Welcome to my blog, where I will post some most recent news and insights related to my studies, research and public activities.
CFP for The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024)
On behalf of the organizers (Technical Program Chair, Steering Committee, and finally publicity chair) of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024), I am inviting everyone, who is conducting…
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Online International Training and Capacity Building Program-2024 (ITCBP-2024) for the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and my talk on “Data Management for AI Cities”
Yesterday, I had the honor of serving as an Expert speaker for an Online International Training and Capacity Building Program-2024 (ITCBP-2024) on “Data Management for AI Cities”, organised by the School of Planning and…
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Generative AI Role in Shaping the Future of Open Data Ecosystems: Synergies amidst Paradoxes
The role of Generative AI is the subject for debates in almost every domain today, and the open data (ecosystem) domain is no exception. Here’s my two cents on this with the blog post…
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Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Information Management (IJIM)
As of February 2024, I am an Editorial Board Member of the probably the most prestigious journal in my area – International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) (SJR Q1, ABDC: A*, IF 21), which…
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📢✍️🗞️New paper alert! “Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities: A platform theory-based analysis of 19 European cities”, Cities (Elsevier)
With this post I would like to introduce our new paper entitled “Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities: A platform theory-based analysis of 19 European cities” (authors: M. Lnenicka, A. Nikiforova, A. Clarinval,…
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Data Quality as a prerequisite for sustainable success of business and not only: no data quality, no party!
In response to several requests, I finally completed the very first blog post on data quality management. In this post, I’ve mainly “set the scene” with the intention of publishing several more in-depth blog…
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The United Nations University EGOV’s repository platform and five of my articles it recommends 📖📚🧐
Recently, the United Nations University announced the launch of the United Nations University EGOV’s repository platform – a centralized hub of specialized repositories tackling global challenges, which is dedicated to two topics – EGOV…
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Wrapping up 2023 🎆🎄🍾🥂🎇
The very last days of the year give us all time to reflect on what the past year has brought us. This years and these very last days of it are no exception. As…
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“Meet the publishers” or “Meet me with the Data & Policy” (Cambridge University Press) at CUDAN2023
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 &…
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📢✍️🗞️New paper alert! “Identifying patterns and recommendations of and for sustainable open data initiatives: A benchmarking-driven analysis of open government data initiatives among European countries”, GIQ
With this post I would like to introduce our new paper entitled “Identifying patterns and recommendations of and for sustainable open data initiatives: A benchmarking-driven analysis of open government data initiatives among European countries”…
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EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024 & our Emerging Issues and Innovations Track
Are you focusing on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, incl. public-private ecosystems? Then it is time to start preparing your submission for EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART Emerging Issues…
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On my keynote “Unlocking the symbiotic relationship of Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, and Collaborative Intelligence for Innovative Decision-Making and Problem Solving” (DemocrAI / PRICAI)
This November I was glad to deliver a keynote at The 3rd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI2023) held in conjunction with the 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI2023), which…
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Latvian Open Data Hackathon 2023 winners are announced
The annual Open Data Hackathon and Idea Generator of the Latvian Open Technologies Association (LATA), this year dedicated to the digital wallet, is over and we finally know the winners: We also greet a…
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📢📜New paper alert! Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions
This post is dedicated to the “Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions” (Ukpabi, D.C., Karjaluoto, H., Botticher, A., Nikiforova, A., Petrescu, D.I., Schindler, P., Valtenbergs,…
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CyberCommando’s meetup and my talk on Internet of Things Search Engines and their role in detecting vulnerable open data sources
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, as part of which CyberCommando’s meetup 2023 took place in the very heart of Latvia – Riga, where I was invited to deliver an invited talk that I devoted…
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CFP for The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023)
On behalf of the organizers of the The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) co-located with The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023), I am inviting everyone,…
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Stanford University’s database of top-cited scientists for 2022 is published
A few months ago, I celebrated 5 years since my first scientific publication – the time it took for me to get listed in the Stanford University’s database of top 2% scientists! To be honest,…
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CFP for Data For Policy 2024 is open!
And CFP for Data For Policy 2024 scheduled for 9-11 July, 2024 is open! All submissions are welcome with the deadline of 27 November, 2023. This year Data For Policy conference, which is organized…
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The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) and the 8th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) in Tartu
This year we – University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science – have a pleasure to host FMEC2023, taking place in conjunction with iMETA, where iMETA, as you can assume, is associated with the…
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CFP for a new dg.o2024 SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC AND OPEN DATA ECOSYSTEMS track
25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2024) is coming with the revised list of tracks, where the special attention I invite you to draw to is a new track “Sustainable Public and…
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IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023 – retrospective on how it was? From Metaverse to wine tasting
It finally took place! EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART – one of the most recognized conference in e-Government, ICT and public administration and related topics (incl., Smart Cities, Sustainability, Innovation and many more) that lasted 3…
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📢New paper alert 📢“Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework and testing it through sentiment analysis on Twitter data” or what people do and will think about ChatGPT?
This paper alert is dedicated to “Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework and testing it through sentiment analysis on Twitter data” (authors: Otmane Azeroual, Radka Nacheva, Anastasija Nikiforova, Uta Störl, Amel Fraisse) paper, which is…
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🗓️🗓️🗓️ Save the date for “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop
🗓️ 🗓️🗓️ Save the date – September 6th – for “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop as part of International Federation for Information Processing…
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24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: from the former President of Poland & Nobel Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa to the 3rd edition of our workshop on HVD
The week was full of impressions (positive) from the the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research in the charming Gdańsk (Poland), which started with our workshop, followed by the keynote talk delivered by…
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Keynote at the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2023)
June 28 I had the honor to participate in the opening of CARMA2023 – 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics “Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences” delivering my…
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📢🚨⚠️Paper alert! Overlooked aspects of data governance: workflow framework for enterprise data deduplication
This time I would like to recommend for reading the new paper “Overlooked aspects of data governance: workflow framework for enterprise data deduplication” that has been just presented at the IEEE-sponsored International Conference on…
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HackCodeX Forum Keynote “Data Quality as a prerequisite for you business success: when should I start taking care of it?”
June 5, I was delighted to be invited to be a keynote at the HackCodeX Forum, delivering a keynote titled “Data Quality as a prerequisite for your business success: when should I start taking…
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💬💬💬 Contributed talk for QWorld Quantum Science Days 2023 (QSD 2023)
In the very last days of May 2023, I had yet another experience – I delivered a contributed talk at QWorld Quantum Science Days 2023 (QSD 2023) titled “Framework for understanding quantum computing use…
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🔖🔖🔖NEW book chapter: The Role of Open Data in Transforming the Society to Society 5.0: A Resource or a Tool for SDG-Compliant Smart Living?
This time I am glad to announce that the Chapter “The Role of Open Data in Transforming the Society to Society 5.0: A Resource or a Tool for SDG-Compliant Smart Living?” (Nikiforova, Alor…
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HackCodeX and my role of the Keynote speaker with “Data Quality as a prerequisite for business success: when should I start taking care of it?”
June 3-5, 2023 HackCodeX hackathon – a weekend-long experience, gathering tech enthusiasts from all over Europe to develop new ideas with the latest technology in a unique environment and atmosphere that serves as the…
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📢📢📢New Article “Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a systematic literature review” is recommended by The Living Library!
Our new article titled “Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a systematic literature review” (Nikiforova A., Rizun N., Ciesielska M., Alexopoulos C., Miletič A.) is now available at arXiv with supplementary data published at Zenodo and…
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Guest Lecture for the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR) on Open Data Ecosystems in and for sustainable development of data-driven smart cities and Society 5.0
Today (May 16, 2023), I had a pleasure to deliver one more guest lecture for master and doctoral students of the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)) as…
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Rii Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society” & a plenary debate “Advances in ICT & the Society”
Last week, I had an unforgettable experience at the Research and Innovation Forum (RiiForum) on which I posted previously in Krakow, Poland, serving as plenary speaker and session chair. It was another great experience…
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CFP for The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023)
On behalf of the organizers (Technical Program Chair, Steering Committee, and finally publicity chair) of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023), I am inviting everyone, who is conducting…
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NEW reading!!! 📜📜📜 The role of open government data and co-creation in crisis management: Initial conceptual propositions from the COVID-19 pandemic📜📜📜
This time I am glad to announce that our paper The Role of Open Government Data and Co-Creation in Crisis Management: Initial Conceptual Propositions from the COVID-19 Pandemic developed together with Keegan McBride (Oxford…
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Rii Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society” & a plenary debate “Advances in ICT & the Society”
This April the next edition of the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) on which I posted previously will take place. For those, who are not familiar with Rii Forum yet, it is an…
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Data Security as a Top Priority in the Digital World: Preserve Data Value by Being Proactive and Thinking Security First
As you probably know from my previous posts, in 2022 I was honored to take part in The International Research & Innovation Forum, where I acted as both, as an author and presenter, panel…
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Participate in the European Digital Skills Certificate (EDSC) feasibility study!
📣📣📣 This is a short post to let you know that we have reached the most important phase of the consultation process for the European Digital Skills Certificate (#EDSC) feasibility study, and on behalf…
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The International Open Data Day and my role of Keynote Speaker for the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2023) 🎤🎤🎤
This post is dedicated to two very pleasant events for me, namely the international Open Data Day 🎉🍾🥂, and the announcement of the keynote talk that I was kindly invited to deliver at the…
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CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2023)
On behalf of the organizers and as a publicity chair, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications…
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Towards data quality by design – ISO/IEC 25012-based methodology for managing DQ requirements in the development of IS – one of the most downloaded article of DKE from July 2023
It is obvious that users should trust the data that are managed by software applications constituting the Information Systems (IS). This means that organizations should ensure an appropriate level of quality of the data…
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Our – EOSC TF “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality” paper “Towards a data quality framework for EOSC” is released!🍷🍷🍷
I am glad to announce the release of “Towards a data quality framework for EOSC” document, which we have been hard at work on hard for several months as the Data Quality subgroup of…
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Call for Papers: Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges, Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press
On behalf of Guest Editors I sincerely invite you to consider submitting your work to our Special Issue ”Emerging Data- and Policy-driven Approaches for African Cities Challenges” as part of the open-access journal Data & Policy at…
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“Emerging issues and innovations” track as part of IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023 is open for submissions!
On behalf of the co-chair of “Emerging issues and innovations” track I sincerely invite everyone whose research focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems, to…
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Wrapping up 2022
While 2022 can be characterized by many challenges that each and every person and society as a whole faced, at the end of this year, I would like to refer to only the positive…
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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData): where the Edge meets the Cloud
On behalf of the organizers, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData), which will…
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Our – EOSC TF “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality” – whitepaper “Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion” is published by European Commission!
Proud to be part of the EOSC Task Force on FAIR Metrics and Data Quality and present our whitepaper “Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion” (Mark D. Wilkinson; Susanna-Assunta…
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UT & Swedbank Data Science Seminar “When, Why and How? The Importance of Business Intelligence”
Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in a Data Science Seminar titled “When, Why and How? The Importance of Business Intelligence”. In this seminar, organized by the Institute of Computer Science (University of…
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Latvian Open Data Hackathon for pupils 2022 – winners are announced!
During the last month, I have been a mentor of the Latvian Open Data Hackathon and an idea generator for pupils, organized by the Latvian Open Technologies Association with the support of DATI Group, E-Klase, Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija…
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14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K): how it was and who got the Best Paper Award?
In this post I would like to briefly elaborate on a truly insightful 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K), where I was honored to participate as a…
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ICEGOV2022: 4 insightful days and four roles – participant / attendee, author / presenter, workshop chair and Best Paper Awards nominee (part 2)
In previous post I already shared my impressions with ICEGOV ICEGOV2022 conference – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, which took place in a very specific place – Guimarães that…
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ICEGOV2022: 4 insightful days and four roles – participant / attendee, author / presenter, workshop chair and Best Paper Awards nominee (part 1)
This October (2022) I had a pleasure and honor to spend four absolutely insightful days at ICEGOV2022 conference – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, which took place in a…
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A keynote for the Innovation and Smart Government Conference 2022 (ISGOV2022)
This September I was exceptionally proud to be invited to serve as one of two keynotes for the Innovation and Smart Government Conference 2022 (ISGOV2022) and open this conference, delivering my talk titled “Data…
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AI for Open Data or Open Data for AI? An invited talk for BBDU Development Program «Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development»🎤
Recently I was honored to contribute to Babu Banarasi Das University (BBDU, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Development Program «Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development» with the talk entitled “Artificial Intelligence for Open Data…
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Several summer activities – African Smart Cities Lab, One Conference 2022, EFSA & EBTC joint project, Guest Lecture, “Virtual Brown Bag Lunch”
Considering that in last weeks I was pretty active in delivering very many talks, let me use this post to summarize some of them thereby remaining them in my memory as well as allowing…
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Anastasija Nikiforova, PhD 