Towards the Ethical Governance of Smart Society

Hartswood, Mark; Grimpe, Barbara; Jirotka, Marina; Anderson, Stuart

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08681-1_1

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“…The concept polycentric governance was originally coined for the study of the organization of government in metropolitan areas, and subsequently employed for the study of management of natural resources. However, this concept has been more recently employed to explain self-governance in communities managing the peer production of digital commons (Mindel et al, 2018), such as Wikipedia (Hartswood et al, 2014;Safner, 2016) and large FLOSS communities (Rozas, 2017, 313-316).…”

Section: Multiple Layers Of Nested Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons

2021

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In recent years, the increasing need for global coordination has attracted interest in the governance of global-scale commons. In the current context, we observe how online applications are ubiquitous, and how emerging technologies enable new capabilities while reshaping sectors. Thus, it is pertinent to ask: could blockchain technologies facilitate the extension and scaling up of cooperative practices and commons management in this global context? In order to address this question, we propose a focus on the most paradigmatic and widely successful examples of global cooperation: global digital commons. Examples of these are the digital resources maintained by large peer production communities, such as free/libre open source software and Wikipedia. Thus, this article identifies and analyzes the potentialities of blockchain to support the sustainability and management of global digital commons. Our approach draws on Elinor Ostrom’s classic principles for commons governance, although revisiting and adapting these to the more challenging scope of global digital commons. Thus, in this work we identify the affordances which blockchain provides (e.g., tokenization, formalization of rules, transparency or codification of trust) to support the effective management of this type of global commons. As part of our analysis, we provide numerous examples of existing blockchain projects using affordances in line with each principle, as well as potential integrations of such affordances in existing practices of peer production communities. Our analysis shows that, when considering the challenges of managing global commons (e.g., heterogeneity or scale), the potential of blockchain is particularly valuable to explore solutions that: distribute power, facilitate coordination, scale up governance, visibilize traditionally invisible work, monitor and track compliance with rules, define collective agreements, and enable cooperation across communities. These affordances and the subsequent analysis contribute to the emergent debate on blockchain-based forms of governance, first by providing analytical categories for further research, but also by providing a guide for experimentation with the development of blockchain tools to facilitate global cooperation.

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Section: Multiple Layers Of Nested Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons

2021

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“…I am not suggesting this fusion constitutes some form of hybrid human-machine society, or that we should redefine the term 'society' to include digital systems. Some have used the term 'smart society' to characterise the society within a smart city (Hartswood et al, 2014), but this refers to a human society using smart city services. This is a useful definition to maintain because it refers to real issues and to a clearly definable zone of concern.…”

Section: Autopoiesis In the Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart City Transcendent

Dainow

2017

The ORBIT Journal

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This paper provides a conception of the smart city which takes into account what the smart city brings into the world which is new and original. This approach provides a means of dealing with the complex influences humans and digital systems will have on each other in the mature smart cities of the future. I will first review traditional accounts of the smart city and derive from them the essential characteristics common to these visions. I will then show how these characteristics can be best understood through Actor-network theory and construct an account of the smart city as an autopoietic system in which humans and devices are coconstituting actants. Finally, I shall develop this into an original conception of the smart city as a new type of thing-an "integrated domain."

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“…Policy is a "science of muddling through" [22] that can be much improved, by leveraging CI to enable more robust and broad-based evidence and situated and participatory reasoning. To do so, we need investigations into how to facilitate the incorporation of social change instigated by collective intelligence into ethically aware collaboratively designed policy and goals [23].…”

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All Together Now: Collective Intelligence for Computer-Supported Collective Action

Valetto

Bucchiarone

Geihs

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops

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Abstract-In this position paper, we argue that an entirely new methodological paradigm and software platform is required for developing citizen-oriented social computing applications. The platform that we propose is based on the idea of 'Collective Intelligence as a Service', and is grounded in the formalisation of computational models derived from an empirical analysis of psychological processes and social practices. This in turn provides the enablers for developing radically innovative tools for computational sustainability and computer-supported collective action for Smart(er) Cities. The proposal is illustrated with two exemplars, one a healthcare application for patients with peripheral arterial disease; and the other an application for collaborative energy conservation to meet targets set out in a city's Sustainable Energy Action Plan.

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Towards the Ethical Governance of Smart Society

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons

Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons

Smart City Transcendent

All Together Now: Collective Intelligence for Computer-Supported Collective Action

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