<nettime-ann> Fwd: IFIP-HCC9 Human Choice and Computers (WCC)

[jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>]

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> 9th IFIP Human Choice and Computers International Conference
> (IFIP-TC9-HCC9)
>
>
> Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
> 20-23 September 2010, Brisbane, Australia www.wcc2010.org
>
>
>
> HCC is the flagship Conference of TC9. A short summary of the eight  
> previous conferences and the list of their Proceedings can be found  
> on the TC9 website at: http://www.ifiptc9.org/
>
> HCC9 is divided into 4 main tracks:
> 1. Ethics and ICT Governance
> 2. Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
> 3. Surveillance and Privacy
> 4. ICT and Sustainable Development
>
> Each of them is presented with their possible topics to be developed:
>
> Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance
>
> Governance is an old word that goes back to Plato. The concept  
> disappeared for a while, and was replaced by ideas like government,  
> and government policy. Governance has now returned to the scene.  
> Today, it focuses on issues like participative democracy and  
> transparency. [White Paper, 2001]
> The state is no longer a unique partner in regulating systems. Other  
> actors take part at the local, regional, national, and international  
> levels. New means of regulating scientific, technical, and other  
> subsystems, and new ways of communicating, are possible among a  
> variety of actors and subsystems.
> Internet governance has been a highly debated issue throughout the  
> early part of the first decade of the twenty-first century,  
> particularly at the World Summit on Information Systems (WSIS), held  
> in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis 2005. The proposal of the Working  
> Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was adopted in Tunis. It put  
> forward a multistakeholder approach to Internet governance. [WGIG,  
> 2005] Stakeholder engagement has since become increasingly strong.
> These debates raised other questions, particularly with regard to  
> the role of business as a stakeholder. If the word “government”  
> seems familiar, “civil society” and the “private sector” are perhaps  
> less well defined. “Civil society” can be defined rather simply in  
> the spirit of Habermas, the philosopher. Or, it may be subject to  
> more extensive definitions that can open up discussions on precisely  
> which kinds of organisations should be among the participants in  
> civil society, and the extent to which business, business  
> associations, and business systems are or should be involved.  
> [Weerts, 2004; Civil Society Centre - LSE, 2007]
> Everyone knows that the private sector indicates primarily the  
> business sector. Indeed, the business sector is often represented in  
> official circles that make decisions about the Internet. Examples  
> include the National and International Chamber of Commerce, the  
> Davos Economic Forum, and the GBDe (Global Business dialogue on  
> Electronic commerce, http://www.gbd-e.org/).
> Ethics, and particularly the “Ethics of Computing”, are certainly  
> fields worth deepening. IFIP’s SIG9.2.2 has been working in this  
> domain for almost 20 years. The group has produced various books and  
> monographs on the ethics of computing. Yet it recognises that  
> current literature and guidelines could be enhanced and expanded.
> The main goal of the HCC9 track on Ethics and ICT Governance is to  
> offer a forum to make this new field of the ethics of computing, and  
> its research and practice. The track will include papers on these  
> and other subjects:
>
> ICT governance: overviewing the research
> - Concepts of governance: from theory to practice
> - Ethics of computing: concepts and schools
> - Ethics and ICT governance
> - ICT ethics: governance models
> - Research on ICT ethics governance: results of current research
>
> Ethics and ICT governance: evaluating its practice
> - Ethical governance: specific challenges
> - Ethical governance: new and developing fields of applications  
> (eAccessibility, eGovernment, eHealth, eSustainability)
> - Gender and Diversity - an ethical issue
> - Regulation as an ethical democratic issue of governance
> - Evaluation of the effectiveness of current governance policies
> - Application of suitable governance arrangements
> - Evaluation of viability of suggested governance policies
> - Ethical tools for ICT governance
>
> ICT governance: assessing its institutions and technical components
> - Internet governance and ICANN
> - The Internet Governance Forum (its role, strengths, and limits).
> - Challenges posed by the Internet of Things
> - Cybersecurity for people and nations
> - Technical norms: ipv6, and various protocols
>
> Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
>
> Following on the recent (April 2009) International Working  
> Conference of IFIP 9.5 Working Group on Virtuality and Society:  
> "Images of Virtuality" at Athens University of Economics and  
> Business, Greece, this conference is part of the TC9-HCC9) of the  
> IFIP World Computer Congress, in Brisbane, Australia, September 2010 http://www.wcc2010.org/ 
>  .
> This track will focus on the feedback loops between virtual  
> technologies and the social groups who use them, how each shape the  
> other and are in turn shaped by them.
> Social shaping, the sociology of technology, science studies and  
> other approaches of cultural studies to the phenomenon of the  
> information society, driven by such classics as those of Bijker and  
> Law and Mackenzie and Wajcman from the 1990s, are arguably now ready  
> for a fresh look, in the context of virtual environments and global  
> social networking and gaming communities. The intervening years have  
> additionally seen an explosion of digital and media arts  
> interpretations, and explorations of the impact of virtual  
> technologies upon society, and the social use of such technologies  
> upon their design, and the entrepreneurial trajectories of their  
> appearance in the global market.
> Virtual technologies, crucially, have moved very decisively from the  
> workplace – whether corporate or home office - and into the domestic  
> sphere, into our living rooms, playrooms, our kitchens, and our  
> bedrooms. Here the relationship between virtual technologies and  
> society, and the mutual shaping processes each undergo, are ripe for  
> fresh study, insight, and exploration.
> The Virtuality and Society Working Group sub-track of the Human  
> Choice and Computers track of the World Computer Congress therefore  
> invites research and work-in-progress papers that address the  
> choices faced by an information society permeated by ubiquitous  
> virtual technologies.
>
> Relevant topics and themes include, but are not limited to:
>
> - Discussing issues of responsive and iterative user-centred design,  
> usability, accessibility, and the ‘permanent beta’ of virtual systems
> - Discussing the impact of virtual technologies within the domestic  
> sphere and the changes to such technologies developed out of use-cases
> - Exploring new (e-, or v-) research methodologies and techniques on  
> inquiring into social action in the context of virtuality
> - Identifying challenging social, ethical, and political issues of  
> socialization in virtuality
> - Discussing the role of electronic and digital arts and media in  
> the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses
> - Discussing the role of digital gaming and massive multiplayer role- 
> playing games in the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses
> - Discussing virtual spaces and the role of place in virtual  
> technologies, and how the domestic as well as the work and civic  
> spaces of the information society are shaped by, and in turn shape  
> such technologies
> - Identifying opportunities and challenges for education,  
> governance, and entrepreneurship in virtual worlds
> - Discussing emerging issues of e-policy and e-quality of life  
> specifically implicated by virtual technologies
> - Exploring social histories and philosophies that deepen our  
> understanding of term virtuality, and of the relationship between  
> virtual technologies and society and the mutual shaping processes  
> between them.
>
> Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy
>
> New technical and legal developments pose greater and greater  
> privacy dilemmas. Governments have in the recent years increasingly  
> established and legalised surveillance schemes in form of data  
> retention, communication interception or CCTVs for the reason of  
> fighting terrorism or serious crimes. Surveillance Monitoring of  
> individuals is also a threat in the private sector: Private  
> organisations are for instance increasingly using profiling and data  
> mining techniques for targeted marketing, analysing customer buying  
> predictions or social sorting. Work place monitoring practices allow  
> surveillance of employees. Emerging pervasive computing  
> technologies, where individuals are usually unaware of a constant  
> data collection and processing in their surroundings, will even  
> heighten the problem that individuals are effectively losing control  
> over their personal spheres. At a global scale, Google Earth and  
> other corporate virtual globes may have dramatic consequences for  
> the tracking and sorting of individuals. With CCTV, the controlling  
> power of surveillance is in few hands. With live, high resolution  
> imagery feeds from space in the near future, massive surveillance  
> may soon be available to everybody, a development whose consequences  
> we do not yet grasp. New means of surveillance are also enabled by  
> social networks, in which individuals are publishing many intimate  
> personal details about themselves and others. Such social networks  
> are today already frequently analysed by employers, marketing  
> industry, law enforcement or social engineering.
>
> The aim of this conference track is to discuss and analyse such  
> privacy risks of surveillance for humans and society as well as  
> countermeasures for protecting the individuals’ rights to  
> informational self-determination from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
>
> We are therefore especially inviting the submissions of papers  
> addressing privacy aspects in relation to topics such as (but not  
> limited to):
> - Surveillance technologies
> - Corporate virtual globes (Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth)
> - Profiling & data mining
> - Ambient Intelligence, RFID
> - GPS, Location-Based Services
> - Social Network Analysis
> - ID cards
> - Biometrics
> - Data sharing
> - Visual surveillance
> - Workplace monitoring
> - Communication interception
> - Data retention
> - Anonymity & Pseudonymity
> - Privacy-enhancing technologies
> - Privacy-enhancing Identity Management
>
> Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development
>
> Information and Communication Technologies are perceived both as  
> enablers of technological and societal change towards sustainable  
> development and as drivers of increasing energy and materials  
> consumption, thus leading us away from the goal of sustainable  
> development.
> This conference will therefore include a track of 20 contributions  
> on the relationship between ICT and Sustainable Development,  
> entitled "Sustain IT", with the aim of reconciling future  
> Information and Communication Technologies with sustainable  
> development (SD).
> In order to cover the full range of the complex relationship between  
> ICT and SD and to stimulate an interdisciplinary discourse on “ICT  
> for SD”, we invite herewith researchers working on various aspects  
> of this issue to contribute to this WCC10 track. We will break down  
> the issue into the following three topics.
>
> ICT hardware and SD
>
> - What are the qualities and quantities of the material and energy  
> flows caused by the life cycle of ICT hardware and how can we assess  
> their relevance for SD?
> - What are the environmental and social implications of electronic  
> waste (e-waste) tracks rising in industrialized countries and  
> emerging economies?
> - What are the environmental and social implications of a growing  
> demand for scarce chemical elements as they are increasingly used in  
> ICT production?
> - What are sound methodologies to assess the energy demand of ICT  
> infrastructures and services?
> - What innovations are necessary to reduce the life-cycle wide  
> material and energy demand of ICT services, e.g. in the field of  
> "Green IT"?
>
> ICT applications and SD
>
> - What are the potentials to apply ICT for energy efficiency in  
> production and consumption, and what are the conditions for  
> realizing these potentials?
> - What are the potentials to apply ICT for materials efficiency or  
> resource productivity, and what are the conditions for realizing  
> these potentials?
> - What ICT applications have the potential to contribute to the  
> reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or to the adaption to climate  
> change?
> - Which methodology can be used to assess optimization, substitution  
> and induction effects of ICT with regard to resource-intensive  
> processes?
> - How can we link organizational, regional, national and global  
> perspectives in using ICT to support SD?
> - What is the relationship between “ICT for development” and “ICT  
> for sustainable development”?
>
> ICT-enabled structural change towards SD
>
> - What is the role of ICT in sustainable production and consumption,  
> resource productivity or economic dematerialization (decoupling  
> total material consumption from GDP)?
> - How can we better understand rebound effects of ICT-induced  
> efficiency gains and under what conditions can they be avoided?
> - What is the relationship between conceptions of the “the  
> information society” and SD?
> - Is ICT going to bring about a “third industrial revolution”, and  
> how is this perspective related to SD?
> - What economic frameworks and conditions, including trade and tax  
> regimes, are needed to enable ICT-supported structural change  
> towards SD?
> - What is the relationship between ICT, GDP growth and measures of  
> progress beyond GDP (human development indicator, indicators for  
> wellbeing, quality of life or happiness)?
> - What are the most relevant research questions in sustainability  
> science regarding the role of ICT?
>
>
> Programme Committee Chairs
>
>
> HCC9 Chairs:
> Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium
> Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of  
> Economics, United Kingdom
>
> Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance
> Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium
> Philippe Goujon, Namur University, Belgium
> Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK
>
> Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
> David Kreps, Salford Business School, Salford University, UK
> Martin Warnke, Computer Science & Culture, Leuphana University,  
> Lueneburg, Deutschland.
> Claus Pias, University of Vienna, Austria
>
> Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy
> Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Yola Georgiadou,  
> International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth  
> Observation (ITC)
> Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development
> Lorenz M. Hilty, Empa, Switzerland
> Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of  
> Economics, United Kingdom
>
>
>
>
> Programme Committee Members
>
>
> Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance
> Julie Cameron, Consultant, Australia
> Annemieke Craig, Australia
> Richard Delmas, ECC
> Penny Duquenoy, Middlesex University, UK
> Catherine Flick, Namur University, Belgium
> Françoise Massit-Folléa, Vox Internet, France
> Marc van, Lieshout, TNO, The Netherlands
> John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia
> Gunnar Wenngren, Linkjöping Consultant, Sweden
> Chris Zielinski, WHO, United Nations
>
>
> Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
> Oliver Burmeister, University of Wollongong, Australia
> Simran Grewal, University of Bath, UK
> Niki Panteli, School of Management, University of Bath, UK.
> Erika Pearson, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
> Angeliki Poulymenakou, Management Science & Technology, Athens  
> University of Economics and Business, Greece
> Steve Sawyer, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn  
> State University, USA
> Lin Yan, Greenwich University, UK
>
> Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy
> Jacques Blamont, CNES, France
> Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Australia
> George Danezis, Microsoft Research, UK
> Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Germany
> Francis Harvey, University of Minnesota, USA
> Jan Holvast, Holvast & Partner, Netherlands
> David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
> Eleni Kosta, KU Leuven, Belgium
> Ronald Leenes, Tilburg University, Netherlands
> Andreas Pfitzmann, TU Dresden, Germany
> Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
> Morton Swimmer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
> Jozef Vyskoc, VaF, Slovakia
> Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK
> Louise Yngström, Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden
>
> Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development
> Gunilla Bradley, em. Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
> Vlad Coroama, Empa, Switzerland
> Mihaly Csoto, ITTK, Hungary
> Lorenz Erdmann, IZT, Germany (tbc)
> Klaus Fichter, Borderstep Institute, Germany
> Roland Geyer, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
> Wolfgang Hofkirchner, University of Salzburg, Austria
> Shirin Madon, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
> William McIver, National Research Council, Canada
> Bernd Page, University of Hamburg, Germany
> Tony Vetter, International Institute for Sustainable Development,  
> Canada
> Eric Williams, Arizona State University, USA
>
> Instructions for paper submission
>
> Papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been  
> published or are simultaneously submitted to a journal or another  
> conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English; they  
> should be at most 10-12 pages in total, including bibliography and  
> well-marked appendices. Papers should be intelligible without  
> appendices, if any.
>
> Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in  
> the IFIP Series by Springer. Submitted and accepted papers must  
> follow the publisher’s guidelines for the IFIP Series (www.springer.com/series/6102 
> ), author templates, and manuscript preparation in Word). At least  
> one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference  
> and present the paper.
>
> All papers must be submitted in electronic form (Word documents) to  
> Jacques Berleur and Magda Hercheui (for both emails below  
> necessarily, not only one email) and the track chairs by the  
> deadline indicated below. Papers submitted after this deadline will  
> be discarded without review. Make clear the track you are submitting  
> your paper to avoid delays of your paper (inform the track on the  
> email subject).
>
> Important dates
> Intention to submit: By return of mail (optional)
> Submission of papers: January 31, 2010
> Notification to authors: April 20, 2010
> Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2010
>
> Intention to submit and submission must be sent to the two HCC9 IPC  
> Chairs, and according to your track choice to the track chairs:
> HCC9 chairs
> Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium: jberleur@info.fundp.ac.be
> Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of  
> Economics, United Kingdom
> m.hercheui@googlemail.com
>
> Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance
> Jacques Berleur, Namur University, Belgium: jberleur@info.fundp.ac.be
> Philippe Goujon, Namur University, Belgium, philippe.goujon@fundp.ac.be 
> ,
> Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK
> dewhitehouse@googlemail.com
>
> Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
> David Kreps, Salford Business School, Salford University, UK, d.g.kreps@salford.ac.uk
> Martin Warnke, Computer Science & Culture, Leuphana University,  
> Lueneburg, Deutschland, warnke@leuphana.de
> Claus Pias, University of Vienna, Austria
> claus.pias@media-theory.com
>
> Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy
> Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se
> Yola Georgiadou, ICT, International Institute for Geo-information  
> Science and Earth Observation (ITC), georgiadou@itc.nl
>
> Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development
> Lorenz M. Hilty, Empa, Switzerland Lorenz.Hilty@empa.ch
> Magda Hercheui, Westminster Business School and London School of  
> Economics, United Kingdom
> m.hercheui@googlemail.com
>
> Important updated information
> Please, see updated information about the HCC 9 in both links below  
> (including submission process):
>
> http://www.wcc2010.com/HCC92010/index.html
>
> http://www.ifiptc9.org/ForthcomingEvent.html

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