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CALL FOR PAPERS

Social Equity Leadership Conference

Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity

Nashville, TN

June 3-5, 2015

The National Academy of Public Administration's (NAPA) 14th Annual Social Equity Leadership Conference will be hosted by Tennessee State University’s College of Public Service and Urban Affairs on June 3-5 in Nashville, TN. Established by the Standing Panel on Social Equity at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the annual Social Equity Leadership Conferences focus on advancing knowledge and understanding of applied and theoretical research towards the promotion of social equity in governance. The Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance (a committee of NAPA) focuses on issues of fairness, justice, and equity in a variety of public contexts, including, but not limited to: education, policing, welfare, housing, and transportation.

Faculty members, researchers, nonprofit and government leaders as well as graduate/undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to participate at the meeting. The theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting is Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity. We are asking for abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted by January 15, 2015. All submissions should be submitted via https://tnstateu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_etEkdv9vSF4E5hP

The conference is interdisciplinary and papers should address the role and use of technology in solving critical public policy issues. These include (but are not limited to):

• The Role of Nonprofits in Bridging the Digital Divide
• Building Civic Leadership
• Data Innovation in the Faith-Based Sector
• Social Equity Reporting – The Role of the Media
• Big Data and Education Equity
• Equity in Healthcare Access and Delivery
• Transportation in the Smart City
• Better Data for Environmental Justice
• Data Driven Communities
• Nashville Next – Planning, Data and Social Change
• Housing through Data
• Political Threats to Equity Planning
• Questions of Security and Privacy
• Foundations for Justice

For more information please contact Planning Committee Chair Dr. Cara Robinson at crobin22@tnstate.edumailto:crobin22@tnstate.edu

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*Call for Papers
CeDEM 2015 - Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
*20-22 May 2015, Danube University Krems, Austria, www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

Track: Connected Smart City

*Chair: Carolin Schröder (Technical University Berlin, DE), Julia
Glidden (21c Consultancy UK),*Norbert Kersting (University of Münster, DE)

This track provides a platform for the various living labs, initiatives
and projects that work on or with concepts of "Smart Cities". It aims at
sharing experiences as well as test results and to further investigate
relations of innovative technologies and democratic societies.
Contributions are especially appreciated on the following topics:
• Becoming a smart city: Best practices, failures & practical challenges;
• Successful technologies for encouraging citizen participation;
• Successful technologies for integrating all dimensions of human,
collective, and artificial intelligence within the city;

• Smartness vs. Openness? Open data & Big data, Usability &
Accessability, the internet of things and co-production;
• Do smart cities need smart people? Relations of innovative
technologies, democratic societies & concepts of "Smartness";

Deadline for the submission of full papers, reflections:8 December 2014
Further information on the conference: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

Thank you very much for reading and/ or forwarding this!

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Dr. Carolin Schröder

Bereichsleiterin Partizipation/ Head of Participation Research Unit

Technische Universität Berlin/ Technical University Berlin

Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft/ Center for Technology and Society

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10 623 Berlin

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