Digital Government Fostering Social Cohesion for Reducing Inequalities: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2025)

Dr. Flavia Bernardini is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Computing, Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Brazil, for more than 15 years. Her main research agenda is to develop computational artifacts for public service delivery using open data and AI. In this theme, she coordinates the Data for Citizenship Center (D4C), has led funded projects, co-authored numerous academic papers, and supervised doctoral students. She coordinates the Special Committee on Digital Government of the Brazilian Computer Society. She has served on major conference program committees, including DG.O and IFIP EGOV, and was the co-Program Chair for DG.O in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Dr. Marie Anne Macadar is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and the Associate Dean of International Affairs at the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. She is a long-standing reviewer and co-chair of DG.o, EGOV, ICEGOV, and Conf-IRM conferences, and a regular reviewer for leading national and international journals in her field. Her research interests include Digital Government, Smart Cities, Electronic Participation, Citizen Engagement, and ICT for Development. More recently, she has been focusing her research on culture and sustainable urban development in smart cities.

Dr. Hab. David Dueñas-Cid is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public Sector Data-Driven Technologies Research Centre at Kozminski University. He serves as Secretary of the Digital Government Society (2026–2028), General Chair of the E-Vote-ID Conference, and Emeritus President of the Digital Sociology WG 10 at the International Sociological Association. His research centers on internet voting, digital democracy, and trust in e-governance systems. A widely published author in journals like Government Information Quarterly, his recent work investigates electoral technologies, technological trust, and digital participation.

Dr. Jooho Lee is a professor at School of Public Administration and a Co-director of Digital Governance and Analytics Lab at University of Nebraska, Omaha. Areas of his research interest include public management with an emphasis on information and communication technology use in public organizations and the application of social network theories in public management issues such as interagency and interorganizational collaboration. His research has appeared in public administration and electronic government journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Policy Studies Journal, Government Information Quarterly, American Review of Public Administration, and Administration and Society.