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EGOV2021: EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2021 conference
Smart Cities (Government, Communities & Regions) Track
All aspects of smart cities and smart governance, including
frameworks, policies, and the use of technology
University of Granada
Spain, September 7-9, 2021
The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation pushing
cities towards a mandatory digital transition to a touchless
economy. Unsurprisingly, cities with greater digital maturity
maintained their normal activities more easily showing greater
resilience to changes. Digital technologies such as IoT, Clouding
Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality and
Blockchain allowed them to develop more resilient service
management systems and supply chains. The digital data was used to
make complex analyzes, forecasts, prescriptions resulting in
cities more agile and adaptable.
More than ever smart and connected communities are need to deal
with these times of uncertainty. Knowledgeable communities capable
of integrating technologies with the natural environment to
improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of
citizens within cities.
The literature on smart cities and communities is dispersed among
several areas of knowledge, resulting in a lack of a multi-domain
holist view and strategy to achieve the ambitioned smartness.
Although there is not just one path for a city to become smart,
because different territories have their particular circumstances,
having a common approach for achieving it is fundamental to guide
decision-makers in this transformation.
It is widely recognized that technology plays an important role in
connecting institutions, governments, and citizens. Connectivity
is an essential element to increase communications between
institutions and citizen participation. Smart applications and
services can make our life easier; however, technology also brings
big challenges with it such as the digital divide, privacy, and
security issues.
This track aims at exploring these issues, paying particular
attention to the challenges of smart cities and smart communities
as well as to the impact of these initiatives. It also aims at
focusing on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart
governance practices, smart public administration, smart
communities, smart resources, and talent advantage in urban,
rural, and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICT and
other technologies.
As a result, areas of focus and interest to this track include,
but are not limited, to the following topics:
* Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and
regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart
governance)
* Smart government (focal areas, current practices, cases, and
potential pitfalls)
* Smart partnerships and smart communities (triple/quadruple
helix, public-private partnerships, and citizen participation)
* Smart cities and regions (cases, indicators, assessment,
rankings, comparisons, and critical success factors)
* Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities (smart
ideas and solutions for smart cities)
* Emerging technologies implementation in cities to face and
manage pandemic situations (big data, open data, data analytics,
social media and networks, Blockchain technologies, etc)
* AI and IoT as an enabler for Smart Communities/Smart Cities
(infrastructure, transportation, citizen participation, education,
governance, environment, health care, safety, security, and
energy)
* AI in smart city design and operation
* Integrative research that addresses the technological and social
dimensions of smart and connected communities
* Smart grids
* Smart environment and transportation (carbonless and clean
individual and public mobility)
* Smart devices and their novel use in public management
* Smart (technology-facilitated) practices such as payment
systems, identification systems, etc.
* New cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in smart
technologies
* SMART as a public-sector planning and management principle
(Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Results-based, and
Time-bound)
* Smart university and education
* Quality of life issues in smart cities and smart communities
* Urban-rural gaps in smart communities
* Citizen participation in smart cities using new technologies as
chatbots or blockchain.
* Innovation and creativity in smart society development
IMPORTANT DATES
· (Hard) deadline for submissions (anonymous- camera ready): 19
March 2021
· Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2021
· PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: May 3, 2021
· Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May
2021
· Poster acceptance 31 May 2021
· Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 15 June
2021
· PhD Colloquium notification of acceptance: 15 June 2021
· PhD Colloquium final version: 31 July 2021
· PhD Colloquium: 6 September 2021
· Conference: 7-9 September 2021
Track Chairs
* Prof. Nuno Lopes (Lead), DTx: Digital Transformation Colab,
Portugal
* Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar University of Granada,
Spain
* Prof. Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden
Best regards
Karin Axelsson
Professor in Information Systems
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Department of management and engineering
Division of Information Systems and Digitalization
S-581 83 Linköping
Phone: +46 (0)13-28 40 53
Mobile: +46 (0)702-174053
Visiting address: Hus A, 2A, rum 829, Campus Valla
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