8th International Conference
Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2025)
June 23–25, 2025, St. Petersburg, Russia
Working language: English. DTGS-2025 in Russian is also being held as part of the joint IMS-2025 Conference.
Seminar format: in-person. If it is impossible for foreign participants to arrive, their participation in the online format is considered by the organizers on an individual basis.
Seminar location: St. Petersburg, Russia (Congress Center of ITMO University at Lomonosova Street, 9)
The 8th International Conference Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2025) is an international collaborative platform for researchers to discuss transformative impact of digital technology on governments and societies across the globe, with a special emphasis on the BRICS countries. The key topic of DTGS-2024 is related to the digital transformation of governance, as well as political communication online.
DTGS is held since 2016 (in 2022–2023 as a youth poster session within IMS). For the first time, in 2024 DTGS will be organized in both Russian and English and will also unite two conferences previously hosted by ITMO University – DTGS and EGOSE, organized since 2014.
We welcome multidisciplinary papers that apply approaches from the social sciences and humanities to the research on social and political institutions, practices, human communication and other behavior in cyberspace, as well as offline, if those are directly influenced by the recent digital transformations and are related to governance or political participation.
We are especially interested in papers falling into the following topics:
- Digital Transformation of Governance and Public Administration;
- E-Governance, E-Government, Digital Government;
- Digital Public Governance;
- Smart Cities, Digital Transformation of Urban Systems;
- Political Participation and Civic Engagement Online;
- E-Participation, E-Voting and I-Voting;
- Online Political Communication and the Social Media Research.
IMPORTANT DATES – Paper Submission & Registration:
- 30 Mar 2025 – Papers Submission Deadline
- 12 May – Notifications of Acceptance
- 24 May – Camera Ready Papers
- 26 May – Early Bird Registration
- 13 June – Authors Registration Deadline
- 23–25 June 2025 – Presentation at the DTGS-2025
SUBMISSION
- Authors need to submit a paper to DTGS-2025 via the Microsoft CMT system
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the template, contain 12–15 pages (for ongoing research – 10–12 pages), in the English language
- Submission must not include authors’ affiliation, this information will be added to the final version of the paper after its approval
- All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review
- The authors of accepted papers will be invited to participate in DTGS-2025. Only papers presented at the conference by at least one co-author will be recommended for publication.
PROCEEDINGS
- Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer) – Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2025)
- Indexing – Scopus
- The thematic selection in the issue of the journal "Public Administration Issues" – articles selected by the editorial board of the journal
- Indexing – Scopus, RSCI
- Included in the list of publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission (K1), specializing in 5.5.3 – Public Administration and Sectoral Policies (political sciences, economic sciences)
- Included in the "White List" of scientific journals
Previous DTGS Proceedings: https://link.springer.com/conference/dtgs
Previous EGOSE Proceedings: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-13283-5 (since 2018), https://dl.acm.org/conference/egose/proceedings (2014–2017).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Yury KABANOV, HSE University, ITMO University, Russia |
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Andrei CHUGUNOV, ITMO University, Russia |
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Leonid SMORGUNOV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia |
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Olga FILATOVA, St. Petersburg State University, ITMO University, Russia |
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Wei ZHANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
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Harekrishna MISRA, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India |
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- Ayman ALARABIAT, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan
- Cenay BABAOGLU, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey
- Maxim BAKAEV, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia
- Svetlana BODRUNOVA, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Radomir BOLGOV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Mikhail BUNDIN, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Qiang CHEN, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
- Anna CHIZHIK, St. Petersburg State University, ITMO University, Russia
- Andrei CHUGUNOV, ITMO University, Russia
- Wichian CHUTIMASKUL, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
- Shefali S. DASH, National Informatics Centre, India
- Ruben ELAMIRYAN, Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia, Armenia
- Olga FILATOVA, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Dimitris GOUSCOS, University of Athens, Greece
- Salah KABANDA, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Yury KABANOV, HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Olessia KOLTSOVA, HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Aleksei MARTYNOV, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Mohammad MEHRAEEN, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
- Alina METELEVA, ITMO University, Russia
- Harekrishna MISRA, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India
- Prabir PANDA, Independent Researcher, India
- Dmitry PROKUDIN, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Aleksandr RIABUSHKO, Independent Researcher, Russia
- Jenny Marcela SANCHEZ-TORRES, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia
- Anna SMOLIAROVA, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Leonid SMORGUNOV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Alexander SOKOLOV, Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia
- Evgeny STYRIN, HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Dmitrii TRUTNEV, ITMO University, Russia
- Lyudmila VIDIASOVA, ITMO University, Russia
- Can YANG, Chongqing University, China
- Wei ZHANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
More information is available at: https://ims.itmo.ru/eng/
e-mail: dtgs@itmo.ru