Blockchain Governance and Governance-by-Design Issues
What is good governance in an age of algorithms, big data, cryptographic hashes, and decentralized ledgers? Is it about well-designed systems that make impossible attacks and misuses? Is it about the integration of norms with code in various “privacy (value, policy)-by-design” solutions or about preserving human agency and existing institutions as safeguards in any future decision-making systems? The present dichotomies of code (algorithms, data) and regulations (norms, laws), networks and institutions, mobilize various promises, fears, but also calls to democratize future-making. We invite Science, Technology and Society studies (STS), Art, and Design researchers and practitioners to submit various case studies, papers, but also other formats of reflection, intervention, and discussion of regulations of autonomous and automated systems (AI, machine learning, autonomous cars and robots, smart contracts in DLTs/blockchain) or governance-by-design proposals. We are looking for creative and critical responses to the challenges of automation, smart contracts, AI, machine learning, that democratize future-making. What are the current alternatives to the reduction of governance to a trust in the code and rule-based systems independent of human will and agency (such as blockchain consensus mechanisms or powerful AI and machine learning algorithms)? How to insist on public institutions and (design) interventions that protect the individual and state sovereignty in defining standards, norms, rules, expectations, but also imposing them? What are the means of engaging stakeholders in future making and emerging infrastructures?
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Consider submitting a paper or abstract to a panel that I'm organizing for June 2020 in L'Aquila for the
Deadline for papers/abstracts 31th January, 2020 (I'll get extension)
It is for a Springer proceedings special issue (we could also use https://spotlight.frontiersin.org/ or https://aetic.theiaer.org/)
Denisa Reshef Kera Ph.D.
Marie Curie Research Fellow
University of Salamanca
BISITE - Bioinformatics Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology Research Group
Latest publication:
Dining Philosophers, Byzantine Generals, and the Various Nodes, Users, and Citizens under Blockchain Rule, Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing. 2019;3(5):1-8 DOI 10.33166/AETiC.2019.05.00