[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart Cities

[Ioannis Nikolaou]

dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing Smart
Cities


Dear colleague,

are you researching on topics such as smart city? sustainability?
circularity? people-centered cities? smart transformation? smart
government/governance? smart city management? city and open/big data? urban
innovation? industry 4.0?

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CALL FOR PAPERS - dg.o 2023: TRACK 5. Design Models and Platforms for Trust
Enhancing Smart Cities

(https://smartcitytrack.wordpress.com/ |
https://www.facebook.com/SmartCityTrack/)



dg.o 2023: 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Research

Theme: Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity

Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

11-14 July 2023



https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023 and
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023

Twitter handle: #dgo2023



The Digital Government Society (DGS) will hold the 24th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2023 – in
Gdansk, Poland, with a special focus on digital government and solidarity.
The conference main organizer is the Department of Informatics in
Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of
Technology, Poland.
Crisis upon crisis, from pandemic and war to climate change to democratic
breakup, government institutions face rapidly changing service demands,
unpredictable geopolitical environment, and challenges to their own
legitimacy. They cannot address such crises alone without mobilizing
adequate social response, even supported by advanced technology. In turn,
such a response requires citizens to feel (and act upon) their
responsibility toward each other, e.g., changing one’s attitudes,
behaviors, and lifestyles for collective well-being. It requires solidarity
– the recognition that “we are all in this together”. While different
notions of “we” produce different variants of solidarity – universal,
civil, social, or political, all variants are about relationships,
intentionality and sacrifice.
The conference aims to put the concept of solidarity at the center of the
digital government debate. To this end, it focuses on how digital
government can enhance solidarity and, conversely, how solidarity can
enhance the efficacy of digital government in responding to global crises
and local constituency demands.


TRACK 5. Smart Cities: Design Models and Platforms for Trust Enhancing
Smart Cities

Track chairs:

Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece

Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York


Smart city utilizes the ICT to enhance living of local communities and make
city operations sustainable against current and future challenges. The
recent COVID-19 pandemic rapidly had to transition cities to virtual spaces
where the ICT became the platform for work, socialization and transactions.
However, this transformation did not utilize the smart city infrastructure
designed with purpose for overall planning. The post-pandemic period finds
cities to define their future strategies for transformation and innovations
to serve citizens and businesses with the smart city infrastructure
equipped with more advanced intelligent technologies to make cities more
resilient to adversities and to promote better life. Citizens and the
private sectors will be heavily rely on the smart city infrastructure.

This track invites research and practices in inclusive, circular and
resilient smart cities, addressing topics such as intelligence for
circularity and resilience in cities; enhancing diverse digital skills
toward digital maturity; making the citizens data and digital service
prosumers; bringing the local community closer to the local digital and
circular transformation and generate new jobs; enabling collaboration and
governance that make everyone understand its role and commit in this
transition that transforms smart cities to intelligent spaces, circular and
resilient to adverse events.

In this environment, trust on the smart city is essential for engaging
citizens, communities, and businesses. The advanced technologies used in
the smart cities include AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, are being
applied to autonomous vehicles, drones, blockchain, intelligent utility
management, precision healthcare, adjustable traffic management, public
safety monitoring, crisis management, industrial and social robotics, and
crime surveillance, etc. These algorithmic intelligence embedded in the
smart cities are fueled by continuous data collections and super-powered
analytics, and presents various benefits and unprecedented challenges.
Different levels of governments adopting the superintelligent
technology-based smart cities need to consider the impacts on citizens and
connected communities, local and global. They require to consider trust
enhancing aspects to avoid the calamities of basic rights of citizens and
to achieve ultimate goals of smart cities.

In this track, we investigate the trust enhancing approaches for these
advanced technologies from different perspectives to carefully design and
implement more secure, privacy-respecting, inclusive, fair, just, and
equitable smart city infrastructure. We call for design models and
implementation innovations of the smart city infrastructure that consider
the trust dimensions, ranging from technology governance, trust-enhancing
regulations and policies, to social approaches, to technical approaches,
but not limited to these.

Recommended Topics:

- smart city and trust;
- smart city sustainability and circularity;
- smart city inclusiveness and resilience;
- smart city key infrastructure and platforms;
- smart city implementation strategies and success indicators;
- smart government;
- smart city service innovations and impacts;
- smart digital citizen identity;
- citizen’s behavior modeling;
- citizen centricity, engagement, industry 4.0 technologies;
- digital transformation, smart and connected communities;
- governance and policy issues of intelligent machines and man-machine
interactions;
- security, ethics and privacy issues;
- novel sharing and interactions in intelligent cities;
- smart city infrastructure and standards; applications and collaborations
based on the IoT and, smart sensors;
- Big Data analytics;
- civic technology movement, and intercity and intergovernmental
collaborations;
- Machine learning, Deep Learning, AI, Blockchain, AR/VR and Robotics for
cities and governments



IMPORTANT DATES

January 20, 2023: Papers are due
March 31, 2023: Author notifications)
April 25, 2023: Final version of manuscripts due in EasyChair
May 1, 2023: Early registration begins
May 20, 2023: 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
will be available on conference website http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/
under “submission guidelines”.


Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023