[AISWorld] CfP: Special Issue on Software and Society in Information and Software Technology

[Sonja Hyrynsalmi]

Call for Papers:  “Software and Society: Ethics, Equity, and Sustainability in Software” in Information and Software Technology (IST)

Guest editors: Antti Knutas, Siamak Farshidi, Sonja Hyrynsalmi, Nicolas Jullien, and Slinger Jansen

Manuscript submissions due: 14th of February 2025 (via submission site)
Publication date: Q4 2025


Software facilitates the vast majority of social, commercial, and governmental interactions in our society. The rules that were once implicit in person-to-person interactions or embedded in municipal bylaws are now codified into a set of instructions that govern how people can interact with organizations or with each other online. At the same time, software grassroots in the form of Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and civic technology initiatives are creating new ideas and alternatives. All these changes have introduced significant challenges that question established practices and norms, especially from the perspectives of ethics, equity, and sustainability. Examining the intersection of software and society is critical to informing the ethical, equitable, and sustainable use of information and software technology in the future.

This special issue aims to advance the research field of software and society by collecting high-quality research articles on the latest advances and emerging trends in the field.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  *   Sustainable Transformation
  *   Digital Services and Systems
  *   Grassroots and Civic Development
  *   Diversity and Inclusion in Software Development
  *   Technology, Power, and Social Change
  *   Ethics and Equity in Software Ecosystems and Platforms
  *   Ethics in eHealth Software
  *   Equitable Cybersecurity
  *   Sustainable Development Goals and Software Technology
  *   Sustainability and Ethics in Software Production Education
  *   Legal Issues
  *   Decision-making in Software Engineering
  *   Other Emerging Topics

We also welcome submissions that address current issues in the field, such as distributed development practices, software development for citizen sensing platforms, participatory governance software systems, and ethics or bias in AI.

This special issue provides a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners at the intersection of sustainability and software to share their insights, experiences, and perspectives on the unique challenges and latest advancements in ethics, equity and sustainability that we face in the field of information and software technology. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to publishing cutting-edge research that will inform the future relationship that our society will have with software technology.



Submission Guidelines
CFP on IST website can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-and-software-technology/about/call-for-papers#software-and-society-ethics-equity-and-sustainability-in-software

The guidelines for authors can be found at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-and-software-technology/0950-5849/guide-for-authors

Please use Editorial Manager (EM) site for submitting their articles: https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/infsof/default2.aspx

During the submission process, please select “VSI: Software and Society” for the "Article Type".


Questions?
Please contact the executive guest editor at antti.knutas at lut.fi<mailto:antti.knutas at lut.fi>



Sincerely,

Antti Knutas, LUT University, Finland
Siamak Farshidi, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University, Finland
Nicolas Jullien, IMT Atlantique, France
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands