Welcome to the 1st Workshop on Blockchain and AI for Community held in conjunction with 14th ACM Web Science Conference, 26 – 29, June, 2022 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (https://websci22.webscience.org/) inVirtual Platform.

The field of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) generally addresses problems of, and solutions for, the "unconnected people in the world". Currently, this is close to half of the world's population, the majority of whom live in poor, remote, often rural, regions of the world, often in so-called developing low/middle-income countries.

The Information communication and telecommunication for development (ICT4D) covers projects to bridge the digital divide between the rural and urban setup. It can improve the socio-economic development of marginal, underserved community through various digital technologies adoption like phone, mobile phone, internet, radio, televesion, computer in general. On the other hand, the emerging of industry revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) attract the attention among blockchain and AI community.  The blockchain for goods and AI for goods are among the research track to utilize blockchain and AI technology to improve the socio-economic development of communities.  

The blockchain for Social Good able to enhance effectiveness, ease, and transparency, reduce corruption in public procurement in the case of Nigeria. In e-governance solutions, blockchain is used as a tool to improve the efficiency and transparency of their services. It promotes and support and improve trust and reputation by allowing immutable event traceability. Hence, it is interested to seeking research solution to answers a number of key questions:

a) How blockchain technology can help to support the community?

b) What are the state of the art regarding application of blockchain for the social good?

c) other related topic of interest like

• Security and Privacy Management of e-Governance Systems

• (Smart) Government

• E-Voting

• Governmental Decision-making

• E-Business

• E-Tax

• E-Health

• Autonomous e-commerce

• Identity and Identification Systems

• Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

• Self-Aware Contracts as well as AI and Smart Contracts

• Open and Big Data with blockchain technology

• Interoperability

• Medical supply chain

• Crowdfunding

• Self-organizing and Evolutionary e-governance

• Collaboration Models

• Legal Aspects of blockchain technology

• Benchmarks and Evaluation Strategies for blockchain e-governance Systems

• Economics of blockchain e-governance

• Case Studies for blockchain-based distributed applications deployment

• Blockchain business models for Data aggregation

• Consortium Blockchain Data Aggregation

• Federated and Consortium blockchains

• Blockchain Model and Data Engineering

• Blockchain Support for Collaborative Business Processes

• Collaborative Internet-of-Things Services for Business

• Collaborative Smart Contracts for Enterprises Digital Identities

• Data Management in Consortium blockchains

• Integrated Engineering Blockchain Consortium

• Modeling Tools and Techniques for Co-Operated Consortium Blockchain

• blockchain-as-a-service (baas) for business

Currently, AI is at the centre of attention as an innovative ICT technology with a claimed wide range of beneficial application opportunities, although others express doubts and concerns about various developments as undesirable or dangerous. Heavy investments to boost AI and Data Science are taking place in the Global North, particularly in the big power blocs of US, Europe and China. Hence, it is interested to seeking a researcher to answers a number of key questions:

(a)   What is the state-of-play regarding applications of AI for the Social Good? Here, one may think as a reference point of the UN's Sustainable  Development Goals (SDGs), such as combating hunger, ensuring food security, reducing inequalities, etc.

(b)   What are associated foreseeable negative or adverse consequences, risks, and social impacts related to the application of AIs, and how may they be mitigated?

(c)   In consequence, what are the implications to be drawn for the application of AI for community?  

This paper-oriented workshop scientifically addresses recent research efforts in the field of blockchain technology use and AI for community. The community can be ranged from end users that are beneficial from the emerging of blockchains and AI.  

After the review on the paper submission, following is the list of Final Accepted Papers.

Barcelona, Spain 10a.m (UTC+2)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4p.m (UTC+8)

Helsinki , Finland  11a.m (UTC +13

Tunis, Tunisia 9a.m (UTC+1)

Bucharest, Romania 11a.m (UTC+3)

Toronto, Canada 4a.m