Unintended Side Effects and Pathways towards Sustainable Digital Environments in Latin America
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 9505
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coupled human–environment systems; sustainable digital environments; sustainable resources management; industrial ecology
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Interests: smart cities; digital governance; information systems
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2. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Av. Alem 1253, B8000 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Interests: structuring of the information technology function in government; digital transformation of government–citizen relationships and the impact of such transformation on nations' and cities' capacity to pursue sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites contributions from a Latin American perspective on sustainable digital environments. Digital technologies are transforming all domains of economic, socio-political, (bio-)technological, environmental, and other systems, and have provided ground-breaking beneficial innovations. To date, much research has focused on the development and implementation of digital technologies, yet little attention has been given to reflecting on and anticipating the unintended side effects or the unseen(s) of such technologies, although they have the potential to endanger systems and structures that are considered valuable and contribute to the resilience of socio-technological systems.
This Special Issue, Unintended Side Effects and Pathways towards Sustainable Digital Environments in Latin America, will address a broad range of topics that should help readers to understand both the generic and specific aspects of the critical developments related to sustainable digital environments. Thus, the Issue may include papers on challenging economic and industry-related questions (e.g., the digital work platform against decent work standards, digital competitiveness), democratic issues (e.g., the whole of social media, the level of citizens’ digital literacy), or occupational health questions (e.g., the impact of (biased) data on higher health insurance). However, in addition, contributions related to technological aspects such as digital infrastructure, new governance models for sustainable development, social impacts of algorithmic-based recommendations, the dark side of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and rebounds of smart cities are welcomed. Context-specific topics are also welcome, for instance with focus on cybercrime, the whole of digital technologies in mitigating corruption, or banking and cryptocurrency.
In particular, we invite contributions that reflect on the unintended side effects of digital technologies and papers that contribute to the structuring of critical aspects or types of rebound effects related to digital environments, as well as from epistemological or ethical perspectives. Finally, we invite papers that sketch processes related to the type of transdisciplinary or other processes of science and practice collaboration needed to establish sustainable digital environments.
In order to build sustainable digital environments as a component of sustainability science, those who are interested in the field but are unsure as to whether their work may align with the goals of this Special Issue are invited to correspond with the Guest Editors of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Roland W. Scholz
Dr. Gabriela Viale Pereira
Prof. Dr. Elsa Estevez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital transformation
- rebound effects of digital technologies
- sustainable digital environments
- inclusive and safe digital environments
- digital platforms
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