BDPMUG Conference 2019: Big Data, Public Management and Urban Governance Conference Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China, May 31-June 2, 2019 |
Conference website | http://ciug.sjtu.edu.cn/Web/Show?w=37&p=3&f=4203 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 31, 2019 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2019 |
Big Data, Public Management and Urban Governance
Call for Papers
May 31st –June 2nd, 2019
Shanghai, China
With the growing use of social media, mobile phone apps, other types of connected devices, and big data analytics, public agencies all over the world are facing growing challenges and opportunities in the new era of e-government, digital governance, and the ‘Internet of Anything’ environment. Public agencies must find ways to modernize their existing IT infrastructures to take advantage of emerging technologies. Also, public agencies must find novel mechanism to structure public-private partnerships in order to secure technical capabilities and at the same time invest in internal IT capability development. These open up new opportunities for public administration scholars to revisit some of the managerial, organizational, ethical, and governance questions and explore new methodological frontier that are unique in the Big Data environment. These challenges and opportunities are important to both practitioners and academia in the 21st century.
The China Institute for Urban Governance and the School of International and Public Affairs of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration with Bocconi University (Italy) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia), will co-host a conference on “Big Data, Public Management, and Governance” on May 31st to June 2nd, 2019 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The conference will invite representatives from well-recognized enterprises related to big data and editors from Journal of Urban Technology and Urban Governance Studies (in Chinese) to attend. The purpose of this conference is to build an international platform to further explore advanced analytical technologies related to Big Data and its application in the field of public management and urban governance.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
- The application of Big Data tools (e.g. data mining techniques; machine-learning algorithms; the Internet of Things) in public management and policy analysis, their benefits and challenges, and the implications for future management and policy research, both in China and globally;
- The promises and challenges of Big Data tools in addressing the core questions of public management and governance locally and globally;
- The foreseeable challenges of data governance related to the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, such as concerns of data privacy and sharing, algorithmic transparency and validation, and machine-to-machine (system-of-systems) networks issues (e.g. risk and dependency );
- IT modernization and adoption of emerging technology innovations in the era of big data and artificial intelligence systems;
- Efforts to secure data systems and data governance standardization approaches in the public sector.
Paper proposals shall have a length of approximately 1,000 words. We are open to papers that take any methodological approach and are especially interested in papers that take a multidisciplinary approach. All papers should strive to make a contribution to both theoretical development and practice.
Proposals (both English and Chinese proposals are accepted) should be submitted via the mailbox: bigdatapm2019@163.com . Accepted papers in this conference will be organized into symposia in Journal of Urban Technology or Urban Governance Studies (in Chinese) after going through the peer review process. There is no registration fee. The conference will cover accommodation and local meals for all conference participants with papers accepted (only one of the authors can get this allowance for co-authored papers).
- Cooperating Journals
Journal of Urban Technology (SSCI noted; 2017 Impact Factor: 3.213)
Journal of Urban Technology publishes articles that review and analyze developments in urban technologies as well as articles that study the history and the political, economic, environmental, social, esthetic, and ethical effects of those technologies. The goal of the journal is, through education and discussion, to maximize the positive and minimize the adverse effects of technology on cities.
Urban Governance Studies (in Chinese)
Urban Governance Studies, founded by the China Institute for Urban Governance of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is based on Chinese experience and international vision of Urban Governance. The journal is aimed at solving practical issues of urban governance and striving to promote the interactions between Chinese stories and the theoretical frontier and practical dynamics at both home and abroad. It jointly promotes the production of knowledge and academic prosperity in the urban governance research.
- Invited Enterprises
Tencent (腾讯)
JingDong (JD) (京东)
China unicom(联通)
iflytek CO.,LTD. (科大讯飞)
- Date
May 31-June 2, 2019
- Location
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xuhui Campus, Shanghai, China
Important Dates:
Proposal submission: March 31st, 2019
Notification for abstract acceptance: April 15th, 2019
Full paper submission: May 15th, 2019
Registration: May 31st, 2019
Conference: June 1st- 2nd, 2019
- Contacts
Professor Jiannan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, jnwu@sjtu.edu.cn
Professor Greta Nasi, Bocconi University, greta.nasi@unibocconi.it
Professor Alfred Ho, University of Kansas, alfredho@ku.edu
Professor Kevin Desouza, Queensland University of Technology, kevin.c.desouza@gmail.com
Professor J. Ignacio Criado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, jicriado@gmail.com