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Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies
The special issue deals with the ethical effects that the digital revolution has brought about such as the normative implications of “smart cities” and "smart societies“. While the initial concept of smart cities was largely technology- and data-driven, this concept is currently being replaced by technology-enabled, human-centred solutions. In this ongoing development, questions of human freedom and human dignity in the context of datafied societal management have become pertinent. The contributions to the special issue will investigate how a value-sensitive design approach could promote a more sustainable pathway of smart cities and smart societies that better serves people and nature and takes into account ethics, law and culture.
Submissions are based on invitation.
This Special Issue includes the output of the Twin Workshops on „Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies“ held in May 2023 at the ETH Zurich, supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the project „CoCi: Co-Evolving City Life" (Grant agreement No. 833168).
Editors
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Andrej Zwitter
Andrej Zwitter is Professor of Governance and Innovation and academic director of the CYAN Centre of Climate Change Adaptation at the University of Groningen and visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt. He is an expert on data ethics and technology governance.
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Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich and affiliate of its Computer Science Department. Furthermore, he is member of the external faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. In January 2014, Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Shortly later, he was also affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft.
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CoCi: Co-Evolving City Life
