The recent advancements in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning have increased the potential for wider applications of intelligent systems in governance. Governance embraces all aspects of governing including leadership, management, administration, and operations that stems from decision-making to create or reinforce specific objectives and values for the common good. Governance spans all types of systems in the public, corporate, and social domains where laws, norms, policies, and rules exist to guide conduct and practices.

However, studies have shown that despite the huge potentials for the application of intelligent systems and AI in governance, there are various challenges in salient areas such as organizational readiness to leverage AI, availability of usable data for AI implementations, ethical awareness, and technical capacity that could affect the success of intelligent systems in governance, and its wider uptake and utilization.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange and discuss the most recent AI techniques, methods, approaches, and applications that are relevant to governance in the public, corporate, and social domains. The workshop will create a platform to interrogate ideas, concepts, achievements, and lessons learned from the design, development, and deployment of intelligent systems for governance. It will also create opportunities for intellectual engagement on the extant challenges associated with applications of intelligent systems in governance and the design of intelligent systems for governance

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing complete research work or ongoing research work with preliminary results on the design,development, and application of intelligent system for governance.
• Short Papers describing novel ideas/concepts that relate to intelligent systems for governance
• Student papers describing on going work or posters that relate to theme of the workshop. This category of papers will be published online post-workshop, and not togther with proceedings of the main conference.

List of Topics

• AI systems for decision-making in governance
• Machine learning schemes and application for governance
• Data curation for AI in governance
• AI-based e-governance
• Knowledge-based infrastructures for governance – ontologies, knowledge graphs
• Semantic-based systems for digital governance
• Requirements Engineering for AI systems for governance
• Data science solutions for governance
• Application of cyber-physical systems in governance
• Robotics, and process automation in governance
• Ethics, and privacy issues of AI for governance
• AI-enabled legislation and policy formulation
• AI-driven systems Interoperability in governance
• AI-based interventions for government service delivery
• Smart digital systems for governance

Committees

Program Committee

• Oludayo Olugbara, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Oluwagbemi Olugbenga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Boniface Kabaso, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
• Richard Milham, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Pinar Ozturk, NTNU, Norway 
• Aparna Varde, Montclair State University, USA
• Funke Oladipupo, Covenant University, Nigeria
• Ariyo Adebiyi, Covenant University, Nigeria
• Thomas Moser, St Poelten University of Technology, Austria
• Inah Omoronyia, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Michael Adeyeye, Sheridan College, Australia
• Amit Jain, Chandigarh University, India
• Tiko Iyamu, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
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• To be expanded...

Organizing committee

• Chair:
  • Olawande Daramola, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa – daramolaj@cput.ac.za
• Co-Chairs:
  • Thomas Moser, St Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria – thomas.moser@fhstp.ac.at
  • Pinar Ozturk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway – pinar@ntnu.no
  • Inah Omoronyia, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom – inah.omoronyia@glasgow.ac.uk
  • Aparna Varde, Montclair State University, USA – vardea@montclair.edu

Publication

IS4GOV proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer

Venue

The conference will be held in the Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to  daramolaj@cput.ac.za