Appel à contributions
Dossier à paraître dans le n° 88 – 4ème trimestre 2012
Privacy, openness and trust
Edité par Vincent BONNEAU, Marc BOURREAU & Paul DE BIJL
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the Internet in particular, offer companies the ability to collect large amounts of data about their users, and to use this information as a key input for value creation. New business models based on gathering and aggregating personal data and leveraging big data technologies, lead to innovative market offerings. To become successful, they depend on disclosure (openness) and trust on the users’ side. Though the disclosure of personal information might benefit consumers via, for example, better tailored services, openness also creates risks of abuse of personal data, ranging from increasing market power (e.g., due to price discrimination) to privacy breaches by the data holder, or even cybercrime from initiatives of rogue third parties.
• What are the crucial dilemmas and tradeoffs with respect to openness and trust for end users but also for service providers, and the potential risks?
• How do companies manage to build and operate massive databases of their customers and visitors?
• How can we explain the apparent naivety of some consumers and the reluctance of others in the disclosure of personal information, despite the stronger awareness of data usage and related risks?
• What is the value of personal information?
• How can firms make sure that users have enough trust so that they will provide their personal data in order to obtain innovative services?
• Can we expect new models empowering end users with their personal information, around for instance vendor relationship management initiatives?
• What kind of public policy, if any, is needed to ensure that there will be sufficient trust in electronic markets so that data-demanding innovations can flourish, and how does it influence the value of personal information?
For this special issue, we welcome submissions on the economics of privacy and trust in the sphere of ICTs that will address some of these issues, or related ones.
Authors will be invited to share their viewpoints during a workshop organized in Montpellier in 14th November 2012.
Veuillez envoyer vos propositions (full papers) avant le 15 juin 2012 à:
s.nigon@idate.org
Dossier à paraître dans le n° 87 - 3ème trimestre 2012
Internet of Things :
New challenges for research
Edité par Pierre-Jean BENGHOZI, Martin CAVE,
Yannick MEILLER & Samuel ROPERT
The Internet of Things (IoT) endows objects with intelligence and ability to communicate, connecting people and machines anywhere, anytime. IoT applications exist in various domains: health, domotics, security and control, the supply chain. IoT exemplifies - and is driven by - major changes in technological convergence, pervasiveness and ubiquity, increases in mobility, traceability, and so on. As a consequence, IoT impacts upon management, business models, the economy as a whole, social relations, public and private relations, the control and diffusion of information, the involvement of citizens in public debate, privacy, transparency, …
Connecting objects, machines, humans and the real world raises new information concerns, by extending the scope of the Internet and opening up new developments for information systems: location, integration of networks, data capture, machine-to-machine. The IoT opens a brave new world for innovation and R&D, resulting in particular from the change in scale of use of RFID technologies in everyday life. The IoT offers opportunities for economic development at the level of the firm and the national innovative system. The pervasiveness of IoT technologies and control systems raises the question of privacy and protection of personal/industrial data as they have a direct impact on the actions, presence and integrity of individual and organizations. The development of applications in the industrial and B2B sector stimulates radically new forms of the management of the supply chain and fosters new industrial business models, as is suggested, for example, by Walmart's strategy. The informational dimension and the economic consequences of the IoT lead us to re-examine the traditional governance of the internet in its various dimensions.
In a nutshell the questions at stake are multifold and remain mainly unresolved:
• How to characterize Internet of things? In which extent is it related to other notions such as ubiquitous computing, smart things, …?
• How far will the IoT transform internet economics?
• Local or global: objects being physically bounded, what does it mean for the internet of things to go beyond "local area networks of things"?
• How will the IoT transform the management of firms: their business models, supply chains, and control mechanisms?
• What about the openness of the IoT (technical protocols, intellectual property, control of platforms,…) and more generally its governance?
• Which new issues are raised by the IoT relating to privacy, ownership, responsibility? Do they call for specific new approaches?
• …
This special issue aims to develop a better understanding of what the Internet of Things is and what its potential impacts may be. We invite authors to propose contributions from different fields of research in order to grasp the various dimensions of IoT (applications, infrastructure, social consequences, governance, industrial competition, standards, application fields) in a multidisciplinary perspective (law, economics and management, political science, communication and sociology, IT).
Authors will be invited to share their viewpoints and present a preliminary version of their contribution during a workshop organized in Paris.
Veuillez envoyer vos propositions (full papers) avant le 20 avril 2012 à:
s.nigon@idate.org
Submission of papers
All papers submitted for publication will be "double blind" reviewed by at least two referees/experts.
Proposals must be submitted in Word format (.doc) and should not exceed 6,500 words - including the abstract and references.
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Please ensure that all illustrations (graphics, figures, etc.) are in black and white - excluding any color - and are of printing quality.
Bibliographical references should be included at the end of the article. Should these references appear in the text, please indicate the author's name and the year of publication in brackets.
