<div dir="ltr"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" color="#333333" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20px;border:none;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" width="100%" height="24" style="border-bottom-width:6px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);height:24px;padding:0px;background:rgb(238,238,238)"><center><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left" style="padding:0px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px"><a href="http://groups.dowire.org/" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;border:none;display:block;max-width:600px;text-decoration:none;white-space:nowrap"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-weight:bold">Democracies Online</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate;padding:0px;table-layout:fixed"><center><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left" style="padding:20px 10px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><table align="center" valign="top" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="60" height="60" style="padding:0px"><a href="http://groups.dowire.org/p/1376a8jmlepAn2D4k7ZbT9" title="Photo of noella.edelmann" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none"><img src="http://groups.dowire.org/p/1376a8jmlepAn2D4k7ZbT9/gs-profile-image-square/60" border="0" alt="Photo of noella.edelmann" height="auto" width="auto" valign="middle" class="" style="border: 0px; min-height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"></a></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><a href="http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/4n7nTAgaPzQyeeumgeUs1R" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none"><b>CeDEM16 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 18-20 May 2016 (Danube University Krems, Austria)</b></a></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">by </span><a href="http://groups.dowire.org/p/1376a8jmlepAn2D4k7ZbT9" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none"><b>noella.edelmann</b></a></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">in </span><a href="http://groups.dowire.org/groups/research" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none"><b>E-Democracy and E-Government Researchers Network</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;max-width:100%;padding:0px;background-color:transparent"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px"><hr style="border-top-width:3px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);border-top-style:none;margin:0px;padding:9px 0px 0px"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:10px 0px 0px"><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Apologies for Cross-Posting!</span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px"><b>************************************************************************************</b></span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">CeDEM16 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 18-20 May 2016 (Danube University Krems, Austria)</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">CeDEM16 Details: <a href="http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem" target="_blank" style="color:inherit">www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem</a></span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">CeDEM16 Tracks: <a href="http://bit.ly/1HgatxV" target="_blank" style="color:inherit">http://<b>bit</b>.ly/1HgatxV</a></span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Chairs: Peter Parycek and Noella Edelmann (Department for E-Governance and Administration, Danube University Krems, Austria)</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px"><b>************************************************************************************</b></span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. We look forward to your submissions (full papers, workshop proposals, reflections, PhD papers) and seeing you in Krems!</span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">CeDEM16 Tracks:</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">E-Democracy and E-Participation</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">E-Voting</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Bottom-Up Movements</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Open Collaborative Government</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Social Media, Public Administration and Citizen Engagement</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Connected Smart City</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Technology and Architecture</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Rethinking Information Visualization for the People</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Citizen's Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Open Access</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Emerging Issues in E-Democracy and Open Government</span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Submissions can be made for:</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Full Papers</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Workshop Proposals</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Reflections</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Open Space</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">PhD Colloquium</span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">We have a bursary for PhD students: <a href="http://bit.ly/1KwT80V" target="_blank" style="color:inherit">http://<b>bit</b>.ly/1KwT80V</a></span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Important Dates:</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">*Deadline for the submission of all papers, workshop proposals, reflections: 7 December 2015</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">*Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2016</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">*Camera-ready paper submission: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">7 March 2016</span></span></span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Looking forward to seeing you there!</span><br> <br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Kind regards</span><br><span width="100%" style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:432px">Noella</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight<br><a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a><br>skype  gmcknight<br>twitter gmcknight<br>.</div></div></div>
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