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Folks,
The 20th Annual STS Conference Graz 2022 'Critical Issues in
Science, Technology and Society Studies' will be held 2 - 4 May
2022 in Graz, Austria (Covid-19 or any successors permitting, that
is; right now, I'm not overly optimistic ... :-(( ....).
For a couple of years now the conference also includes a session
related to standardisation research. This year's session title is
'Standardisation for (the Digital) Society'; you will find the
description below. You may find more information about the event
via
https://stsconf.tugraz.at/.
The submission deadline for abstracts (up to 500 words) is 21
January. Submissions must be made via
https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2022/.
Greetings from Aachen.
Kai.
*Standardisation for (the Digital) Society*
Today, standards for the digital domain are developed mostly by
engineers and computer scientists, typically employed by large
companies. As a result, technical expertise and economic interests
guide standardisation and thus technical development; societal
issues are hardly considered (if at all). This is an untenable
situation, especially considering the trend towards smart systems,
AI and Machine Learning. These technologies have the potential to
change society – for better or worse.
“The shaping process [of a technology] begins with the earliest
stages of research and development”. Standardisation represents
such an early stage. This suggests to exploit the standards
setting process to also contribute broader, non-technical (e.g.
societal, environmental, legal and ethical) expertise to the
standardisation of particularly the above technologies. This, in
turn, requires active contributions from an additional broad range
of stakeholders including citizens, NGOs, unions, (local)
administrations as well as e.g. lawyers, sociologists and
philosophers.
This session solicits contributions that discuss aspects of such a
‘Responsible Standardisation’ from both a practical and a
theoretical perspective. Potential topics include but are not
limited to:
* Possible contributions of societal stakeholders to standards
development.
* The role and representation of societal stakeholders in
standardisation.
* How to increase participation of societal stakeholders in
standards setting?
* Legitimacy and influence of different players in standards
development.
* Potential ethical and legal issues in the standardisation of
smart systems, AI and Machine Learning.
* Social norms and their impact on standardisation.
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Kai Jakobs
RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax: +49-241-80-22222
Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de
<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>
EURAS - The European Academy for Standardisation.
<http://www.euras.org>
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