Thinking Writing, Dialoguing.  A hybrid conference for the future

•  A hybrid event.  Depending on time zone differences, we aim to make a number of sessions open for international participation as far as is practicable.  In keeping with the long tradition of this conference as a place for strategic interdisciplinary dialogue within a global context, we also invite proposals for workshops and events that don’t fit specifically within, may be a sub- component of, or may bridge between the CI  and cousins vision statement,  or Environmental Informatics workshop components or social and community engagement with AI (see the workshop below) . Beyond more traditional workshops, events can also include demonstrations and exhibits.

• Please note that the call for papers is still open, particularly for the AI workshop.

1.   Day 1.

• An inclusive  and participatory workshop on a new vision statement for the future of community informatics and its disciplinary cousins, continuing work that was begun last year but has its roots in thinking going back many years.  How we see community, inter-community connections, and their global interactions has changed as the medium that was the 'Internet' of 20 years ago is not the same as the medium of today. This event, we hope, acts as both a learning experience, and as an opportunity for participation in the generation of new ideas and their documentation.Through collaboration we see this as the opportunity for developing new conceptual and theoretical papers for the Journal of Community informatics.

• Additional relevant papers and presentations or workshop/s

2.   Day 2

•  On the second day,   a project-oriented workshop on environmental informatics is  intended to provide the basis for a variety of community-based research applications and collaborations in the climate-vulnerable developing countries.  Perspectives around bottom up data, participation, privacy, gender, resources and inequality and political systems can be brought into this. Everyone is invited to participate in this learning and experience as environmental issues affect all of us.  Your perspectives will be greatly appreciated. We aim to contribute to the development of a long-research project on environmental informatics in developing countries. Given the global reach of climate change, the workshop is relevant, wherever you come from. 

• Additional relevant papers and presentations or workshop/s

3.  Third day:

Substantially devoted to papers and presentations or other events

4. In addition, we now have a Workshop on AI Living with Artificial Intelligence - the ethical, cultural and social impacts on communities. Bottom-up perspectives. We invite written contributions as either referred papers, on non-referred papers/PhD presentation. to the above workshop that will feature a challenge and opportunity to problematize AI with a community-focussed perspective, in both developed and developing countries. Contributions which discuss ethical and other frameworks gender ,algorithmic bias, class, and different forms of (dis)empowerment, and environmental or social sustainability are welcome. The governance of AI systems should also be considered, whether relevant to its adoption in democracies or other regimes, as well as the production of fakes and their effects on communities as a whole, rather than individuals.  Please submit an abstract (up to 600 words)  via the conference database (https://www.conftool.net/prato2023/  by 1 September  

An Open Call for Papers. Papers in the peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed streams, including graduate student presentations and papers across any topic in community informatics, ICT4D, archives and memory studies, and the arts. Papers from this part of the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings.  Preference in the selection of papers will be given to people who can physically attend the conference.  Please submit after May 15 via the Call page which also has information about the format of papers etc.

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