The rapidly changing technology advances charged with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) accelerate disruptions and innovations. The rapid adoption of these technologies without careful design and governance principles, ensuring ethical and human rights considerations, can have a huge implication in trust in the digital and physical society. The potentially transformative power of these technologies is yet to be determined and could fundamentally change the way societies function and the way technology is governed. This Track invites papers that deal with issues related to advancing trust, ethical uses, transparency and accountability in digital governance, without inhibiting the development of new technologies for a better world we want. The track further welcomes empirical studies of government organisations’ work and experimentation with enhancing digital participation and inclusiveness in the governance of emerging technologies. The track welcomes alternative and creative methods and experimentations to reflect the voices and digital participation of all stakeholders from the global landscape (North-South, South-South, East-West, Tech-Gov, etc) in shaping governance considerations. Alternative methods may include those that cross the boundaries of traditional bureaucracy and show the potential of participatory design, eParticipation, collaborative online initiatives, and crowdsourcing in the public sector to collect policy-relevant information, knowledge, opinions, proposals, and ideas from citizens and public value co-creation with citizens and businesses. The Track also welcomes conceptually oriented papers that further the field’s understanding of emergence and anticipation related to ethical digital governance.
#1 - Equitable AI Audits: evaluating the evaluators in today's world | Monique Munarini (University of Piza, Italy), James Brusseau (PACE University, USA), Lorenzo Angeli (University of Trento, Italy)
#2 - Positive E-Government - Theories and Approaches to Support Citizens' Well-Being | Daniel Wessel (University of Lübeck, Germany)
#3 - Public administrators' perception of ethical issues in public sector co-creation processes and outcomes: A meta-synthesis of cases | Noella Edelmann, Jessica Voigt Pereira (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria)
#4 - Convenience Over Consent: The Adoption of DigiYatra and Perception of Data Safety | Sherina Poyyail (St. Xavier's College & Johns Hopkins University, India)[withdrawn by the author on 31 of August 2024]#5 - Framing Ethical e-Governance: A Plaidoyer for a Human-Rights based Digital Democracy Approach | Evelyne Tauchnitz (University of Lucerne & Centre for International Governance Innovation, Switzerland)
