice issues and challenges in the digital government community. There will not be produced proceedings, and authors will retain full authorship rights to their submitted work.
Document Format: 12-point Arial, standard line spacing (1.15). Please submit your extended abstracts in Word format to: sigegov25@gmail.com
Details on workshop registration will be available in due time.
Registration fee:
· EUR 90 (regular)
· EUR 70 (PhD students)
Important dates
- Submissions due: April 26, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2026
- Workshop: June 14, 2026
Workshop chairs:
Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway, sara.hofmann@uia.no
Francesco Gualdi, Regent’s University London, UK, gualdif@regents.ac.uk
Tatiana Martinez, University of Manchester, UK, tatiana.martinez@manchester.ac.uk
For any questions, please use sigegov25@gmail.com