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Digital Inclusion Research Forum on Oct. 12-13

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Federal Reserve Bank of DallasThe Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City and Philadelphia seek proposals for presentation at the Digital Inclusion Research Forum, to be held in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12-13. The proposal deadline is July 21.

I am honored to serve on the advisory committee for the research forum.

Feel free to share this call for presentations with people who may be interested in submitting a proposal.

Forum objectives

The conference will provide:

  1. A framework for existing research
  2. Relevant context and appropriate applications for using existing research
  3. A forum for informing and advancing new research

 Forum audience

  1. Academics and researchers
  2. Broadband and digital inclusion policymakers (including state broadband and digital equity staff)
  3. Digital inclusion practitioners

The organizers are especially interested in these subtopics.

While the organizers will consider presentations across a range of subtopics related to digital inclusion, they are especially interested in presentations on the following ten subtopics.

  1. Existing research related to broadband and digital access among marginalized populations: Rural, urban communities, African American, Latino, Native American, etc.
  2. Considerations in conducting culturally informed research when working with marginalized populations
  3. Digital skills development across varying skill levels
  4. How research can better serve the needs of practitioners (from a practitioner’s perspective)
  5. Fundamentals of what practitioners should know about data collection, data availability, and measuring outcomes (from a research perspective)
  6. Integrating digital inclusion efforts into existing non-profit and government services
  7. Measuring the economic impact of broadband access and/or digital inclusion initiatives
  8. Qualitative data use in digital inclusion research
  9. Data opportunities and limitations, leveraging existing DI measurement tools and indices
  10. Research regarding program evaluation

 How to submit a proposal and what to include

 You may submit your proposal here. Joint submissions for co-presentations are welcome. The proposal deadline is July 21.

Proposals should convey how the session will support the conference objectives. Selection is competitive, so be sure to submit a compelling proposal within the 500-word limit.

Organizers will review and accept proposals on a rolling basis. We will extend invitations to present in early August. Those invited to present will receive a modest honorarium and reimbursement of reasonable travel costs.

Questions? Please contact Theresa Dunne, Community Development Research Analyst.

Digital Equity Ecosystems Measurement Project

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https://vimeo.com/722600985

On June 10th, my colleague Dr. Rafi Santo and I participated in the New York State Library’s Digital Equity Roundtable conversation with the following speakers: Nuha Saho, Vicky Yuki, and Alexis Bhagat, Work of the Friends & Foundation of Albany Public Library (FFAPL), funded by the New York Digital Inclusion Fund and Mike Rogers, TechKnowledgeMe. The event was moderated by New York State Librarian, Lauren Moore.

During our presentation, we shared our Digital Equity Ecosystems Measurement project to develop a conceptual framework and an open set of tools to assist local coalitions in measuring the outcomes and impacts of their work to advance digital inclusion, equity, and justice.

Our presentation begins at 24:00 minutes into the video, which is also available online here.

In October, the Digital Equity Research Center at the Metropolitan New York Library Council will publish a white paper with findings from our research, including our participatory design workshops, this year with digital inclusion, digital equity, and digital justice practitioners across the U.S. We hope that this framework and sample tools will be helpful not only to local coalitions, but also to state digital equity offices as state’s across the country begin their state digital equity planning as part of the NTIA’s Digital Equity Grant Programs.

20th Community Informatics Research Network Conference

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image.png20 YEARS OF CIRN
Examining the past, present, and future of communities and technology

Conference | 9 – 11 November 2022, Monash University, Prato, Italy.


The theme of the 2022 conference, 20 years of CIRN: Examining the past, present and future of communities and technology aims to both look back at 20 years of the Prato conferences and the rich knowledge, and experience that have emerged from them, but as well, look at new emerging themes and challenges in a very different world. The conference may well be unique as an international long-term reflective event concerned with the internet.

We invite referred and non-referred papers and presentations and workshop or panel proposals that can take into account the changes that have occurred with communities and technologies since the earliest days of the internet, as well as accounts of contemporary innovation and challenges across the full range of community informatics interests: libraries, community action and engagement, international development, archives and memory, dis/ability, gender, race & class, identity, and the creative arts. And now, we add environmental informatics.

For more details, please see https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2022/

Key dates.

30 May 2022 Call closes/notification to follow.
By 30 July 2022 – confirm your participation
15 September 2022 – full papers for refereed track due.
30 September 2022 – referee reports due
mid-October 2022 – resubmitted papers due
15 September 2022 – all other papers and submissions
9-11 November 2022- conference
Early 2023 – conference proceedings available

2023 Special issue of The Journal of Community Informatics.

19th Annual CIRN Conference: 8-12 November 2021

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CIRN

Registration is open for the 19th Annual Community Informatics Research Network Conference, “Communities, Technology and This Moment“: 8-12 November 2021 co-sponsored by Monash University and Simmons University.

REGISTRATION
Please see the registration information: https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/programs-and-registration?authuser=0

PROGRAM
Browse the virtual conference program at https://www.conftool.net/prato2021/sessions.php.  Note that all times are in UTC/GMT.

The theme of the 2021 conference, “Communities, Technology and this moment” aims to bring together the rich knowledge, experience, and practice of Community Informatics, Community Archives, and Development Informatics with a focus on data justice, digital equity, and community informatics response to this moment in history.  The 2021 CIRN conference will provide a  virtual space to explore how researchers and practitioners ethically collect information, including what happens when community information is intentionally left uncollected, and how information systems can be designed in harmony with communities.

CIRN is an annual conference that normally takes place in the wonderful atmosphere at Monash University’s campus in Prato, Italy.  This year it is online because of pandemic restrictions. It is  focused on sharing lessons, learning together, and developing strategies to build more inclusive, just, and equitable communities. CIRN welcomes researchers and practitioners working towards human and civil rights, self-determination, sustainable development, and social justice to submit a proposal to this year’s CIRN conference.The conference call is now closed Follow the links above on submitting a paper or proposal, costs, and other matters.

Speakers Announced for ASIS&T Research Symposium

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The Planning Committee for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP) are excited to share the speakers and schedule for the joint SIG-SI and SIG-IEP Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice on Friday, October 29th, 2021 from 8:00am-12:00 MDT.

Our speakers will discuss research related to policy, training, AI and diversity and inequality. In this half-day workshop, a range of scholarly sociotechnical inquiries alongside ethical, practical, and policy perspectives across a range of disciplines and sectors will be presented and discussed. The workshop will provide a virtual space to share and exchange experiences and ideas or suggest theories and directions for future work among international SI researchers and practitioners. This workshop will facilitate collaboratively producing short- and long-term research agendas, addressing pressing critical and diversity concerns around technology, sharing research that supports empirically driven policy making, ethical decision-making, and practice for social justice and well-being with pervasive and emerging sociotechnical systems.

The speakers and topics are as follows:

  • Tien-I Tsai and Hui-Yun Sung. Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Knowledge Society for Everyone: Development of a National Policy for Public Libraries in Taiwan. (virtual)
  • Nga Than, Abhishek Gupta, and Ameen Jauhar. Critical Analysis of “Responsible AI #AIforAll: Approach Document for India” (virtual)
  • Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan. Game based training as a model for skill enhancement in bias mitigation efforts. (virtual)
  • Dania Bilal and Jessica Barfield. Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Design and Use of Voice Digital Assistants. (virtual)
  • Lindsay Poirier. Grappling with the Representational Inequities in NYC 311 Data. (virtual)
  • Lala Hajibayova. In Search for Cuteness: Interactive Discovery and Play in Times of Pandemic. (virtual)
  • Hengyi Fu and Yao Lyu. How People Experience Facial Recognition in an Organizational Setting: An Organizational Justice Perspective. (virtual)
  • Elliott Hauser. Action in light of information: What robots can teach us about algorithms. (in-person)

Additional registration fee applies. All of the workshop descriptions can be found on the ASIS&T Annual Meeting website. To register for this workshop, whether attending online or in-person, you can visit Registration and Workshop Rates. If you have not already done so, please register for the Annual Meeting here: https://www.asist.org/am21/registration/.

We look forward to seeing you there!