[open-government] Smart cities, smart government, and smart governance HICSS mini-track call for papers

Thu Apr 28 05:39:18 UTC 2016

Call for Papers

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

HICSS-50: January 4-7, 2017 | Hilton Waikoloa Village

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2016 (11:59 PM, Hawaii time)

Smart cities, smart government, and smart governance: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss50/smart-cities.php

Minitrack Description: The concept of smartness in government and governance has been investigated for more than a decade. Prominently, much research has been directed towards the concept of Smart City, for which so far no standard definition has been adopted either in theoretical research nor in empirical studies. Different definitions have been offered. However, all definitions seem to agree that a smart city refers to an urban environment, in which citizens’ daily life (work, school, safety, and leisure) improves over previous standards facilitated by modern information technologies. These improvements pertain to social, political, economic, governmental, and other dimensions. Although smart cities are based on ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), people (with their knowledge, habits, experiences, culture and behavior) remain the main actors and instigators of change and progress in the direction of smartness. Finally, the concept of smart city refers to and translates into the broader and separate topics of smart government and smart governance, which are topics of interest in their own right. This minitrack aims at exploring (1) what a smart city is, how it evolves, and what the theoretical understanding of a smart city is; and (2) how the larger concepts of smart government and smart governance can be better understood and integrated.

Minitrack topics include, but are not limited to:

Smart city definitions
Conceptual frameworks of smart cities
Conceptual frameworks of smart government
Conceptual frameworks of smart governance
Smart city case studies
e-Government in the urban space (smart government)
Smart city and emerging technologies (big data, open data, social media & networks,...)
Smart city and decision-making
Smart city and security
Smart city and knowledge management
Smart city evaluation & performance measurement
Smart cities’ critical success factors
Smart city and open innovation
Managing the smart city
New vulnerabilities in smart infrastructures
Smart grids and their implications (traffic, utilities, communications)
Smart grids and the Internet of Things (infrastructure, transportation, education, governance, environment, health care, safety, security, and energy)
Smart partnerships (triple/quadruple helix, public-private partnerships, citizen participation)
Collective intelligence for cities and regions
New cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in smart technologies

For further information, please contact the Minitrack co-chairs:

Elsa Negre (primary contact)
Université Paris-Dauphine LAMSADE 
elsa.negre at dauphine.fr

Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux
Université Paris-Dauphine LAMSADE 
sabroux at lamsade.dauphine.fr

Mila Gascó
Institute of Public Governance and Management 
ESADE – Ramon Llull University 
mila.gasco at esade.edu

Mila Gascó, PhD
Institute of Public Governance and Management/Instituto de Gobernanza y Dirección Pública/Institut de Governança i Direcció Pública

  Av. Pedralbes 60-62. E-08034 Barcelona Tel. + 34 932 806 162 
mila.gasco at esade.edu

www.esade.edu/igdp

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