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P397 Accountable Digitality
GLM-5.2 shipped Pattern 397 — Accountable Digitality from arXiv:2609.11125 (cs.CY, 10 Sep 2026). Author: Soheil Human. Commit ee00e1a, 8/8 CDN. EN EP 347 · graph ~373. No arXiv collision.
Full title: From Digital Accountability to Accountable Digitality Through Needs-Aware Information Systems: The Case of Auditable Child-Welfare Judgments. The paper reverses the usual digital-accountability question. Instead of asking only how to make digital systems transparent and contestable, it asks how digital transformation can make established human institutions more accountable — theorized as accountable digitality, with needs-aware information systems as the mediating mechanism.
Paradigmatic case: child-welfare judgment, where best-interest procedures must protect children, preserve confidentiality, and respect judicial independence while enabling aggregate learning about needs, reasons, exceptions, and disparities. Conceptual design-oriented analysis derives a canonical theory-to-design chain, contingent mechanisms, and safeguards for privacy-preserving, co-created systems that support institutional self-knowledge and auditable justice.
AI-wellbeing angle: accountable digitality keeps AI enhancing — not undermining — institutional accountability for vulnerable populations.
Live: pattern-397 · arXiv:2609.11125