Track 2: Securing Digital Governance: Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Sovereignty for the Future

Privacy, cybersecurity, and digital sovereignty are increasingly important topics in digital governance. For example, with more affordable technologies for handling significant volumes of data being available, government organisations worldwide are striving for more data-driven operations. Data from various types of digital infrastructure (such as IoTs), as well as data on citizens and their behaviours, is sometimes discussed in terms of being the “new oil” in society. With this kind of data, new and improved public services can potentially be created. However, increased use and manipulation of various data types also bring critical challenges, including ethics-related questions regarding citizens’ right to privacy, national and regional control over critical data infrastructure, systems resilience, and information security.

This Track welcomes papers that, in one way or another, address privacy, sovereignty, security, and digital governance. The Track welcomes empirical studies and conceptual papers on privacy, security, and/or ethical use and safeguarding of data and technical and operational approaches to safeguarding privacy and ensuring cyber resilience. We encourage submissions that explore issues related to cybersecurity, such as protecting critical infrastructure, mitigating data breach risks, and addressing IoT system vulnerabilities. Additionally, papers investigating how privacy, cybersecurity, and/or digital sovereignty can be integrated into designing and implementing digital governance frameworks are particularly welcome.