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 - Towards the regulation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI use in the Brazilian Government: the case of a State Court of Accounts | Karine Alves, Edney Santos, Matheus Fidelis Silva (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil), Ana Carolina Chaves Machado de Morais, José André Fernandes (Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Pernambuco, Brazil), George Valença, Kellyton dos Santos Brito (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)
#2 - Using Generative AI Chatbot for enhancing people´s digital participation | Fernando Pinto, Marie Anne Macadar (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
#3 - Approaching Fairness in Digital Governance: A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Layered Framework | Yasaman Yousefi (University of Bologna, Italy)
#4 - Privacy and data protection regulations for AI using publicly available data | Won Kyung Jung (Korea University & Samsung Electronics Co., Korea)
