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DIGI4FED

List of relevant (inter)national contacts and the (inter)national networks

Prof. dr. ir. Joep Crompvoets (KU Leuven)

- Jury member of Sharing and Reuse Awards Contest 2019 (ISA² of European Commission)

- Member of programme committee of the International Conferences on Digital Government

Research (2019 – present)

- Organiser of Study Data ‘Digital Transformation: A governmental (r)evolution. KU Leuven Public

Governance Institute. Leuven, 11 December 2018, ± 120 participants from public sector at

different administrative levels in Belgium

- Belgian Delegate of United Nations (UN) Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial

Information Management sessions (2017 – present)

- External expert for evaluating candidates for academic position ‘Professor of Big Data in Social

Sciences at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)(2017-2018)

- Organiser of Study Day ‘Big Data and Government’. KU Leuven Public Governance Institute

(Leuven, 12 December 2017. ± 150 participants from public sector at different administrative

levels in Belgium)

- Flagis Study Day ‘GDPR & Geodata – Omgaan met gegevensbescherming in een wereld in

verandering’ (Leuven, 15 March 2018, ± 60 participants from academia, industry and public

sector dealing with GIS in Flanders))

- Organiser of ‘Managing the public sector digital transformation’ – a training course for public

sector CIOs and IT leaders (Thessaloniki, 10-13 October 2017, ± 70 participants – mainly Chief

Information Officers from 12 countries)

- Organiser of Political Summit “Digital Innovation: Status of the Public Sector in Belgium”

(Brussels, Belgium, 15 June 2017, ± 180 attendees of the public sector in Belgium)

- Member of expert commission regarding the solicitation of the Administrator-General of the

Agency of Information Flanders (May 2017)

- Member of ERCIS – European Research Centre for Information Systems (2016 - present)

- Appointment commission for full professorship in information management with a

specialisation in analysis of data at the Graduate school of Public Administration of Lausanne

University (Switzerland)(March 2016)

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- Secretary-General of EuroSDR – An European Spatial Data Research network linking mapping

agencies/cadastres with research institutes and universities for doing applied geospatial data

research

- Member of Program Committee of The IFIP Conferences on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society

(2015 – present)

- Study Day “Het onbeheersbare beheersen? Managen van ICT projecten bij de overheid”

(Leuven, Belgium, 26 November 2015, ± 140 participants from academia and public sector)

- Board of Directors of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI)(2010 – 2018)

- Chair of study group on Transformational E-Government through public sector information of

International Institute of Administrative Sciences (2013 – present)

- Jury Member of the Belgian E-government awards (2008 – present)

Prof. dr. Steven Van de Walle (KU Leuven)

- Member of the Jury of the Vereniging voor Politieke Wetenschappen Thesisprijs (2016)

- Member of the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award Committee for best academic

paper published in PAR during 2016

- Academic Rapporteur of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences International

Congress, Rio de Janeiro (22-26 June 2015)

- Member of the Horizon 2020 Expert Group 'Trust at Risk? Foresight on the Medium-Term

Implications for European Research and Innovation Policies', European Commission,

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

- Co-founder and co-chair of the Netherlands Institute of Government Colloquium on Trust and

Public Administration (2013 – …)

- Co-founder and Study Group Co-Director (2011 – …) of the IIAS Study Group on Trust and Public

Attitudes (with prof. Soonhee Kim , Syracuse University & prof. Masao Kikuchi, Meiji University)

- Associate Editor, Public Performance and Management Review (2017 – …)

- Associate Editor, Journal of Trust Research (2013 – 2016)

- Member editorial board, Public Administration Review (Oct 2016 – …)

- Member editorial board, American Review of Public Administration (2012 – …)

- Member editorial board, Public Performance and Management Review (2013 – 2017)

- Member editorial board, International Journal of Public Sector Management (2015 – …)

- Member editorial board, Public Policy and Administration (2016 – …)

- Member editorial board, Journal of Economic Policy Reform (2012 – …)

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- Member editorial board, Administration and Public Employment Review (2015 – …)

- Member editorial board, Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Overheidsmanagement (2010 – … )

- Reviewed articles for:

o Public Administration

o Governance

o Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

o Public Performance and Management Review

o International Journal of Public Administration

o International Review of Administrative Sciences

o American Review of Public Administration

o Comparative Political Studies

o Public Money and Management

o European Political Science Review

o Public Management Review

o Local Government Studies

o International Public Management Journal

o Journal of Social Policy

o Politics and Policy (Southeastern Political Review)

o Long Range Planning

o The International Journal of Public Sector Management

o Critical Policy Analysis

o Government Information Quarterly

o Res Publica

o Tijdschrift voor Sociologie

o Bestuurskunde

o Acta Politica

o Business and Politics

o Gofs Research Paper Series

o Third World Quarterly

o Lex Localis

o International Criminal Justice Review

o Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance

o Journal of Historical Sociology

o European Journal of Criminology

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o Journal of Trust Research

o BMC Medical Ethics

o Journal of Economic Policy Reform

Prof. dr. Trui Steen

- “Empowering Citizens to transform European Public Administrations” (CITADEL) H2020,

coordination by TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain (2016-2019)

- Co-coordinator of the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG)-symposium ‘Coproduction of

Public Services’, with Prof. A. Meijer (Utrecht University), Prof. T. Brandsen and dr. M. Honingh

(Radboud University) and Prof. B. Verschuere (Ghent University)(2015-2017)

- Fellow of the Center for Organizational Research and Design (CORD) at Arizona State University,

chaired by prof. B. Bozeman (2014 – present)

- Co-chair of the IIAS study group "Co-production of public services, with dr. Tina Nabatchi

(Syracuse University) and dr. Dirk Brand (University of Stellenbosch) (2013)

- COST Action Local Public Sector Reforms: An International Comparison (LocRef): Member of the

Steering Group, Member of the Management Committee, Equal Opportunity Commissioner and

Short Term Scientific Mission Coordinator; coordination by Prof. S. Kuhlmann, University of

Potsdam (2013 – 2017)

- Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future COCOPS, 7th Framework Program,

coordination by Prof. S. Van de Walle, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2012 – 2014)

- IIAS study group "Leadership", coordination by Prof. M. Van Wart (California State University),

Prof. A. Hondeghem (KU Leuven) and Prof. E. Schwella (University of Stellenbosch)

- Leiden Leadership Centre, Leiden University, Campus Den Hague (2012 – 2016)

- Copenhagen Public Values Consortium, coordination by Prof. T. Beck-Jorgensen (University of

Copenhagen), Prof. B. Bozeman (University of Georgia), and Prof. M. Rutgers (University of

Amsterdam) (2010 – 2012)

Prof. dr. Marijn Janssen (KU Leuven)

- Co-editor-in-chief of Government Information Quarterly (GIQ)

- Associate editor of International Journal of E-business Research (IJEBR)

- Associate editor of international Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR)

- Associate editor of Decision Support Systems (DSS)

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- Member of the editorial board of Information Systems Frontiers (ISF)

- Member of the editorial board of Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy (TGPPP)

- Member of the editorial board of Information Polity (IP)

- Co-chair at the E-government open data and datafication minitrack (and in the past of the

interoperability infrastructure and e-policy, governance and law track)

- Co-chair of the HICSS conference

- Programme chair of the IFIP I3E2016 conference

- Conference chair of the annual IFIP EGOV conferences series since 2009

- Previous organizing chair of ICEC04 , IFIP EGOV2011 and IFIP I3E2015

- Track chair of the e-government track at AMCIS

- Involved in society oriented technology foresight studies at The Netherlands Study Centre for

Technology Trends (STT).

- Leading Expert for the European Union in the revision of European Interoperability Framework

(EIF) related to the opening of data and data sharing.

Dr Veiko Lember (KU Leuven)

- Co-chair, Permanent Study Group of “Public Administration, Technology and Innovation” (PATI),

European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) (2018 – …)

- Member of the Scientific Committee, European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and

Innovation (EU-SPRI) annual conference (2018 – …)

- Steering Committee Member, European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) (2017 – …)

- Local co-coordinator, Erasmus-Mundus joint MSc program in Public Sector Innovation and

eGovernance (KU Leuven, University of Münster and Tallinn University of Technology) (2017 –

…)

- Member of the Strategic Planning Task Force, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (2015 –

2016)

- Member of the Evaluation Board, Estonian National Students Research Competition, Estonian

Research Agency (2014 – 2016)

- Member of the Management Committee, EU COST Action "Public Private Partnerships in

Transport: Trends and Theory" (TU1001) (2010 – 2014)

- Expert, Estonian Economic Review 2017, OECD, Paris, France (2016 – 2017)

- Member of the evaluation panel, Public Procurement of Innovation Support Scheme, Enterprise

Estonia (2016)

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- Member of the steering committee, Social innovation task force, Government Office, Estonia

(2016 – 2017)

- Expert, Project on Children at Risk, Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs (2013 – 2014)

- Reviewer for the following international journals:

o Administrative Culture

o Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy

o European Planning Studies

o Government Information Quarterly

o Industrial and Corporate Change

o Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

o International Journal of Electronic Governance

o International Journal of Management Reviews

o International Journal of Public Sector Management

o Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

o NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

o Public Administration Review

o Public Management Review

o Public Money and Management

o Research Policy

o Science and Public Policy

o Sustainability

o Urban Studies

Prof. dr. Wouter Van Dooren (UAntwerp)

- Member of the steering group of the IRSPM Hybrid Governance Special Interest Group.

- Member of EGPA – European Group on Public Administration

- Member of the VVBB – Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bestuur en Beleid

- Member of the Flemish Evaluation Society

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Prof. dr. Koen Verhoest (UAntwerp)

- Co-chair, together with assoc. Prof. Anne Meuwese (University of Tilburg), of the ECPR Standing

Group on Regulatory Governance from 2012 till 2016). Member since 2010 of the steering

committee. Chair of the 3rd Giandomenico Majone prize Committee for Best Paper.

- Co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Governance of Public Sector Organizations at EGPA,

together with Prof.dr. Per Laegreid (Bergen) and Prof.dr. Sandra van Thiel (Erasmus Universiteit

Rotterdam) and prof. Dr. Werner Jann (Potsdam) since 2006 till 2018

- Partner in the EU funded H2020 coordination and support action ‘Business Models for

Enhancing Funding and Enabling Financing of Infrastructure in Transport (BENEFIT)’ (2014-2016)

((14 universities and partners involved)

- Partner in the EU funded H2020 Research and innovation action in the H2020 TROPICO project

(2017-2021) (10 European universities involved)

- Chair AWG1 on Country context for PPPs in Transport (policy, regulation and supporting

institutions) and Management Committee member within the COST Action TU 1001 ‘Public

Private Partnerships in Belgium’ from 2011-2014

- Board Member of the International Public‐Private Partnership Scholars Network (IP3SN)

- Co-chair of the COBRA steering committee since mid. 2011; before: Project Manager of the

COBRA-Network (“Comparative Public Organization Data Base for Research and Analysis –

network”) with 18 research groups in different countries with research focused on public sector

organizations (http://www.publicmanagement-cobra.org/) since 2003

- Former Project Manager of the COST Action COST Action IS0601: Comparative Research into

Current Trends in Public Sector Organization (CRIPO) (2007-2011) with 23 countries, 35 research

teams and 84 researchers involved (http://soc.kuleuven.be/io/cost/act/index.htm ). Organiser

of 11 international meetings and one PhD school.

- Co-chair of about 15 study groups, panels or workshops at international conferences (ECPR,

EGPA, ECPR joint Sessions, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance conferences)

- Member of the editorial board of the following journals/book series:

o Public Policy and Administration (from January 2015) (WoS journal ranked 19th in public

administration)

o Public Performance and Management Review (from 2016) (WoS journal)

o International Public Sector Management Journal (from 2015)

o Irish journal ‘Administration – Journal of the Institute of Public Administration’ ;

o the academic journal ‘Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Overheidsmanagement’

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o the academic book series ‘Burger, Bestuur en Beleid’ (book series has ended)

- Member of the FP6 Pique network on Liberalisation, regulation and privatization with research

groups of 6 countries (2006-2009)

- Member of several international networks on public management (IPMN, Regulation, SOG)

- Co-publications with scholars from the following national and international universities

o Aarhus Universiteit

o University of Oxford

o Queens University Belfast

o University of Bergen

o University of Zurich

o University of Leiden

o University of Speyer - German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer

o University of Tilburg

o University of Nijmegen

o University of Nothumbria

o KU Leuven

o Universiteit Gent

o Université Catholique Louvain-La-Neuve

o University of Roskilde

o University of Salzburg

o Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

o Universiteit Amsterdam

o University of Potsdam

o University of Pitsburgh

o Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

o Tallinn University of Technology

o Universiteit Utrecht

Prof. dr. Michel Walrave (UAntwerp)

- Co-editor of Cyberpsychology: Journal of psychosocial research on cyberspace (IF 1.2)

- Co-organiser of and presenter at a PhD school on intimacy and abuse in the digital age at the

University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology (May 15-16, 2019)

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- HealthNar: member of an international network of scholars from the Radboud University

Nijmegen, Universities of Augsburg, Koblenz-Landau, New South Wales, Antwerp, Edith Cowan

University from health psychology, media psychology, health communication, arts, and

interactive communication concerning the use of narratives in health communication (2014-

2017, funded by IRSES).

- Co-organiser of international conferences eYouth (2010) and Youth 2.0 (2013) (at the University

of Antwerp)

- Member of the scientific committee of the biannual International Conference on

Communication and Reality (Ramon Llull University, Blanquerna School of Communication

Studies).

- Member of NeFCA (Netherlands-Flanders Communication Association) and ICA (International

Communication Association), regular presenter and session chair at the NeFCA Etmaal

conference of Communication Sciences and the ICA annual conferences.

- Editor of the book Sexting: motives and risk in online sexual self-presentation (Palgrave Studies

in Cyberpsychology, 2018). A collaboration with scholars from Psychology, Criminology, Law,

Health Sciences, Communication Studies, authors from the University of Antwerp, Ghent

University, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University of New South Wales (UNSW),

The University of Sydney.

- Expert for the assessment of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the European

Commission (in 2009 and 2011) in collaboration with researchers from the University of Oslo

and University of Ljubljana.

- Assessment of project proposals for the Czech Science Foundation and the Norwegian Academy

of Science and Letters (2017).

- Research stay at the UNSW (Sydney, March 2016) co-organiser of the workshop Narrative

Sensationalism and collaboration on a book project.

- Research stay at the Communication Privacy Management Centre (IUPUI, Indiana University –

Purdue University Indianapolis (March 2018), course on adolescents’ online self-disclosure and

privacy and public lecture on mediated intimacy.

- Research stay at the University of Western Cape, School of Public Health (Cape Town, April

2019), research meetings and collaboration on a Vlir-UOS project proposal.

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Prof. dr. Benoît Frenay (UNamur)

- PC member for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (2017 – …)

- PC member for the annual machine learning conference of Belgium and The

- Netherlands (BENELEARN) (2016 – …)

- PC member for the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational

- Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN) (2014 – …)

- PC member for the New Challenges in Neural Computation workshop (2014 – …)

- Member of the reviewer board of the Applied Intelligence journal (2013 – 2015)

- Editor for Neurocomputing special issue on Advances in Learning with Label Noise (2013 –

2015)

- Chair of the BENELEARN 2014 conference (2013 – 2014)

- Organiser of the special session on Label noise in classification at ESANN 2014 (2013 – 2014)

- Invited seminar at the CITEC center for excellence at Bielefeld University (2014)

- Invited seminar at Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences, Université

Catholique de Louvain (2014)

- In charge of the organisation of the Machine Learning Group meetings (2013 – 2014)

- Member of the bachelor commission in engineering (BTCI) (2013 – 2014)

- Member of the UCL scientists council (CORSCI) (2013 – 2014)

- Participated in the AEQES-CTI certification for electrical engineering (ELEC) (2012 – 2014)

- Member of the electrical engineering (ELEC) commission (2012 -2014)

- Reviewer for the following international journals:

o Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

o Artificial Intelligence Review

o Applied Mathematical Modelling

o Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

o Computers in Biology and Medicine

o Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

o Entropy

o Expert Systems With Applications

o IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

o IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics

o IEEE Signal Processing Letters

o IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

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o IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

o IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

o IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

o Information Sciences

o Int. Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering

o Int. Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

o Int. Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems

o Inverse Problems & Imaging

o Journal of Applied Statistics

o Knowledge and Information Systems

o Machine Learning

o Mathematical Problems in Engineering

o Neural Computing & Applications

o Neural Processing Letters

o Neurocomputing

- Reviewer for the following international conferences:

o European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of

o Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)

o European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence

o and Machine Learning (ESANN )

o IEEE Int. Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC)

o International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Prof. dr. Benoît Vanderose (UNamur)

- Belgian Smart City Academic Network – B-SCAN

- Réseau de la Chaire e-Gouvernement at UNamur

- BELSPO BRAIN-be FLEXPUB Follow-up Committee

Prof. dr. Cécile de Terwangne (UNamur)

- Network of Centers – Global Network of Internet & Society Centers

- iLINC Network – The ICT Law Incubators Network

- European Digital Clearing House

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Prof. dr. Cathérine Fallon (ULiège)

- ABSP – Association belge de science politique

- BeSTS – Belgian association of STS studies (FRNS funds)

- ENGAGE research network “ENhancinG stAkeholder participation in the GovernancE of

radiological risks”, with European Commission – H2020 support

- IPPA – International Public Policy Association

- ECPR – European consortium of political research (Standing group: Internet and Politics)