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DIGG

Digital Innovation for Global Growth Research Center

DIGG

DIGG Conferences

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  • 1st International Conference on “Digital Innovation for Global Growth”
    • ITTP DIGG’s 1st conference aims to build a global forum by researchers and practitioner experts committed to contributing to global growth, in particular to the issues related to SDG 9, which aims to “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”
    • This conference emphasizes developing and emerging countries’ issues and welcomes the generation and exchange of academic ideas that pursue to explore and understand how to leverage digital innovation and transformation issues to enhance growth and development that leaves no one behind.
    • This conference is proud to invite the global research community, and in particular, the Global ICT & Innovation (GII) Network to present academic works focused on DIGGs research areas, explained below.
    • Conference Date: August 19th 2021
    • Prof. Birku Reta Entele, Ph.D., Dean, Department of Technology and Innovation Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Adama Science and Technology University (Ethiopia)
    • Prof. Bikash Nakarmi, Ph.D., Full Professor, Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China)
    • Prof. Christian Libaque, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Universidad del Pacífico (Perú)
    • Dr. Hyeon-Suk Lyu, Public Policy, Senior Research Fellow, Division of Disaster & Safety Research, Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) (South Korea)
    • Dr. Jong Heun Park, Vice President, SMEs and Commercialization Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) (South Korea)
    • Dr. Kim Jun Youn, Team Leader, Research Planning Team, Software Policy & Research Institute (SPRi) (South Korea)
    • Prof. Hyenyoung Yoon, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Global R&DB Center, Seoul National University (SNU) (South Korea)
    • Prof. Min Jae Park, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of e-business, Ajou University (South Korea)
    • Mr. Munjun Cho, Team Manager, Global Digital Government Cooperation Team, National Information Society Agency (NIA) (South Korea)
    • Prof. Sangkeon Lee, Ph.D., Managing Director, Global Development Partnership Center, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) (South Korea)
    • Prof. Tumennast Erdenebold, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Woosong University (Mongolia)
    • Dr. Wantana Areeprayolkij, Lecturer, College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
    • Prof. Yoon Min Hwang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, CBNU Business School, Chungbuk National University (South Korea)
  • Public-Private Partnerships & GovTech for Development

    The digital era presents a great opportunity for governments to redesign the way in which they provide their services to citizens who demand new answers, but it is difficult for governments in emerging and developing countries to tackle the so many barriers that hinder their catching-up process, when managed correctly, partnering with the private sector (PPPs) may become an opportunity. Along with the new GovTech trend, DIGG is an ecosystem where governments collaborate with startups and SMEs that use data intelligence, digital technologies, and innovative methodologies to develop products and services that attempt to tackle public problems.

    → DIGG Conference welcomes research efforts that try to explore and understand related phenomena in the context of emerging and developing countries or between developed and developing countries.

    Technology Commercialization & R&BD Collaboration for Global Knowledge-sharing

    Whether it is demand-pull or technology push, the process of driving technology and know-how from the labs to the markets is of special interest to emerging and developing countries. Latecomers to economic development understand well how scientific research contributes to encouraging innovation, however, challenges such as lacking resources for domestic R&D efforts or low absorptive capacity in their industries, makes the promotion of R&BD collaboration a potential answer to drive global growth between developed and developing countries.

    → DIGG Conference welcomes research that reports on evolving technology commercialization and R&D or technology transfer-based business development in emerging and developing countries or between developed and developing countries.

    Digital Technologies in Emerging and Developing countries

    The new digital & data-driven technological trends are redefining the future of most industries and governments by altering mainly business models, organization, and market dynamics. Many phenomena are yet to be systematically reported and contributions for emerging and developing countries are required to encourage policy development, industrial diversification, and the analysis on how these technologies enable value generation and global growth.

    → DIGG Conference encourages papers that explore the preconditions, use, adoption, challenges, and implications of innovative digital technologies and to explore how the 4th industrial revolution technology-driven services can impact the human quality of life and support sustainability

    Social Infrastructure for Digital Transformation

    Digital transformation is not about technology, it's rather a human-centric phenomenon. Thus, to build resilient industrial development social infrastructure, understood as norms, values, culture, capabilities, and competencies need to be developed.

    → DIGG Conference encourages research ideas that intend to contribute on topics regarding the reinforcement of specialized research methodologies, that pursue to develop and adopt new approaches in values, culture, competencies and capacity development to improve the research capacity and human capital in developing and emerging countries.

    • DIGG invites submissions of original papers, not published nor considered for publication or in review elsewhere, written in English, that contribute to the conference themes.
    • We are looking for efforts that go from the initial stage to promising research paper-level manuscripts.
    • We welcome authors from any part of the world, interested in contributing with the vision and mission of DIGG.
    • Abstract Submission:
      • Authors should prepare an abstract containing the overview of their paper idea before the deadline. Abstract length should be between 150 to 300 words.
    • Conference Paper Manuscript Preparation:
      • Authors be able to pinpoint the research gap, why their research idea is relevant within DIGG’s research, and the conference’ dimensions of interest.
      • Authors can choose to submit an ongoing research working paper manuscript or a conference paper manuscript.
        • Manuscript length shall be between 5-8 pages for the conference paper manuscript and 3-5 pages for the ongoing research working paper manuscript, including figures, tables & references.
      • The recommended conference paper manuscript structure should be :
        • Introduction
        • Literature Review
        • Methods
        • Results
        • Discussion
        • Conclusions
        • Authors Contributions
        • Acknowledgment
      • The recommended ongoing research working paper manuscript structure should be :
        • Introduction
        • Literature Review
        • Methods
        • Expected Results
        • Discussion
        • Conclusions
        • Authors Contributions
        • Acknowledgment
  • Submit your Abstract image
    • Step 1. Prepare: Please prepare your paper idea and set up your team.
    • Step 2. Download: Download Submission Instructions and Abstract Template Download Here
    • Step 3. Submit: Please submit your paper idea and abstract. E-mail your abstract proposal here
    • Step 4. Prepare Presentation: After acceptance of your abstract, please submit your paper manuscript before July 30th. After presentation (on August 19th) and final review, submit the conference paper for conference proceedings publication.
  • Submit your Abstract image
    • Step 1. After receiving the confirmation email that your abstract was selected, please choose your type of manuscript you will submit
      • Option 1. Ongoing research working paper manuscript
      • Option 2. Conference paper manuscript
    • Step 2. Download the template according to your choice.
      • Option 1. Download template for Ongoing research working paper manuscript Download Here
      • Option 2. Download template for Conference paper manuscript Download Here
    • Step 3. Follow the instructions for manuscript submission, submit your manuscript (DOCX format only) and presentation file (PPTX or PDF format) by July 30th, 2021
      • Access Manuscript Submission Instructions here
    • Step 4. Prepare for the presentation on the conference day (August 19th 2021).
  • If in doubt of whether your paper fits this conference focus, check if your research idea matches at least one keyword in each of these 2 groups:

    Global Digital Innovation

    • Digital Government
    • Digital Transformation
    • Technology Commercialization
    • Technology Convergence
    • Smart Digital Technologies (AI, IoT, Big Data, Blockchain, Data Analytics, AR/VR/MR, etc)
    • Innovation Management
    • Research & Business Development
    • Human capital development
    • Public & Private Partnerships
    • GovTech
    • Sustainable industry development
    • Technology development
    • Innovation systems enhancement

    Emerging & Developing countries’ context

    • In emerging countries
    • In developing countries
    • Middle-Income level economies
    • Low-Income level economies
    • Building resilient global growth
    • Government Infrastructure
    • The case of (a developing or emerging country)
    • for sustainable development
    • between developed and emerging/ developing countries
    • for/in the global south
    • North-South-South Collaboration
    • The selected conference papers will be published in a Conference Proceedings publication, aiming to provide exposure to the author’s contribution and the articles published within DIGG’s research areas of focus.
    • Outstanding research contributions, as well as potential practical implications, will be acknowledged during the conference with two types of awards:
      • Best Paper Award for Academic Contribution
      • Best Paper Award for Practical Implication
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