In many parts of the world ordinary citizens are demanding to be involved in the planning and management of the environment. One form of such local involvement is scheduled to be introduced into Northern Ireland in 2011. Whilst the introduction of ‘community planning’ is not straightforward in a divided region, even here it is possible to foster meaningful participation in the process in ways that deepen democracy. Conflict will be an inevitable ‘moment’ in the broader democratic process but, through deliberation, conflict can give way to consensus to produce successful community planning outcomes in a region where participative democracy has been long suppressed. Résumé Dans de nombreuses parties du monde, des citoyens ordinaires sollicitent une implication dans l'aménagement et la gestion de l'environnement. L'une des formes de cette implication locale devrait être mise en place en Irlande du Nord en 2011. Bien que l'introduction d'un ‘aménagement communautaire’ ne soit pas évidente dans une région divisée, il reste possible d'encourager une participation constructive au processus d'aménagement selon des modalités qui renforcent la démocratie. Le conflit est un ‘moment’ inévitable dans le processus démocratique global mais, par la réflexion, il peut laisser place au consensus afin de déboucher sur des aménagements communautaires réussis dans une région où la démocratie participative n'existe plus depuis longtemps.

Whilst it is acknowledged that grooming and sexual abuse takes place both in the offline and online environment, the continued convergence of technologies means that the offline and online boundaries are increasingly blurred. This paper will discuss how mobile phone technology can be counterproductive to preventing sexual abuse and can help facilitate sexual offending. The paper will start by giving an overview of what term 'sexual violence' means, and the forms of offending linked to it, as well as its relationship with technology and the media. This is particularly salient as real world evidence and empirical research indicates that sex offenders, especially child sexual abusers, have developed and established a strong link with emerging technologies. Consequentially, this paper will discuss how a broad range sexual offender can use high end mobile phone technology (e.g. Blackberry, iPhone, etc.) in their grooming of and offending against victims; in the development and distribution of sexual abuse imagery, either real or artificially produced; and in their contact/relationship building with other sexual offenders. The paper will not just focus on adult sexual abusers, but also adolescents who engage in sexually harmful behaviour either to themselves, through self exploitation, or to others, through photo and video capture facilities (e.g. sexting). This paper will look at these issues, ramifications and outcomes of these issues locally, regionally, national and internationally; before concluding with some questions, comments and discussions around how we can, if possible, control as well as monitor the interface between sexual abuse and mobile phone technology, as well as how realistic this is.

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The purpose of STAIDCC20 workshop is to bring together a mixture of inter-disciplinary researchers and practitioners working in defence, cybercrime and cybersecurity application areas to discuss and explore the challenges and future research directions around socio-technical AI systems. The workshop will showcase where the state of the art is in socio-technical AI, charting a path around issues including transparency, trustworthiness, explaining bias and error, incorporating human judgment and ethical frameworks for deployment of socio-technical AI in the future.