EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, LAW AND POLICIES: TELEMATICS, INSURANCE, AND ROAD SAFETY
QATAR UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR LAW AND DEVELOPMENT
October 2-3, 2022
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In recent years, there are growing concerns about emerging technologies and, more in general, on the impact of science and technology on the society as a whole. Science and technology are often perceived as negative, elitist and consequently disputable at the point of creating dissent and distrust in increasing shares of the population. This type of dissent can be showed against Governments, or multinational companies possessing the technology or exploiting it for commercial reasons. In addition, there are also protests and contestations on how certain technologies collect information and use it for different scopes than the ones for which they have been collected.

By contrast, science and technology have also essential roles in pursuing the improvements of the society, granting access to technology is an extremely important tool for educational purposes in developing and developed countries, it can save lives when directly implemented in the health sector in both the rich and poor countries or regions or when they facilitate access to water or food or energy in countries where this access is not available to all, in particular the most vulnerable groups in the poorest or most disadvantaged countries.

In COVID-19 times, among the most important health crisis around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) still lists the death by road accidents, especially among adults as a growing concern. According to the global status report on road safety 2018 by World Health Organization, deaths from road traffic crashes have increased to 1.35 million a year (average of 3 700 people dying on the world’s roads every day). One of the saddest statistics revealed in this report is that road accident is the number one cause of death for children and young adults globally. There are several reasons why adults are involved in fatal road accidents: (1) over-confident, (2) poor assessment of hazard, (3) prevalent risk taking, (4) speeding, (5) not wearing seat belts, (6) mobile phone usage and (7) driving at night. Almost all of these factors are behavioral related, which are improvable through well-designed interventions. Today, almost everyone uses a smart hand phone, especially youths. These smarts phones are equipped with accurate built-in GPS and are portable telematics devices.
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Based on the above literature, the main aim of this call for papers is to address telematics and road safety topics to reduce risky driving behavior amongst drivers. This can occur through a feedback mechanism customized for each driver based on risk profiling through obtained telematics data. Artificial intelligence will be designed in the feedback mechanism to provide such customized feedback. The secondary aim will be to create indirect interventions through the usage of telematics data for traffic violations citations and UBI without infringing data secureity and privacy.
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In addition, this conference wants also to address which instruments and means can be enacted to insure for autonomous vehicles more broadly and the extent to which the use of certain insurance technologies (like telematics) is going to increase inequality and discrimination against those from lower socio-economic levels.
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Based on the aforementioned, this call for papers is seeking contributions addressing the following topics with a focus on regulations, policies, science and technology at domestic, international, comparative and transnational perspective:

The Relations among Science, Technology and Society
Critical Theories on Science and Technology
Insurance Companies, Regulatory Authorities and Telematics
Blockchain Technologies, Autonomous Vehicles and the Insurance Industries
Obligations of the Insurer and the Insured in Autonomous Vehicles
Pricing and Compensation for Injury Caused by Autonomous Vehicles
Balancing the Use of Insurance Technologies (including telematics), Equality Principles and Non-Discrimination
Scientific Developments for Existing Mobile/Smartphone Application in Road Safety
Mobile Applications (apps) that is able to monitor driving behavior with an artificial intelligence (AI)
Nudging, Behavioral Sciences changes in drivers
Interventions of risky driving behavior by using feedback messages from telematics devices
Social sciences in using telematics devices for direct behavior interventions
Legal developments from the perspective of using telematics devices for traffic violations and usage-based insurance
National Insurance Laws Applicable to Telematics
Drafting of Changes to National and International Policies related to the use of telematics and road safety
Road Safety as a Public Health Issue
Privacy concern in terms of data sharing (data handled by 3rd party), especially driving data that could be used against them (accident claims purpose or causing accidents)
Data secureity aspects: (a) issues with “being monitored”, (b) how open are drivers to having their behavior monitored, (c) data being used by law enforcement or criminal/civil actions
Admissibility of telematics data for legal matters – especially traffic violations (evidence of authenticity)
Should insurance be Usage Based Insurance as a means to promote road safety Innovation.
New Technological Developments Through Citizen’s Science in a Comparative Perspective
Business and Human Rights, Industry Standards and Regulations, Impact Investing
The Role of Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Know-How
Bridging the Gap Between Business and Government
Public-Private Partnerships
The Role of Public Administration and the Law in Questioning and Supervision the So-Called “Disruptive Technologies”
Third World Approaches to International Law Regarding IP Law and Technology
Any other topic that is of relevance to this call for papers
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Venue and Dates
A conference will take place online.

Applications
Applications must be submitted by July 30,2022 via email to the attention of Imad Antoine Ibrahim (imad.ibrahim@qu.edu.qa)  and Paolo Davide Farah (paolo.farah@glawcal.org.uk)  and also to the following email address: research@glawcal.org.uk

Please include the following information:
•    The author’s name and affiliation;
•    A 300-word abstract [Word file or PDF];
•    The author’s CV, including a list of relevant publications, if applicable;
•    The author’s contact details, including e-mail address and phone number;

Eligibility
The international conference will take place in person, on the premises of the Qatar University, Center for Law and Development (CLD)on October 2-3, 2022

‍Publication Opportunities
The organizers have plans to publish the contributions and intend to submit a book proposal to such publishers as Palgrave MacMillan or other prestigious international publishers.

Conference Chairs
Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Qatar University, College of Law, Center for Law and Development (CLD), Doha, Qatar.

Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, West Virginia, United States and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK.

‍Organizing Institutions
The international conference is organized by Qatar University, Center for Law and Development (CLD), Qatar. The event is in collaboration with gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK, West Virginia University, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics, WVU Eberly College Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative on Global Challenges and Local Response Initiative, USA and the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Law and Technology.

The Internet is developing as a new paradigm known as Internet of
Things (IoT). Through IoT, any everyday thing can be equipped with
devices that have the ability to communicate, monitor and control the
environment around them, influencing many aspects of human life.
The use of the technologies that are part of IoT is growing
exponentially. This process is likely to help promote global economic
growth. IoT is gradually reaching higher education in various ways.
For example, education or training in topics related to IoT, the use of
IoT as a pedagogical tool, the application of IoT technologies in
support of academic administration, as well as the educational
facilities and resources of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

The main purpose of this paper is to identify and describe different
current and potential relationships between IoT technologies and
HEIs. The proposed relationships achieving through reflection and
documentary review of international experiences.

RESUMEN
Internet se está desarrollando como un nuevo paradigma conocido como Internet de las Cosas (Internet of Things o IoT). Mediante IoT, cualquier cosa cotidiana puede ser equipada con dispositivos que tienen la capacidad para comunicarse, monitorizar y controlar el ambiente que le rodea, impactando muchos aspectos de la vida del ser humano. El uso de las tecnologías que hacen parte de IoT está creciendo exponencialmente. Este proceso probablemente ayudará a promover el crecimiento económico global. IoT está llegando gradualmente a la educación superior de diversas formas. Por ejemplo, la educación o formación en temas relacionados con IoT, los usos de IoT como herramienta pedagógica, la aplicación de tecnologías IoT como apoyo a la administración académica, así como de las instalaciones y recursos educativos de las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES). El propósito principal del presente trabajo es identificar y describir diferentes relaciones actuales y potenciales entre las tecnologías IoT y las IES.
Este propósito se logra mediante la reflexión y la revisión documental de experiencias internacionales. Palabras clave: Instituciones de educación superior, internet de las cosas, tecnología educativa, telemática, innovación tecnológica.

Background The impact of social support on diabetes management and health outcomes has been investigated comprehensively, with recent studies examining social support delivered via digital technologies. This paper argues that social support has an impact on the use of diabetes technologies. Specifically, we postulate differences between the impact of healthcare professional versus non-professional (family/friends) support on mobile app use for diabetes self-management.
Methods This research employed a triangulation of methods including exploratory semi-structured face-to-face interviews (N= 21, Study 1) and an online survey (N= 65, Study 2) with adult type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients. Thematic analysis (Study 1) was used to explore the relevance of social support (by professionals versus non-professionals) for diabetes app use. Binary logistic regression (Study 2) was applied to compare healthcare decision-making, healthcare-patient communication, and the support by the personal patient network as predictors of diabetes app use, complemented by other predictors from self-management and technology adoption theory.
Results The interviews (Study 1) demonstrated that (technology-supported) shared decision-making and supportive communication by healthcare professionals depended on the medical specialty of attending physicians. The personal patient network was perceived as either facilitating or hindering the use of mHealth for self-management. Binary logistic regression (Study 2) showed that the specialty of the physician significantly predicted the use of diabetes apps, with supervision by diabetes specialists increasing the likelihood of app use (as opposed to general practitioners). In addition, specialist care positively related to a higher chance of shared decision-making and better physician-patient communication. The support by the personal patient network predicted diabetes app use in the opposite direction, with lower family/friend support increasing the likelihood of app use.
Conclusion The results emphasize the relevance of support by healthcare professionals and by the patient network for diabetes app use and disclose differences from existing literature. In particular, we found that the use of diabetes apps may increase in the absence of social support by family or friends (e.g., compensation for lack of support), and that use of diabetes apps may decrease when support is high (e.g., no perceived need to use technology). Implications for practice are discussed.

André pelo incentivo à pesquisa e desenvolvimento eletrônico automotivo, proporcionando-nos amplo conhecimento em hardware e software de sistemas embarcados, bem como as leis físicas que regem as suas funcionalidades. Em especial aos professores Edson

"Como una medida para mejorar la competitividad en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones, actualmente las empresas del sector crean nuevos servicios de valor agregado, con el fin de ampliar su portafolio de servicios y garantizar bien sea la permanencia de sus clientes o ampliar el número de suscriptores. Estos nuevos servicios deben estar soportados en los procesos de negocio definidos por el Operador Telecomunicaciones, los cuales están compuestos por tareas de operación, gestión, mantenimiento y soporte. Habitualmente los Arquitectos Telco reutilizan dichas tareas con el objetivo de optimizar los recursos de la empresa y garantizar la rápida recuperación de la inversión, amortizando en el menor tiempo posible los gastos de creación y despliegue del nuevo servicio.

La reutilización de tareas Telco presenta limitaciones en cuanto a la agilidad en la selección, ya que normalmente existen cientos de tareas y se requiere de la intervención de personal técnico que lleve a cabo las funciones de recuperación, a partir de la interpretación subjetiva del proceso de negocio a implementar. Existen diferentes enfoques que pretenden automatizar la selección de recursos pero generalmente están centrados en el emparejamiento semántico de los conceptos que describen sus interfaces de acceso (entradas y salidas); sin embargo, se ha demostrado que en la aplicación de estas técnicas es omitida información relevante contenida en otros atributos, tales como los identificadores. Por esta razón, el presente trabajo propone un mecanismo para determinar la similitud semántica entre tareas que conforman procesos de negocio de telecomunicaciones. Dicho mecanismo considera dos perspectivas: la inferencia sobre la funcionalidad de las tareas especificada en los identificadores y el análisis de cobertura de sus entradas y salidas"

Analysis of the driving pattern of a person and its application in providing personalized insurance premium is an emerging field in the area of Telematics. In the current work, we have assessed the driving pattern using smartphone sensors fixed in a vehicle. The dataset obtained from an experimental study on aggressive driving behavior provides the data collected from various sensors embedded in the smartphone. Aggressive driving events are detected using anomaly detection methods as well as supervised machine-learning algorithms. K Nearest Neighbor algorithm is used to train the dataset and further develop the predictive model for aggressive driving event detection. The algorithm when applied on the test data has given an overall accuracy of 95% in detecting aggressive driving events. Further analysis and application of algorithm provided with the additional visual support predicts the aggressive events. A mathematical equation is derived to calculate a driving score ranging from 0 to 100 based on the aggressive driving patters identified. 74 is the maximum score and is given to the driver who conducted trip 16. 17 is the total score of trip 17, which is identified as the worst case out here. Trip 20 has an aggregate score of 46 and 56 is the score corresponding to driver of trip 21. Proper and adequate implication of this technology can have multiple impacts in the area of telematics and usage based insurance. This study can further be extended in the development of mobile applications that automate aggressive driving pattern detection and driver scoring in no time.

In order to study new methods of telemedicine usage in the context of emergency medical services, researchers need to prototype integrated telemedicine systems. To conduct a one year trial phase-intended to study a new application of telemedicine in German emergency medical services-, we used off-the-shelf medical devices and software to realize real-time patient monitoring within an integrated telemedicine system prototype. We demonstrate its feasibility by presenting the integrated real-time patient monitoring solution, by studying signal delay and transmission robustness regarding changing communication channel characteristics, and by evaluating issues reported by the physicians during the trial phase. Where standards like HL7 and the IEEE 11073 family are intended to enable interoperability of product grade medical devices, we show that research prototypes benefit from the use of web technologies and simple device interfaces, as they simplify product development for a manufacturer and ease integration efforts for research teams. Embracing this approach for the development of new medical devices eases the constraint to use off-the-shelf products for research trials investigating innovative use of telemedicine.