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Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities have put emphasis on the need of implementing more
open and collaborative governance models for city management with
the aim at both assisting societies on better democratic systems
and implementing sustainable development principles through global
partnership. In this context, emerging technologies (like Internet
of Things –IoT-, Big Data, chatbots or blockchain,..) are opening
new ways for citizens to become more directly involved in public
governance, offering new possibilities to improve government
transparency, citizen collaboration and citizen participation.
These technologies are not only implements as isolated islands or
projects but also included as necessary technological tools into
wider smart initiatives, making them more effective and efficient.
This way, while blockchain have been applied in eDemocracy
platforms as a new pattern of management amongst the agents that
participate in the public sphere, chatbots have been proposed in
Open Data projects for providing support to better access of
citizens to data collections.
The current rapid development and adaption of these emerging
technologies to existing practices makes this topic interesting to
be analyzed. Nonetheless, although interesting, the lack of
empirical evidence on the novel implementation of these emerging
technologies and its impact on improving smart governance models
in smart cities, communities, rural areas and regions motivated us
to conduct this special issue.
Topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not
limited to the following:
• Use of blockchain, IoT, Big data or chatbots to improve
government transparency.
• Integration of emerging technologies for more collaborative
and participative governments.
• Open Government projects based on the use of emerging
technologies.
• Comparative studies in using emerging technologies for
improving smart governance in city management.
• Case studies of emerging technologies integration in smart
initiatives.
• Determinants in the use and implementation of emerging
technologies in smart urban areas.
In brief, we invite papers that analyze the link between emerging
technologies and the improvement of new smart governance models
implemented in cities, communities, rural areas or regions. These
papers can be focused on the impact of different emerging
technologies in the achievement of more open, accountable and
collaborative governments. Also, scholars are invited to submit
papers analyzing the institutional and/or contextual conditions of
the implementation of these emerging technologies to improve
government transparency, citizen collaboration and citizen
participation. In any case, this special issue will mainly put its
attention on empirical papers, including case studies, comparative
case studies (that involve different countries or disciplines),
and surveys. Finally, empirical studies about emerging
technologies and its impact on citizens’ quality of life will be
welcome.
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the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on
the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as
well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a
title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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