INSCI 2023 (International Conference on Internet Science) is an academic conference held in Limassol, Cyprus on 2023-09-13. The paper submission deadline is 2023-05-01. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2023-07-01.
“Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences.
INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports.
INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy-oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests.
INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other.
Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following:
TOPICS
Green, Sustainability, and Innovation
The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solutions
The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects
Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change
Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains)
Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models
Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action
Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches
Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity
Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures
Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content
Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing
Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption
Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects
People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces
Societal Structures
How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models
Digital Competences and Participation
Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used
Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution
Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/VR Interactions
Digital Politics and Governance
Internet and Political Participation
Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements
Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences
Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them
E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world
Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness
Free Communication Patterns and Democracy
Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing
Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power
Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it
Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web
Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation
Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions)
E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim)
Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels)
Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers
Sustainable Network Economy
Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons
New Collaborative Markets Analytics
Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability
Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives
Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat
Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets
New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self-disclosure and digital sovereignty
The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties
Global Access Opportunities
Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty
Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide
Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World
Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide
Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions
Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies
Data Sharing and Protection
Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies
Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications
Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation
Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation
Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects
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