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CALL FOR PAPERS
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56),
Maui, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2023 (
http://www.hicss.org/)
*Digital Government Track*
Smart and Connected Cities and Communities Mini-track
<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/digital-government/#smart-and-connected-cities-and-communities-minitrack>
Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of
transformation in which residents and their surrounding
environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing
intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies.
This transformation, which has become a top priority for many
cities and other local governments, offers great promise for
improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant
challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society.
A smart and connected community can be conceptualized as one that
synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the
natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to
improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of
those who live, work, or travel within it. Building on the notion
of community informatics, smart communities can be seen as
enabling and empowering citizens and supporting the individual and
communal quests for well-being.
Although the literature is rich in references to smart cities and
communities, this is still a developing and fuzzy concept due to
its multidimensional and multifaceted aspect that goes beyond the
mere use of technology and infrastructure. Although technology is
a necessary condition to become smart, it is not the only aspect
that defines smart cities and communities. Novel studies are
indicating that emerging technologies have a huge influence on
social life, catalyzing new needs of citizens and transforming the
way they are addressed, influencing people’s ability to exercise
their “right to the city/community” and impacting on social
sustainability on several levels. City administration and
communitymanagement, information integration, data quality,
privacy and security, institutional arrangements, and citizen
participation are therefore some of the issues that need greater
attention to make a community smarter today and in the near
future.
Nonetheless, the literature on smart cities and communities is
fragmented, particularly in terms of the strategies that different
cities and communities should follow in order to become smarter.
What most of the literature does agree on is that there is no
single way to becoming smart and different communities have
adopted different approaches that reflect their particularities.
In addition, the advent of emerging technologies such as
artificial intelligence, open government, open data, big data,
blockchain, chatbots and so on, have opened new avenues for smart
governance in the urban and communities’ contexts, which fosters
new research on this area.
This mini 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 to understand how
new technologies can shape the social sustainability, the
livability of local communities, and the wellbeing of its
residents. It also focuses on the orchestrated interplay and
balance of smart governance practices, smart public
administration, smart communities, smart resources and talent
leverage 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 mini track
include, but are not limited, to the following topics:
-Taxonomies of smart cities and communities
-Smart governance as the foundation to creating smart urban and
regional spaces (elements, prerequisites, and principles of smart
governance)
-Smart cities and smart government (focal areas, current
practices, cases, and potential pitfalls)
-Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple/quintuple helix,
public-private partnerships, and citizen participation)
-The impact of digital transformation on the change of citizens’
role in the city
-Smart cities, communities and regions (cases, rankings,
comparisons, and critical success factors)
-Benefits of the impact of emerging technologies on citizens and
local communities
-Collective intelligence for smart cities and communities
-Emerging technologies in smart cities and communities (artificial
intelligence, big data, open data, open government, social media
and networks, chatbots, etc.)
-Smart governance in cities and communities in the age of the
emerging technologies
-Management of smart cities and communities
-Outcomes of smart cities and communities
-The role of digital technologies in both increasing community
livability and improving social sustainability and inequalities
-Smart services
-Urban-rural gaps in smart communities
-Resilience and sustainability capacities in smart cities and
communities.
- Innovative solutions for smart cities and communities
-Building knowledge societies for smart cities and communities
-Smart cities and communities and their contribution to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
*Important dates*(
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/):
April 15, 2022: Paper submission system reopened for HICSS-56
June 15, 2022: Papers due
August 17, 2022: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 4, 2022: Deadline for authors whose papers are
conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript
September 22, 2022: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final
Manuscript for Publication
October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to
register for the conference
October 22, 2022: Deadline for the paper production fee payment
January 3-6, 2023: HICSS Conference
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*Mini-track Co-Chairs:*
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (primary contact), University of
Granada, Spain (
manuelp@ugr.es <mailto:manuelp@ugr.es>)
Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria
(
gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at
<mailto:gabriela.viale-pereira@donau-uni.ac.at>)
Elsa Estevez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
(
ece@cs.uns.edu.ar <mailto:ece@cs.uns.edu.ar>)
Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw, Poland
(
anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl
<mailto:anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl>)
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