Cross Disciplinary Workshop: Decentral Protocols and Digital Infrastructures

Join us as we bring together researchers across disciplines to explore decentralized protocols and digital infrastructures.

Decentral protocols and infrastructures are core to the current strive for European sovereignty and infrastructural resilience. Ongoing innovations target domains like finance, digital identity and credentials, data ecosystems, business transactions, social media.

However, both development and research of such open protocols are often domain specific and also distributed across theoretical computer science, information systems, human computer interaction and software engineering, addressing individual aspects of such infrastructures.

This workshop aims to bring together relevant research across subdisciplines of computer science and neighboring disciplines in order to identify common challenges, and discuss technical, conceptual and methodological approaches to address them.

Program

From 9:30: Coffee

10:00 Welcome

10:15 – 11:00 Digital Public Infrastructure Opportunities and Challenges
Panel 3x10 min + 15 min discussion

Decentralized Systems: Mature Technology, Missing Applications, and Europe's Sovereignty Window
Fritz Henglein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU)

Resilience Beyond Redundancy: Ethnographic Perspectives on Arctic Digital Infrastructures
Mette Simonsen Abildgaard, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University
Laura Kocksch Department of Culture and Communication, Aalborg University
Caroline Anna Salling, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University

Technical affordances and collaborative governance of decentral transaction networks
Yvonne Dittrich, Section for Software Engineering, IT University of Copenhagen

Coffee Break

11:15 -12:00 Application and Cases of Decentral Technologies for Digital Public Infrastructures
Panel 3x10 min presentation + 30 min discussion

Variations and interplay between governance and platforms in open data ecosystems
Johan Linåker, Lund University, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Observation on challenges in applying Decentral Systems concepts in actual blockchain projects
Kim Peiter Jørgensen, Tecminho, University of Minho, Portugal

KryptoCore - Crafting a New Era in Traditional Banking with Crypto Solutions
J David Paton, KryptoCore and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet)

Lunch

13:00 – 14 Understanding decentral Digital Public Infrastructures: Concepts, Theories and Methods
Panel 4x10 min presentation + 20 min discussion

Data Commons and Data Ecosystems
Cancan Wang, Section for Digitalization, Democracy, and Governance, IT University in Copenhagen

Proving Correctness of Decentralized Transaction Network Protocols and their Implementations with Formal Methods
Willard Rafnsson, Theoretical Computer Science Section, IT University of Copenhagen
Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Privacy and value clashes in Interoperable and Decentralized Messaging
Carla F. Griggio, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Programming languages techniques for security and privacy in decentralized systems
Aslan Askarov, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University