All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH.

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal (IF: 2.659)
• Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.602)

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities (Open Access)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web (Open Access)
  indexed in Scopus

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

• Smart governance foundations, models, frameworks, and principles for smart cities
• Wireless networking for smart cities
• Cybersecurity and privacy for smart cities
• Cloud/edge/fog computing for smart cities
• IoT and Cyber Physical Systems for smart cities
• Secure and Trustworthy Computing for smart cities
• Social media and urban awareness
• Blockchain for smart governance and smart cities
• Data and evidence-based policymaking
• Urban big data from heterogeneous sources
• AI and Machine Learning for secure and sustainable smart cities.
• Smart governance practices, dynamics, challenges, and trade-offs
• Alignment of city policies with social and environmental sustainability goals
• Governance of transformation processes
• Measurement and monitoring of smart governance process and outcomes.
• Smart governance-related case-studies and experience reports
• Citizen-centricity and citizen-driven solutions for smart cities
• Co-production and collaborative forms of service design and delivery
• Open governance, participatory decision making and accountability
• Urban innovation, new business models, legal and normative frameworks
• Impact of emerging technologies (e.g., AI, machine learning, blockchain, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems)

Rapid urbanization and social change drives governments to seek out new ways to deliver services and manage cities and drives innovation in processes and policies through smart cities. At the same time, emerging digital technologies offer new ways for local government to understand and monitor the dynamics of the city, respond to the state of the city, carry out administrative tasks and streamline procedures. The complexity of smart cities and settlements means that roles and responsibilities must shift to allow a greater range of stakeholders to contribute to the design and delivery of smart services. This means that smart cities need to find new ways to interact with business, thought-leaders, suppliers, residents, and visitors. Greater transparency and frequent, two-way communication are expected with the co-creation of public services allowing for greater innovation. Advances in data science allow relevant, real-time data to be transformed into useful information to understand urban behavior and infrastructure needs. This can support evidence-based decision making, automated responses and autonomously managed procedures. Realizing this potential, however, raises concerns about privacy and security issues, the resilience of critical information infrastructures, and the unintended consequences as social expectations and behaviors are shaped by algorithms.

In this regard, it is crucial for smart cities to provide trustworthy services which are secure, privacy aware and sustainable. Our aim is to promote the development of secure and sustainable smart cities with smart governance. The SmartGov 2021 will serve as a forum for researchers from academia, government and industries, to exchange ideas, present new results, and provide future visions on these topics.

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.