Civic Technologies: Research, Practice and Open Challenges
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00515v1
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:26:40 GMT
- Title: Civic Technologies: Research, Practice and Open Challenges
- Authors: Pablo Aragon, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Christopher A. Le Dantec,
Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Jorge Saldivar
- Abstract summary: Civic technology projects have emerged around the world to advance open government and community action.
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities have shown a growing interest in researching issues around civic technologies.
The goal of this workshop is to advance CSCW research by raising awareness for the ongoing challenges and open questions around civic technology.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: Over the last years, civic technology projects have emerged around the world
to advance open government and community action. Although Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities have
shown a growing interest in researching issues around civic technologies, yet
most research still focuses on projects from the Global North. The goal of this
workshop is, therefore, to advance CSCW research by raising awareness for the
ongoing challenges and open questions around civic technology by bridging the
gap between researchers and practitioners from different regions.
The workshop will be organized around three central topics: (1) discuss how
the local context and infrastructure affect the design, implementation,
adoption, and maintenance of civic technology; (2) identify key elements of the
configuration of trust among government, citizenry, and local organizations and
how these elements change depending on the sociopolitical context where
community engagement takes place; (3) discover what methods and strategies are
best suited for conducting research on civic technologies in different
contexts. These core topics will be covered across sessions that will initiate
in-depth discussions and, thereby, stimulate collaboration between the CSCW
research community and practitioners of civic technologies from both Global
North and South.
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