21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2019: “Intelligent Government in the Intelligent Information Society”
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (June 17-19, 2020)
TRACK 3. Smart Cities: Intelligent Innovation and Transformation
The cities around the globe are adopting cutting edge technologies in their attempts to enhance their efficiency, their competitiveness and the local quality of life. Industry 4.0 technologies, IoT, AI, 5G-readiness and big open data are only some of the key infrastructure that cities deploy, while digital skills and extensive collaboration among the city stakeholders are key-elements that are being utilized for the digital transformation and for the smart governance of the local digital ecosystem. These technologies make cities “intelligent” and enable them to provide the prediction and automation capabilities, beyond the past behavior based insights, and induce adaptability and transformation by stimulating creativity for innovative solutions, and promoting self-learning and voluntary participation by city stakeholders.
This track invites research and practices in smart cities that describes smart cities development strategies, policy models, citizen engagement, and technology innovations. Topics include but not limited to industry 4.0 technologies for smart cities, mobility, energy, health, education, public safety, structures, natural environment, and business, as well as related issues of cybersecurity and privacy, community-based infrastructure resilience, urban informatics and governance. Specific interest areas include smart governance and smart city governance, smart city infrastructure and standards, applications and collaborations based on the “internet of things”; Smart sensors; Big data analytics; The Civic Technology Movement, and Intercity and intergovernmental collaborations; International cooperation and the spread of smart cities; Machine learning, AI, Blockchain and Robotics for cities and governments.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Recommended Topics:
– smart city 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 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
Smart Cities: People-centric Innovations in the era of Citiverse 