ICEGOV 2021 proceedings published

The conference was held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 8 October 2021. For the first time in the conference’s history, a hybrid attendance model was in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which still hindered participants from several countries from attending due to travel bans or lack of vaccination. After a fully online edition in 2020, ICEGOV tried to combine the best of the virtual and physical together in what can be seen as a step forward towards pre-pandemic reality.

Under the theme Smart Digital Governance for Global Sustainability, ICEGOV 2021 focused on exploring how the synergies among the communities of technology, policy, and social cohesion can be a positive factor for sustainable development in our quest of tackling the great problems that still shake our societies and advancing towards a higher quality of living while preserving our planet.

Edited by Loukis Euripidis, Marie Anne Macadar and Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (Programme Committee Chairs), the 557 page-long proceedings comprise a total of 88 papers written by 224 authors from 42 countries. The publication is divided into fourteen thematic sections, as follows:

• Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in Governance
• Distributed ledgers and Blockchain technologies in governance
• Privacy, security, legal informatics, and ethics in digital governance
• Bridging research and practice in governance and policy-making
• Digital governance and geographic inequalities
• Digital governance assessment methods
• Digital transformation of public services and administration
• Open and collaborative governance
• Smart sustainable cities, regions, and communities
• Digital governance in light of social, political, economic, and environmental crises
• Doctoral Colloquium
• Industry and Public Sector
• Poster Exhibition
• Digital Governance, COVID-19 and post-pandemic challenges

ICEGOV 2021 was held under the high patronage of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance. The University of the Aegean and the Harokopio University of Athens co-organised ICEGOV 2021 with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), which is the conference series coordinator.

For more information, please access the conference website.