Scope & Topics
Scope & Topics
The International Conference on Connected Innovation and Technology (ICCITX.0) establishes a comprehensive research framework addressing the multifaceted challenges of digital transformation across three interconnected continents. The conference scope encompasses the convergence of advanced technologies, industrial innovation, and socio-economic adaptation within the context of global digital transitions. By integrating perspectives from European, African, and Asian research ecosystems, ICCITX.0 seeks to advance theoretical foundations while simultaneously addressing practical implementation challenges in industrial and economic systems. The conference welcomes rigorous empirical studies, theoretical contributions, and industrial case analyses that demonstrate scientific merit and contribute to the understanding of technology-driven transformation processes.
Data as a Lever for Transformation constitutes a foundational pillar examining how data-driven methodologies catalyze organizational and industrial change. This track solicits research on advanced analytics frameworks, machine learning applications, artificial intelligence systems, and data governance architectures that enable evidence-based decision-making processes. Contributions should address the epistemological and methodological challenges of extracting actionable intelligence from heterogeneous data sources, including real-time data streams, industrial IoT ecosystems, and complex multi-domain datasets. Research examining data sovereignty, cross-border data flows within trilateral cooperation frameworks, and the ethical implications of data-intensive technologies is particularly encouraged.
Towards a New Industrial Proximity investigates the reconfiguration of industrial value chains and production networks in response to technological advancement and geopolitical shifts. This thematic area encompasses research on distributed manufacturing systems, cyber-physical production environments, supply chain resilience, and regional industrial clustering strategies. Scholarly contributions should critically examine how digital technologies enable novel forms of geographical and organizational proximity, facilitating knowledge transfer and collaborative innovation across traditional boundaries. Studies addressing the tension between global value chain integration and regional industrial autonomy, particularly within the France-Morocco-Vietnam cooperation context, are of significant interest.
Skills at the Heart of Transitions addresses the critical nexus between technological evolution and human capital development. This research domain explores competency frameworks, pedagogical innovations, and workforce adaptation strategies necessary for navigating digital transformation. Contributions should provide rigorous analysis of skill gap identification methodologies, training effectiveness metrics, and the organizational learning processes required for technology adoption. Research examining the role of educational institutions, industry-academia partnerships, and continuous professional development ecosystems in building digital literacy across diverse cultural and economic contexts is particularly relevant to the conference's trilateral mission.
New Economic and Industrial Models examines the structural transformations reshaping value creation, business architectures, and competitive dynamics in digitally-enabled economies. This track welcomes research on platform economics, circular economy implementations, servitization strategies, and sustainable industrial paradigms. Contributions should employ robust theoretical frameworks and empirical methodologies to analyze how digital technologies disrupt traditional business models while enabling novel value propositions. Studies investigating cross-sectoral innovation, technology-mediated market entry strategies, and the economic implications of digital sovereignty within South-North cooperation frameworks are especially pertinent.
The conference features a specialized focus on Textile Industry Use Cases, recognizing this sector's strategic importance across the participating nations and its representative challenges in industrial digitalization. This applied research stream seeks concrete implementations, experimental validations, and industrial deployments of digital technologies within textile manufacturing, supply chain management, and sustainability initiatives. Contributions should demonstrate rigorous evaluation methodologies while addressing sector-specific challenges including smart manufacturing integration, traceability systems, waste reduction through digital optimization, and the adaptation of traditional textile craftsmanship to contemporary technological capabilities.