Large-Scale Collaborative Projects To Affect Societal Change

Major projects to support citizens in healthcare, government, energy-savings, disability, and the like are in the research phases or are underway. These efforts - in China, the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere - aim to affect societal change through technical means, but with suitable social-analytic sensitivity and socio-technical understanding. This workshop aims to bring together people from numerous countries and societies to share architectures, designs, and findings so as to promote these projectsWhile these projects are not just collaborative in nature, collaboration and coordination play central roles in many of these efforts. CSCW can not only learn from these efforts in the field but CSCW's research interests and findings can also help in return.