Twin Workshop
on "Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies”
Zürich, May 2023
Digital Democracy, Participatory Resilience, Sustainability, Diversity, Fairness, Ethics, Digital Twins, and More
Organisers: Professor Dirk Helbing and external pageProfessor Andrej Zwitter
Conference venue: ETH Zürich
room external pageSTD F 5, Stampfenbachstrasse 48, 8006 Zürich
room external pageLEE E 101, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich
Workshop on "Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies”
The Workshop on "Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies” will be held on two dates, to allow everyone, who is interested and available, to attend one of the workshops.
Twin Workshop 1:
Thursday, 11 May 2023, starting at 13:00
Friday, 12 May 2023, ending at 14:00.
Twin Workshop 2:
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, starting at 13:00
Thursday, 25 May 2023, ending at 14:00
Special Issue "Ethics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies”
Our selected guests are invited to contribute to our Special Issue on the subject of "external pageEthics of Smart Cities and Smart Societies”.
We are very much looking forward to receiving your submissions before 1 August 2023.
Agenda
Thursday 11.05.2023
13.00 Workshop Opening
13.30 Andrej Zwitter
"Cybernetic Governance and Smart Society"
14.10 Emily Cross
"Neurotechnological Developments and
Challenges to Mental Privacy and Integrity"
14.50 Dirk Helbing
"Ethical issues of smart societies: Some introductory reflections"
15.30 Transfer to LEE E 101
15.45 Coffee break
16.20 Verena Zimmermann
"Designing Ethical Smart City Interventions?
- On the Potential, Challenges, and Limitations of Applying
Guidelines for Ethical Psychological Research
to the Smart City Context"
17.00 Discussion
18.30 Transfer to restaurant
19.00 Dinner
Friday 12.05.2023
09.00 Sarah Spiekermann
"What would Value-based Engineering mean
for the city of the future?"
09.40 Elisabeth Stockinger
"Political Guidance and Smart Democracy"
10.20 Tina Comes
"Smart Cities in Crisis – on the role of value-sensitive AI"
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Transfer to STD F
12.00 Oskar Gstrein
"Data Autonomy:
A novel approach to informational self-determination
and organisational freedom"
12.40 Catarina Fontes
"Human Digital Twins: exploring uses, abusive uses and misuses"
13.20 Dirk Helbing and Andrej Zwitter
Wrap up and closing remarks
Wednesday 24.05.2023
13.00 Workshop Opening
13.10 Sachit Mahajan
“EU ERC Project Co-Evolving City Life, CoCi”
13.30 Andrej Zwitter
"Cybernetic Governance and Smart Society"
14.10 Marcello Ienca
"Is a cognitively enhanced society a smart society?"
14.50 Discussion
15.30 Transfer to LEE E 101
15.45 Coffee break
16.20 Eko Rahmadia
"Digital Twins, Data Governance and Tourism"
17.00 Peter Seele & Ludovico Conti
"The contested role of AI ethics boards in smart societies:
Towards decentralization through sortition?"
17.40 Discussion
18.30 Transfer to restaurant
19.00 Dinner
Thursday 25.05.2023
09.30 Dirk Helbing
"Ethical issues of smart societies:
Some introductory reflections"
10.10 Sachit Mahajan
"A Participatory Future: Citizen Science,
Co-creation and Ethically Inclusive Smart Cities"
11.10 Coffee break
11.40 Transfer to STD F
12.00 Dino Carpentras
"Are measurements making society smarter?"
12.40 Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo
"Ethical considerations on urban digital twins,
their predictive power, and limitations"
13.20 Dirk Helbing and Andrej Zwitter
Wrap up and closing remarks
Funding: CoCi Project, ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant (Grant agreement ID: 833168)
We acknowledge support through the project “CoCi: Co-Evolving City Life”, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 833168.