Introduction to From Information to Smart Society: Environment, Politics and Economics

The 2013 ItAIS tenth Conference, from which this book originated, has taken place as a pre-event of ICIS 2013 that was held in Italy for first time. The 2013 ItAIS Conference has attracted contributions far beyond the Italian IS community. In fact, more than 200 authors, from four continents, have contributed to the Conference, whose 100 papers were selected for presentation at the Confer- ence by means of a double-blind review process. Authors do consider ItAIS as a relevant annual event where they share and discuss their research-in-progress projects and their research agenda. Different backgrounds and perspectives are thus compared and research positions developed. The 15 tracks have addressed many aspects of the main Conference theme: “Empowering society through digital innovation”. According to the multidisciplinary approach to IS that characterizes the confer- ence, in this book the reader can find contributions presented by researchers working in different disciplines, such as: organization, management, human- computer interaction, IS design, and IS development.