[open-government] call for papers International Conference «Digital Transformation & Global Society» (DTGS-2016)

[Dimitris Gouscos]

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International Conference  «Digital Transformation & Global Society» 
(DTGS-2016)

St.Petersburg, Russia, June, 23-24, 2016
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Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in the International Conference “Digital 
Transformation & Global Society” (DTGS-2016).
The conference will be held in June, 24-25, as a part of the Joint 
Conference “Internet and Modern Society” (IMS-2016),
which takes place in St. Petersburg annually since 1998 and brings 
together leading researchers and professionals
in the field of Information Society issues.

ORGANISERS
  - ITMO University: eScience Institute, eGovernance Center
  - European University at St. Petersburg
  - E-Development Partnership in the North-West of Russia

We welcome paper submissions and speakers on topic related to 
Information Society and new trends in Digital Transformation.

The Conference key fields of inquiry fall into five core sections:

1) eSociety

ICTs have largely contributed to the transformations of social 
structures and relations. The new media and
social networking sites are changing the way people behave and interact. 
ICTs present new opportunities for civic engagement
and participation, simultaneously challenging existing social and 
political institutions, and drawing lines of inequality.
That poses questions regarding the mutual adaptation of technologies and 
society, as well as the way social and technical
sciences can jointly resolve these issues. The topics of the section 
will include but not limit to:

  - Digital Transformations and Digital Divide
  - Culturology of Cyberspace
  - Digital Humanities Culturology of Cyberspace
  - E-Government, E-Governance and Open Government
  - E-Participation and E-Democracy
  - New Media Studies
  - Social Networking Services’ Impact on Social and Political Relations
  - Computational Social Psychology (Discrete Choise).

2) eCity

This section will address the prospects, challenges and best practices 
of Smart City technologies to transform
city infrastructure and municipal policies. The discussion will 
concentrate on how ICTs and contemporary Urban Studies
combined are able to raise standards of living and welfare, as well as 
facilitate social, cultural and economic transactions.
Another important issue is the role of Big Data and ICTs in promoting 
coherent municipal decision-making to tackle city problems.
Provisional topics of the section are:

  - City Data Processing and Usage
  - Computer Modeling in Municipal Decision-Making
  - Information Security in Smart City Technologies
  - Web-Technologies and Software for Smart City
  - Geospatial Technologies
  - ICTs and Urban Studies

3) eHealth

The section covers a wide range of aspects the new electronic processes 
and ICTs may support the modern healthcare. The global
transformation of healthcare systems due to new technologies comprise of 
the development of diagnostics and treatment, delivery
of better medical services, provision of accurate healthcare statistical 
data for smarter management etc. The discussion will
focus on such topics as:

  - ICT for Medial Purposes of Diagnostics, Treatment and Rehabilitation
  - ICT and Global Healthcare: Big Data Accumulation and Processing
  - ICT for Better Healthcare Management
  - Modeling and Visualization Tools for Medical Purposes
  - Bioinformatics

4) eScience

Contemporary social and humanitarian research has become more complex 
and sophisticated in its usage of information technology
achievements. The synthesis of Informatics and Social Sciences 
(Humanities) opens new horizons for inquiry based on Big Data
analysis and high-tech calculations, providing more accurate arguments 
and predictions. The section will be devoted to the
discussion of mutually beneficial collaborations between technical and 
social fields to boost scientific progress, as well as to
presentations of results of such collaborations. Preliminary issues here 
are:

  - Intelligent Calculation Systems;
  - Big and Complex Data;
  - Network Analysis for Scientific Research;
  - Virtual Reality, Modeling and Visualization for Scientific Purposes.

5) eKnowledge

ICT provide unprecedented opportunities for science and education to be 
globally accessible, hence making universities, libraries
and academia adapt to new communication environment. The prospects, 
practices and perils of new technologies’ usage in the sphere
of knowledge – sharing will be discussed in this section, encompassing 
the following topics:

  - E-Learning and University Transformation
  - E-Libraries and Transformations of Science
  - Open Science, Open Research and Open Access

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM International 
Conference Proceedings Series (indexed in Scopus).

English is the language of the DTGS-2016 and of all submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES

o Submission Deadline: March 10, 2016
o Notification of acceptance: April 20
o Request for organization of Seminars, Panels, Round-Tables due: April 20
o Final paper submission: May 10
o Early Registration Deadline: May 20
o Registration due: June 24
o Conference: June 24-25, 2016

CONTACT and INFORMATION

o Andrei Chugunov – Head of Program Committee, Conference Director
o Radomir Bolgov – Program Coordinator
o Yury Kabanov – Conference Deputy Director
o Marina Lebedeva – Partners Cooperation & PR Managment
o Olga Dmitrova – Information  Manager

o Email: dtgs at corp.ifmo.ru

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