The Sustainability Journal has issued a call for papers for their special issue on "Exploring the Connection between Digital Communities, Sustainability and Citizen Science.
This Special Issue of the journal will focus on the connection that exists between digital communities, sustainability, and citizen science. The three way relationships between people, places (digital or physical) and means (tools) will be questioned and brought to the forefront.
Digital innovation has recently accelerated rapidly and is constantly creating new avenues of what we can call industrial revolutions through game changing opportunities and capabilities to transform industries, occupations, relationships, and social norms. Diverse communities are brought together by specific common interests, forming virtual groups at an unprecedented rate. This does naturally lead to more inclusive societies. Diversity, advances, and rapid change often from grassroots approaches but can also lead to challenges. These challenges manifest in the form of security, organizational inequality, privacy, scalability, and even politics, to name a few. Harnessing the knowledge of the past and cross-examining state of the art research producing a transparent principles-led approach can lead to responsible, scalable, and sustainable innovation.
The deadline for manuscript submission is 11 December 2022.
More information on manuscript submission can be found here.