2015-12-15

Agenda / minutes

• • Minutes of the previous meeting

  • Matters arising

    • n/a

  • Review of ETHICOMP 2015

    • • Diane: Mostly the issues were organisational. Given the changes each year in organiser, I would assume that each sequential organiser won¹t always be able to improve on/enhance the slight errors/mistakes made in the past.

• New SC members

  • elections / outcomes (if available)

  • top

    • Katleen Gabriels

    • Kai Kimppa

    • Don Gotterbarn

  • Election of SC chair

    • candidates

    • process

    • postponed until next meeting

• ETHICOMP 2017

  • date 22.-26.05.2017

  • Collaboration with CEPE

    • 4 days, 2 days overlap

  • Tracks / activities

    • Policy

      • (h)activism

      • (science) fiction

        • Diane: I can envisage being willing to lead on a stream/theme related to ethics and digital health, health, well-being and welfare. I think we should also e.g., ask people who are Milano/North Italy based if they would be willing to lead on certain topics (e.g., Slow Tech /responsible innovation).

    • Website

      • to be hosted in DMU

    • Distribution of responsibility

      • conference chair

      • programme chair: Fran will be chairing both conferences

        • note: ETHICOMP uses extended

      • track chair

      • local organisers

    • relationship with CEPE

      • shared review?

      • finance: how will this be organised? will there be shared accounts or one?

      • publications in SIGCAS?

    • other points

      • number of keynotes per day

      • number of parallel sessions? no more than 3. with 3 sessions we could accommodate up to 108 papers.

      • title:

        • automation and human freedom

        • governance of algorithms

    • proceedings

      • if possible SIGCAS newsletter

    • next steps

      • Richard contact various people and start planning concretely

      • keynote suggestion: Wendell Wallach, look for somebody from industry; Ugo to look into and inform Richard

    • Payment through DMU?

• Federated conference 2018, See AAA's proposal (AAA not present at meeting, so no detailed discussion possible)

  • Diane: Have provided two names of willing people to support on negotiation of IFIP involvement. Everyone positive.

  • Can we nominate an ETHICOMP - SC representative who might also serve as Ethicomp chair of the event?

• Any other business

  • • management of budget. will need to be considered by planning group

  • Next meeting

    • end of January, once new members are added to email list.