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Multimedia Tools and Applications - Call for Papers: Information Technology for Social Good [1234]

Social good is typically defined as an action that provides benefit to the general public. In this case, Internet connection, education and health care are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now also about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create positive societal impact. In this context, unprecedented opportunities come from the widespread popularity of mobile devices and social networks bringing a vast plethora of multimedia services and applications to our pockets, vehicles, buildings, public spaces and rural areas becoming the very texture of our society and providing us with the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it.

In this special issue, we are interested in experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart multimedia-related technologies for social good. Possible topics under this umbrella term are, for instance:

  • Citizen science
  • Civic intelligence
  • Decentralized approaches to IT
  • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Ethical computing
  • Frugal solutions for IT
  • Game, entertainment, and multimedia application
  • Health and social care
  • IT for automotive
  • IT for development
  • IT for education
  • IT for smart living
  • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions
  • Smart governance and e-administration
  • Social informatics
  • Socially responsible IT solutions
  • Sustainable cities and transportation
  • Sustainable IT
  • Technology addressing the digital divide

Guest Editors

  • Ombretta Gaggi, gaggi@math.unipd.it, University of Padua – Department of Mathematics
  • Giovanni Delnevo, giovanni.delnevo2@unibo.it, University of Bologna 


Important Dates:

• Papers selection: 01-15 November 2022
• Papers invitation: 15 December 2022
• Submission Deadline: 22 February 2023
• Notification of the first round of Revisions: 30 March 2023
• Submission revised paper: 1 May 2023

Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI 1234 - Information Technology for Social Good" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at GoodIT 2022 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of GoodIT papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.

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