Calls for Papers: IJEP Special Issue on Immigrant Inclusion by E-Participation

From the e-DMR listserve:

"SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 1, 2012

SPECIAL ISSUE ON Immigrant Inclusion by E-Participation

Guest Editors: Itir Akdogan, Mauri Kaipainen, Sonia Sousa, and Ilona Tikka

INTRODUCTION:
Immigrant Inclusion by e-Participation (IIeP) is a multi-stakeholder regional project that addresses immigrant communities and public authorities in Estonia, Finland and Sweden. The aims of the project include bridging the tools, activities, and concepts of citizen communities, on one hand, and the governments top-down participation practices and technologies on the other, in terms of interoperability and integration of technologies. The Joint International Workshop on Immigrant Inclusion by e-Participation was organized within the project framework in 2-3 November 2011 at the University of Helsinki in Finland. The workshop gathered authorities on national and local levels involved in e-democracy and e-governance, immigrant and multicultural non-governmental organizations, and researchers in e-democracy and inclusion of immigrants in participatory decision-making processes in order to create a discussion forum and interaction between authorities, NGO actors and immigrant societies on immigrant inclusion by e-participation.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
This special issue aims at sharing the discussions of the event with the international research community, but even at elaborating the subject in a wider spectrum with contributions from researchers in this field who were not present at the workshop.
The special issue will thus bring together various perspectives on how authorities and immigrants may use new information and communication technologies for more inclusive and democratic societies.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
to) the following:

Activism, initiative citizenship, and immigrants Challenges and limitations of e-participation Empowerment of immigrants in e-participation Governmental and municipal e-participation Hate speech online Immigrants public e-participation awareness Inclusion vs. exclusion of immigrants online Non-governmental organizations and e-participation Political e-participation of immigrants Promotion of  social interaction and civic engagement Transnational identities, diaspora, and use of social media

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Immigrant inclusion by e-participation on or before February 1, 2012. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication.INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNALS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis.
Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All submissions should be directed to the attention of:

Itir Akdogan, Mauri Kaipainen, Sonia Sousa, and Ilona Tikka Guest Editors

E-mail:  itir.akdogan@helsinki.fi"

Call for Conference Papers: Creating Public Value in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power World

"The Center for Integrative Leadership and the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota seek paper proposals for a conference on what it means to create public value in a multi-sector, shared-power, no-one-wholly-in-charge world. Successfully addressing most major public challenges in today’s world requires contributions from governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations, communities and/or other sectors – yet the effort to find effective solutions is often stymied by lack of knowledge or highly fractious politics and rigid ideological divides. So how do we get the good that these sectors have to offer, while minimizing or overcoming their characteristic weaknesses in such a way that public value is created and the common good is advanced?

Paper proposals are sought in two areas:

1. Studies that highlight how public value is or is not created. Studies should illuminate how various sectors and instrument or tools are used to advance (or not) public values and the theory that accounts for the results. The studies will provide theoretical backing and concrete grounding for thinking about the achievement of public values.

2. Approaches to discerning, measuring, and assessing public values and the ways of creating them.

Submission process and due dates
Abstracts should be submitted by February 3, 2012. Authors will be notified by February 24, 2012 whether their proposals have been selected for development as full-blown papers. The due date for final submissions is August 15, 2012. Authors of paper abstracts selected for development into full papers will be invited to present their research at the conference scheduled for September 20 - 22, 2012 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. After the conference, papers will go through a standard blind review process as a requirement for publication in the special issue of Public Administration Review to appear in 2014. An edited book is a likely additional conference outcome.

Submissions should be sent electronically to CIL@umn.edu with the subject line: Creating Public Value Submission. Questions about appropriate topics and methodology should be directed to John Bryson (jmbryson@umn.edu or 612-625-5888).

Link to pdf of full call for papers:   http://www.leadership.umn.edu/documents/CreatingPublicValueCall-13Oct2011.pdf"