The International Review of Law, Computers & Technology (IRLCT) and Guest Editors Gilad Rosner and Joseph Savirimuthu are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue, entitled ‘Rediscovering Trust in the Datafied City’. IRLCT is devoted to the scholarly contribution to academic and policy understanding of trust and trustworthiness in urban spaces mediated by communication devices, software and technological infrastructures.
The Datafied City is seen as holding out the prospect for new forms of problem solving and governance. From Singapore’s Smart Nation to Alphabet’s project in Toronto’s waterfront and the Sensor City collaborative venture in Liverpool, data-driven decision-making has become a central policy and strategic priority. The Special Issue, which will be published in mid-2019, invites high-quality scholarly and policy submissions that offers new insights into the interaction between trust and technology and its significance for the evolution of governance strategies for the Datafied City. How trust is communicated and maintained will continue to be an ongoing governance challenge in the evolving complex ecosystem. The convergence of intelligent communication devices, technological infrastructure and people in modern urban spaces has important implications for how complexity in data-driven environments will have to be managed. Understanding the interaction between trust and technology is central to promoting innovation and ensuring public confidence in products and services.
The Special Issue welcomes expressions from within and outside the law, which explore the frontiers of regulation and governance and critically consider the interaction between trust and the Datafied City, including those which:
Discuss the nature and significance of concepts of trust and trustworthiness; how its features are manifest in particular products and services (i.e. driverless cars, energy grids, health)
Citizen–government (power) relations in the context of sensor-based public initiatives
Smart city data governance in relation to commercial partners
Examine the emergence of design thinking, its potential and limits to data-driven agency
Questions of trust raised by algorithmic decision-making
The role of law in balancing efficiencies of data-driven decision-making with safeguards for individuals and consumers
Blockchains and the responsive Datafied City
Open Data and its role in expanding public deliberation and democratic discourse
Machine-to-machine trust, authentication and data provenance
Privacy and surveillance
Important Dates
Interested authors should submit an abstract to Joseph Savirimuthu ([email protected]), no later than 26 July 2018.
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstract no later than 10 August 2018.
The submissions deadline is 10 November 2018. Submit via http://www.edmgr.com/cirl/default.aspx
All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer-review. Articles of up to 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) will be considered.
Deadline for final submission of papers is 15 December 2018.
Authors should follow the manuscript preparations guidance available here.