[EGOV LIST] Dg.o 2023 - Track 5 Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities

[Leonidas Anthopoulos]

dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing
Smart Cities 

Dear colleague, 

are you researching on topics such as smart city? sustainability?
circularity? people-centered cities? smart transformation? smart 
government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data?
urban innovation? industry 4.0? 

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CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for
Trust Enhancing Smart Cities 

(https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ |
https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) 

dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Research 

Theme: Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity


Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland 

11-14 July 2023 

https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023 and
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023 

Twitter handle: #dgo2023 

The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2023 - in
Gdansk, Poland, with a special focus on digital government and
solidarity. The conference main organizer is the Department of
Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk
University of Technology, Poland. 
Crisis upon crisis, from pandemic and war to climate change to
democratic breakup, government institutions face rapidly changing
service demands, unpredictable geopolitical environment, and challenges
to their own legitimacy. They cannot address such crises alone without
mobilizing adequate social response, even supported by advanced
technology. In turn, such a response requires citizens to feel (and act
upon) their responsibility toward each other, e.g., changing one's
attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles for collective well-being. It
requires solidarity - the recognition that "we are all in this
together". While different notions of "we" produce different variants of
solidarity - universal, civil, social, or political, all variants are
about relationships, intentionality and sacrifice.
The conference aims to put the concept of solidarity at the center of
the digital government debate. To this end, it focuses on how digital
government can enhance solidarity and, conversely, how solidarity can
enhance the efficacy of digital government in responding to global
crises and local constituency demands. 

TRACK 5. Smart Cities: Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing
Smart Cities 

Track chairs: 

Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece 

Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York 

Smart city utilizes the ICT to enhance living of local communities and
make city operations sustainable against current and future challenges.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic rapidly had to transition cities to virtual
spaces where the ICT became the platform for work, socialization and
transactions. However, this transformation did not utilize the smart
city infrastructure designed with purpose for overall planning. The
post-pandemic period finds cities to define their future strategies for
transformation and innovations to serve citizens and businesses with the
smart city infrastructure equipped with more advanced intelligent
technologies to make cities more resilient to adversities and to promote
better life. Citizens and the private sectors will be heavily rely on
the smart city infrastructure. 

This track invites research and practices in inclusive, circular and
resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as intelligence for
circularity and resilience in cities; enhancing diverse digital skills
toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service
prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital and
circular transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration
and governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this
transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces, circular
and resilient to adverse events. 

In this environment, trust on the smart city is essential for engaging
citizens, communities, and businesses. The advanced technologies used in
the smart cities include AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, are being
applied to autonomous vehicles, drones, blockchain, intelligent utility
management, precision healthcare, adjustable traffic management, public
safety monitoring, crisis management, industrial and social robotics,
and crime surveillance, etc. These algorithmic intelligence embedded in
the smart cities are fueled by continuous data collections and
super-powered analytics, and presents various benefits and unprecedented
challenges. Different levels of governments adopting the
superintelligent technology-based smart cities need to consider the
impacts on citizens and connected communities, local and global. They
require to consider trust enhancing aspects to avoid the calamities of
basic rights of citizens and to achieve ultimate goals of smart cities. 

In this track, we investigate the trust enhancing approaches for these
advanced technologies from different perspectives to carefully design
and implement more secure, privacy-respecting, inclusive, fair, just,
and equitable smart city infrastructure. We call for design models and
implementation innovations of the smart city infrastructure that
consider the trust dimensions, ranging from technology governance,
trust-enhancing regulations and policies, to social approaches, to
technical approaches, but not limited to these. 

Recommended Topics: 

- smart city and trust;
- smart city sustainability and circularity;
- smart city inclusiveness and resilience;
- smart city key infrastructure and platforms;
- smart city implementation strategies and success indicators;
- smart government;
- smart city service innovations and impacts;
- smart digital citizen identity;
- citizen's behavior modeling;
- citizen centricity, engagement, industry 4.0 technologies;
- digital transformation, smart and connected communities;
- governance and policy issues of intelligent machines and man-machine
interactions;
- security, ethics and privacy issues;
- novel sharing and interactions in intelligent cities;
- smart city infrastructure and standards; applications and
collaborations based on the IoT and, smart sensors;
- Big Data analytics;
- civic technology movement, and intercity and intergovernmental
collaborations;
- Machine learning, Deep Learning, AI, Blockchain, AR/VR and Robotics
for cities and governments 

IMPORTANT DATES 

January 20, 2023: Papers are due
March 31, 2023: Author notifications)
April 25, 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair
May 1, 2023: Early registration begins
May 20, 2023: Early registration closes 

SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMATS 

Submissions need to follow the guidelines established for the dg.o
conference. Detailed instruction and ACM conference proceedings template

will be available on conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/
under "submission guidelines". 

Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023