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, with game-changing opportunities and capabilities to transform industries, occupations, relationships and social norms. Diverse communities are being brought together by specific common interests, forming virtual groups at an unprecedented rate. This naturally leads to more inclusive societies. Diversity, advances and rapid change are often driven by grassroots approaches, but they can also lead to challenges. These challenges manifest in the form of security, organisational 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.