Dear Colleagues,

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

 

AMCIS 2015 EGOV Mini-Track: Trends in Smart City Initiatives: Opportunities and Challenges

 

Main Track: e-Government

Mini Track:  Trends in Smart City Initiatives: Opportunities and Challenges

Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015

Mini-track Description:

 

The e-government era has enabled public administrations to become more efficient and effective through the delivery of digital solutions and services. While the early emphasis of e-government led service transformation was highly focused on using technology to deliver improved and personalized services for citizens, more recent efforts have been focused on grassroots level impacts that are enabled through smart use of technology. In this context, the emphasis has somewhat shifted from a service delivery focus to a smart ICT-infrastructure based eco-system that is sustainable. The application of ICT in the context of future cities is indicated by the notion of smart city. Nevertheless, the smart city concept goes beyond the use of ICT for better resource use and less emissions. The notion of smart city is emerging as a key strategy to tackle the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid development. Smart city innovations are evolving as new approaches to holistic management of cities’ physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all urban domains, typically supported by ICT. An effective smart city initiative is one that brings together technology, government and society to enable a smarter economy, mobility, environment, people, living and governance. However, as the smart city phenomenon itself is still emerging, the concept is being applied all over the world with different terminologies, context and meanings.

 

This mini track invites work that frames smart city initiatives and explores its impact from a social, economic, technical or organizational perspective. Relevant topics may include areas that discuss smart city initiatives such as energy efficient cities, intelligent transport systems, smart communications and networks etc. In addition to empirical studies, theoretical and conceptual papers will be considered. The objective of the mini-track is to encourage research that can be useful to those engaged in smart city initiatives.

 

Suggested Topics:

Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to:

·         Role of ICT in smart city initiatives

·         Role of Policy Makers in smart city initiatives

·         The development, implementation, control and maintenance of smart city initiatives

·         Transformational smart city initiatives

·         Different process, information systems and technology integration approaches used in smart city initiatives

·         Governance, integrated service delivery and reengineering of smart cities

·         Barriers to awareness, adoption and diffusion of smart city initiatives

·         Evaluation of case studies

·         Technology alignments in smart cities

·         Innovative applications and best practices in smart cities initiatives

 

Submit your manuscript before 2pm Eastern Standard Time February 25, 2015 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015

For submission guidelines, please refer to:  http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines

For general information on AMCIS 2015:  http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/

 

Important dates:

February 25, 2015            Submission Deadline
April 21, 2015                     Author Notification
April 28, 2015                     Camera Ready Submission Deadline

Selected papers will be fast tracked to the following journals:

·         Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP)

·         International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)

 

 

Mini-Track Chairs:

 

Sankar Sivarajah Brunel University London Sankar.sivarajah@brunel.ac.uk

Vishanth Weerakkody Brunel University London Vishanth.Weerakkody@brunel.ac.uk

Ramzi El-Haddadeh Brunel University London Ramzi.El-Haddadeh@brunel.ac.uk

Zahir Irani Brunel University London Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk

Habin Lee Brunel University London Habin.Lee@brunel.ac.uk