Scope

By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more.

In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the emergence of many other small smart objects with computational, sensing and communication capabilities coupled with the popularity of social networks and new human-technology interaction paradigms is creating unprecedented opportunities for each of us to do something useful, ranging from a single person to the whole world. Furthermore, Internet of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing and Fog computing are representative examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe a dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon objects’ intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. These connected objects are finding their way into our pockets, vehicles, urban areas and infrastructure, thus becoming the very texture of our society and providing us the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it.

In GOODTECHS we are hence interested in experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Clearly, we are not considering only the so called first world as the scenario for this evolution; we also refer to those areas where ICT is currently less widespread, hoping that it may represent a societal development opportunity rather than a source for further divide.

Topics

Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to topic areas:

App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms
Blockchain for social good
Communication between mobile devices
Content Distribution
E-learning solutions
Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches
Deployment and field-testing
Digital tools for art and feelings
Environment sensing, monitoring and preservation
Experimental results of communication testbeds
Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications
Health and social care
Human-object interaction
ICT for development
Mobile service architectures and frameworks
Mobility and handover management
New application scenarios for vehicular communications
Pervasive and ubiquitous services in cloud and IoT
Platforms and frameworks for mobile devices
Privacy issues and solutions
Protocol design, testing and verification
Security issues, architectures and solutions
Smart cities and transportation
Smart economy solutions: e-banking, e-business
Smart governance and e-administration
Smart living and E-health
Technology addressing the digital divide

Publication

All registered papers will be published by ACM and made available through ACM Digital Library.

Papers should be in English.
Regular papers should be up to 6 pages in length.
PhD track papers should be up to 2 pages in length.
Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: