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Call for Paper: AMCIS 2021 Mini Track: From Regulating Technology
to Regulatory Technologies
The 27th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
* Conference Dates: August 9-13, 2021 (virtual conference)
* Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021
* Author Notification: April 16, 2021
* Camera ready submission deadline: April 23, 2021
* Conference site:
https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org
* AMCIS 2021 Call for Paper:
https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/
* Submission instructions:
https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/submissions/submission-instructions/
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Track description
From Regulating Technology to Regulatory Technologies
Increasingly, novel IT-artifacts are surfacing that are either
under-regulated, self-regulated, or unregulated. Under-regulated
artifacts like Uber and Airbnb have disrupted markets and caused
social unrests and regulatory bodies continue to amend existing
laws to govern platform activities. Distributed peer-to-peer
architectures like music-sharing platforms and public distributed
ledger technologies (DLTs) continue to be unregulated enabling
artifacts like crypto-currencies and torrents to threaten the
financial and entertainment ecosystems.
Existing laws fall short of adequately governing the development
and use of Intelligent Artifacts like autonomous cars and
smart-contracts especially when those get organically produced by
virtual communities on github and sourceforge. Concurrently,
policy development worldwide advocates for the under-regulation of
industries like finance and technology based on the principle that
regulations can stifle innovations and growth. An example is the
EU ‘hands-off’ approach to FinTechs which enabled the UK to become
the world’s FinTech leaders.
Enabling such technologies to self-regulate (or peer-regulate),
has often led to condemnation by various communities and ethnic
groups. Self-regulation requires AI algorithms that have not yet
embraced digital libraries of ethics and fairness; causing legal
havocs across the globe.
The purpose of this mini-track is to critically review the
underlying assumptions of the IS field and its’ schools of
thoughts. Does the IT-artifact require reconceptualization as it
drifts from reflecting our reality to creating it? What methods
can be adopted to govern the IT-artifact in light of its
transformation from one that is governed to one that governs?
Possible topics of interest for this mini-track include but are
not limited to the following:
- Revisiting relevant IS schools of thought in light of
self-regulated IT artifacts
- The legislative technology divide
- Ontological frames of intelligent systems and
regulation-embedded technologies
- Regulatory frameworks for intelligent technologies
- The unification of legal codes and computer codes
- Monism as an complementary ontological stance for IS research
- A critical revision of the underlying epistemologies of IS
research
- Axiology and the ethical values of self-regulated IT artifacts
- Theories of regulation and governance and their application in
IS research
- Applicability of IS theories to self-regulated IT artifacts
- Regulating the unregulatable
- Ethical structures of unregulated and under-regulated IT
artifacts
- Frameworks to facilitate regulating technology shifts to
regulatory technology
- RegTech as means to regulate technology
- Codifying regulations
- Assemblage Theory applicability to regulating technology
- Principal Agent Theory and peer-regulated IT artifacts
Mini-track Co-Chairs
Mazen El-Masri:
mazen.elmasri@qu.edu.qa<mailto:mazen.elmasri@qu.edu.qa>
Jon Truby:
jon.truby@qu.edu.qa<mailto:jon.truby@qu.edu.qa>
Karim Al-Yafi:
karim.alyafi@qu.edu.qa<mailto:karim.alyafi@qu.edu.qa>
Rafael Brown:
rbrown@qu.edu.qa<mailto:rbrown@qu.edu.qa>
Eiman Hussain:
eiman.hussain@qu.edu.qa<mailto:eiman.hussain@qu.edu.qa>
Mazen El-Masri
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Program Director of QNRF Fintech Cluster Cycle11
Director of Blockchain Innovation Lab
College of Business and Economics
www.mazenelmasri.com<http://www.mazenelmasri.com>
T. +974 4403-5067 [signature_1368384511]
MazenMasri
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mazenmasri/>