The 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) took place from the 17th to the 20th of May 2022. The conference was held as a live, in-person event in Barcelona, Spain. RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers, and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. The special theme of RCIS 2022 was “Ethics and Trustworthiness in Information Science”, since it is crucial for information systems to consider ethical issues when critical decision making is needed and trust as people have become more and more dependent on the information delivered for such systems.
2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. fair communities, such as social and health equity, community development, human rights and social justice. These human and social characteristics and interaction that are brought into CPS shift it to Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS), being the target of this workshop. •
ESEA4RCIS: 1st Workshop on Ethical, Social and Environmental Accounting of Conferences: the case of RCIS 2022 (organized by Sergio España, Vijanti Ramautar and Quang Tan Le). ESEA4RCIS was a community-based, participatory workshop, where instead of asking for papers submissions, the idea was to do collaborative research and co-author a paper. In the workshop, Information Science researchers and practitioners (typically, but not exclusively members of the RCIS community) jointly assessed the performance of RCIS 2022 on ethical, social and environmental topics. Such practice is referred to as ethical, social and environmental accounting (ESEA), and the result is often a sustainability report. During the workshop, all participants jointly (i) reflected on the ethical, social and environmental topics that are relevant for our community, (ii) discussed preliminary results, (iii) collected additional data, (iv) processed the data to compute indicators, (v) reflected on the outcomes, and (vi) started writing a paper to report on the experience and results. The most important achievement was the process of obtaining results and the community-building effort of jointly tackling the subsequent improvement actions. The final aim was to contribute to a more ethical, more socially inclusive, and environmentally friendly scientific community.
In addition, the Research Projects Track was devoted to presenting future or ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Science. The aim of this track was to provide an opportunity for presenters to get feedback before submitting a research project or to disseminate the intermediate results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of innovative ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners.