[AISWorld] Call for participation - 1st workshop on exploring disruptive technologies from the local community perspective

[Jiri Musto]

1st workshop on exploring disruptive technologies from the local community perspective.

A workshop at the 11th International Conference on Communities & Technologies.
C&T 2023 – 29.05.-30.05.2023, LUT University, Mukkulankatu 19, 15210 Lahti, Finland

Call for participation
Background
With the rise of disruptive technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, new software applications are being developed and adopted by the private and public sectors. For example, the European Union is planning on creating a universal digital identity wallet that would be adopted by all member countries. Adopting such technologies brings different challenges and barriers for the users and providers at a local, national, and international level. With the same technology, people living in rural areas will have different barriers compared to people living in a metropolitan and similarly, people living in different counries will have different barriers.

Workshop content
This workshop will explore what kind of barriers and challenges can national/international software applications, based on disruptive technologies, have when adopted by the local communities, as well as how to consider the contextual aspects to resolve issues of trust, usability, security, and privacy. As different communities will have different starting points for technology adoption, creating unique challenges, the goal is to identify how local communities and their decisions can be considered with national and international software applications that utilise disruptive technologies.

The participants can excpect discussion on how decisions and regulations affect the different communities, how communities perceive disruptive technologies, and how issues differ amongst communities. Through the workshop, participants will gain new insights on the topic and are able to share their own experiences and knowledge. The collective ideas and knowledge will be gathered and shared amongst the participants after the workshop. The workshop organizers reserve an option for a joint publication if participants are interested.

Participants from different backgrounds are welcome to join but primarily the workshop is intended for people interested in the workshop topic (disruptive technologies, privacy, trust, human-computer interaction). The workshop is organized physcally but online attendance will be possible.

To participate, please indicate your interest by submitting a short position paper or if you are restricted by your available time, you can indicate your interest by describing your background, experience, knowledge, and what you could contribute to the workshop.

Participants are encouraged to use various options for communicating their interest, such as speculative designs, cases, conceptual frameworks, models, metrics, and tools amongst others.

The workshop can accommodate maximum of 30 participants. Workshop is organized on 30.5.2023.

Submission details
Submission (soft) deadline: 15.5.2023 at 23:59 (UTC +0).
Submissions must be in PDF format
Send your submissions to jiri.musto at lut.fi

For more information, please visit the workshop website: https://coder.lut.fi/ct2023-edtlcp/

Best regards,

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Jiri Musto, DSc.
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Engineering Science, Software Engineering
FI-53810 Lappeenranta; LUT University, Finland