Digital Innovation and Transformation for Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of digital technologies has revealed significant opportunities for advancing smart cities. The smart cities movement strategically employs cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions to enhance the quality of life, cultivate interconnected environments, and create data-driven analytical platforms. In the digital age, the success and impact of smart city initiatives and frameworks rely on the pillars of innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity, seamlessly transforming societies.

This Special Issue aims to bring together critical research and practical insights on various aspects of digital innovation and transformation in smart cities, with a focus on improving smart city environments in terms of infrastructure and technological aspects, sustaining inclusive smart city cultures and evidence-based platforms while addressing challenges and fostering citizen participation. We invite papers that discuss these dynamic aspects, exploring novel perspectives and insights that enrich the ongoing discourse on the evolution of smart cities. Various types of research such as analytical, descriptive, explanatory, case studies, and best practices are encouraged to explore the opportunities and challenges of transforming societies to make them smarter. Topics of interest include:

• Emerging technologies shaping smart cities;
• Innovative and resilient solutions to security-related challenges;
• Sustainable smart city environments;
• Digital inclusion and accessibility to digital opportunities;
• Citizen engagement;
• Data analytics and AI;
• Public and private partnerships.

Prof. Dr. Seunghwan Myeong
Dr. Younhee Kim
Dr. Michael J. Ahn
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Smart Cities is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.