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1.   As noted on the home page, we aim for a 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. People with an interest on environmental informatics and research capabilities on archives and recordkeeping, information and digital literacies, the information ecosystem, and social media and digital networks are invited to participate in the workshop. It is definitely an opportunity from cross/inter/multidisciplinary thinking and writing.

2.   Second,  a project-oriented workshop on environmental informatics intended to provide the basis for a variety of community-based research applications and collaborations in the climate-vulnerable developing countries. This will bring together expertise from a variety of disciplines through focusing on the systematic application of information, computer science, and technology to  community -based and informed practice practice, research, and learning related to climate action (climate change adaptation and mitigation), biodiversity conservation, natural resources management and disaster risk reduction to natural disasters.it has been observed that environmental informatics is sometimes insufficiently dynamic to account for social change and social complexity around issues of hierarchy, gender, resource distribution, privacy and power, and the complexity of relationship between development projects, NGOs and communities.  This can affect both the quality and process of quality data collection on the ground, as well as how and with whom information is shared and in what form. And what is the place of indigenous knowledge and knowledge rights in all of this?

3. 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