The Workshop on the Implications of Computing in Society (WICS) is an event held by SBC since 2020, as part of the Brazilian Computing Society Congress. The aim of the event is to bring together members of the Brazilian computing community and applied social areas who study the use of technology and how this influences the development of systems and the training and performance of professionals in the field of computing. The Proceedings of WICS are published yearly, bringing the articles selected for each edition of the event.
Topics of Interest
WICS topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Universal access to technology
- Alignment of value and moral decision making
- Open Science
- Computing supporting sustainable development goals
- Computing, citizenship and the social welfare
- Computing and 21st-century skills
- Computing and socioeconomic differences
- Computing and diversity
- Computing and geopolitics
- Computing and environmental impacts
- Control, surveillance, and privacy
- Culture and digital technologies
- Sustainable development of computer systems
- Entertainment and Technology
- Social studies on the use of computing
- Ethics in systems design and development
- Cultural, political and social implications of AI
- Future technology implications
- Digital inclusion and literacy
- Open collaborative innovation and co-design
- Memory, digital legacy, and immortality
- Fake News
- The future of work in the face of new digital technologies
- Ethical standards, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence
- Prohibitions, restrictions, and taxation of computer systems
- Intellectual property, collaborative production, and copyleft
- Green technology
- Ethical use of computer systems
- Web and freedom of expression
Additional information
For more information about WICS, visit the website of the current edition.
