Conference Title: Doctoral Colloquium 2017 on Digital Government Research
Dates: 25th November, 2017
Role: Colloquium Chair
Background: This Doctoral Colloquium would enable the following: provide a forum of knowledge sharing of latest research
sensitise importance of research on national priorities
promote culture of high value research
create opportunity of collaborative research
Conference Title: The 16th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society
Dates: 21st – 23rd November, 2016. Link: http://dms.iitd.ac.in/I3E2017.html
Role: Conference Chair
Background: This conference is under the working group of IFIP. IFIP was initiated in the 1960s with UNESCO recognition and is one of the top 3 academic conferences in Information Systems. The theme of this year’s conference is Digital Nations – Smart Cities, Innovation & Sustainability. The proceedings are published in the prestigious LNCS-IFIP series by Springer.
Link: http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319685564
Conference Title: IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities and Innovations (SCI 2017)
Dates: San Francisco on August 4-8, 2017. Link: http://smart-world.org/2017/smartcity/
Role: Conference Publicity Chair
Background: The IEEE International Conference on Smart City and Innovation (SmartCity 2017) will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, demos, panel discussions and keynote speeches. We welcome high quality papers that describe original and unpublished research papers addressing the real issues, challenges and needs in building smart cities for now and future.
Conference Title: 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017)
Dates: 7th-9th March, 2017. Link: http://www.icegov.org/
Role: Programme Committee member
Background: Knowledge Societies empower citizens to use the facilities available through digital infrastructures to have the freedom to live their lives in the manner they want to live. Governments, civil society and private enterprises often see their role as enablers of the knowledge society by providing needed services, support and products. This conference addresses the theme of “Building Knowledge Societies – From Digital Government to Digital Empowerment”.
Conference Title: Project Management Research & Academic Conference 2017: Accelerating Development: Harnessing the power of Project Management.
Dates: 02 Mar – 04 Mar, 2017, IIT Delhi. Link: http://www.pmi.org
Role: Programme Committee
Background: Project Management is an interdisciplinary skill and has great potential for study and research. The PMI India Research and Academic conference is a biennial project management research and education event that brings together scholars, professors and students of project management and allied disciplines. The conference provides an opportunity to present and discuss new project management research findings and teaching methods.
Conference Title: 4th IEEE International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment
Dates: 19 – 21 April 2017, at Quito, Ecuador. Link: https://edem-egov.org/
Role: Programme Committee
Background: The ICEDEG is in its fourth year of providing a forum for research and technology development in the growing area of eDemocracy & eGovernment. Areas cover eGovernment, eDemocracy, eParticipation, eSociety, eHealth, eGovernance.
Conference Title: 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society
Role: Organization Chair Link: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/
Dates: September 13 – 15, 2016.
Background: The ubiquity of social media has had a profound effect on the way we communicate and is of significant importance to society and business. This conference aims to bring together a variety of disciplines and a community for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use, impact, and potential of social media.
Conference Title: International Conference on Brand Management
Role: Track Chair Link: http://cbmiitd.in/index.html
Conference Dates: 16th – 17th April, 2016
Academic Partners: IIT Delhi, Curtin University
Background: The main focus is on emerging themes in Brand Management. The conference will cover topics like Startup Branding and Valuation, Public Sector Branding, Brand Flexibility, Branding and Culture, Not For Profit Branding, Technology Branding, B2B Branding, etc.
Conference Title: International Conference in Smart Cities
Role: Programme Chair and Coordinator
Conference Dates: 22nd – 23rd January, 2016 Link: http://www.iceg.net/icsc/
Funded Agency: European Union, FI Media, BETS and Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
Academic Partners: IIT Delhi, Swansea University (UK) and Waterford IT (Ireland).
Background: Smart city innovations are new approaches to holistic management of cities’ physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all urban domains, typically supported by ICT and open data. This conference included experts and scholars working on smart cities, smart technologies, their applications, strategies, and policies for valuable deliberation.Proceedings published as an edited book in Taylor & Francis.
Seminar Title: EU-INDIA Cluster to Cluster (C2C) Partnership on ‘Smart Village Ecosystems’.
Role: Workshop Coordinator Seminar date: 18th December, 2015
Sponsor: European Union & Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (GoI)
Background: The idea of starting an EU-INDIA Cluster to Cluster (C2C) partnership around ‘Smart Village’ came out of the recent attention given to ‘Smart Cities’ world. Also with GoI announcing the development of 100 smart cities which essentially are aimed at deployment of internet based applications, content management platforms and broadband infrastructures in every sphere of public systems (such as healthcare, media, energy and the environment, safety, and public services). Hence ‘Smart Village’ has to be a parallel agenda as it would augment the objectives of ‘Smart Cities’.
DoI for Technical Report: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1530.8884
Conference title: ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies
Role: Track Chair and Session Chair
Dates: November 14-16, 2014 in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Background: As governments seek to restructure their organizations to deliver better services through technology enabled platforms, the domain of e-Government continues to stir interest and attention. New research issues such as e-democracy, e-citizenship, adoption of e-services, interoperability, e-identity and e-voting have become core elements in the development of public sector delivery and have been explored in the sessions.
Arpan Kar 