[AISWorld] CFP - Special Issue on Digital Nations - Smart Cities, Innovation & Sustainability (ISF)

[Marijn Janssen - TBM]

CALL FOR PAPERS- A Special Issue on Digital Nations - Smart Cities, Innovation & Sustainability
JOURNAL:  Information Systems Frontiers (ISF)

BACKGROUND
Nations are rapidly transforming by leveraging on information and communication technologies (ICTs). The access to information and knowledge across the web enables new innovations and the creation of smart cities. Organisations and governments at all levels initiate ICT-driven programmes to stimulate innovation and address the needs of the key stakeholders. This results in radical changes in the way nations are organized.
In "Digital India" the Government of India is implementing a national transformation enabled by ICTs. A major focus in such transformation is the access and provisioning of digital services (including e-government services) across the urban and rural citizens of the country through the Internet. Another such notable initiative is the Smart City projects. Initiatives, like Smart Cities, are likely to play a critical role (hence is a core component of) in urbanisation and such transformation across the nation. Other examples of such regional and national level initiatives are the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities and the Smart Cities plan of Australia.
In the era of smart technologies, like Internet of things (IoT) and big data analytics, these are becoming essential components for creating Smart Cities. These technologies are changing the way organisations leverage on their information assets in the wake of digitisation of products and processes. Sensors embedded in smart devices, like mobile phones and wearables, used by consumers are creating a wealth of data which can be used for social welfare. There has been a huge focus on the emergence of innovative business models, service models and offerings, through which the stakeholder's value is being maximised.
Sustainability of the key assets for any nation, like water resources, energy and green resources, can also be addressed using technology-enabled transformation initiatives. Pollution can be measured, energy markets created and goods can be traced. With the emergence of such innovation and technology-driven transformation, the interests of the different stakeholders needs to be balanced. The different stakeholders are gradually engaging in public life participation using social media platforms. For example, social initiatives like MyGov in India and Australia, REACH in Singapore and Mann ki Baat in India, are enabled through Telephony, Web 2.0 and Mobile Apps, are taking inputs from concerned citizens for actually improving the provisioning of public utilities and services envisioned from the government. Public policymakers need to respond to these changing dynamics of digital nations, for creating an ecosystem which will be sustainable, resilient and addresses the social, economic and digital needs of the society.
This special issue of ISF aims to bring together a variety of disciplines for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use, impact and potential cases to pave the path for Digital Nations. To achieve this goal, literature review, theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed for consideration.

Themes of submission may include but are not limited to the following:
*             Social media and Web 3.0 for public participation
*             ICTs for enabling smart cities
*             Digital and Internet policy for urbanization
*             Cyber security, privacy and Information risk management
*             Big data analytics for enabling digital nations
*             Innovation driven urbanisation
*             Digital services management
*             Critical information infrastructure management
*             Smart supply chain management
*             Smart logistics and mobility
*             M2M and M2H intelligence in urbanization
*             Public policy for supporting digital transformation
*             Socio-economic and digital inclusion and transformation
*             Smart ICT adoption studies
*             Public policy for digital economies
*             Emerging ICTs like IoT, Blockchains, smart contracts, etc
*             Innovative models for E-Business and M-Business
*             Sustainability amidst digitization and urbanization
*             Open innovation and open data initiatives
*             Electronic and mobile governance
*             Management of smart grids, energy, renewables, using ICTs
*             Service science and cloud computing for digital transformation
*             Innovative case studies.
FORMS OF SUBMISSION
This special issue will consist of 1) the best papers from an open call selected on a competitive basis from the 16th IFIP-I3E; and 2) invited papers that are requested from the editorial members. All submitted papers and invited papers will go through peer review; if an invited paper does not receive a satisfactory review, the paper will not be considered for the special issue.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Manuscripts must be submitted in word or latex format to the ISF-Springer online submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/. Paper submissions must conform to the format and submission guidelines of ISF, which is available at http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796. Submissions should be approximately up to 32 pages double spaced including references.

ABOUT INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) is a high-ranking, international scholarly journal designed to bridge the contributing academic disciplines and provide a link between academia and industry. The central objective of ISF is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in IS/IT which advance the field fundamentally and significantly.
ISF is Abstracted/Indexed in ABI inform, CompuMath Citation Index, Computer Literature Index, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), Inspec, ISI Alerting Services, ISI Web of Science, Risk Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math.

GUEST EDITORS
Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar
Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India
Email: arpankar at iitd.ac.in / arpan.kumar.kar at gmail.com

Prof. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.
Email: vignes at iitd.ac.in

Prof. MP Gupta
Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India
Email: mpgupta at iitd.ac.in

Prof. Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Email: m.f.w.h.a.janssen at tudelft.nl

Dr. Ravi Kothari
IBM India Research Laboratory
Email: ravi.kothari at gmail.com

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline         30th May 2018
Initial review report                       30th Aug 2018
Revised manuscript due               15th Dec 2018
Second round of review report 30th Jan 2019
Final acceptance notification      28th Feb 2019




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