WorkshopsICT4S 2025

At ICT4S 2025 we are facilitating three kinds of workshop:

1. Formal Workshops
2. Community Workshops
3. Drafting and co-design Workshops

See the call for contributions for more information

Call for Workshops

At ICT4S 2025 we are facilitating three kinds of workshop:

1. Formal Workshops - workshops looking to establish annual gatherings and publish proceedings associated with topics covered by ICT4S. We expect to publish a proceedings volume including all accepted peer-reviewed workshop papers in an open access archive (e.g., arXiv’s Computing Research Repository, CEUR). These workshops are expected to include a full peer review process for workshop submissions (facilitated by the workshop organizers).
2. Community Workshops - workshops for community building and passionate discussion in emerging topics relating to ICT4S. These workshops may also draw in a wider audience and we welcome proposals from community, business and local government that might help start a dialogue to develop solutions. [Big idea discussion]
3. Drafting and co-design Workshops - workshops where attendees convene to develop a vision paper or a special-issue journal topic where they complete a draft within the workshop. Possible workshop activities could include research planning, timeline development, experiments preparations, and journal associate editor’s identification among others. [Co-design workshops]

We invite workshop proposals of traditional or unconventional formats that support preparing for half-day or full-day workshops.

Submission Guidelines

Formal Workshops

Formal workshop proposals should be between 4-6 pages long and include:

• Title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organizers - short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organizing workshops or similar events
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g., the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities.
• Workshop Structure/Activities - the workshop structure in detail, including activities and resources required.
• Post-workshop plans - plans for the creation of tangible outcomes or outputs, and follow-up with attendees/ICT4S
• Program committee (PC) proposal - this should include the names, contact details, and affiliations of potential members of the PC.
• Type of papers
• Submission criteria for authors - criteria by which submissions to the workshop will be evaluated
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website
• References

Community Workshops

Community workshop proposals should be between 2-4 pages long and include:

• Title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organizers - short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organizing workshops or similar events, contact details
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g. the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities,
• Workshop Structure/Activities - the workshop structure in detail, including activities, speakers, and resources required.
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website
• References

Drafting and co-design Workshops

• Title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organizers - short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organizing workshops or similar events, contact details
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g. the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities,
• Workshop Structure/Activities - the workshop structure in detail, including activities, speakers, and resources required. Organizers should also include details on what constitutes a Minimum Viable Outcome (MVO) and how the workshop activities will support participants in achieving that.
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website
• References

Workshop proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Select “[ICT4S’25] Workshops". All workshop proposal submissions should be submitted in IEEE conference proceedings format. Please indicate in your abstract section where you intend to deliver your workshop if accepted either at UCD or a hub (and which hub if applicable)

Potential Topics of Interest

Possible workshop topics include (but are not limited to) sustainability and ICT in the context of the following:

• Transport and logistics
• Software Engineering
• Behavioral and societal change
• Energy-efficient and energy-aware software engineering
• Infrastructure management and resilience, smart grids
• Hardware obsolescence, e-waste and material life cycles
• Decision support and policy making
• Education
• Smart cities, buildings, homes and offices
• Data centers and high-performance computing
• Social movements, grassroots communities and organizations
• Just and ethical energy transitions
• Degrowth
• Unmaking for good
• (Green / sustainable) Software Engineering
• Critical perspectives on "green and digtal" narratives and tech solutionism
• Insights into and critical perspectives on "Sustainable AI"
• Behavioral and societal change in the context of (sustainable) digitalisation
• Sustainable and resilient infrastructure management, smart grids
• Hardware obsolescence, e-waste and material life cycles
• Decision support and policy making through digital technologies
• Education for sustainability in technology development
• Smart and sustainable cities, buildings, homes and offices
• Sustainability of data centers and high-performance computing
• Social movements, grassroots communities and organizations
• Just and ethical energy transitions
• Degrowth and other ways of critical economic thinking
• Artistic intervention at the intersection of ICT and sustainability.

Artists, activitsts and researchers with artistic methods are welcome to suggest potential artistic interventions or creative workshop to create a fruitful interaction between research on sustainable ICT and artistic practices.

Further Information

All workshops can be provided with the following resources: catering (coffee breaks and lunch), conference materials, WIFI, white board with markers, projector/screen, laptop (upon request), and a room. Formal workshop organizers are expected to set up and manage their own submission and review processes. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that workshop organizers set up websites and social media accounts to help publicize the event.