eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government

Aims & Scope

The Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) is owned and published by the Department for E-Governance and Administration, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. JeDEM is a platinum/diamond scholarly-led open-access e-journal managed by an interdisciplinary team of scholars at the Department for E-Governance and Administration at the University Continuing Education Krems. JeDEM has been listed as a Q2 journal in 2023 by the Scimago Journal and Country Rankings . It provides a platform for those interested in discussing the possibilities, issues, and challenges that societies face today regarding digitalisation. Its inception was stimulated by the high-speed development of information and communication technologies, data, and information-sharing policies and their use, which rapidly change and mutually influence society, governance, and policies. JeDEM promotes contributions to the emerging science of the information age following the highest standards of peer review. JeDEM welcomes submissions related to e-democracy, e-society, e-participation, e-government, open data, data sharing and use, open science, open access and open source. Within this scope, JeDEM particularly welcomes, but is not limited to, submissions related to the following topics: e-Democracy ICT and communication technologies to promote democracy or (re-) democratisation; digital divide, social inclusion and related political strategies; data divide and algorithmic accountability; policy analysis; the role of security and privacy; democratic innovation, governance models and alternative solutions. e-Society and e-Participation civic technologies and platforms (e.g. evaluation, critical and innovative approaches, national or international solutions); collaborative decision-making and participatory budgeting; the role of civil society and organisations; stakeholder analysis, tool assessment and evaluation (e.g. political parties, government); analysis of platform engagement (e.g. semantic analysis, computational or discourse analytical approaches); co-decision, co-creation, co-production, decision-making and e-voting. e-Government general government services, evaluation of public policies (e.g. platforms for digital communication, virtual organisations and solutions, organisational training); decision-making, Artificial Intelligence and automatisation; environmental, social and smart governance solutions; governmental innovation. Open data, including both social and technical aspects and the intersection between them open data policy, governance, decision-making and co-production; technical frameworks for open data and metadata (e.g. ontologies, data formats, standards and APIs, data visualisation, or data quality); evidence and impacts of open data on society or public administration; value of real-life applications based on open data, costs and benefits of providing or using open data; emerging good practices; value generation (e.g. transparency, accountability, economic value, public service provision). Data sharing and use, including but not limited to: data with different levels of openness; the role of public, private and societal stakeholders in data sharing and use, data end-users and intermediaries; challenges and solutions for data sharing and use by various actors, including governments, researchers, companies, citizens, journalists, students, NGOs, librarians and intermediaries. Open science, open access and open-source software, including but not limited to: best practices of open science; benefits and challenges of scholarly publication, publishing data, information, articles, and code through portals and platforms with different levels of openness; safe and responsible sharing of data, information, articles and code with others communication platforms to get more exposure and enhance the usability of (open) data information, publications and code. We advise authors who are uncertain whether their article fits within JeDEM's focus to contact the journal manager, Andrea Chapman. We encourage a diversity of methods and theoretical lenses, including critical studies in the above-mentioned thematic fields. The journal’s mission is to promote interdisciplinarity, unconventional ideas, and multiple perspectives and to connect leading thinkers and young scholars with inspiring reflections. JeDEM is an innovative journal that welcomes submissions from all disciplines and approaches. We publish both theoretical and empirical research, both qualitative and quantitative.

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