[AISWorld] HICSS Minitrack: Metaverse, Smart Contracts, NFTs

[Kevin Craig]

Please consider submitting your work to our HICSS Mini-track: The Social and Economic Dynamics of the Metaverse, Smart Contracts, and Non-Fungible Tokens (Track: Internet and Digital Economy)! Link: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/

The Metaverse, Smart Contracts, and Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFT’s”) have captured the public’s attention and are beginning to disrupt a wide range of social structures. They allow for complex contracts that afford novel organizational structures, new opportunities to monetize creative work, information sharing with elaborate rules, and untold future benefits for those who invest the time and effort required to integrate them into their business lives.

However, many who engage with NFT’s are naïve regarding the assets that they represent, and this may have created investment bubbles that will cause harm. It is also possible that these new virtual technologies enable criminal networks to collect and launder illicit real-world currency.

This mini-track is dedicated to the examination of the social and economic effects of the emergence of the Metaverse, Smart Contracts, and NFT’s. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Virtual Real Estate
- Metaverse Property and Ownership
- Harassment, Bullying, and Abuse in the Metaverse
- Virtual Community Inclusivity Issues and Opportunities
- Decentralized Finance and (DeFi) and Yield Farming
- Health Records Control with Smart Contracts
- Virtual Investment Bubbles
- Why NFT’s may or may not be a bubble.
- The History of Virtual Investment Bubbles (e.g., Second Life)
- Shifts of Real-World Currency Caused by Virtual Currency Markets
- NFT’s and Money Laundering
- Trust in Technology and NFT’s
- NFT’s as a Gateway to Technology for individuals and organizations not normally associated with technology (athletes, artists, etc.) who are now motivated to engage with and learn about IT.
- Realizing Value from NFT’s
- Smart Contracts and Royalty Agreements
- Name/Image/Likeness Contracts
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO’s)
- Social and legal implications of blockchain forks.