TY - GEN
T1 - Strengthening the Role of Citizens in Governing Disruptive Technologies
T2 - The Case of Dutch Volunteer Hackers
AU - Gardenier, Anne Marte
PY - 2024/8/13
Y1 - 2024/8/13
N2 - Digitization can be understood as a socially disruptive technology. To deal with this disruption, the social challenge is to find cybersecurity solutions to protect society and its citizens from this disruptive impact. Citizens as the end-users of software are widely portrayed as the ‘weakest link’ in cybersecurity, indicating that they are insufficiently knowledgeable or not taking enough cybersecurity measures. In contrast, this paper about Dutch volunteer hackers demonstrates that citizens can make an important contribution to the governance of digitization. This paper argues that the roles of citizens in the governance of disruptive technologies should be better recognized and supported so they can contribute to maintaining the public interest in the digital society.
AB - Digitization can be understood as a socially disruptive technology. To deal with this disruption, the social challenge is to find cybersecurity solutions to protect society and its citizens from this disruptive impact. Citizens as the end-users of software are widely portrayed as the ‘weakest link’ in cybersecurity, indicating that they are insufficiently knowledgeable or not taking enough cybersecurity measures. In contrast, this paper about Dutch volunteer hackers demonstrates that citizens can make an important contribution to the governance of digitization. This paper argues that the roles of citizens in the governance of disruptive technologies should be better recognized and supported so they can contribute to maintaining the public interest in the digital society.
KW - Socially disruptive technologies
KW - cybersecurity governance
KW - citizen participation
KW - volunteer hackers
KW - vulnerability disclosure
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-66635-3_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-66635-3_35
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-031-66634-6
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)
SP - 399
EP - 409
BT - New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
A2 - de la Iglesia, Daniel H.
A2 - de Paz Santana, Juan F.
A2 - López Rivero, Alfonso J.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -