[EGOV LIST] dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse

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dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the  
era of Citiverse
   
   
  Dear colleague,
   
  are you researching on topics such as smart city? metaverse in  
cities (so called the "Citiverse")? people-centricity? sustainability?  
smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big  
data? urban innovation? 
   
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  CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2024: TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric  
Innovations in the era of Citiverse
   
  (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ |  
https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/)
   
   
   
  dg.o 2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital  
Government Research
   
  Theme: Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance 
  Department of Political Science & the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs
  National Taiwan University
  Taipei, Taiwan
  June 11-14, 2024
  https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/
   
   
   
  https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024 and  
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024
   
  Twitter handle: #dgo2024
   
   
   
  The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 25th Annual  
International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2024,  
with a special focus on the theme "Internet of Beings: Transforming  
Public Governance”. 
  The Internet of Beings focuses on digital technologies that enable  
integration, people centric, and creation of open platforms for  
collaborative multiuser to co-create services and products. The theme  
of the conference aims to attract studies to bring the benefits of  
digital technologies, such as AI, Blockchain, open platforms, Internet  
of Things, wearable devices, big data, etc, have long been experienced  
holistically and compressively. In this respect, the conference will  
serve as a catalyst, and will bring a greater focus on integration,  
collaboration, and value creation. The conference will organize around  
topics that not only showcase new technologies, but also help to  
pinpoint where governments can achieve the greatest value.
   
   
  TRACK 20. Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse
   
  Track chairs: 
   
  Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
   
  Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
   
  This track calls for the people-centric smart city innovations in  
the era of “Citiverse”, smart
  city in the metaverse era, that consider the human aspects, such as  
public good
  innovations that utilize the advanced ICT but ensure for engaging,  
equitable, fair,
  responsible, resilient, and sustainable services in response to the  
people’s needs and
  values in the normal and crisis times. The track calls for smart  
city research and practices
  in general, with special emphasis on those addressing the  
people-centricity topic such as
  raising awareness; empowering and engaging community in the  
CitiVerse era etc. Findings
  can range from ideations, theories/design models, implementation  
cases, and to evaluation 
  studies that employ the advance ICT in maximizing the people’s  
engagement, experience,
  diversity, equity, resilience and sustainability, overcoming  
potential risks from
  unresponsible application of the advanced ICT. This topic is timely  
for smart city, and
  addresses this year’s topic for co-designed and people-centric  
public services in the era of
  metaverse.
   
  Smart cities utilize the ICT to enhance different aspects of living  
of local communities
  through data-driven innovations to “improve” information services,  
transactions, and
  socialization. The ICT includes sensor-based IoT for data  
collection, powerful cloud-based
  data management, data analytics, and automated AI and Machine  
Learning models that
  are the backbone of the city transformations and innovations. While  
the initial focuses on
  the efficiency and information improvement are still underwork, we  
also need smart city
  initiatives to emphasize people-centric cities that can be  
sustainable, with advanced and
  self-evolved public services, with engaged communities and  
responsible private sector
  innovations. Rapid technology advancement, especially Generative AI,  
metaverse using VR
  and AR, drones and 5G/6G Telecommunications, opens a new horizon for  
future smart
  cities where people’s experience and engagement will be the center  
of innovations.
   
   
  IMPORTANT DATES 
   
  - January 26, 2024: Papers due
   
  - March 8, 2024: Notifications of acceptance
   
  - March 31, 2024: Camera-ready manuscripts due
   
  - March 31, 2024: 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 are available on the conference website  
http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/ under “submission guidelines”.
   
   
  Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2024