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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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