Aims and Scope

This journal publishes applied and community-engaged research that integrates science, technology, and innovation to address real-world societal challenges. The journal positions community settings as living laboratories where scientific knowledge is translated, implemented, and evaluated through systematic and ethical engagement with stakeholders.

Publications may take the form of applied research articles, implementation studies, design and development research, case studies, action research, and knowledge translation studies, provided they are grounded in clear scientific methodologies and generate transferable knowledge, models, or lessons learned beyond the local context.

The journal welcomes studies that report on the design, implementation, adaptation, and evaluation of technologies, systems, policies, or interventions developed collaboratively with communities and institutions, and that demonstrate measurable social, economic, environmental, health, or institutional impacts contributing to sustainable development and social innovation.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT), including informatics, information systems, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science, and digital platforms for community and institutional empowerment

• Engineering and Applied Sciences, such as civil, electrical, mechanical, industrial, chemical, and architectural engineering, automation, transportation systems, and renewable and appropriate technologies

• Health and Medical Technologies, including public health interventions, nursing practices, pharmaceutical and biomedical technologies, health informatics, and telemedicine in community and primary-care contexts

• Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences, including agronomy, horticulture, food and agro-industrial technology, environmental sustainability, climate adaptation, and community-based natural resource management

• Education and Human Development, including educational technology, community-based learning models, instructional design, lifelong learning, and educational psychology

• Social Sciences, Humanities, and Public Policy, including sociology, anthropology, economics, communication, public administration, governance, digital culture, and evidence-informed policy implementation

• Participatory, transdisciplinary, and collaborative research approaches, including co-creation, community-based participatory research, and multi-stakeholder innovation models

All submissions must demonstrate meaningful community or stakeholder engagement and provide empirical evidence of outcomes or impacts, such as improved capacity, services, practices, policies, or well-being.