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CFP: Special track on BLOCKCHAIN AND DECENTRALIZED TECHNOLOGIES FOR
SOCIAL GOOD (BANDIT) @ ACM GoodIT 2024
https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/bandit2024/home
4-6 September 2024, Bremen, Germany
Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library.
Special issues associated with the conference are being organized.
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to those
journals.
## MOTIVATION AND RATIONALE
Social good has a big impact on society. Indeed, the term “social good”
refers to something which benefits the general public, and at the same
time, it is something which reflects and respects their wishes, being
‘from’ the people. The social good can be envisioned as global citizens
uniting to unlock the potential of individuals through collaboration to
create a positive societal impact. Much interest has been produced in
the last years, and new proposals and technologies have been considered.
Among them, Blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, and
decentralized technologies in general, such as IPFS, have been
considered to improve all the aspects of the social good. Blockchain and
decentralized technologies have had a big impact on the world. In
particular, Blockchain technology has been applied to several fields,
such as e-health, IoT, media, etc. The big question around the
definition of this track is: “How does the blockchain have a big impact
on the social good? And how can decentralization improve the ICT
industries?”. The track manages the possible application of
decentralized technologies in research fields included in the global
scope of the social good. These address sectors such as agriculture,
supply chain traceability, energy, health, property rights and digital
identities, ranging from a global to a local scope. More recently in the
realm of civic participation, civil society initiatives and social
economies, blockchains are being tested to implement collaborative
models: social finance and local currency schemes, peer-to-peer
production and exchanges, decentralized organizations management and
decision-making, purpose-driven tokens that incentivize pro-social
behaviors, etc.
Examples of applications involving considerable experimentation and
innovation are complementary and community currency systems. These
systems aim to support humanitarian aid initiatives, self-organizing
local community development and basic income projects. These involve
novel tokenization mechanisms based on smart contracts that necessitate
further investigation and discussion. While the revolutionary potential
of blockchains has been largely tested (in the financial domain in
particular), its possible applications in social domains and to address
sustainability challenges have been explored far less.
This special track aims to explore and debate the main concepts and
implications of blockchain technology, how it can be a driver of
innovation and its positive effects on our societies, industry, legal
systems and economic/financial systems. Also, the risks and
uncertainties that blockchain arrows are welcome to be debated in this
section, as regards: conflicts arising from the introduction, in mutable
social interactions, of logics based on tokenization, automation, and
trustlessness; energy consumption and environmental impacts; technical
accessibility and digital skill divides. This special track will provide
both academic and industry researchers with a forum to discuss the
impact, future, and limitations of blockchain technology regarding its
effect across specific industries, economics, finance, law, civil
society initiatives, social economies, the not-for-profit sector, etc.
## TOPICS
* Blockchain and decentralized architectures and algorithms
* Protocols for management and access using blockchain
* Consensus and mining algorithms suited for Social Good
* NFT and Web3 for Social Good
* Security and privacy in Blockchains and decentralized platforms
* Blockchain application in civic participation initiatives in local
communities
* Blockchain application in social and collaborative economies in local
communities
* Blockchain-based local currencies for financial inclusion
* Tokenomics and collaborative incentives models for local communities
* Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for smart communities
* Voting and opinion formation systems
* Blockchain applications for environmental sustainability
* Blockchain applications for public administration
* Blockchain applications in IoT
* Blockchain applications in healthcare
* Blockchain applications in business
* Blockchain applications in supply-chain management and certification
* Blockchain applications in the industry
* Blockchain applications in mobile communications and wireless networks
* Decentralized Technology for Social Media
* Blockchain in Social Networking
* AI for blockchain
## IMPORTANT DATES
* Papers submission: 17th May 2024
* Notification of acceptance: 8th July 2024
* Camera-ready paper due: 19th July 2024
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