IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART Emerging Issues and Innovations Track

Published on: 16/02/2024 Event

01 to 05/09/2024

KU Leuven, Belgium

EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART - one of the most recognized conference in e-Government, ICT and public administration and related topics is coming with variety of tracks, where "Emerging Issues and Innovations" Track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Marijn Janssen, Francesco Mureddu) can be seen of the greatest interest for GovTech Connect. This year EGOV2024 will be hosted in Belgium, in the heart of Europe, by Ghent University and KU Leuven – both top 100 universities, in September (1-5 September) with an oportunity to submit your paper by March 15.

The goal of "Emerging Issues and Innovations" Track is to provide a platform for the discussion of new ideas, issues, problems, and solutions, that keep entering the public sphere. Ideas that are emerging but might not fit other conference tracks are also welcome. As such Track invites talks on topics that include but are not limited to innovation and emerging applications driven by technologies and institutional changes at all levels of the government, incl. Metaverse, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, smart contracts and blockchain, quantum computing, Large Language Models, AI and Generative AI and its implementations such as chatGPT, Claude, ChatSonic, Poe – benefits, risks, adoption & resistance to its adoption by the public sector & citizens, transformations, regulations, as well as insights from novel case studies – let it be successful or failed experiments.

In a bit more details, topic of interest include:

💡 Looking ahead into social innovation
💡Future studies, the future of government, policy-making and democracy
💡New trends in public sector research such as Metaverse, Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI and its implementations such as chatGPT, Claude, ChatSonic, Poe – benefits, risks, adoption and resistance to its adoption by the public sector and citizens;
💡Global challenges that go beyond nation states (such as migration, climate change etc.) and which require international collaboration of individual governments;
💡Digital transformation in public sector context;
💡The future of digital governance;
💡Public values in transforming the government;
💡The role of government in smart cities (incl. smart sustainable cities) and sustainable living;
💡The role of the public sector in Human-Centered Society known as Society 5.0;
💡Government in the metaverse;
💡Self-Service Structures for Inclusion;
💡Public-private sector collaboration and integration;
💡Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), smart contracts and blockchain;
💡Preparing for the policy challenges of future technologies;
💡Regulating misinformation;
💡New technologies for automated decision-making;
💡The future public sector use and regulation of latest AI or genAI solutions;
💡Public use as well as regulations of industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT);
💡The relationships of governments and Fintech;
💡Upcoming issues of eVoting / internet voting including application of digital signatures in the public sector;
💡Online public community building;
💡Utilization of digital billboards;
💡Latest trends in co-creation and service delivery;
💡Discussion of new research methods that have not been applied in this context;
💡Application of role theory in the analysis of public sector functions and processes;
💡Forward looking insights from case studies – let it be successful or failed experiments.