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

[KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS]

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