Abstract: This chapter is concerned with how social order is established within collectives and the ethical problems that arise when we attempt to create and direct collectives towards particular ends. It draws on our work to establish governance principles for Smart Society—an EU project aiming to engineer Collective Adaptive Systems comprised of people and machines with diverse capabilities and goals that are able to tackle societal grand challenges. We examine how social values are implicated in and transformed by Collective Adaptive Systems, and suggest approaches to multilevel governance design that are responsive to emergent capabilities and sensitive to conflicting perspectives. Finally we illustrate our approach with a worked example of a sensor-based system in a care setting.

Citation: Hartswood, M., Grimpe, B., and Jirotka, M., “Towards the ethical governance of Smart Society”, In Miorandi, D., Maltese, V., Rovatsos, M., Nijholt., A. and Stewart, J. (eds) Social collective intelligence: Combining the powers of humans and machines Springer, 2014.

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SmartSociety is taking part in ICT DAYS, an initiative by the University of Trento‘s DISI (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science), dedicated to the broad subject of Information and Communication Technology.

ICT DAYS has had many years of success since its launch on 2009. It serves as a meeting point for companies and university students, organizes a hackathon and attracts prospective students through its Education Day. The initiative also features a series of communicative events, such as seminars, demos and contests.

SmartSociety’s panel on the 19th of March is titled:

Collaboration between humans and machines: Promises and Perils

Abstract: In today’s hybrid society we are unconsciously observed and continuously assisted by ICT systems. How to make sure that this takes place with the right coordination and ethical control? The panel will report insights from the project SMARTSOCIETY funded by the EC under FP7 Future Emerging Technologies programme.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Abstract. We introduce the concept of Hybrid Diversity – Aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) and their proposed role in addressing social problems associated with urban living, health, and financial markets. Our concern is for their responsible development and deployment, and to this end, we suggest perspectives on the governance of social machines and a framework from which to design governance regimes for HDACAS.

Keywords: governance, ethical governance, social machines, collective adaptive systems.

doi: http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/cgc/2013/5114/00/5114a426-abs.html

Citation: Hartswood, M., Grimpe, B., and Jirotka, M., “Towards Ethical Governance of Social Machines,” cgc, pp.426-427, 2013 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 2013.

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