CFP Telematics and Informatics

TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social
Impacts of New Technologies, by ELSEVIER

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Digital Cities

Aims and Scope
During the last years, extensive broadband network infrastructures are being
constructed in more and more cities worldwide, offering high-speed
connectivity to public organizations, businesses and citizens, that allow
the deployment of highly useful applications and electronic services. These
e-services aim at both economic objectives (such as enhanced competitiveness
and growth) and social objectives (such as higher quality of life, better
services to various groups, social networking and inclusion, environmental
protection). It is important to analyze systematically these Odigital
cities¹ projects (usually including both network infrastructures and
applications/e-services). Gaining knowledge from them is going to be useful
for improving both design and implementation of future attempts, and also
public policy making in this area.

In particular, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of the main
motivation and objectives of these projects, the main difficulties and
challenges they faced, the business models they adopted and the role of both
public organizations and private companies, and assess their social,
economic and other city/municipality-related impact and value.

This Special Issue of the OTelematics and Informatics¹ solicits original
high-quality papers investigating the above issues of digital cities, with
main emphasis on the following topics:

- Motivation and objectives for developing broadband infrastructures and
applications/e-services on them

- Detailed analysis of such broadband infrastructures or electronic service
development projects in municipal contexts

- Adoption of applications / e-services by the public and factors affecting
it

- Main challenges and difficulties faced during digital cities projects

- Reports on achievements, current situation analysis of digital cities
projects

- Mobile applications and field force automation in government based on
broadband infrastructures

- Assessment of social, economic and other city-related impacts of such
projects

- Decision-making tools and models for assisting elected representatives and
city officials in Odigital planning and management¹

- Approaches for managing digital transformation and policy support for
municipalities

- Business models, role of public companies and private organizations (such
as municipalities and government)

- Projects and initiatives specifically targeting e-Inclusion or
minimization of Digital Divides, at municipal level

- Specific applications and lessons learnt in developing countries or
regions

- Future, forward looking approaches and initiatives for digital cities

Submissions
Authors are invited to prepare original manuscripts of 5000 to 6000 words
(excluding references), adopting the guidelines defined in the website of
OTelematics and Informatics¹ (www.elsevier.com/wps/product/cws_home/703).
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be
refereed through a peer review process.
All papers should be submitted via the Journal's online submission and
peer-review systems (http://www.ees.elsevier.com/tele). Please follow the
instructions given on this site.

Schedule
* Submission deadline:
March 31, 2009
* Completion of first review:
May 31, 2009
* Revisions deadline:
June 30, 2009
* Final decisions notification:
July 15, 2009
* Final manuscripts deadline:
July 30, 2009