This Data & Policy Special Collection of peer-reviewed, open-access articles is built on the prestigious Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Fast Track to Publishing structure. Our guest editor Dr. Derrick Cogburn (American University) leads two HICSS minitracks:

• Minitrack on Big Data Analytics and Text Mining (now named AI Safety, Cybersecurity and Inclusion through Advanced Text Analytics) within the Decision Analytics and Service Science Track;
• Minitrack on Culture, Identity & Inclusion within the Digital and Social Media Track.

The Special Collection is particularly focused on papers from these minitracks, but also invites submissions by authors in these minitracks, as well as a wide range of papers accepted to HICSS that include diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to analyzing large scale text as data. Revised and extended papers accepted for this Special Collection will all pay close attention to the policy implications of their analyses.

See the Call for Papers related to HICCS 58th Conference in December 2025.

Articles published to date are below, with more to follow...