[Commlist] call for panels on Knowledge Commons, Technology and AI: IASC XXI Biennial Conference

The call for panels of the next conference of the International 
Association on the Study of the Commons (IASC) is out, with one subtheme 
of possible interest for members of this mailing list:

https://2027.iasc-commons.org/call-for-submissions/


CALL FOR PANELS / ROUNDTABLES / WORKSHOPS

SUBTHEME #9: Knowledge Commons, Technology and Artificial Intelligence


Subcommittee: Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Michael J. Madison, Madelyn Rose 
Sanfilippo, Charlie Schweik, Martua Sirait, Lin Zhou.


We are interested in receiving proposals for Panels, Roundtables or 
Workshops related to conference subtheme #9 “Knowledge Commons, 
Technology and Artificial Intelligence.” We welcome ANY submission 
related to this sub-theme, below are core questions for consideration:


  *

    How are knowledge and other shared intellectual resources governed?

  *

    How do technologies such as Blockchain or Artificial Intelligence
    (and others) connect or interact with ideas around “the Commons” or
    “Commoning” practices?

  *

    How are indigenous communities and others being affected by emerging
    technology or AI? What forms of collective action are working to
    protect against enclosure of their knowledge and cultural heritage?


Keywords: digital commons, data governance, AI


Panels and Roundtablescould involve up to 4-5 people.

Workshopscould involve training for the participants, or collaboration 
between the participants.

Due date abstract submissions: 26 July 2026

Submission location: https://2027.iasc-commons.org/ 
<https://2027.iasc-commons.org/>


Note: There will be a subsequent call for Contributions (see timeline at 
https://2027.iasc-commons.org/#dates 
<https://2027.iasc-commons.org/#dates>) for people who want to 
participate in one of the panels, roundtables or workshops identified 
via this Call. By having this Call first, before the Call for 
Contributions, it allows for some “intellectual matchmaking” to occur.


Due date abstract submissions: 26 July 2026Review & selection: 
Continuously from 26 July to 12 August 2026Announcement selected 
submissions: 15 August 2026


Next Call for Contributions (Papers/Presentations/Posters/Artworks)

Call: 15 August 2026Due date abstract submissions: 1 November 2026Review 
& selection: Continuously from 1 November to 27 January 2027Announcement 
selected submissions: 15 December 2026 to 31 January 2027


Knowledge is often a resource shared by a group of people that is 
subject to human dilemmas. Given humanity’s immersion in digital 
environments, this theme expands earlier knowledge commons subthemes and 
thematic conferences foci to also cover two urgent features associated 
with this concept: technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Given 
the proliferation and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), this 
theme specifically investigates how knowledge commons are impacted by or 
address challenges posed by AI, broadly defined.

The theme also continues to explore a wide variety of topics including, 
but not limited to: Indigenous knowledge and data sovereignty, science 
informed by indigenous knowledge and vice-versa; the preservation or 
protection of cultural and heritage commons; access to knowledge, open 
science, open data, open licensing; free, libre and open source 
software, digital sovereignty and autonomy, open hardware; open 
educational resources; open government, data governance; communication 
platforms and apps supporting the public good, public interest 
technologies, information enclosure, misinformation, platform 
cooperativism, smart villages & cities, and ethical science of the 
digital world as commons.

It also includes computational approaches to studying Knowledge Commons 
governance — such as natural language processing, network analysis, 
agent-based modeling, and large language models — sometimes grouped 
under the emerging field of Computational Institutional Science.


Research questions addressed by panels, workshops and presentations may 
address the following topics:


 1.

    How are knowledge and other shared intellectual resources governed?

 2.

    How do technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and
    others connect or interact with ideas around the Commons and
    Commoning practices?


 3.

    How are indigenous and other communities being affected by
    technology or AI, and what forms of collective action are working to
    protect against enclosure of their knowledge and cultural heritage?


 4.

    Can policy, technology, education and others efforts to counter
    misinformation, information enclosure and the spread of
    misinformation be considered a form of knowledge commons?


Submissions are welcome from the widest range of possible participants 
(individuals, organisations, scholars, experts, artists, advocates, 
activists, indigenous and other communities, practitioners, local 
government, NGOs) and may include various types of academic and 
non-academic content – articles, research, creative works, case studies, 
training, technical advise, capacity-building and exchange of best 
practices about policy, funding, tools or services.


Submissions may overlap with the scope of other subcommittees, for 
instance an app for urban commons or food, remote sensors for forests, 
digital tools related to Methods’s lab, Art, case studies or co-creation 
of solutions related to the Practitioner's lab, etc. Organizers and 
subcommittees will work together to ensure coordination and alignment 
between themes for the best allocation of proposals in the programme or 
the development of crossthematic panels.


The Knowledge Commons, Technology and Artificial Intelligence subgroup 
welcomes proposals of panels or roundtables and workshops.

Panels or Roundtablescould involve up to 4-5 people. Submitters are 
encouraged to think about how to make the session very active for the 
audience and, if possible, avoid long, sequential presentations with no 
audience interaction.

For example, a panel could suggest that the contributors provide, in 
advance of the conference, a paper or a video recording that 
participants could watch in advance of the conference, with then the 
idea that they do a “lightning talk” at the conference panel proper, 
thereby allowing for more cross dialog or Q&A between the panelists and 
the audience, as it was done during the IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons 
online conference.

One innovation that occurred in IASC 2025 was the idea of a 
“fishbowl-type” roundtable, where there was an active set of people set 
to discuss a topic, but then others from the audience could replace them 
during the session if they had things to say.

Workshops could involve some training of some sort for the participants, 
or some kind of live collaboration between the participants, such as a 
datasprint. For example, a workshop to conceptualize a new “Collection” 
issue proposal for the International Journal of the Commons, or plan the 
development of a collaborative platform, a report, a campaign, events, 
partnerships, etc.

Ideally, if a workshop is proposed, the proposer might have ideas for 
financial support for the venue space needed to hold the workshop, or 
consider some kind of additional sliding-scale by income workshop 
enrollment fee.

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