Session Description
Social impact assessment (SIA) is going to space. And we need you to navigate the journey. Join this highly interactive Pecha Kucha session where we'll explore the needs, challenges and opportunities for extraterrestrial SIA. The international space sector's growth is rocketing. And it's not just SpaceX IPOs. In both developed and middle-income countries, projects ranging from rocket launch stations to micro-satellite manufacturing are springing up. Use of satellite data and near Earth observation is also on the rise. These infrastructure projects and major technologies raise timely and important social questions. IAIA sets out Best Practice Principles for Extraterrestrial IA. Yet social impact assessment remains largely grounded when it comes to its use in space and space-related projects and technologies.This is despite the aerospace sector raising critical social impact questions, much like more traditional terrestrial projects. Concerns include: citizens rights to data privacy, protection of our skies' visual amenity (including freedom from nighttime satellite 'pollution'), space junk and debris recovery, Indigenous Peoples' data sovereignty, ground placement of infrastructure, and public rights to access near earth observation data, among many other compelling concerns.
Join this rapid-fire Pecha Kucha session and help us explore this new world of SIA:
-What are the common social impacts of the aerospace sector? And how are they currently being addressed in the industry?
-What role does SIA need to play as the sector grows? How can SIA be better integrated and promoted in the aerospace sector?
-What are great examples of SIA for space?
Session Summary
Social impact assessment (SIA) is going to space. And we need you to navigate the journey. Join this highly interactive Pecha Kucha session to boldly go where SIA has never gone before (that we know of!). We'll explore the needs, challenges and opportunities for extraterrestrial SIA.*
*space puns guaranteed!
Additional Information
This session is proposed by professionals from Australia and New Zealand working with the aerospace sector in an effort to identify and shape SIA practice for space and will be chaired by ANU InSpace Mission Specialist Professor Sara Bice. Key issues to be explored are covered in a forthcoming article, "From pixels to people: Earth observation’s social footprint in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia" (Christina Griffin, Carolle Varghese, Sam Provost and Sara Bice, forthcoming) which engages directly with the Conference's geographic home.
Proposed By
Social Impact Assessment
Session Chair
Sara Bice
The Australian National University
Australia