Topics that we will cover in the workshop

We will discuss and assess the following topics, among others:

• Social inclusion and diversity; e.g. extent to which members of all sexes, cultural origins, and countries author papers and participate in the conference series, and whether the same applies to the main roles of the conferences (e.g. chair roles).
• Paper content; e.g. the extent to which sustainability is a relevant theme in the papers).
• Environmental topics of conference organisation; e.g. we plan to estimate the energy consumption and the CO2 footprint of the RCIS 2022 edition.
• Ethical governance; e.g. whether grants are offered to researchers with economic difficulties.
• Stakeholder perception; i.e. we will approach the RCIS community (beyond the workshop participants) for their subjective input on several ethical, social and environmental topics.

We have developed an open-source model-driven tool named openESEA that supports such accounting processes and that is capable of deploying stakeholder surveys and calculating indicators (see RCIS 2019 paper). By making this accounting a participatory process, we intend to engage the RCIS community, trigger deep reflections on these topics and, more importantly, identify improvement spaces. Disclosing the results will also send a clear signal that the RCIS community cares about Information Science ethics, and will contribute to building trust in our role as positive change-makers.

Credits of the header photograph: “Parc Güell, Barcelona” by unicoletti is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0