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ICEGOV 2021 proceedings published

The proceedings of the 14th ICEGOV are now available in ACM's Digital Library.

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.