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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