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Dear Colleagues,
Special Issue Call for Papers: Scandinavian Journal of Information
Systems “Smart Cities, Regions and Societies – a Scandinavian
perspective and beyond?”
The development of smart cities, regions and societies gain
increased visibility both in research and practice. As an emerging
practice and research field it is quite wide and explorative. We
can apply several perspectives and layers on a smart area, but a
common ground contains phenomena like efficient use of assets and
resources to improve the social, economic, and environmental
well-being of those who live, work, or travel within the city.
Management and control of data and infrastructures are also
important together with stakeholders, citizen participation. The
word smart serves as an umbrella concept for different digital
artefacts such as sensors, networks, Artificial Intelligence, and
different applications of Internet-of-things. Connectivity and
interconnectedness are other themes in the smart city research and
practice, that raise several questions from an information systems
(IS) perspective.
The purpose of this call is to invite IS researchers to elaborate
on the smart city phenomenon from a range of different
perspectives in order to show the different dimensions of the
phenomenon, but also to stimulate research trying to frame the
area more thoroughly and reflect upon the emerging empirical
phenomena and different empirical applications of a smart city.
There is also room for a discussion on the conceptual and
contextual dimensions of a smart city, how does context matter?
How can we develop and elaborate on a Scandinavian perspective on
smart cities? How do we address participation and involvement in a
smart city context? Explore critical studies of smart cities and
investigate the dark sides of a smart city? How do we handle
dimensions of integrity, privacy and security as well as ethical
issues within the smart city domain, and at the same time keep a
proactive use of digitalization? Are there any preferred sets of
values that are realized in the practice of smart cities today?
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Smart cities, regions and societies – exploring a Scandinavian
perspective
• Critical studies on the “dark” sides of smart societies, cities
and regions
• Governance of smart cities, smart regions (focal areas,
examples, current practices, cases, potential pitfalls, elements,
prerequisites, critical success factors)
• The role of partnerships in development of smart societies,
smart cities, smart regions (triple/quadruple helix,
public-private partnerships, citizen participation, stakeholders
and stakes)
• Smart societies and different value positions – where are we
heading?
• Innovation and creativity in smart society development in a
Scandinavian context
• Smart devices and their novel use in smart cities, smart regions
(e.g. technology-facilitated payment systems, identification
systems, etc.)
• The role and use of open data in smart city initiatives, in a
smart society
• The role of digitalization in the development of sustainable
smart societies, smart cities and smart regions
• Integrity and ethical aspects within a smart city context
• Smart cities in the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for
sustainable development – the role of digitalization
• Development and infrastructures in smart societies, smart
cities, smart regions (smart grids, Internet of Things,
transportation, education, governance, environment, health care,
safety, security, and energy)
• Data analytics in/for smart cities and smart regions (large
scale/big data analytics, urban data analytics - trace analysis
and mining, predictive data analytics)
Timeline
* Deadline – 15 Dec, 2019
* Reviews – 15 Feb, 2020
* Second round – reviews – 15 April, 2020
* Formatted final version, November 2020
* Planned publication SJIS vol. 32(2), December 2020
More information:
http://iris.cs.aau.dk/index.php/special-issue-call-for-papers.html
Special Issue Editors
Malin Granath
(
malin.granath@liu.se<mailto:malin.granath@liu.se>)
Ulf Melin (
ulf.melin@liu.se<mailto:ulf.melin@liu.se>)
Karin Axelsson
(
karin.axelsson@liu.se<mailto:karin.axelsson@liu.se>)
[Apologies for cross-postings]
Best regards,
Ulf Melin
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