Call for papers
Garr Conference 2021
Sostenibile/Digitale - Data and technologies for the future
7-16 June 2021
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Call for papers
GARR Conference is the annual meeting of users, operators and managers of the Italian national education and research network aimed at sharing experiences and comments on the use of the network as a tool for research, training and culture, in different contexts and disciplines.
This year's edition focuses on digital sustainability, both in terms of ensuring sustainable development of ICTs and of harnessing digital technologies to have an impact on the environment, society and economy, with an eye on the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
We will discuss about sustainability from different perspectives, keeping in mind the main peculiarity of GARR community: multidisciplinarity
The conference will be an opportunity to present success stories of innovation and topics for discussion for the world of academia, research, education, health and humanities.
We announce the opening of a call for papers with specific reference to:
- Use of network infrastructures and services
- Strategies and policies for the development of e-infrastructures
- Data and service access and interoperability
- ICT services for Research Infrastructures
- Training, education and technology transfer
Topics
Papers from the following domains can be accepted:
scientific research, biomedical research, arts and humanities, school and education.
The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interest for submissions:
- Cybersecurity
- Internet of Things
- AI, Machine and Deep Learning
- Big data and Smart Data
- 5G Networks: new architectures and applications
- Blockchain
- Sustainable ICT
- Green computing
- Agritech
- Climate and environment
- Energy
- Smart city and communities
- Industry 4.0 and technology transfer
- Digital education
- Open Science
- Data management
- Long Term Preservation and accessibility
- Data interoperabiliy across European Research Infrastructure (ESFRI)
- FAIR Data and EOSC
- Biomedical research data
Rules
Contributions, in the form of extended abstracts in Italian or English, shall be between 1 and 3 pages long (i.e. 2.500-9.000 characters including spaces), plus, optionally, multimedia attachments (pictures, sounds, videos, etc.). Proposals shall be sent solely in digital version. To submit your contribution, please use the online form.
Any multimedia files must be sent by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. referring to the title of the proposed contribution
Important! Papers shall address one or more of the conference themes as identified in the call:
- Use of network infrastructures and services
- Strategies and policies for the development of e-infrastructures
- Data and service access and interoperability
- ICT services for Research Infrastructures
- Training, education and technology transfer
The relevance to at least one of these points is one of the evaluation criteria against which the papers will be evaluated, together with quality and innovative potential. The authors of selected works will be invited to send an extended paper, that will be published by Consortium GARR in a publication identified by ISBN and DOI codes. Contributing the paper is not mandatory and authors can decide to publish or not.
This edition will be published under the Creative Commons license CC-BY.