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1 Conference Programme uni.ac.at/cedemasia2016 Programme Version: 5 Dec 2016 Day 1, 7 December :00 Registration 9:15 Opening Friedrich Faulhammer President, Danube University Krems, Austria Room Raon Marko Skoric Chair, City University, Hong Kong Han Woo Park Local Chair, Yeungnam University, Korea Peter Parycek Chair, Danube University Krems, Austria 9:45 Keynote Rich Ling Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Room Raon Rag picking and mobile telephony in Myanmar 10:30 Break 11:00 Keynote Eun Ju Lee Seoul National University, Korea Room Raon What Makes Politicians More Authentic on Twitter? 11:45 Lunchbreak

2 13:15 Paper presentations Chair: Tetsuro Kobayashi, City University of HK Ivo Babaja University of Zadar, Croatia Open Government and National Sovereignty Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen egovernment and Governance: The Danish Japanese timelines and models compared Muneo Kaigo and Sae Okura An Analysis of Japanese Local Government Facebook Profiles: Fans and Engagement by Policy Areas Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia/ Denmark University of Tsukuba, Japan Manuela Hartwig University of Tsukuba, Japan 2015 Paris Climate Conference politics on the Internet. Social media strategies of political institutions on the environment in Germany and Japan Marice Verger Twitter analytics as indicator of news engagement Radboud University, Netherlands 15:00 Break 15:30 Panel Hosted by KAS Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Singapore How to fill people with enthusiasm for political topics via social media Sayasat Nurbek Institute of Public Policy, Kazakhstan Astik Sinha Bharita Janata Party, India Ben Guerin New Zealand National Party, New Zealand Rajit Hewagama United National Party, Sri Lanka Pheaktra Neth Spokesman of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge Tribunal), Cambodia 17:00 Break 17:15 Open Chairs Meeting 18:30 Conference Dinner at the Conference Hotel: Restaurant Yegrina on the second floor Buffet.

3 Day 2, 8 December :00 Opening Session Kyujin Jung Room Raon Peter Parycek 09:20 #DISC and CeDEM Panel Room Raon Manuela Hartwig Communication about climate change during COP21 on Twitter in Germany and Japan. Implications for the cultural representation of the environment Leslie Tkach Kawasaki Tweeting for the Youth Vote: Japanese Political Party Twitter Use in the July 2016 Upper House Election Maurice Vergeer The real and the virtual. How societal, political and media events leave traces in Twitter streams during an election campaigning 10:20 Break Ahmed Eraky E voting Implementation in Egypt 10:40 #DISC and CeDEM Panel Room Bluebell Dal Yong Jin Civic Engagement in the Smartphone Era: corporate sphere vs. public sphere Junku Lee Social network analysis of the influence of participation in the international environmental regime: The Twitter network of participating NGOs in Germany, Japan and Republic of Korea in COP21 Arif Budy Pratama Local Government Image in the Virtual World: A Case Study on Jakarta Provincial Government Official YouTube Videos Eun Sun Lee Mapping social economy networks self organized on social media: Evidence from Facebook Groups of Korean Public Administrators, CEOs, and Scholars

4 11:40 Break 12:00 Keynote Michael Best United Nations University, Macau Gender, Peace & Data: ICTD Research and the United Nations 12:45 Lunchbreak 14:15 Paper presentations in 2 parallel sessions A and B Chair: Michael Sachs, Danube University Krems Session A Heike Hermans Gyeongsang National University, Korea The promises of digital political communication and the reality in South Korea Dal Yong Jin Simon Fraser University, Canada Understanding of Smartphone Divide: From Digital Divide to Digital Inclusion in the Smartphone Era Tamas Molnar and Andrea Kő Usability of M government Systems for the Elderly Humboldt University, Germany Corvinus University, Hungary Ben Huffman Nagoya University, Japan E Participation in the Governance Process: Redefining its Worth and Modality Robert Krimmer Internet Voting: Elections in the (European) Cloud Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

5 14:15 Paper presentations in 2 parallel sessions A and B Chair: Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI of Thessaly Session B Malgorzata Gorazek Danube University Krems, Austria Room Naru Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as Decision Support Tool for Smart Cities Application in Smart Mobility Leonidas Anthopoulos and George Giannakidis TEI of Thessaly, Greece Realizing, Modeling and Evaluating City s Energy Efficiency: The case of InSmart in the city of Trikala, Greece Sofia Shwayri University of California Berkeley, USA From using infrastructure to its modification: The development of Seoul s e Governance model Ji In Chang, Yea Sung Kim, Aei Jung Song and Joo Hyun Park Differing visions of the smart city in Korea Myojung Chung and T. Makana Chock Health risk communication in the digital era: Extended parallel process model in the social media context Hongik University, National Assembly Research Service, Seoul National University, Korea Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Syracuse University, USA 15:30 Break 16:00 Panel and workshop 2 parallel sessions: panel A workshop B Panel A Marko Skoric, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Muneo Kaigo, Randy Kluver City University, Hong Kong Social Media and Citizen Engagement in Asia: University of Tsukuba, Japan A Comparative Study of Five Societies Texas A&M University, USA Workshop B Judith Schossböck City University, Hong Kong Room Naru The Motivation(s) Behind Open Access Publishing 17:15 Closing Session Day 3, 9 December :00 13:00 Sightseeing: Mountain Palgong (Sign up with the registration). We will meet in front of the hotel lobby.

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