EPSRC NetworkPlus on Social Justice through the Digital Economy

人工智能和大数据的技术进步已经引发了广泛的社会经济转型，分布式账本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受益，扩大现有形式的不公正，并在社会经济生活中造成新形式的排斥，从而进一步加剧社会经济不平等和社会分裂。整个社会从数字经济的进步中受益是国家的优先事项，无论是在道德上还是在经济上，因为那些最脆弱的人最需要社会经济参与的机会。以社会正义的方法，这个NetworkPlus侧重于如何在数字经济中设计新的和新兴的技术，及其应用，可以授权，解放和更公平地分配经济发展的机会给所有公民，消费者和员工。此EPSRC NetworkPlus：通过数字经济实现社会正义旨在汇集来自学术界、工业界、政府和民间社会的资源合作伙伴，共同理解、探索和应对新兴技术的潜力，使英国的社会经济生活对所有人更加公平。NetworksPlus活动将集中在三个挑战领域：社区社会正义;人人享有数字安全;企业和劳动力的更公平未来。社会公正研究在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。它询问如何对大型数据集进行分类和解释，以告知例如护理或健康干预计划或城市规划，以及如何使人工智能算法不那么不透明，并使用标准来设计它们更公平和透明。“人人数字安全”研究了新的更好的数字安全建模方法，这些方法可以提高人们的代理感，同时满足他们的安全需求并保护公共和商业在线服务交付中的资产。例如，这一挑战领域提出的问题是，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。企业和劳动力的公平未来考虑如何设计新的“共享经济”平台，以实现更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什么平台来支持点对点市场，以满足那些几乎没有资产的人的需求;以及在数字时代公平的劳动力代表性有什么影响。NetworkPlus将通过一系列活动支持学术和非学术社区和组织之间的有效合作，包括三个主题优先事项的策划系列活动以及创新和更有针对性的项目委托过程。NetworkPlus将提供策划的活动和活动，包括研讨会，实践研讨会，理论黑客以及设计和开发冲刺，旨在提高能力，提升技能，促进跨学科对话，学术和非学术社区之间的知识交流以及。NetworkPlus将提供一个新颖的策划委托活动流程，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开发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.