From egov-list at u.washington.edu Wed Jan 7 10:34:27 2026 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS via eGov-list) Date: Thu Jan 8 03:39:29 2026 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2026: TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation Message-ID: <20260107203427.Horde._6zpgtQiJBZt-ZCtm0ClxDc@webmail.uth.gr> dg.o 2026: TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation ? ? Dear colleague, ? are you researching on topics such as smart city? public value? inclusive city? coherence? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation?? ? ----------------------------- ? CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2026: TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation ? (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) ? ? ? dg.o 2026: 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research ? Theme: Collaborative Digital Transformation for Public Value Creation? University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska, USA? June 01-04, 2026 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-20256/ ? ? ? https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2026 and https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=dgo26 ? X handle: #dgo2026 ? ? The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2026, under the theme Collaborative Digital Transformation for Public Value Creation. The dg.o 2026 will be hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA June 1-4, 2026. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, and related applications and practice. Each year, the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory and practice, their focus on relevant and timely topics, and the quality of their research and writing. ? ? TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation ? Track chairs:? ? Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece ? Panos Papagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK ? In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities aim to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to deal with recent and future challenges. Additionally, new types of business appear, while emerging technologies like AI and the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate challenges that cities have started phasing. The goals of smart cities are to generate opportunities that engage, upskill and enhance equity in their communities. This track invites research and practices in smart cities that describes smart cities development strategies, policy models, citizen engagement, and technology innovations. This year?s theme calls for research and practices on the Smart Cities which become enablers for public value creation via transparent and personalized public services, communication without censorship, data sovereignty, participation and co-creation spaces and platforms, place-based innovation, well-being functioning, principles for equity and equality, and the ability of citizens and the community to keep on functioning and prospering despite the challenges that can face (i.e., cyber-threats, poverty, violence, environmental threats etc.). ? ? IMPORTANT DATES? ? - January 31, 2026: Papers due ? - March 31, 2026: Notifications of acceptance ? - April 14, 2026: Camera-ready manuscripts due ? - April 20, 2026: 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 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2026/call-for-papers/ under "submission guidelines". ? ? Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo26 ? From egov-list at u.washington.edu Tue Jan 13 02:55:41 2026 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (KARADIMOS PANAGIOTIS via eGov-list) Date: Wed Jan 14 10:41:57 2026 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?WebAndTheCity=3A_12th_International_Smart_C?= =?utf-8?q?ity_Workshop_=E2=80=93_Data_Driven_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <20260113125541.Horde.dXSYhISym69aaN5Ye1LvVV1@webmail.uth.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS? WebAndTheCity: 12th International Smart City Workshop ? Data Driven Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW?26): 36th World Wide Web International Conference, Dubai, UAE, April 13 - 17, 2026 http://webandthecity.home.blog/? ?? ? Important Dates ? Submissions due: Jan 13, 2026 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) ? Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 20, 2026 ? Camera-ready version due: Feb. 2, 2026 ? Workshop authors? early registration: Feb. 13, 2026 ? Workshop day: April 13, 2026 ? Workshop Objective This is the 12th edition of the workshop series with the label ?Web Applications and Smart Cities? (previous name: AW4City), which started in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was held in Sydney, in conjunction with ?The Web Conference 2025?. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. This year, the workshop focuses on data-driven smart cities (DDSC), which can be considered urban environments that utilize data as a foundational asset to enhance decision-making, optimize services, and improve the community?s well-being.? DDSC utilizes IoT and social media for data collection; smart city platforms with domain-specific data lakes (i.e., transportation, energy, health etc.) for data storage, and AI for data processing and visualization; AI and machine learning for data predictive analysis; people-centric and personalized service delivery; open data release for transparent governance and engagement; data-driven decision making; and governance that ensures privacy, ethics, and data sovereignty. Data needs to be collected and processed in a fair and responsible manner. This workshop aims to explore the above characteristics and the role of the Web in the development of data-driven smart cities. ? Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the ?big picture? of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC?s are being transformed into digital ecosystems, where data flows, digital twinning and metaverse create local dataspaces and virtual worlds that generate new types of value, digital experiences, and transactions. Communities can utilize this new form of SC for its prosperity (i.e., new types of business, new digital products and services, AI-based service automation etc.), economic growth and living. We target researchers from industry, academia, and government to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of SC and the WWW dynamics and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. To address the above-mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): ? Highlight data-driven and responsible intelligence viewpoints in cities and communities ? Meet the intelligence and metaverse expectations for cities (human centricity and protection, new value creation, immersive experiences for users etc.) ? Explore city digital twinning ? Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); ? Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; ? Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); ? Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); ? Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; ? Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; ? Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); ? Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) ? The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); ? Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; ? The role of standards on smart city data mining; ? Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; ? Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. ? Submission We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages) but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered, and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=webandthecity2026).?? Details of the program will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered, and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Submission Guidelines The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceedings, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ? All submitted papers must be: ? written in English ? contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses ? be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) ? be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform) and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop?s chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the author?s responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system, and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2026 conference can be found on https://www2026.thewebconf.org/?? Extended versions of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or others. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=webandthecity2026).? Details of the program will be made available online. ? For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ? Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr ? Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl ? Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk ? ? ? ? From egov-list at u.washington.edu Tue Jan 20 09:01:08 2026 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (KONTOGIANNI ELLI via eGov-list) Date: Thu Jan 22 11:46:13 2026 Subject: [EGOV LIST] =?utf-8?q?WebAndTheCity=3A_12th_International_Smart_C?= =?utf-8?q?ity_Workshop_=E2=80=93_Data_Driven_Smart_Cities?= Message-ID: <20260120190108.Horde.-alYf7hAAFMLeOOnOdu3VFY@webmail.uth.gr> (Apologies for cross-posts) ? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS? WebAndTheCity: 12th International Smart City Workshop ? Data Driven Smart Cities In conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW?26): 36th World Wide Web International Conference, Dubai, UAE, April 13 - 17, 2026 http://webandthecity.home.blog/? ?? ? Important Dates ? Submissions due: Jan 13, 2026 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone) ? Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 20, 2026 ? Camera-ready version due: Feb. 2, 2026 ? Workshop authors? early registration: Feb. 13, 2026 ? Workshop day: April 13, 2026 ? Workshop Objective This is the 12th edition of the workshop series with the label ?Web Applications and Smart Cities? (previous name: AW4City), which started in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was held in Sydney, in conjunction with ?The Web Conference 2025?. The workshop series aim to investigate the role of the Web and of Web applications in smart city growth. This year, the workshop focuses on data-driven smart cities (DDSC), which can be considered urban environments that utilize data as a foundational asset to enhance decision-making, optimize services, and improve the community?s well-being.? DDSC utilizes IoT and social media for data collection; smart city platforms with domain-specific data lakes (i.e., transportation, energy, health etc.) for data storage, and AI for data processing and visualization; AI and machine learning for data predictive analysis; people-centric and personalized service delivery; open data release for transparent governance and engagement; data-driven decision making; and governance that ensures privacy, ethics, and data sovereignty. Data needs to be collected and processed in a fair and responsible manner. This workshop aims to explore the above characteristics and the role of the Web in the development of data-driven smart cities. ? Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the ?big picture? of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. WebAndTheCity is timely since SC?s are being transformed into digital ecosystems, where data flows, digital twinning and metaverse create local dataspaces and virtual worlds that generate new types of value, digital experiences, and transactions. Communities can utilize this new form of SC for its prosperity (i.e., new types of business, new digital products and services, AI-based service automation etc.), economic growth and living. We target researchers from industry, academia, and government to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of SC and the WWW dynamics and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. To address the above-mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): ? Highlight data-driven and responsible intelligence viewpoints in cities and communities ? Meet the intelligence and metaverse expectations for cities (human centricity and protection, new value creation, immersive experiences for users etc.) ? Explore city digital twinning ? Enhance community living with the web (services, Apps and intelligence); ? Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.; ? Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.); ? Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.); ? Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities; ? Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; ? Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization); ? Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) ? The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); ? Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization; ? The role of standards on smart city data mining; ? Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; ? Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Environment: the role of web applications and Apps. ? Submission We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 12 pages long (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references). Discussion papers may be short (up to 6 pages) but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered, and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that The Web Conference's organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=webandthecity2026).?? Details of the program will be made available online. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered, and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Submission Guidelines The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of The Web Conference's proceedings, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ? All submitted papers must be: ? written in English ? contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses ? be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) ? be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform) and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop?s chairs. Occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references) It is the author?s responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system, and they will follow a blind peer-review process by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2026 conference can be found on https://www2026.thewebconf.org/?? Extended versions of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), ACM DGov or others. Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=webandthecity2026).? Details of the program will be made available online. ? For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ? Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo@uth.gr ? Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl ? Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody@bradford.ac.uk ? From egov-list at u.washington.edu Wed Jan 21 04:45:00 2026 From: egov-list at u.washington.edu (Ioannis Nikolaou via eGov-list) Date: Thu Jan 22 11:46:13 2026 Subject: [EGOV LIST] dg.o 2026: TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation Message-ID: Dear colleague, are you researching on topics such as smart city? public value? inclusive city? coherence? people-centricity? sustainability? smart government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban innovation? ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2026: TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation (https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/) dg.o 2026: 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Collaborative Digital Transformation for Public Value Creation University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska, USA June 01-04, 2026 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-20256/ https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2026 and https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=dgo26 X handle: #dgo2026 The Digital Government Society (DGS) announces the 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o 2026, under the theme Collaborative Digital Transformation for Public Value Creation. The dg.o 2026 will be hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA June 1-4, 2026. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digital government, civic engagement, technology innovation, and related applications and practice. Each year, the conference brings together scholars recognized for the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of their work, their contributions to theory and practice, their focus on relevant and timely topics, and the quality of their research and writing. TRACK 19. Smart Cities for Public Value Creation Track chairs: Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Panos Papagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UK In the era of cities and under the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable growth, cities aim to secure social sustainability and coherence (e.g., deal with affordable energy, poverty, hunger, equal opportunities in education, jobs, and health, etc.) and enhance their performance to become friendlier and able to deal with recent and future challenges. Additionally, new types of business appear, while emerging technologies like AI and the co-existence of autonomous things and people generate challenges that cities have started phasing. The goals of smart cities are to generate opportunities that engage, upskill and enhance equity in their communities. This track invites research and practices in smart cities that describes smart cities development strategies, policy models, citizen engagement, and technology innovations. This year?s theme calls for research and practices on the Smart Cities which become enablers for public value creation via transparent and personalized public services, communication without censorship, data sovereignty, participation and co-creation spaces and platforms, place-based innovation, well-being functioning, principles for equity and equality, and the ability of citizens and the community to keep on functioning and prospering despite the challenges that can face (i.e., cyber-threats, poverty, violence, environmental threats etc.). IMPORTANT DATES - January 31, 2026: Papers due - March 31, 2026: Notifications of acceptance - April 14, 2026: Camera-ready manuscripts due - April 20, 2026: 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 https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2026/call-for-papers/ under "submission guidelines". Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo26