From m.foth at qut.edu.au Sun Mar 8 16:02:36 2015 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:02:36 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_Digital_Cities_9_=E2=80=93_Univ?= =?utf-8?q?ersity_of_Limerick=2C_Ireland=2C_27_June_2015?= Message-ID: <14B1EBA7-6C16-422F-81E5-4F82F3CA8E1E@qut.edu.au> Digital Cities 9 – Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change 27 June 2015, University of Limerick, Ireland in conjunction with the Communities & Technologies (C&T) Conference 2015 http://themobilecity.nl/dc9/ The Digital Cities workshop series started in 1999, and is the longest running academic workshop series that has followed the intertwined development of cities and digital technologies. Earlier years have seen papers presented at Digital Cities to appear as the basis of key anthologies within the field of urban informatics, smart & social cities and civic media. This year again we are part of the C&T event to further discuss these relevant themes, gain new insights and work collaboratively towards a new publication, and explore opportunities for cooperation in research programs for instance in the H2020-framework. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline 01 May 2015 Notification of selected papers 12 May 2015 Full Papers Due 12 June 2015 Workshop 27 June 2015 ABSTRACT The DC9 workshop takes place on June 27, 2015 in Limerick, Ireland and is titled “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change”. The notion of “hacking” originates from the world of media technologies but is increasingly often being used for creative ideals and practices of city making. “City hacking” evokes more participatory, inclusive, decentralized, playful and subversive alternatives to often top-down ICT implementations in smart city making. However, these discourses about “hacking the city” are used ambiguously and are loaded with various ideological presumptions, which makes the term also problematic. For some “urban hacking” is about empowering citizens to organize around communal issues and perform aesthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of “city hacks” should be encouraged or not, and who decides? Can city hacking be curated? For yet others, trendy participatory buzzwords like these are masquerades for deeply libertarian neoliberal values. Furthermore, a question is how “city hacking” may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities 9 workshop welcomes papers that explore the idea of “hackable city making” in constructive and critical ways. CALL FOR PAPERS The Digital Cities workshop invites papers that explore the relation between digital media technologies and everyday urban life, planning and governance. We especially welcome papers within this year’s theme: “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change.” “Hacking” has long been part and parcel of the world of media technologies. From HAM radio amateurs to US west-coast computer culture, users have been figured as active creators, shapers, and benders of media technologies and the relationships mediated through them (Levy 2010; Roszak 1986; Von Hippel 2005). In general what the term refers to is the process of clever or playful appropriation of existing technologies or infrastructures, or bending the logic of a particular system beyond its intended purposes or restrictions to serve one’s personal or communal goals. Whereas the term was mainly used to refer to practices in the sphere of computer hardware and software, more recently “hacking” has been used to refer to creative practices and ideals of city making: spanning across spatial, social, cultural, and institutional domains, various practices of “city hacking” can be seen in urban planning, city management, and tactical urban interventions. Worldwide, we have seen various artistic and political movements making use of digital media to appropriate urban places as the locus for theatrical interventions, often politically charged. A prominent book on the future of “smart cities” makes an appeal for “civic hackers” (Townsend 2013). Urban governments around the world have embraced “hackathons” as a new way for the development of urban services. Numerous events with titles like “Hack Your City” (e.g. Sheffield) or similar, have been organized. Municipalities have opened up datasets and created urban APIs or SDKs that allow clever hackers to build apps and services. What these examples have in common is that the term “hacking” is used to evoke a participatory alternative to top-down ICT implementations in cities. The term “hacking” suggests a novel logic to organize urban society through social media platforms. It suggests a move away from centralized urban planning towards more inclusive process of “city making”, creating new types of public spaces. This logic of “hacking” is touted as slightly subversive, innovative, and is associated with collaboration, openness and participation. As such it is applied to various domains of urban life. The term can be used to highlight critical or contrarian tactics, to point to new collaborative practices amongst citizens mediated through social media, or to describe a changing vision on the relation between governments and their citizens. Discourses about “hacking the city” are not unproblematic. While the term suggests cities have embraced a new “hacker ethic” of decentralized organization, reputation-based meritocracy and playfulness, at the very same time many “smart city” policies reinstate modernist ideals of centralized overview and pervasive control. As the notion is ported from the field of software development to civic life and organization, it is used ambiguously, loaded with various ideological presumptions. For some, “urban hacking” is about empowering citizens to organize themselves around communal issues and empowering them to perform aesthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of “city hacks” should be encouraged and which ones are unwelcome, and who decides about that? Can city hacking be curated? For yet another group it is a masquerade for neoliberal politics in which libertarian values appear in the discursive sheep’s clothing of participatory buzzwords like “Web 2.0”, “collective intelligence”, “crowdsourcing”, “open source ethics”, or “sharing economy”. Furthermore, a key question that remains largely unanswered is how “city hacking” may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities Workshop explores welcomes papers that explore the notion of hackable city making both in a constructive as in a critical way. We also welcome the discussion of related concepts that address the relationship between bottom-up city making and issues of governance and urban management. We prioritize papers that address this overall theme, but works connecting to adjacent themes may also come into consideration. Contact the DC9 chair if you want to discuss before submitting. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: • What are interesting examples of aesthetic and/or political event-based appropriations of public space making use of digital media technologies? • What kind of tools or processes are empowering citizens in the processes of city making? • What can we learn about this from empirical case studies or research by design projects? • How can digital media open up existing urban infrastructures for appropriation by citizens? • What are innovative examples of citizens taking ownership in and management of public interest issues? • How have or could governments make room for ‘hackable city making’? What are the societal risks of such an approach? • In what way can (and should) bottom-up city-making be curated? The call is also open to other relevant submissions outside the theme of hacking, but relevant to citizens making the digital city, such as studies on civic media, smart citizens, urban informatics, open data, etc., Maximum number of participants: We have room for 20-25 people. A selection of applications is made by the workshop organizers based on the proposal’s quality, thematic relevance, and overall complementarity. SUBMISSIONS Please submit your 300-500 word proposal through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dc9 CHAIRS Michiel de Lange (Utrecht University, The Mobile City) Nanna Verhoeff (Utrecht University) Martijn de Waal (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Mobile City) Marcus Foth (Urban Informatics Research Lab, Queensland University of Technology) Martin Brynskov (Aarhus University) CONTACT Martijn de Waal & Michiel de Lange PUBLICATIONS The works presented at the Digital Cities workshop series have been formative to a diverse set of emerging fields, e.g. urban informatics, smart cities, pervasive computing, internet of things, media architecture and urban interaction design. Apart from the workshops’ inviting nature towards interdisciplinary discussions, the fact that the resulting publications have helped articulate and position issues within this heterogeneous domain is an important reason for the longevity of the Digital Cities biannual gathering. This year, a publication of a peer reviewed edited volume by an established academic publisher is again one of the options we are pursuing at the moment to continue this rich tradition. Past Digital Cities workshops have produced high quality publications containing selected workshop papers and other invited contributions: Digital Cities 7 & 8 (C&T 2011, Brisbane, and C&T 2013, Munich) Foth, M., Brynskov, M., & Ojala, T. (Eds.) (2016, forthcoming). Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Interaction Design for Participatory Urbanism and Open Innovation. Singapore: Springer. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/78107/ Digital Cities 6 (C&T 2009, PennState) Foth, M., Forlano, L., Satchell, C., & Gibbs, M. (Eds.) (2011). From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/59160/ Digital Cities 5 (C&T 2007, Michigan) Foth, M. (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/13308/ Digital Cities 4 (C&T 2005, Milan) Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (Eds.) (2008). Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Digital Cities 3 (C&T 2003, Amsterdam) Van den Besselaar, P., & Koizumi, S. (Eds.) (2005). Digital Cities 3: Information Technologies for Social Capital (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 3081). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Digital Cities 2 (Kyoto 2001) Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., & Ishida, T. (Eds.) (2002). Digital Cities 2: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2362). Heidelberg, Germany, Springer. Digital Cities 1 (Kyoto 1999) Ishida, T., & Isbister, K. (Eds.). (2000). Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1765). Heidelberg, Germany, Springer. -- Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Interactive & Visual Design, School of Design Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @UrbanInf – www.urbaninformatics.net CRICOS No. 00213J From amalia.sabiescu at gmail.com Tue Mar 17 08:04:07 2015 From: amalia.sabiescu at gmail.com (Amalia Sabiescu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:04:07 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_Cultural_Diversity_and_Technolo?= =?utf-8?q?gy_Design_-_Workshop_at_C=26T_=E2=80=9915=2C_June_27=2C_Limeric?= =?utf-8?q?k=2C_Ireland?= In-Reply-To: <14B1EBA7-6C16-422F-81E5-4F82F3CA8E1E@qut.edu.au> References: <14B1EBA7-6C16-422F-81E5-4F82F3CA8E1E@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: ====================================================== CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop - Call for Participation ====================================================== Does your research explore culture, technology design and communities? If so, join us at the “CulTech2015: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” Workshop. CulTech2015 will be held at the 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on June 27, 2015. Website here: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ ---- IMPORTANT DATES ---- Workshop submissions due: May 1, 2015 Feedback to authors: May 15, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: June 17, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015: June 27, 2015 ---- ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ---- With globalization and technological advances, people are increasingly coming into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds, particularly in place-based and virtual communities. Yet, cultural diversity – the diversity of community members’ cultural backgrounds – offers both significant benefits and challenges in the design, usage and evaluation of technologies. In this one-day workshop, we explore the role of cultural diversity in potentially informing, supporting, challenging or impacting the design of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within community contexts. We welcome workshop submissions that: 1) Engage broadly with the role of culture within technology design and usage for, with and by communities, 2) Proposals for approaches, tools, conceptual and methodological frameworks, case studies and best practices in community-based design that exploit cultural diversity as an asset and seek to facilitate intercultural interactions. Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners from different domains such as computer science, urban design, interactive art, anthropology and social sciences who share a common interest in exploring the design space of ICTs, culture and communities. ---- WORKSHOP THEMES ---- To stimulate discussion and exploration, we welcome initial idea explorations, as well as ongoing or completed projects relating (but not exclusive) to the following themes: - Theoretical and reflective engagements with the role of culture and cultural difference in community-based (participatory) design and technology appropriation across cultures - Frameworks, tools, and conceptual engagements tackling inclusion in (participatory) design; The role of technology and technology design in mediating or supporting societal inclusion - Means (methods, tools, frameworks) for cross-cultural transferability of design and design processes - Limits of transferability and situated, emergent design practices in community contexts - Localization and culturally adaptive interfaces - Empirical studies exploring cultural difference in technology usage and formulating design implications - Metrics, tools, and frameworks for examining cultural differences in technology usage - Conceptual papers that problematize design, re-framing design processes from cultural studies and intercultural communication frameworks (e.g. design as a process of encoding values and meaning in artifacts) - Uses, benefits and limitations of ethnography and data-intensive research methods in community-based design - Inherent value tensions or clashes between local and academic/scientific knowledge - Local knowledge management, knowledge conversion and the challenges posed by structuring fluid knowledge episodes to generate design requirements - Cultural pathways for community engagement and the localization of participatory practices - Aligning intentions in multicultural design projects - Bridging differences in culturally diverse design teams - Case studies, approaches and best practices in community-based design that explore or engage with issues of connectedness and community cohesion, facilitating intercultural awareness, communication and collaboration, and stimulating intercultural interactions across diverse cultural groups ---- CONTRIBUTION TYPES --- We welcome the following contribution types: - Novel technologies or interaction paradigms - Design or evaluation methods - Case studies on existing applications and systems - Evaluation studies - Theoretical frameworks - Controversial or thought-provoking ideas of issues relating to communities, culture and ICTs ---- WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ---- Interested candidates are asked to submit either a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) or a video submission about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: cultech2015 at gmail.com . ---- SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND TECHNOLOGY DESIGN ---- The organizers will invite authors of selected workshop papers to submit an extended version to a peer-reviewed Special Issue on “Cultural Diversity and Technology Design” to be published by the Journal of Community Informatics. ---- ORGANIZERS ---- Helen Ai He, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Nemanja Memarovic, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland Amalia Sabiescu, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands ---- CONTACT INFO ---- Website: https://cultech2015.wordpress.com Email: cultech2015 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Wed Mar 18 21:58:14 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:58:14 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Special issue of AI & Society ~~~~ Statement of Interest Message-ID: greetings everybody! I've had a rough few weeks — starting just after my root canal and a week in Berlin (which actually was fantastic), I had (1) an operation (minor); (2) a period of non-recovery; (3) an operation to fix the mistakes of the first operation; (4) a period of real recovery which I believe started yesterday. Anyway... I'm trying to crawl back into the light and part of it is working again on this project.... We do have a fantastic set of initial statements — and these will be coming to you soon for a quick pre-review — actually enough for the issue, but... Since realistically I won't be able to do anything with these until Monday at least I thought it made sense to issue this last invitation: If you're interested in getting a paper in this special issue, please send me a statement of interest that reaches me on the west coast of the US by early morning Monday, March 23. Remember that the statement of interest as presented on the original call is basically the answers to several questions. > A statement of interest is required for papers that are currently being envisioned as well as for those that were prepared for the workshop. > > The statement of interest should include authors' names and affiliations, title of submission, and a brief abstract that describes the content of your paper and the arguments you plan to make. > > If you are using your workshop submission as the basis of your journal submission, you should describe how the workshop submission addresses — or will address — these points. > > The statement should also address the relevance to CI4CG including how your findings could be used. > > Please indicate which of the following are (or will be) discussed in your submission: policy, experiment, online system, protocol, proposal, curriculum or other educational, institutionalization, e-government, community development, etc. (indicate as many as appropriate and feel free to add your own). > > Please indicate which of the ten topic areas (above) your paper covers and include a list of relevant tags and a list of stakeholders, i.e. who might be interested in, or affected by the work you discuss in your submission. > > The statements of interest should have a word count between 200 and 400. > > If you are planning to work with a paper you submitted to the workshop please include it with your statement of interest submission. > I'll be bugging you (a little) with the questions fairly soon. 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You will see the latest in C&T research and development and have fun while learning about running an international conference. Many students mention that the connections that they made while being a student volunteer are amongst the greatest benefits. As a Student Volunteer, you agree to: • Work 10-20 hours during the conference (27 – 30 June 2015); • Support the setting up of presentations and workshops; • Attend an orientation session on 26 June 2015 in the afternoon. In return, you will receive: • Free registration to the C&T2015 conference (including meals and proceedings); Please be aware that travel expenses to and from the conference, as well as accommodation are not covered. We are looking for motivated and reliable Student Volunteers who are enthusiastic about supporting the conference in running smoothly and effectively. To qualify as a SV, you must be a Master’s or PhD student enrolled for the 2014/2015 or 2015/2016 academic year. No previous experience is required. 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URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue Mar 24 21:04:13 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:04:13 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Workshop CFP ~~ Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good Message-ID: ~~~~~ Please forward to relevant people and lists ~~~~~ ===== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ====== Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? ======================================= Are you interested in new approaches for promoting the common good? Join us at our workshop! 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference Limerick, Ireland June 28, 2015. More information: http://ci4cg.org/C&T2015Workshop/ ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ May 1, 2015 Workshop submissions due May 15, 2015 Feedback to authors June 17, 2015 Camera-ready papers due June 28, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015 ------ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ------ We define CI4CG as a distinctive type of collective intelligence, which emerges in civic contexts; it is aimed at generating societal good; improving civic engagement; enabling democratic decision making and deliberation; and producing, collectively built and owned, transformative solutions to complex societal challenges. In this workshop we will survey a variety of online tools and discuss what aspects of CI4CG they are intended to address and how they would be used by communities. We will consider how the developers could collaborate in the future and what future work, including collaborating with people outside of academia, will be needed. We are also interested in relevant methodologies, frameworks, approaches and non-technological complements to the technological side the workshop focuses on. An important part of the work will be identifying possible approaches towards integrating the tools technologically and socially. We will try to identify frameworks and mechanisms that various systems could leverage. The main output of the workshop will be a short report (white paper) that incorporates the general threads of the workshop into a document. This will be circulated for additional comments within several community and research networks including ones with which the organizers are linked. We also do want to keep the possibility of a special issue or book on the table and ideally an opportunity will be announced at the workshop. ------ SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ------ For this workshop we focus on socio-technological systems that aim at supporting the very social process of appropriation, understanding and application from a community of new technological platforms for the common good. These include (but are not limited to) systems for: * e-participation and e-democracy; * dialogue and argumentation in open communities; * participatory budgeting and participatory democracy; * large scale collective deliberation and decision making; * early warning, collective awareness, planning; * crowd voting, polling, petition and prediction markets; * crowdsourcing and crowdfunding; * argument mapping, knowledge mapping and collective sensemaking; * open source software and open data; * citizens’ observatories and collaboratories ------ NEW COMMUNITY / NETWORK ------ The proposers of this workshop have also co-founded a community / network devoted to this theme. These approaches may turn out to be particularly fortuitous since, in addition to timeless problems such as inequality and oppression, many of the new problems that the citizens of the world now face (climate change, for example) offer unprecedented challenges, and the creativity, dedication, values, and other resources that communities could potentially contribute are likely to be needed. We encourage people who are interested in Collective Intelligence for the Common Good to join our mailing list: http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce ------ WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ------ Interested candidates are asked to submit a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: douglas at publicsphereproject.org We envision a maximum of 20 participants for this workshop. This would allow a good diversity of viewpoints and experiences while still allowing participation among all participants. Potential attendees should submit a short position paper that includes the author's interest and experience in the topic, if there is a system to demonstrate (or other information to present) and whether there is interest in possible publications beyond the conference. Please also discuss relevant frameworks or other models that might be useful for characterizing the nature of this work including descriptors, dimensions, and process models. And, finally, while we expect an overall high level of interest and experience we are open to attendees with less extensive experience that have enthusiasm and interest. ------ CONTRIBUTIONS ------ The following topics are welcome insofar as they are relevant to the main goals and theme of the workshop: * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From P.Day at brighton.ac.uk Wed Mar 25 03:46:34 2015 From: P.Day at brighton.ac.uk (Peter Day) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:46:34 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Workshop CFP ~~ Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <84E2DDCA9BDB46459FDC95DA348488D5D8040BE9@BELLATRIX.university.brighton.ac.uk> Thanks for this Doug I am pleased that this is happening….I missed the conference deadline post Kenya; knew injury and heavy teaching load….so thought I had missed the boat. Would it be a good idea that we use this as a platform to develop and/or fine tune our journal papers? Best to all Peter From: ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org [mailto:ci4cg-announce-bounces at scn9.scn.org] On Behalf Of Doug Schuler Sent: 25 March 2015 04:04 To: ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Workshop CFP ~~ Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good ~~~~~ Please forward to relevant people and lists ~~~~~ ===== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ====== Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? ======================================= Are you interested in new approaches for promoting the common good? Join us at our workshop! 7th international Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference Limerick, Ireland June 28, 2015. More information: http://ci4cg.org/C&T2015Workshop/ ------ IMPORTANT DATES ------ May 1, 2015 Workshop submissions due May 15, 2015 Feedback to authors June 17, 2015 Camera-ready papers due June 28, 2015 Workshop at C&T 2015 ------ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ------ We define CI4CG as a distinctive type of collective intelligence, which emerges in civic contexts; it is aimed at generating societal good; improving civic engagement; enabling democratic decision making and deliberation; and producing, collectively built and owned, transformative solutions to complex societal challenges. In this workshop we will survey a variety of online tools and discuss what aspects of CI4CG they are intended to address and how they would be used by communities. We will consider how the developers could collaborate in the future and what future work, including collaborating with people outside of academia, will be needed. We are also interested in relevant methodologies, frameworks, approaches and non-technological complements to the technological side the workshop focuses on. An important part of the work will be identifying possible approaches towards integrating the tools technologically and socially. We will try to identify frameworks and mechanisms that various systems could leverage. The main output of the workshop will be a short report (white paper) that incorporates the general threads of the workshop into a document. This will be circulated for additional comments within several community and research networks including ones with which the organizers are linked. We also do want to keep the possibility of a special issue or book on the table and ideally an opportunity will be announced at the workshop. ------ SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ------ For this workshop we focus on socio-technological systems that aim at supporting the very social process of appropriation, understanding and application from a community of new technological platforms for the common good. These include (but are not limited to) systems for: * e-participation and e-democracy; * dialogue and argumentation in open communities; * participatory budgeting and participatory democracy; * large scale collective deliberation and decision making; * early warning, collective awareness, planning; * crowd voting, polling, petition and prediction markets; * crowdsourcing and crowdfunding; * argument mapping, knowledge mapping and collective sensemaking; * open source software and open data; * citizens’ observatories and collaboratories ------ NEW COMMUNITY / NETWORK ------ The proposers of this workshop have also co-founded a community / network devoted to this theme. These approaches may turn out to be particularly fortuitous since, in addition to timeless problems such as inequality and oppression, many of the new problems that the citizens of the world now face (climate change, for example) offer unprecedented challenges, and the creativity, dedication, values, and other resources that communities could potentially contribute are likely to be needed. We encourage people who are interested in Collective Intelligence for the Common Good to join our mailing list: http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce ------ WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS ------ Interested candidates are asked to submit a position paper (min. 2 pages, max. 4 pages in the ACM format) about your project/research and its relevance to the workshop themes. Position papers will be published online in Workshop Proceedings available from the workshop website. Please submit to: douglas at publicsphereproject.org We envision a maximum of 20 participants for this workshop. This would allow a good diversity of viewpoints and experiences while still allowing participation among all participants. Potential attendees should submit a short position paper that includes the author's interest and experience in the topic, if there is a system to demonstrate (or other information to present) and whether there is interest in possible publications beyond the conference. Please also discuss relevant frameworks or other models that might be useful for characterizing the nature of this work including descriptors, dimensions, and process models. And, finally, while we expect an overall high level of interest and experience we are open to attendees with less extensive experience that have enthusiasm and interest. ------ CONTRIBUTIONS ------ The following topics are welcome insofar as they are relevant to the main goals and theme of the workshop: * Theory of collective intelligence for the common good * Historic, current, and future contexts for collective intelligence for the common good * Recognizing and characterizing examples of collective intelligence for the common good * Socio-technological systems and other social approaches (which could focus on face-to-face venues) that promote collective intelligence for the common good, including its significance and the real world problems or challenges they address — and how they do that * Obstacles or challenges to collective intelligence for the common good * Linking and integrating diverse aspects of collective intelligence such as sensing, deliberation, memory, focus, etc. * Methodological approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Integrating disparate perspectives, disciplines, and attitudes relate to collective intelligence for the common good * Stakeholders — including“ordinary” people and citizens with or without legal rights — and their roles in design, development, and use of approaches to collective intelligence for the common good * Future directions for collective intelligence for the common good ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. 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Message-ID: Dear All I am sorry for cross-posting or for an inappropriate use of the mailing list, but I think you can know some recent master graduates who can be interested in this opportunity. *We are recruiting students for **a new community-oriented and interdisciplinary post-master programme, starting** September 2015. The deadline for applications is May 4th, 2015.* SCoDeM is part of the Italian Cluster on “Smart Cities, Smart Communities and Social Innovation” and is aimed at creating the innovative professional figure of the Smart Community Designer and Manager. Such figure is equipped with the methodological and technological skills needed to *design, build, coordinate and monitor communities of users engaged in socially impactful projects*. Smart Community Designers and Managers can rely on a wide range of interdisciplinary competences, which enable them to manage and consolidate online and physical communities at a territorial and extraterritorial level. Smart Community Designers and Managers are *greatly in demand* on a job market which is increasingly pervaded by a widespread interest in the topics of social innovation and of the involvement of communities by companies, public corporations and nonprofit organisations. *Activities* SCoDeM involves a 1500-hour workload, inclusive of face-to-face teaching (around 10%), laboratories (around 15%), a study period abroad (around 10%), an internship (around 40%), seminars and individual study (35%). *Attendance* Activities will take place in the period *between September 2015 and September 2016*. Attendance is *compulsory*. In particular, students are required to attend at least 70% of the hours related to face-to-face teaching and internship. *Certificate and Credits* Students who have regularly attended activities and passed all the scheduled tests, including the final exam (consisting of a project elaborated under the supervision of one of the professors), will obtain a *post-master’s certificate* in “Smart Community Design and Management”. The attainment of the certificate entitles students to the recognition of *60 ECTS credits*. *Target Audience and Admission Requirements* SCoDeM targets people with *the most diverse backgrounds* (computer science, social sciences and humanities), who are *interested in carrying out socially impactful computer science projects with a multidisciplinary approach*. To apply for SCoDeM, students must have *an MSc or an equivalent degree*. Students who will attain an MSc by October 31st 2015 are also eligible for admission, upon provision of a statement signed by their thesis supervisor, certifying that the MSc will be obtained by the above-mentioned deadline. If selected for the course, such students will figure as admitted with a reservation, until they actually attain the MSc degree. There are *no limitations related to disciplinary fields*. *Good computer skills* are required, ideally gained at university. Moreover, as the course will be taught in English, a *good knowledge of the English language (B2 level)* is a compulsory requirement. The enrolment on SCoDeM is incompatible with the enrolment on any other study course. *Selection of Candidates and Deadline for Applications* Candidates will be selected through the evaluation of their CV, publications (if any) and of the motivation letter they will provide. Candidates might be interviewed, if considered necessary by the Committee. *Applications must be submitted online by May 4th 2015 at 1p.m. at* *https://webapps.unitn.it/Apply/en/MyUnitn/Home/721/master-uni/scodem2015 * *Tuition Fee and Enrolment* SCoDeM has *a 4000-euro tuition fee*, payable in 2 instalments. This amount is inclusive of a 100-euro *admission confirmation fee*, that must be paid within 7 days from the publication of the list of selected candidates. Failure to pay the admission confirmation fee within the deadline may result in the exclusion from SCoDeM. *Scholarships* *12 scholarships are available*, that will be assigned to the first 12 students in the list of admitted candidates compiled by the Committee. Scholarship recipients must pay the 100-euro place reservation fee, but are exempted from paying the remaining amount of the tuition fee and will receive an additional contribution to living expenses. *Terms and Conditions* To guarantee the highest level of teaching, no more than 15 participants will be accepted. A minimum number of 10 participants (not inclusive of the applicants admitted with a reservation) is required to run the course. *Contacts* Prof. Antonella De Angeli – Director Ms Costanza Vettori - SCoDeM Secretariat Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9, 38123 Trento – Italy Ph. +39 0461 285295. scodem at unitn.it www.unitn.it/master-scodem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: