International & Cross-disciplinary Conference of the SmartCitGov Society
Date and time
Location
Tivoligasse 73A
73A Tivoligasse 1120 Wien AustriaDescription
Towards Citizen-Centred Smart Cities and Communities: Societal and Governance Challenges
The SmartCitGov Society is holding in Vienna an international and cross-disciplinary Conference on the Societal and Governance challenges arisen from the Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Communities, from 03 to 05 October 2019. Conference Venue is Tivoligasse 73a, 1120 Wien, Austria, Vienna – Austria.
This academic conference is designed as a cross-disciplinary deliberation forum and gathers academics, ecosystem innovators form private and public sectors, NGOs and experts from various backgrounds. The conference is inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary and aims to provide us with an opportunity to discuss significant challenges facing the urban live of the 21st Century. Within the sessions, panels, poster presentations and social spaces of the conference, participants are going to find many opportunities to share their contributions, strength their networks and promote synergies among diverse stakeholders.
The Conference is supported by
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CivesSolutions
- AIES
- Grupo de Investigación Multilevel Governance
- Federal Ministry Digital and Economic Affairs
Conference Topics
Submissions that share experiences, case studies, reflections and strategies from cities all over the world are encouraged. The following is a list of suggested subtopics or questions. By no means is it an exhaustive one and we welcome novel contributions on the subject matter. The conference is designed as an academic and deliberative forum on the trends and challenges, as well as case studies in Smart cities and communities.
- Smart Cities with and for Citizens
- Trends in Architectures, Technologies and Infrastructures for Smart Cities
- Redefining urban water and energy management
- Urban mobility and sustainability
- Open city projects, Citizen-Centered Platforms, Living Labs
- Efficient Communication
- Smart Education and Economic Competitiveness
- Big Data
- Smart Living, Health and Wellbeing
- Citizen-Centered Architectures and Infrastructures
- Security Challenges faced by Smart Cities
- Consumer Empowerment in Smart Cities
Call for panels, oral presentations and poster contributions
Interested participants are encouraged to submit their proposal to Conference Organizers including the following information:
- Tittle of the proposed work
- Category (panel, oral presentation, poster)
- Conference subtopic related to the proposal
- For panels: brief description of the panel and goal to be achieved (1 page), as well as contact information of the organizer/s, and potential panelists (3-5) with their affiliations and brief bios.
- For oral and poster presentations: abstract not exceeding 2500 keystrokes including title, authors and corresponding address.
Panel descriptions and abstracts must be written in English. Linguistic accuracy is the responsibility of the authors.
All proposal and abstracts will be peer-reviewed by an international scientific and cross-disciplinary committee.
Corresponding authors will be electronically notified of the outcome of their submission no later than 25 May 2019.
If the presenting author does not register in time (1stJuly 2019), the contribution will be removed from the program.
Registered participants in panels and registered authors of accepted abstracts will be encouraged to submit an extended paper before 1stJune 2019. Texts accepted by the Scientific Committee will be published in a monograph work.
Submission deadline for panel proposals and oral and poster presentations is 20th May 2019 in PDF format. Abstract submission address is: info@smartcitgov.org