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Dear Colleagues,
Hope you are well. Please find below a reminder of the AMCIS
minitrack on
ICT4D and Data Justice, with submission deadline 1st March 2021.
All the best,
Silvia
*AMCIS 2021 Minitrack: **ICT4D and Data Justice*
*Minitrack chairs: **Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo; **Soumyo
Das,
Emlyon Business School*
Research on data justice, meant with Taylor (2017) as “fairness in
the way
people are made visible, represented and treated as a result of
their
production of data”, stems from the increasing availability of
digital data
for populations worldwide. While used for purposes ascribable to
“development” goals, such as provision of better public services,
inclusion
of vulnerable populations and humanitarian management, such
availability of
data can result in injustices that are widely documented in
literatures
across media and communications, human geography and critical data
studies.
Against this backdrop, it is surprising to see limited explicit
engagement
of ICT4D with issues of data justice, which – with notable
exceptions – is
underrepresented in the literature of our field. Such
underrepresentation
emerges in the limited engagement with data justice in ICT4D
journals,
conference tracks and symposia, leaving an important gap to fill
in this
respect.
Against this backdrop, this minitrack invites papers that
explicitly engage
the theme of data justice, dealing with topics that include, but
are not
limited to:
– Theorisations of data justice in ICT4D,
– Studies of just or unjust data practices in developing
countries, e.g.
use of data in public services or social protection for the poor,
– Studies of data use in the management of refugee or internally
displaced
people,
– Studies of data use towards inclusion or reduction of
vulnerabilities,
– Intersections of digital identity with data justice or
injustices,
– Data justice implications of COVID-19 tracking practices in
developing
nations.
Submission deadline: 1 March 2021
Submission website:
https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/
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