ICDTM’26 aims to create a unique platform for reflection and action around sustainable digital transformation in the public sector. The goal is to promote interdisciplinary research, experience sharing, and co-construction of innovative solutions to support public administrations in their sustainable digitalization strategies.

By bringing together researchers, practitioners, public decision-makers, and digital governance experts, the conference offers a privileged space to analyze strategies, discuss challenges, and explore levers for public value creation linked to digital transformation. It will also aim to identify best practices that promote performance, transparency, citizen participation, and the sustainability of public policies.
This conference will emphasize the nexus between sustainable digital transformation and public management, aiming to enhance institutional capacities and foster the development of an international network of scholars and practitioners dedicated to promoting a more agile, accountable, and equitable public sector.

ICDTM’26 encourages contributions that highlight innovative, inclusive, and ethical approaches to addressing public management challenges in the digital age, while placing societal and environmental value creation at the heart of transformation strategies.
Submissions may adopt a critical, comparative, or interdisciplinary approach, combining theoretical contributions on digital transformation dynamics with empirical analysis based on field data, case studies, conceptual analyses, or feedback from experience.

The objective is to analyze the conditions, strategies, obstacles, and effects of digital transformation in public administrations by examining its technological, organizational, human, and societal dimensions.

Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following thematic areas:

– Impacts of digital transformation on the public sector
– Sustainability, inclusion, and social cohesion in digital public services
– Public, social, and economic value creation
– Collaborative, agile, and public gouvernance
– Ethical issues, transparency, and data protection
– Adoption of emerging technologies and development of digital platforms
– Public-private partnerships: opportunities, governance, and sustainability
– Responsible artificial intelligence in public administration
– Knowledge management and organizational learning
– Transformation of processes, professional practices, and public management

Researchers, practitioners, public decision-makers, and digital development actors are invited to submit papers that contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of digital transformation in the public sector and its implications for governance, sustainability, and public value creation.

Submissions (in English or French) should follow standard academic formatting conventions and demonstrate clear theoretical contributions, methodological rigor, and practical implications.
There are no particular paper requirements, but they should not be too long (indicatively, no more than 10,000 words).
The first page must include the following information:
• Title of the paper
• Name(s) of the author(s)
• Institutional affiliation of each author
• Abstract (max 250 words)
• Keywords

Please indicate the thematic axis under which your submission falls.

Submissions must be made exclusively through this mail address: laboratoire.rigueur.iscae@gmail.com

• Deadline for submission of full papers : March 30, 2026
• Notification of acceptance : April 20, 2025
• Final submission and registration deadline : April 30, 2026
• Conference date and location: Hammamet, Tunisia, May 22–23, 2026