[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2017 Mini-Track: Smart Cities - Opportunities and Challenges (SIGEGOV)

[Sankar Sivarajah]

2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Boston,  MA,  August 10-12, 2017, http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/

Mini-track 6: Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

Track: E-Government (SIGEGOV)

AMCIS 2017 Conference Theme: A Tradition of Innovation

NOTE:
Selected papers will be fast tracked into a special issue for the Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

Mini-track Description:
Smart city initiatives are emerging as a key strategy to tackle the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid development. Innovative concepts are evolving as novel approaches to holistic management of cities' physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all urban domains, typically supported by ICT. There is now a need for new paradigms for cities' governance, knowledge creation and economic development, supported by technology, in every aspect of human life. This mini-track invites both theoretical and empirical work that frames smart city initiatives and explores its impact from a social, economic, technical or organizational perspective.

Relevant areas of focus may include but are not limited to topics such as:

- Role of ICT in smart city initiatives
- Smart grids and the Internet of Things
- Big Data and collective intelligence for cities
- The development, implementation, control and maintenance of smart city initiatives
- Transformational smart city initiatives
- Different process, information systems and technology integration approaches used in smart city initiatives
- Governance, integrated service delivery and reengineering of  smart cities
- Barriers to awareness, adoption and diffusion of smart city initiatives
- Technology alignments in smart cities
- Innovative applications and best practices in smart cities initiatives
- Overview studies; development within countries, policies, infrastructure facilities and comparative studies (comparing countries)
- Role of socio-economic determinants in encouraging adoption and diffusion of smart city initiatives and associated services
- Policy and strategy to create and disseminate successful smart city initiatives

You can find the paper submission guidelines and template here:

http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/

Important dates:

- January 09, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin

- March 01, 2017 1pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions

- April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers

- April 25, 2017: Deadline for camera-ready revisions

- April 28, 2017: Notification of decision on revised camera-ready papers

Mini-track Co-chairs:
Zahir Irani, University of Bradford, UK,  z.irani at bradford.ac.uk<mailto:z.irani at bradford.ac.uk>
Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Brunel University London, UK,  sankar.sivarajah at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:sankar.sivarajah at brunel.ac.uk>