7th International Conference
Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2024)
June 24–26, 2024, St. Petersburg, Russia
The 7th International Conference “Digital Transformation in Governance and Society” (DTGS-2024) will be held on June 24–26, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Russia, within the framework of the joint conference «Internet and Modern Society» (IMS-2024).
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.
The form of participation is offline.
DTGS 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.
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.
SUBMISSION
- Authors need to submit a paper to DTGS-2024 via the EasyChair 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-2024. Only papers presented at the conference by at least one co-author will be recommended for publication.
IMPORTANT DATES – Paper Submission & Registration:
- 31 March 2024 – Abstract Submission Deadline
- 15 April – Paper Submission Deadline
- 15 May – Notification of Acceptance
- 15 June – Camera-Ready Paper submission
- 17 June – Registration of Participants Deadline
- 24–26 June 2024 – Poster Session at IMS-2024 Conference
PROCEEDINGS
We welcome original contributions, which fall into the scope of DTGS–2024. For presentation and publication, papers must be written in English (for the English track). Papers must be original: they should not be either published elsewhere or being under review for other conferences or journals. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be submitted to the international publisher and, upon the acceptance, will be published in Scopus-indexed series.
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 KEYNOTE
Understanding Rural E-Governance in Fostering Digital Transformation: Learning in Indian Context
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
COFERENCE LOCATION
The Conference will be held in the ITMO University (9 Lomonosova str., St. Petersburg, Russia), on June 24–26, 2024.
More information is available at: https://ims.itmo.ru/eng/
e-mail: dtgs@itmo.ru