This event follows right after the "Public Interest Technology" (PIT) Colloquium Series from the "Society Policy Engineering Collective" (SPEC) at Arizona State University (ASU) and IEEE SSIT Students

You can find more details and register for the pre-event at the links below:

All the Event Proceedings (including the pre-Event) will be found at https://www.katinamichael.com/geoethics21/

Pre-Event More details: Public Interest Technology (PIT) Colloquium Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) at Arizona State University(ASU) / IEEE SSIT Students / AAG Pre-Event https://www.katinamichael.com/geoethics21/2021/7/16/asu-pit-colloquium-ieee-ssit-students-aag-pre-event

Full Webinar Description - This GeoEthics Webinar is dedicated to location-based services and technologies that are both static (e.g. CCTV cameras on a building) and increasingly dynamic (e.g. mobile CCTV cameras on a vehicle). The Webinar introduces the notion of dual use technologies that may have surveillance for care and surveillance for control applications. The thematic areas of concern to be addressed revolve around the various veillances: sur-, data-, sous-, and über-veillance. Emerging technologies of interest in this webinar include IP-based location data collection technologies such as, satellite and low-Earth orbiting technology (e.g. X-Y coordinates), uninhabited aerial vehicles (e.g. drones), wi-fi networks (e.g. campus watch), smart infrastructure (e.g. lampposts), mobile CCTV (e.g. vehicles), body-worn cameras (e.g. digital glass), and smartphones. Thematic areas that will be addressed include “geolocation” and issues pertaining to “social justice”, such as, location-based solutions for those living with dementia or autism, the attitudes and perceptions of youth with respect to location-based digital apps, humanitarian aspects of the collection of identity and location data pertaining to the rights of refugees, or marginalized communities based on segregating factors; indigenous peoples under geosurveillance in the name of smart city safety; location in the context of gender-based violence, for good and for harm; closed campus IOT-based sensors, data privacy and human rights; regulatory tools that may be effective in addressing geolocation issues especially in the context of biosurveillance laws; and finally the role of the professionalization of ethics in the workplace, to allow for a better understanding of how Human Geography and Geographic Information Systems converge to be appropriately applied towards Geotelematics Services (i.e., the convergence of geography, telecommunications, and informatics solutions) in the public interest. The objective is to provide a forum for discussion, working toward enacting positive change, as opposed to further enslaving citizens.

Katina Michael Arizona State University

Katina Michael is a professor at Arizona State University, holding a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. She is also the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Katina is a senior member of the IEEE and a Public Interest Technology advocate who studies the social implications of technology with an emphasis on systems of innovation. She has held 14 annual workshops in the social implications of national security space and chaired 3 international symposia on technology and society (ISTAS) in Wollongong, Toronto and Phoenix. She is the Senior Editor of the socio-economic impact section in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine and was the editor in chief of the award-winning IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. In 2019 she took on the role of working group chair for the IEEE P2089 standard. In 2020 she received the ICTO Golden Medal for lifetime achievement award for exceptional contributions to research in information systems, and the IEEE Phoenix section’s Outstanding Member Contributing to Global Humanitarian Projects Award for her contributions to a better understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on humanity. In 2017, she also received the Brian M. O'Connell IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Distinguished Service Award.

Roba Abbas University of Wollongong

Roba Abbas is a Lecturer and Academic Program Director with the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has a PhD in location-based services regulation and has received competitive grants for research addressing global challenges in areas related to co-design and socio-technical systems, operations management, robotics, social media and other emerging technologies. Her current research interests include methodological approaches to complex socio-technical systems design. More recently, she has delivered talks and co-organized panels for Yale University, The Alan Turing Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Arizona State University and Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Dr Abbas is Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and was the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS20) hosted by Arizona State University in November 2020. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Product Manager with Internetrix, Wollongong.

Jeremy V. Pitt Imperial College London

Jeremy V. Pitt is Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organising Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College (University of London). He has been teaching and researching Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction for over thirty years, where his research programme has used computational logic to specify algorithmic models of social processes, with applications in cyber-physical and socio-technical systems, especially for sustainable, fair and legitimate self-governance. He has collaborated on research projects extensively in Europe, but also in India and New Zealand, and has held visiting professorial positions in Italy, Japan and Poland. He has published more than 200 articles in journals, conferences and workshops, and this work has received several Best Paper awards. He is a trustee of AITT (the Association for Information Technology Trust), a Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society) and of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), and in 2018 was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Technology & Society magazine.

Roger Clarke Australian National University

Roger Clarke is a consultant on strategic and policy aspects of advanced information technologies. He is also a dilettante researcher, with hundreds of published papers and over 10,000 Google citations. He has been active in privacy and surveillance consultancy, research and advocacy since the early 1970s, and has published over 100 papers in the area. He originated the term 'dataveillance' in 1986, and also coined 'the digital persona', 'identity silo', '(id)entification' and 'dissidentity', to assist in the analysis of information technology's impacts on privacy.

Steve Mann University of Toronto | BlueberryX.com

Steve Mann is the founder and CTO of BlueberryX.com, the world's first brain-sensing context-aware eyeglass. He is a Visiting Full Professor, Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering and a Full Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is Chair of the Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) and Founding Member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence. He invented wearable computing in his childhood, brought this invention to MIT to found the MIT wearable computing project, and according to Nicholas Negroponte "persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline." He invented, designed, and built the world's first smartwatch in 1998 (patent filed 1999, featured on cover of Linux Journal July 2000) which he presented at IEEE ISSCC 2000 where he was named "The father of the wearable computer". Inventor of HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, used in more than 2 billion smartphones. He has founded companies with valuation in excess of $1 billion, together with students.

M. G. Michael Independent Researcher

M. G. Michael PhD (ACU), MA (Hons) (MacqUni), MTheol (SydUni), BTheol (SCD), BA (SydUni) is an independent researcher. He was formerly an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Michael is a theologian and historian with cross-disciplinary qualifications in the humanities, who introduced the concept of überveillance into the privacy and bioethics literature

Christine Perakslis Johnson and Wales University | Arizona State University

Christine Perakslis serves as an educator and consultant for various organizations. She serves as a researcher with publications and presentations focusing on the social implications of technology, group integration competencies, and behavioral motivators/psychometrics. Perakslis is a member of various associations and serves in the capacity of a peer-reviewer, as well as a member of advisory boards, program committees, and technical committees. Certificates and certifications include such areas as Advanced Graduate Studies, Lean Operations, Praendix Analyst, and Six Sigma.

Rys Farthing Reset Australia- Reset Tech | Oxford University

Rys Farthing is the Director of Children's Policy at Reset Tech Australia, a think tank and campaigning organisation set up to tackle digital threats to democracy. Rys has worked for NGOs in Australia, the US and UK, with a focus on realising children and young people’s rights, and increasingly their rights in a digital world. She is a 'recovering' academic and has held posts at the University of Oxford, and RMIT University.

Toby Shulruff U.S. National Network to End Domestic Violence | Arizona State University

Toby Shulruff (she/her) works to build the capacity of communities to understand, make choices about, and ultimately shape the technologies that are woven into the fabric of our lives. Toby is a writer, trainer, project manager, and consultant - and a graduate student in the new Public Interest Technology program at Arizona State University. Toby works at the intersection of technology and gender-based violence as a Senior Technology Safety Specialist at the Safety Net Project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (US)

Jason Sargent Swinburne University of Technology

Jason Sargent co-directs the Information Systems for Social Impact Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology and has spent his entire academic, scholarship and research career bringing people and technology together for a better world. He has been the academic lead of Swinburne’s internationally awarded ICT for Social Impact India Project (2014-present), and currently oversees humanitarian community projects in Melbourne, Pal India, Pakpattan Pakistan, and Mogadishu and Hirshabelle State Somalia.

In 2003, Jason’s undergraduate Honours thesis (‘The Digital Aid Framework – DAF’) introduced to the field of technology-enabled humanitarian relief a conceptual, end-to-end technology integration framework for humanitarian (refugee) relief operations. The DAF thesis was awarded the PWC Award for highest grade achieved in an Honours project in the Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Ubiquity article summarising DAF was subsequently used as course material at the University of California-Davis and has been downloaded ~180,000 times. Jason’s doctoral candidature was based in the University of Sydney’s Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo Lab), Faculty of Education & Social Work. His 2012 thesis explored complexities in attainment of higher education by refugees on the Thai-Burma Border (TBB) through a trinity of theoretical lenses: social capital, communities of practice and blended learning and came about through his pro bono service with the Melbourne-based grassroots Refugee Tertiary Education Committee (RTEC). His doctoral fieldwork was carried out on the TBB near Mae Pa and Mae Sot, Thailand.

In August 2020, Jason was humbled to be invited to become an Ambassador for Amnesty International Australia's 'My New Neighbour' campaign, advocating for a fairer community sponsorship program for refugees.

Elma Hajric Smart Cities NSF NRT | Arizona State University

Elma Hajric is a PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology and a National Research Trainee in the NSF for Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living. Her research focuses on governance of emerging technologies and data topics pertaining to surveillance, privacy, and ownership.

Rob Nicholls University of New South Wales

Rob Nicholls is an associate professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School and a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on competition law, the regulation of networked and platform industries with an emphasis on the effects of technology in the regulatory space. His PhD examined the regulation of the media in Australia and his platform industry analysis reflects this. Rob has had a thirty-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia, he worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner. Rob is an accredited mediator and from 2012 to 2020 was Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator.

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh Pivot for Humanity

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the President of Pivot for Humanity, the organization founded in 2018 to professionalize the extractive, data-driven social tech industry and foster a responsible, ethical, and accountable internet. Pivot's goal is to compel an industry in crisis to adopt universal standards, norms and values that will pivot, or reorient, the industry toward its original mission: serving humanity. In 2014, Jumana founded and launched zanie, an app designed to help employers shrink virtual distance and create a thriving and emotionally engaged digital workforce. zanie helps companies build stronger distributed teams by facilitating conversations that build interpersonal trust between remote members and lead to innovative, productive, and fulfilling work.

Jumana's first career was in marketing and brand strategy and communications, where she spent over 20 years developing strategies for organizations such as American Express, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, The RobinHood Foundation, Ally Bank, and Hilton Hotels. She is responsible for creating Capital One’s “What’s in your wallet?” campaign. Jumana earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Literature and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College.

Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson Connecting Stones

Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is based in Sydney, Australia. Anderson is an active contributor to local and international initiatives to humanize data science. Her scholarly work engages with the fundamental concepts of uncertainty, relevance, and resilience in individual, organizational, and social settings. Anderson's research interests include data ethics, infrastructure politics, emerging technologies, and digital youth. Her professional experience includes serving as associate professor and the inaugural director of the Master of Data Science & Innovation program at the University of Technology Sydney, working as a political research analyst for research centers and think tanks, and serving as a diplomat and environmental education officer. Anderson earned her MA and PhD in information science from the University of Technology Sydney, MA in international security studies and arms control from Lancaster University, and BA in diplomatic history and Soviet/Russian studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mathew Mytka Greater Than Learning

Mathew Mytka is a humanist, generalist, father, gardener, wannabe extreme sports enthusiast, and Co-founder of Greater Than Learning. He’s worked across digital identity, e-learning systems, behavioral design, decentralized technologies, and spent the past few years helping organizations to design more trustworthy products and services. Mat is an IEEE Member, and co-founder of Greater Than Learning and co-founder of Digitool Lab.

Nicole Stephensen GroundUp Consulting

Nicole Stephensen is Principal Consultant at Ground Up Consulting, a boutique firm she established in 2011. There, she provides capacity building and privacy by design services across government, private and not for profit sectors. With over 20 years in the privacy profession, Nicole believes in building sustainable privacy programs and embedding ‘privacy mindset’ into organisational culture. She is a sought-after speaker about privacy and its interface with information security, risk management, ethics and trust. She is a subject matter expert and guest lecturer for tertiary education providers in Australia and Canada and is author of course curricula focused on information privacy rights and privacy and cybersecurity acculturation. Nicole is a leading member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and hosts the IAPP’s KnowledgeNet Chapter for Queensland. Prior to its incorporation into the larger IAPP in 2019, Nicole was also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ Chapter (iappANZ) where she sat for three consecutive terms on the Board. She is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Data Leadership, an initiative of the Smart Cities Council of Australia-New Zealand (SCCANZ) and was the 2020 SCCANZ Smart Cities Leadership Award winner. Nicole served a three-year term as Executive Director for Privacy and Data Protection at the Internet of Things Security Institute, where she co-authored the IoTSI Security Framework for Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructure and hosted a bi-weekly podcast, Privacy Matters. Nicole additionally lends her privacy expertise to the digital policy arena – focusing on matters affecting children and young people, such as privacy and digital footprints, online safety, cyber-bullying, image-based abuse and child exploitation.