EPSRC NetworkPlus on Social Justice through the Digital Economy

人工智能和大数据领域的技术进步已经引发了广泛的社会经济变革，分布式分类账和物联网等新兴技术将进一步彻底改变信息和服务经济以及公共服务。然而，技术创新也有可能使最弱势群体蒙受损失，放大现有形式的不公正，并在社会经济生活中制造新的排斥形式，从而进一步加剧社会经济不平等和社会分裂。全社会受益于数字经济的进步是国家的优先事项，无论在道德上还是在经济上都是如此，因为最脆弱的人最需要机会参与社会经济。NetworkPlus采用社会公正的方法，专注于数字经济中新技术和新兴技术的设计及其应用如何赋予、解放和更公平地将经济发展机会分配给所有公民、消费者和员工。EPSRC NetworksPlus：通过数字经济实现社会正义旨在将学术界、工业界、政府和公民社会的资源合作伙伴聚集在一起，共同了解、探索和应对新技术和新兴技术的潜力，使英国的社会经济生活对所有人都更加公平。NetworksPlus活动将集中在三个挑战领域：算法社会正义；所有人的数字安全；企业和劳动力更公平的未来。算法社会公正研究自动和半自动决策过程中人工智能算法的设计和应用的公平性。它提出的问题是，如何对大数据集进行分类和解释，以提供护理或健康干预项目或城市规划等方面的信息，以及如何降低人工智能算法的不透明度，并使用标准来设计更公平、更透明的算法。全民数字安全研究了新的和更好的数字安全建模方法，以增加人们的代理感，同时满足他们的安全需求，并在公共和商业在线服务交付中保护资产。例如，这个挑战领域询问如何设计在线服务，以更好地支持人们的代理感和信任感，同时确保在线共享个人数据的安全。企业和劳动力的更公平未来考虑如何设计新的“共享经济”平台，以实现更符合道德的商业模式和平等的经济发展机会。例如，这个主题询问可以设计哪些平台来支持P2P市场，以满足那些资产很少或没有资产的人的需求；以及在数字时代对公平的劳动力代表性有何影响。NetworkPlus将提供新的方式，通过一系列活动支持学术界和非学术界与组织之间的有效合作，包括策划一系列关于三个主题优先事项的活动，以及一个创新和更有针对性的项目委托程序。NetworkPlus将提供精心策划的活动和活动--包括研讨会、动手讲习班、理论研讨和设计与开发冲刺，旨在提高能力、提高技能并促进跨学科对话、学术界和非学术界之间的知识交流。NetworkPlus将提供一种新颖的精心策划的活动委托程序，旨在支持EPS博士研究人员和早期职业研究人员与行业、政府、第三部门和民间社会合作制定有影响力的项目提案。

Technological advances in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, have already given rise to extensive socio-economic transformation and new and emerging technologies, such as distributed ledgers and the Internet of Things, are set to further revolutionise the information and service economy, and public services. Yet, technological innovation has the potential to also dis-benefit the most vulnerable, amplify existing forms of injustice and create new forms of exclusion in socio-economic life, thus further exacerbate socio-economic inequality and social division. That the whole of society benefits from progress in the Digital Economy is national priority, both morally and economically as those who are most vulnerable have the greatest need of opportunities for socio-economic participation. Taking a Social Justice approach, this NetworkPlus focuses on how the design of new and emerging technologies in the Digital Economy, and their application, can empower, emancipate and more equitably distribute opportunities for economic development to all citizens, consumers and employees. This EPSRC NetworkPlus: Social Justice through the Digital Economy aims to bring together and resource partners from academia, industry, government and civil society to understand, explore and respond, together, to the potential of new and emerging technologies to make the UK socio-economic life fairer for all.The NetworksPlus activities will focus on three challenge areas: Algorithmic Social Justice; Digital Security for All; Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces. Algorithmic Social Justice examines fairness in the design and application of AI algorithms in automated and semi-automated decision-making processes. It asks how can large data sets be classified and interpreted to inform, for example, care or health interventions programs or city planning and how can AI algorithms be made less opaque and criteria used to design them fairer and transparent. Digital Security for All investigates new and better ways to model digital security that increase people's sense of agency, while meeting their security needs and protection of assets in public and commercial online service delivery. For example, this challenge area asks in what ways can online services be designed to better support people's sense of agency and trust, while assuring security in sharing personal data online. Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces considers how new 'sharing economy' platforms can be designed to realise more ethical business models and equal opportunities for economic development. For example, this theme asks what platforms can be designed to support peer-to-peer markets places that cater for those who have little or no assets; and what are the implications for a fair workforce representation in the digital era. The NetworkPlus will enable new ways to support effective collaborations between academic and non-academic communities and organisations through a range of activities, including a curated series on events in the three thematic priorities and an innovative and more directed process of project commissioning. The NetworkPlus will deliver curated events and activities-including symposia, hands-on workshops, theory-hacks and design and development sprints, aiming to increase capacity, upskilling and foster trans-disciplinary dialogue, knowledge exchange between academic and non-academic communities as well as. The NetworkPlus will deliver a novel curated commissioning process of activities designed to support EPS doctoral researchers and Early Career Researchers developing impactful project proposals in partnership with industry, government, third sector and civil society.