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

[Ioannis Nikolaou]

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