Digital nomads, innovation and the future of work: Shaping the green and digital future

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Introduction

This Special Issue will explore challenges of new and emerging digital technologies in different economic sectors in the green and digital transition. Additionally, it will discuss how these advanced digital tools impact on skills (students, workers, citizens) and mobility challenges (digital nomads, teleworkers, etc) and around the world. Finally, the special issue will discuss recommendations for policy makers in different regions. There are few publications covering discussion on digital nomads, innovation, green economy and sustainability.

List of topic areas

This Special issue will explore the impact of these topics on UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and will provide policy recommendations. We welcome submissions on the following themes:

  • AI innovation
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Business
  • Circular economy
  • Cross-border telework
  • Data
  • Data ecosystem
  • Data factor marketization
  • Data risk management
  • Data trading
  • Data security
  • Data value
  • Digital economy
  • Digital inclusion
  • Digital nomads
  • Digital technologies
  • Digitalisation
  • Equality
  • Government
  • Green economy
  • Inclusion
  • Industry 5.0
  • Industry specialization
  • Information technologies
  • Innovation
  • Labor mobility
  • Quantum
  • Robotics
  • Smart and sustainable transport
  • SDGs
  • Smart cities
  • Social inclusion
  • Sustainability

Submission information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here.

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here.

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 01/11/2025

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 01/03/2026

Guest editors

Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, University of Oviedo, Spain, patriop@uniovi.es 

Xi Zhang, Tianjin University, China, jackyzhang@tju.edu.cn 

Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, nabil.almunawar@ubd.edu.bn