The conference was held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 8 October 2021. For the first time in the conference’s history, a hybrid attendance model was in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which still hindered participants from several countries from attending due to travel bans or lack of vaccination. After a fully online edition in 2020, ICEGOV tried to combine the best of the virtual and physical together in what can be seen as a step forward towards pre-pandemic reality.
Under the theme Smart Digital Governance for Global Sustainability, ICEGOV 2021 focused on exploring how the synergies among the communities of technology, policy, and social cohesion can be a positive factor for sustainable development in our quest of tackling the great problems that still shake our societies and advancing towards a higher quality of living while preserving our planet.
Edited by Loukis Euripidis, Marie Anne Macadar and Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (Programme Committee Chairs), the 557 page-long proceedings comprise a total of 88 papers written by 224 authors from 42 countries. The publication is divided into fourteen thematic sections, as follows:
- Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in Governance
- Distributed ledgers and Blockchain technologies in governance
- Privacy, security, legal informatics, and ethics in digital governance
- Bridging research and practice in governance and policy-making
- Digital governance and geographic inequalities
- Digital governance assessment methods
- Digital transformation of public services and administration
- Open and collaborative governance
- Smart sustainable cities, regions, and communities
- Digital governance in light of social, political, economic, and environmental crises
- Doctoral Colloquium
- Industry and Public Sector
- Poster Exhibition
- Digital Governance, COVID-19 and post-pandemic challenges
ICEGOV 2021 was held under the high patronage of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance. The University of the Aegean and the Harokopio University of Athens co-organised ICEGOV 2021 with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), which is the conference series coordinator.
For more information, please access the conference website.