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

Tue Jan 10 03:00:29 EST 2023

Dear colleagues,

  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