The pulse of Global Electronic Governance will be beating in October 2021 in Athens

The United Nations International Conference on Digital Governance, ICEGOV 2021 will be held in-person from 6^th-8^th October 2021 for the first time in Athens, marking a unique event for Digital Governance and for Greece.

ICEGOV 2021 has been jointly organized by the University of the Aegean and the United Nations University under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance and is being held at Harokopio University in Athens.

After previous events in India (2017), Ireland (2018), Australia (2019) and the online conference (2020), the Greek ICEGOV 2021 will highlight the most important issues of Digital Governance globally, such as:

• Restructuring and new ways of providing public digital services for citizens and business
• The digital transformation of local government
• The central IT infrastructure of states and related interoperability standards
• The impact of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, 5G communications and the Internet of Things on the governance of tomorrow.

• Changes and challenges brought about by the Covid pandemic
• Emerging systems of Law and Informatics and related infrastructure for parliaments and central governments.

The following institutions and organisations will participate in ICEGOV 2021:

• The Ministry of Digital Governance with keynote speeches from the Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis and the Secretary-General of Information Systems, Prof. Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos.
• Senior officials of the United Nations, the European Commission, the OECD, UNESCO and other international organisations of global governance.
• The most influential specialists globally from the field of Digital Governance.
• The leading Greek academics in the field of Digital Governance from the University of the Aegean, the National Technical University of Athens, Ionian University, the University of Macedonia, the Athens University of Economics and Business and Harokopio University.
• The leading Greek businesses specializing in Digital Governance solutions and services.
• Specialists in Digital Governance from government, business, international organisations, universities and research centres from more than 50 countries across the world.

Papers and proposals for special workshops can be submitted until 1^st June 2021.

The conference management has been undertaken by Convin SA and the media coverage by the Huffington Post.

Further information on international conference ICEGOV 2021 can be found at www.icegov.org

Watch the interview with the ICEGOV 2021 contributors from the University of the Aegean and the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance at http://bit.ly/icegov_dt