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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: www.ifiptc9.org.
HCC-9 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, 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
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Regulation as an ethical democratic issue of governance
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of current governance policies
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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
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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 www.wcc2010.com.
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
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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
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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
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Ambient Intelligence, RFID
- GPS, Location-Based Services
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Social Network Analysis
- ID cards
- Biometrics
- Data
sharing
- Visual surveillance
- Workplace monitoring
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Communication interception
- Data retention
- Anonymity &
Pseudonymity
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
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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.
IFIP's World
Computer Congress 2010 will therefore include a Track of
contributions on the relationship between ICT and SD, 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 WCC2010 Track. We will
break down the issue into the following three
topics.
ICT hardware and SD
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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
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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?
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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
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Programme
Committee Chairs
Track
1: Ethics and ICT Governance
Jacques Berleur, Namur
University, Belgium
Philippe Goujon, Namur University,
Belgium
Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK
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 Uni., Australia
Gunnar Wenngren, Linkjöping
Consultant, Sweden
Chris Zielinski, WHO, United Nations |
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Programme
Committee Chairs
Tack
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
Programme
Committee Members
Track
2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
Chrisanthi
Avgerou, Management Information Systems and Innovation, London
School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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
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Programme
Committee Chairs
Topic
3: Surveillance and Privacy
Simone Fischer-Hübner,
Karlstad University
Yola Georgiadou, International Institute for
Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands
Programme
Committee Members
Track
3: Surveillance and Privacy
Jacques Blamont, CNES,
France
Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Aust
George
Danezis, Microsoft Research
Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven,
Belgium
Martin Dodge, U Manchester, UK
Marit Hansen,
ULD
Francis Harvey, U of Minnesota, USA
Mireille Hildebrandt,
VU Brussels, Belgium
Jan Holvast, Holvast & Partner, The
Netherlands
Ronald Leenes, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
Chris Perkins, U Manchester, UK
Andreas Pfitzmann,
TU Dresden), G
Charles Raab, Edinburg University, UK
Kai
Rannenberg, Goethe Uni. Frankfurt, G
Jozef Vyskoc, VaF
Louise
Yngström, Stockholm Uni./KTH, Sweden |
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Programme
Committee Chairs
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
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, Univ. 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
H. Scott Matthews, Green Design Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States |
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| Submission of
papers: |
February
15, 2010 |
| Notification to authors: |
April 23, 2010 |
| Camera-ready copies: |
May 15,
2010 | |
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 AICT Series. Click here to download a copy of the publisher's
guidelines
- At
least one author of each accepted paper must register to the
conference and present the paper.
- Papers
submitted after February 15, 2010 will be discarded without
review.
- All
papers must be submitted in electronic form (Word document) to the
two HCC9 Chairs (Jacques Berleur and
Magda Hercheui), as well as to the respective track chairs (see
details below), indicating for which HCC9 track they apply (in
suject field):
- HCC9
2010 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, United Kingdom: dewhitehouse@googlemail.com
- Track
2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
David Kreps,
Salford Business School, Salford University, United Kingdom: d.g.kreps@salford.ac.uk
Martin Warnke, Computer Science &
Culture, Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany: warnke@leuphana.de
Claus Pias, University of Vienna,
Austria: claus.pias@media-theory.com
- Track
3: Surveillance and Privacy
Simone Fischer-Hübner,
Karlstad University, Sweden: simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se
Yola Georgiadou, International Institute
for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),
Netherlands: 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
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The
Congress
The
World Computer Congress (WCC2010) will bring together IT research
and industry sectors in one event. The congress will combine 17 IFIP
conferences with partner conferences from other international and
regional, specialist IT organisations.
The
conference content will be presented in eight program streams.
Delegates may attend any of the participating conference, industry
or partner events as well as networking, social, technical tours and
certification courses offered at the
congress. | |
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- Wireless
Communications and Information Technology in Developing
Countries (WCITD 2010)
- Biologically-Inspired
Collaborative Computing (BICC 2010)
- Distributed
and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2010)
- Artificial
Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2010)
- Network
of the Future (NF)
- Enterprise
Architecture, Integration, Interoperability and Networking
(EAI2N)
- Human
Choice and Computers International Conference (HCC9
2010)
Track 2: Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
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- International
Information Security Conference 2010 (SEC 2010)
- Critical
Information Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- Human
Choice and Computers International Conference (HCC9
2010)
Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy
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- Theoretical
Computer Science (TCS 2010)
- Human
Computer Interaction (HCI 2010)
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- Key
Competencies in the Knowledge Society (KCKS 2010)
- History
of Computing (HC)
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- Global
Information Systems Processes (GISP)
- E-Government
and E-Services (EGES)
- Human
Choice and Computers conference (HCC9 2010)
Track 1:
Ethics and ICT Governance
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- Human
Choice and Computers International Conference (HCC9 2010)
Track 4: ICT and Sustainable Development
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- Entertainment
Computing Symposium (ECS 2010)
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