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The children of the modern era are found to be engaged in a smart phone for long time at an early age. How does it influence the behaviour of the children in a negative/positive way? Does it have an impact on personality development of these children?

What is the effect of smart grid on the segregation of the society?

With the introduction of Smart Grid, the electricity prices will vary during the day, depending on the relation of consumption and production. The question is if anyone has investigated the influence of this to the segregation of the society.

People with a high income could care less if the electricity price is high for the moment and put on their electrical machines or heating systems indepent of that. The energy consumption of people with a low income will however be affected to a larger scale.

Is this fair? Has anyone thought about this/ investigated this?

Germany's foremost IFO economist in his article proves that energy transition to wind and solar powered society is not feasible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzwCpRdhsXk

He claims that all EU tentative hydro-pumping powerplant potential and tentative smart-grid and interconnection of all north EU counties and tentative utilisation of batteries combined, is by far insufficient to handle seasonal intermittency of power generation supplied by the renewables.

So, what are we dealing with here?

We’re pleased to announce an upcoming issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network

In the new global and network society, greater challenges have been posed by demographic changes in the labour workforce and in the complexity of social interactions and neighbourhood ties (Bond, Peace, Dittmann-Kohli, & Westerhof, 2007; Bowling, 2005).

Previous studies (e.g. Costa, 2013; Cabrera, & Malanowski, 2009; De Schutter & Vanden Abeele, 2008; Felsted, & Wright, 2014) have suggested that Information and Communication technologies have a crucial role in overcoming these challenges by facilitating the meaning attributed to information and thus strengthening age identity (Hubble, & Tew, 2013) and encouraging prosocial behaviors, the sense of social connectedness and of purposefulness. In fact, increasingly mobile network societies have been suggested to change the way people exercise their minds (Johnson, 2006) and how they communicate.

Although these networks tend to bring flexibility, adaptability and global transformation (Castells, 2001), intergenerational gaps in the access of information and social digital divides are likely to persist.

If the generation who lived with ‘old media’ (i.e. cable TV, radio, press) are now ‘digital immigrants’ (Prensky, 2012) overcoming generational learning, communication and authority gaps,  the culture of new media (i.e. Internet, iPTV, video games) will need to be rethought in terms of accessibility as a participatory culture (Fisk, Rogers, Charness, et al., 2009; Sixsmith, & Gutman,2013), one that is in demand of both the convergence of media and of generation networks. In this special issue, we seek to explore the role of information and communication technologies in encouraging the development of networked older adults. Towards this aim, we invite submissions in the following (non-exclusive) list of topics:

-       The use of social media in late adulthood

-       Age-friendly technologies

-       The power of networks in ageing

-       Older adults’ interactions with new media

-       Networked video games for the older adults

-       Ageing in networked and smart cities

-       Caregiver social networks

-       ICT-based solutions to the demands of an ageing society

-       Accessibility

-       The digital divide

-       Intergenerational learning

I'm doing research within the field of behavioural antecedents of smart product adoption. In order to investigate on a newly developped psychological construct, I need experts validating my findings. Please get back to me, if you feel like you could help me. I'm desperately searching, any help appreciated.

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to submit your latest research results, developments, and ideas to the 2025 5th International Conference on Public Management and Intelligent Society(PMIS 2025) will be on March 21-23, 2025 in Hangzhou, China.

The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Machine Learning Algorithms for Public Sector Decision-Making

Data Mining and Big Data Analytics in Government

Cloud Computing and IoT for Efficient Public Services

Digital Platforms for Enhancing Citizen Engagement

Algorithmic Policy Formulation and Analysis

Cybersecurity and Data Protection in E-Governance

Computational Models for Urban Traffic Management

AI and IoT in Urban Environmental Monitoring

Energy Consumption Prediction and Management using Machine Learning

IT Infrastructure Development for Digital Public Services

Challenges and Success Stories in Public Sector Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation and Digital Society

Business Analytics and Data Science

Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Smart City, Smart Health, and FinTech

AI, ChatGPT, Robotics, and Machine Learning: Future of Work and Future of Humanity

Human-Centered AI, Human-AI Collaboration, Web3, Metaverse

Full Paper Submission Dates: March 1, 2025

Registration Deadline:March 15, 2025

Final Paper Submission Dates: March 15, 2025

Conference Dates: March 21-23, 2025

Please send the full paper(word+pdf) to Submission System:

We are glad to invite you to submit papers and participate in the International Conference “Sustainable Development of European Smart Cities”, on 9th – 10th of JUNE 2023, IASI (Jean Monnet Project no. 20415-EPP-1-2020-1-RO-EPPJMO-MODULE, European Smart Cities for Sustainable Development (SmartEU), within the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union).

We encourage papers that cover topics including (but not limited to):

●Green and smart technologies for Smart City;

●Smart Governance and Smart Democracy for EU citizens’ well-being;

●Smart People and Smart Working for a resilient European Union;

●Knowledge Management in Smart City Development;

●Heritage and cultural tourism;

●The role of emerging technologies in Smart Cities;

●Smart Cities Marketing;

●E-Society: online communication and collaboration;

● Cyberbullying and digital citizenship education.

For more information, please check our website: http://smarteu.uaic.ro/Pages/Start.aspx

I'm looking for any smart villages aplications in your country. I'm interested in examples that involve the enviroment, agricultural, society and technology. I would be grateful for any input.

We believe that cross-fertilizing the tourism and seaport literatures on the specific topic of relationship networks for competitiveness can favour the spreading of practices and can create a collaborative environment to solve problems that cannot be solved by one sector alone. The final aim is to identify and promote common tools for the sustainable development of both tourism destinations and seaports in the city.