Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023 (CUDAN 2023) took place this week at Tallinn University, where I was kindly invited by the organizers to take part in the Meet The Publishers session representing Data & Policy journal (Cambridge University Press), where I serve as editor for “Focus on Digital & Data-Driven Transformations in Governance” area.
Together with colleague – Innar Liiv, who kindly joined me in promoting our journal, Data & Policy was represented by researchers representing two leading universities in Estonia – University of Tartu and TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology. The conference was hosted by another large Estonian university – Tallinn University, which did a great job since, although I am not related to cultural data analytics, I enjoyed the sessions, keynotes – Mauro Martino from IBM Research, Anu Masso from TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, Lev Manovich from The City University of New York, and AI Art exhibition as part of a social event. Thank you Maximilian Schich for this event and invitation!

Referring back to the “Meet the Data & Policy“, and delivering the main message of this post – I invite you all to do the same and consider this relatively new but increasingly popular journal with a very good reputation.

Do not forget also the Special Issues we have, one of which is co-edited by me (together with Jérôme Chenal, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Cédric Stéphane Teakouabou Koumetio, UM6P – Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui) and is devoted to Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges, with a submission deadline of January 8, 2024. Just to remind, this Special Issue aims to expand the reach and scope of urban data research, innovation and entrepreneurship activities and policies to address urban challenges in Africa through the digitisation of cities. It will compile recent expert work on the topic to advance and promote scientific advance / excellence, promote the digital transition and its benefits for creating, collecting, storing and using urban data to achieve sustainable development goals (SDG) in African cities.

You can read more about the call in my previous post.