[Air-L] ISTAS 2020 - Virtual Tech&Soc conference of IEEE - Deadline: Sept 14th.

[Martin Perez Comisso]

Sorry for cross-posting

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https://attend.ieee.org/istas-2020/

The International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is the
flagship conference of the IEEE's Society on the Social Implications of
Technology- the oldest society and conference of its kind.

ISTAS is a multi/inter/trans-disciplinary forum for engineers,
policymakers, entrepreneurs, philosophers, researchers, social scientists,
technologists, and polymaths to collaborate, exchange experiences, and
discuss the social implications of technology.
ISTAS20 Theme: Public Interest Technology

Public interest technologies (PIT) serve to address social needs and
challenges in society. People working in this space ask communities what
their needs are first, without presuming they know what is best for them
and generally use a participatory approach to innovation with values in
mind and cultural awareness. In short, context matters in the creation of
technologies and technological systems.

Public interest technologies pertain to technologies that may aid
not-for-profits and non-government organizations to achieve their goals.
These technologies might leverage open source software for collaboration,
and open data initiatives to overcome societal challenges, may exercise
crowdsourcing and crowdsensing techniques toward collective awareness, and
provide open workforce exchanges where Information and Communication
Technologies and engineering volunteerism is encouraged towards satisfying
the needs of under-resourced organizations and citizenry.

Public interest technologies are equally relevant to private corporations
who seek to embed the goals of human rights, social justice, sustainability
and environmental justice in their workforce, going beyond corporate social
responsibility and compliance. It is a corporate mode of operation that
considers people as citizens, not just as customers in traditional business
models.

In essence, a public interest technology approach to
design addresses public problems in society such as privacy encroachment,
data breaches, unsustainable practices, humanitarian crises, energy
inefficiencies, accessibility to information and how technology can be
applied to aid in policymaking and public service for the alleviation of
these problems and adherence to universal services and obligations of all
peoples.

Deadline for submissions: September 14th

Students registration $50 (and some opportunities for grants, too!)

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Martín Pérez Comisso / @mapc <https://twitter.com/mapc>
Ph.D. Student, Human and Social Dimension of Science and Technolgy
<https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3108937>
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
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