ICST Transactions on Future Cities
Preamble:
High-speed, high-bandwidth ICT infrastructures and ubiquitous and pervasive computing add an information and communication layer to the built and the social environments of today's cities. This layer is bound to radically transform cities into dense, highly integrated, seamless and hybrid socio-technical ecosystems of people, communities, knowledge and technology. These ecosystems rely on complex interactions between human users, hard- and software, and formal and informal institutions of society. At the same time, cities as the places of the highest concentration of human population very intensely face the challenges of current and future societal, technical an environmental development, transformation and evolution, such as sustainability, resilience, citizen participation, or the public domain. ICT can act as an enabler and as a driver for or indeed as a barrier to city transformation. It can foster seamless or disruptive development; its complexity might hinder fast progress, and legacy technology might impede change. And finally, technology never exists in isolation but in social, political and environmental contexts that have evolved over time and keep evolving into the future. As such the topic of future cities and ICT blends into questions of future Internet, energy supply, transportation, education, social equality, urban planning, multimodal transport, smart cities/smart home and many more.
Scope:
The ICST Transactions on Future Cities is positioned as a scholarly publication for high quality research, discussion, implementation and evolution of the above mentioned complex, interdisciplinary issues. We will publish original scientific works reporting on prominent advances that challenge traditional thinking to find solutions to the ongoing challenges that future cities are facing and will be facing. For ICT to become a prime contributor to the accomplishment of sustainable development will require active involvement by people motivated to achieve it. The ICST Transactions on Future Cities will have a cross-disciplinary research character and focus to helping researchers/people/decision makers/technology and contact providers benefit from a world where they are connected to each other, targeted to the interest groups of the living labs and their major open innovation collaborators (like the European Network of Living Labs, Future Centers and Creative Commons) on a PPPP (public-private-people partnership) collaboration basis.
Editorial Board:
Dr. Ron Dvir is an architect of innovation engines and future centers, specializing in integrating the organizational, methodological, physical, technological and financial perspectives of innovation into a working open innovation system. Ron is the editor of “OpenFutures – an operating system for Futures Centers”, and co-editor of several books and papers about disruptive innovation and innovation management. He co-led several large scales international research projects in this domain. In 2000 Dr. Dvir founded Innovation Ecology which develops and implements a systematic practice to the creation of innovation-catalyzing working environments. He is a partner in Future Center Alliance. Ron is passionate about the power of visualization and art in science and business – and promotes this passion in all his projects.
Prof. Dr. Patricia Wolf is Research Director and Professor on General Management at the Institute of Management and Regional Economics at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. Additionally, she works as Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and is Visiting Professor on Knowledge and Innovation Management at Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil. Her major areas of expertise are processes of knowledge transformation in groups, communities, cities and regions impacting regional development.
Dr. Peter Troxler has worked in academia. Peter holds an MSc in Operations Management from ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1993) and a Dr. sc. techn. in Industrial Management (PhD, 1999). He has worked in academia as a researcher at ETH Zurich (1993-1999) and as a research manager at the University of Aberdeen (2001-2004). He has served on the scientific advisory board of several academic conferences in the areas of knowledge management and design and has been on the editorial board of book publications on systems engineering and knowledge management. Peter currently works as a Senior Project Manager at Waag Society in Amsterdam where he develops and realizes trans- and interdisciplinary work including and integrating arts, academia, media and public involvement. Peter also is president of UnBla.org, an organization that develops conferences that bring together academia and practitioners; and he occasionally takes management consultancy assignments in the area of regional cluster management, strategy development and implementation, and integrated management.
Mrs Tünde Kállai is expert in open innovation . She has obtained her diploma as Master of Arts in Human Sciences (literature and culture management) at University of Human Sciences, ELTE, in Budapest/Hungary at 1985. She is engaged to research emerging models, methods and tools coming from new scientific and technological derived paradigms to increase the quality of User Experience and Observation of concepts leading to new innovative ICT products and/or services.Mrs. Kállai was one of the founders of the European Network of Living Labs (EnoLL) in 2004, where she is Leadership Policy Group Member. Mrs.Kállai initiated and managed the set-up of 7 Living Labs in Hungary, Malta and Switzerland (2006-2008). She is co-author of “The European Living Labs” book (2008, Austria). Her PhD thesis is under progress at St Stephan University, in Hungary on „Living Lab as a tool of open innovation to create User Experience Prototyping Environments” through the case studies and applications in healthcare, renewable energy, multimodal transport and logistics, mobility, m-learning. She is working with Smart City Malta to build a sustainable model and service portfolio of the Future Cities for the ICT and media industry in Malta in mid- and long-term through Living Lab Malta.
EIC’a keywords
Third-Generation Knowledge Management, Ubiquitous, Ambient and Pervasive computing; Open standards; Public domain; Knowledge cities; Urban planning and development, Regional/Urban Innovation support, User centric Open Innovation, Living Lab, Content-aware networking infrastructures.