The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the inaugural issue of Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), a new interdisciplinary open access journal on the impact of technology on governance and public institutions. DGOV presents applied and empirical research from academics, practitioners, designers and technologists, using political, policy, social, computer and data science methodologies.
The inaugural issue of Digital Government: Research and Practice examines the state of digital democracy, featuring a selection of articles from pioneers in the field. It also includes an interview with Vint Cerf, recognised as one of the fathers of the internet. Contributors to the first issue of DGOV include Richard Sclove, Douglas Schuler, Jeff Jarvis, John Gastil, Todd Davis, Hans Jochen Scholl, Oren Perez, Kim Andersen, Jungwoo Lee and Helle Henriksen.
The target audience for the new journal includes academics, researchers, data science practitioners, students, government officials and policymakers, businesses that work with governments, journalists, legal experts, teachers, librarians, and individual citizens and advocacy groups. The methodologies of these researchers are often as diverse as expected from different disciplines, ranging from highly technical and scientific rigors to empirical social scientific methods to highly creative approaches.
DGOV will implement double-blind review: neither the reviewer nor the submitter will be informed of each other’s identities. The DGOV editorial board encourages authors to support the validity of findings and conclusions, while also welcoming experimental data, observational data, or prototype systems to enhance transparency of studies. Papers that have been selected for major conferences, such as meetings organised by the Digital Government Society in North America and the IFIP E-Gov community, can be fast-tracked for the DGOV journal.
In addition to Co-Editors-in-Chief Chun and Noveck, the DGOV editorial board includes Information Director Fazel Keshtkar of St. John’s University, 13 Associate Editors and 33 review board members representing various countries including Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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