Digital Ecosystems and Smart Technologies
The 10th International DEST Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Smart Technologies will be held in Canberra, Australia between 26 February and 1 March 2017.
As defined during the 1st DEST conference in 2007 in Cairns, Digital Ecosystems inherently display open yet loosely coupled, demand-driven clusters of agent-based, self-organising collaborative environments. Here, species/agents form coalitions for a specific purpose or goal. As each agent works for their own benefit to achieve a unifying goal, social and economic factors are challenged along with security, trust, and risk management.
DEST 2007 – Cairns, Australia
DEST 2008 – Phitsanuloke, Thailand
DEST 2009 – Istanbul, Turkey
DEST 2010 – Dubai, UAE
DEST 2011 – Daejeon, Korea
DEST 2012 – Capione d’Italia, Italy
DEST 2013 – California, USA
In the decade since the DEST conference series began, technology has got smarter and more autonomous, users more savvy, and challenges and demands greater. Radical transformations based on the envisioned Digital Ecosystems and Smart Technologies affect all domains and virtually each and every life: Mobility and Innovation, Resource Allocation and Sustainability, FinTech Blockchain Financial Environments, Cyber-Physical Man-Robot Cooperation, or Trust- and Risk Managed Defence Environments are all expected to undergo massive transformational changes in the next decade.
Since the essence of our envisioned Smart Digital Ecosystems is inspired by ecological and biological system concepts, and by creating value by making connections through collective intelligence and the promotion of collaboration instead of unbridled competition, catalyst effects are expected in all application domains, to produce enriched communities, humanities and societies.
Smart Digital Ecosystems can be applicable in domains such as health care, energy, transportation, data-incentive society demand infrastructures, government, defence, or cyber engineering. The Transformational Innovation Ecosystems in all these domains basically lead the new opportunities for the mobilisation of citizens, personnel, data, supplies and equipment, providing new opportunities for the challenges and living expectations of our time. Also, these Innovation Ecosystems promise to transform the opportunities for developing economies and its inhabitants to the positive, through access and participation and a scale never witnessed before.