9th International Conference
Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2026)
June 22–24, 2026, St. Petersburg, Russia
Working language: English and Russian
Information about the track in the Russian language — DTGS-2026 in Russian.
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)
DTGS – 2026 is an international collaborative platform for researchers to discuss the 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 has been held since 2016. In 2024 it was combined with another conference organized by ITMO University – EGOSE.
We welcome multidisciplinary papers that apply approaches from the social sciences and humanities to research on social and political institutions, practices, human communication and other behavior in cyberspace, as well as offline, if those are directly influenced by 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
- Smart Cities, Digital Transformation of Urban Systems
- E-Participation and Civic Engagement Online
- Online Political Communication and Social Media Research
- Artificial Intelligence in Governance and Politics
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Yury KABANOV, HSE University, ITMO University, Russia Chair of the Organizing Committee of the DTGS-2026 Conference |
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Andrei CHUGUNOV, ITMO University, Russia |
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Leonid SMORGUNOV, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia |
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Olga FILATOVA, HSE University, ITMO University, Russia |
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Wei ZHANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
To be announced
SUBMISSIONS
- Authors need to submit a paper to DTGS-2026 via the Microsoft CMT system.
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the template, containing 12–15 pages, in the English language.
- Submissions must be prepared for a double-blind peer review: they must not include authors’ names and affiliations.
- All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least three members of the Program Committee.
- The authors of accepted papers will be invited to participate in DTGS-2026. Only papers presented at the conference by at least one co-author will be recommended for publication.
PUBLICATIONS
Selected papers may be recommended for publication in English in the special issue of the Politbook journal, indexed in the White List of Academic Journals.
The accepted and presented papers will be included in the IMS-2026 Proceedings and indexed in Scopus.
PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS
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).
CONTACTS
Email: dtgs@itmo.ru