RRI-ICT 2018 Call for papers

RRI-ICT 2018

Responsible Research

and Innovation: the challenges of the Information and Communication Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS

How and why more and more ICT, RRI in science in, and for Society influence each other?

https://rri-sis.wixsite.com/m-rrisis2018/rri-ict2018

Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Estonia, 19 September 2018

The RRI-ICT 2018 is the first edition of an annual conference which aims to engage in a wide and fruitful discussion different groups from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation aims to promote a stronger collaboration among scientists from different disciplines, societal actors, citizens and policy makers in order to achieve a wider dimension of science and innovation and enhance the role of society in dealing with its challenges.

Research and innovation produce relevant social effects in particular in areas such as ICT, which are deeply pervasive in our daily life. Indeed, in less than two decades, information and communication technologies have totally transformed not only the way that people use to get connected, communicate and access information; ICT also changed entertainment, dealing with education, health, safety issues, etc. It is therefore necessary more and more to explore the two-way interactions between ICT and society putting the human being and society at the centre of research and innovation, to explore how ICT in the perspective of RRI can represent a success factor at different scales, local, national, European and global level.

The conference overall aim is to activate a discussion engaging the RRI and ICT communities involving scientists and societal actors working together during the whole research and innovation process. The discussion will allow presenting cases studies highlighting examples where the implementation of RRI dimensions, principles and topics, made a difference and enable us to anticipate and assess implications and societal expectations and, embed them to foster the design of inclusive and sustainable research and innovation.

The submitted papers are encouraged to discuss the specific topics of ICT in the perspective of RRI and societal challenge.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

· Assessing and reducing cyber risks in hospitals and care centres to protect privacy/data/infrastructures

· Digital divide, ICT and Gender Equality

· Digital security, privacy and accountability in critical sectors

· Evaluation and measure of security and trustworthiness in crowdsourcing social media services, tools and systems

· ICT and Education

· ICT and Ethics

· Innovative Pervasive Social Computing services and applications

· Inter-disciplinary approaches for ICT and RRI in:

- Big Data technologies and privacy

- Internet Of Things and Future Hyper-connected Sociality

- Social media content security

- Artificial Brain

- Ambient Intelligence

- Human Computer Interaction

- Human Robot Interaction

- Brain Computer Interfaces

- Social Networking

· Novel Online Social Networking services and users’ behaviours enabled by pervasive mobile networks

· Open Data, Accessibility, trust and cybersecurity

· Risk management and assessment in social media ecosystems

· Social media, information flows and responsibility

· ...

Paper Submission

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the Easychair system.

For the submission please, connect yourself at the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rriict2018

The submitted paper should be at most 10 single-space printed pages. Please use the following templates to generate your PDF: MS Word.

Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors of the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Responsible Research and Innovation. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The Conference Proceedings will be submitted to Springer to be considered in “SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance” series (http://www.springer.com/series/13811).

Paper submission is available online via: EasyChair

September 19, 2018: RRI – ICT 2018 Conference

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