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:: Double Special issue in the Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
& Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing
Countries (EJISDC) on DIGITAL PLATFORMS FOR DEVELOPMENT
* Introduction and Background
Portrayed as a key component in the new digital economy, platforms
have received significant attention. Digital platforms are
restructuring how companies and industries operate, and failure to
adopt platforms impacts competitiveness and future growth. A
common perspective on platforms is to understand them as
multi-sided markets based on enabling value-creating interactions
between external producers and consumers. Recent information
systems literature has improved our understanding of key drivers,
business models and impacts of digital platforms (e.g.
Constantinides, Henfridsson and Parker 2018; Parker, Van Alstyne
and Choudary 2016).
The aim of this special issue is to identify and foster a
relatively unexplored research area of the significance and impact
of digital platforms in developing countries in relation to
socio-economic development. Increasingly, discourses around
digitalization have become central to research and practice
concerning ICT for development (ICT4D), with an emergent research
agenda that centres on exploring the significance of software
platforms and digital innovation in relation to socio-economic
development (see Nielsen 2017 and Koskinen et al 2018). We are
seeking contributions on digital platforms from developmental,
social, economic, technical, organizational, personal and
environmental perspectives. While platforms can facilitate
transactions, their significance correspondingly relates to
facilitating innovation and providing organizational flexibility.
Moreover, while existing research on digital platforms primarily
focuses on the private sector, platforms may be equally
significant in public and not-for-profit sectors.
* Based on empirical research and rooted in a concrete developing
country context, we expect contributions to offer new empirical
insights, develop new concepts and theories, and offer directions
for practice and policy. Exemplar topics and types of
contributions include:
- Examples and implications of how developing countries
participate in and take relevant roles in digital platform
innovation. This can include examples of digital innovation by
developing countries; theorizing digital innovation within
developing country contexts, and how digital innovation relates to
development.
- Explorations of digital platforms in private, public and
informal sectors.
- Theoretical and conceptual developments related to what digital
platforms are in the context of developing countries and related
key concepts such as digital innovation, platform architecture,
and software and innovation ecosystems.
- Explorations of the potential gap and tensions between digital
platforms developed in, for and by the global North and the global
South. - Examples and implications of Southern countries emerging
as important innovators in digital platforms. - Critical
implications of digital platforms related to ethics, privacy, and
security in the context of developing countries.
- Case studies of digital platforms and business models emerging
in the development context and how they as alternative models can
foster development and sustainable livelihoods.
* Paper Development Workshop
A paper development workshop will be organized at the 15th
International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in
Developing Countries (IFIP 9.4) conference in Dar es Salam,
Tanzania, May 1-3, 2019. We will organise this workshop around
papers submitted to the conference track on Digital Platforms and
Development, but it will also be open for all to participate.
* Submission procedure
This is a double Special Issue for the Information Systems Journal
(ISJ) and the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in
Developing Countries (EJISDC). Authors can submit their paper to
the special issue in either ISJ or EJISDC.
ISJ is a premier international journal promoting the study of, and
interest in, information systems. It welcomes articles on
research, practice, experience, current issues and debates. The
ISJ encourages submissions that reflect the wide and
interdisciplinary nature of the subject and articles that
integrate technological disciplines with social, contextual and
management issues, based on research using appropriate research
methods. The ISJ has particularly built its reputation by
publishing qualitative research and it continues to welcome such
papers.
EJISDC is one of the foremost international forums for
practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share
their knowledge and experience in design, development,
implementation, management and evaluation of information systems
in developing countries. EJISDC focuses on the digital divide. Its
aim is to situation contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully
global context. Outside of North America, Western Europe,
Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are making sense of
technological advances in ways unique to their cultures and
histories.
When deciding whether to submit to ISJ and EJISDC, please consider
the following. We expect submissions to the special issue in ISJ
to offer a substantial theoretical contribution to the Information
Systems research field (we expect authors to make this explicit in
their cover letter). Submissions to EJISDC must have a broader
audience than the information systems field, including
practitioners and policy makers (we expect the authors to make
this explicit in their cover letter).
Submissions rejected by the ISJ may be considered for the special
issue in EJISDC, and vice versa, but this is at the discretion of
the editors.
:: Coordinating editor
Professor Robert Davison
:: Special Issue editors
Brian Nicholson,
University of Oslo Norway & Alliance Manchester Business
School, UK
Petter Nielsen
University of Oslo (Also ISJ and EJISDC Senior Editor)
Johan Ivar Sæbø
University of Oslo (Also EJISDC Senior Editor)
:: Associate Editors
Margunn Aanestad University of Agder, Norway Chrisanthi Avgerou,
LSE, UK Carla Bonina, University of Surrey, UK Richard Heeks,
University of Manchester, UK
Ravishankar M.N., Loughborough University, UK Eric Monteiro
Norwegian, University of Science and Technology, Norway Sundeep
Sahay, University of Oslo, Norway Mark Thompson, University of
Exeter, UK Yingquin Zheng, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
:: Important Dates
Full paper submission deadline: September 30th 2019 (11:59 pm
Eastern Standard Time)
First editorial review sent to authors:
November 2019.
Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: March 2020
Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: July
2020
Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: November
2020
Third editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: March
2021
Final submission of accepted papers deadline:
Tentatively June 2021
ISJ/EJISDC publication: Tentatively Late 2021
:: References and Bibliography
Avgerou, C., & Li, B. (2013) Relational and institutional
embeddedness of Web‐enabled entrepreneurial networks: case studies
of netrepreneurs in China, Information Systems Journal, 23(4),
329-350.
Constantinides, P., Henfridsson, O. and Parker, G. G. (2018).
Introduction—Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age,
Information Systems Research, 29(2), 381-400.
de Reuver, M., Sørensen, C. & Basole, R.C. J Inf Technol
(2017).
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41265-016-0033-3
Gawer, A. (2009). Platforms, Markets and Innovation. Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Gawer, A. and Cusumano, M.A. (2014). Industry platforms and
ecosystem innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management,
31(3), pp.417–433.
Jin, D (2015) Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political
Culture. Routledge.
Koskinen, K, Bonina, C, and Eaton, B (2018). Digital Platforms in
the Global South: Foundations and Research Agenda. DIODE Working
Paper No. 8, Centre for Development Informatics, Global
Development Institute, University of Manchester.
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1566694
Malik, F, Nicholson, B and Heeks, R (2017) Understanding the
development implications of online outsourcing. Proceedings of
IFIP 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of
Computers in Developing Countries. Springer, Cham.
Nielsen, P. (2017). Digital Innovation: A Research Agenda for
Information Systems Research in Developing Countries. IFIP
Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Volume 504.
p. 269-279
Parker, G.G., Van Alstyne, M.W. and Choudary, S.P. (2016).
Platform revolution : how networked markets are transforming the
economy and how to make them work for you. W. W. Norton,
Incorporated.
Srnicek, N (2017) Platform Capitalism. Polity.
Taplin, J (2017) Move Fast and Break Things, Macmillan.
UNCTAD (2017) Information Economy Report available at
http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1872,
last accessed 16th November 2017.
Br.
- Petter
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department
Department of Informatics
University of Oslo
Ole-Johan Dahls Hus
Gaustadalleèn 23B
N-0373 Norway
+47 41506058
pnielsen@ifi.uio.no
http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/pnielsen/index.html
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petter_Nielsen
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