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HICSS 57
<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/> Minitrack: IS for Social
Good and Ills: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy
Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack Co-chairs: Jordana George, Amber Young, Sirkka Jarvenpaa
Keywords: public policy, governance, social impact, societal
challenges, legal regulation, public sector, ethics, practical
implications, industry, practice, innovation
Call for Papers: The objective of this minitrack is to foster a
community of researchers who are interested in understanding how
technology can be used for social impact, and in developing
practical guidance for organizational, legal, and political
leaders who are shaping policies and laws. We will consider three
types of papers for this minitrack:
1. Traditional research papers that make a theoretical
contribution to knowledge about technology. These papers will be
reviewed in a traditional manner. These papers will be considered
for fast tracking to Information & Organization.
2. Practice- or policy-oriented papers that describe an emergent
innovation or law and the anticipated impacts of this innovation
or law. These papers will clearly articulate practical or policy
implications. They will be written in a way that makes a complex
technology or law understandable to readers from a variety of
backgrounds.
3. Teaching cases that help educators and students think
critically about the social impact of technology. These papers
will include discussion questions to help students and educators
think through the potential future impacts of technology.
4. Methodology papers that highlight methods especially useful for
research in IS societal impact. These papers may explore mixed
methodology, new methods, or novel applications of methods that
are currently underutilized in societal impact IS research.
In this minitrack, we seek to advance understanding of how
technology design, development, implementation, and governance
influence both positive and negative social impact. We want to
understand how technology improves or worsens societal and
organizational conditions. The following list of potential topics
is not meant to be exhaustive:
Type 1 Papers: Traditional Research
* Technology and social good (e.g., emancipation, dignity, social
justice, inclusion, empowerment, collective and connective action,
activism, social movements, transparency).
* Technology and social ills (e.g., surveillance capitalism,
excessive algorithmic management, privacy violations, oppressive
work conditions for gig workers, digital divide, inequity,
exclusion, terrorism, cybercrime, human trafficking, and strategic
systems design that promotes technology addiction).
Type 2 Papers: Practice- or Policy- Oriented
* Descriptions and implications of innovations (e.g., vaccine
passports, blockchain, big data, virtual reality, employee
wearables and trackers, algorithmic management, smart homes).
* Descriptions and implications of policies and laws (e.g., PACT
Act, remote work policies, PRO Act, algorithmic hiring policies,
COPPA, UNESCO, gig worker policies, ADA, privacy policies).
Type 3 Papers: Teaching Cases
* Cases and discussion questions to help educators and students
think critically about the positive and negative impacts of
technology for diverse groups, organizations, or society.
Type 4 Papers: Methodology
* Novel use of methodologies or development of new methodologies
that are particularly appropriate for research in IS societal
impact. This may include novel methodology mixes, modifications to
traditional methods, or new methods and research practice.
Mini track Co-Chairs:
* Jordana J. George (primary contact), Mays Business School, Texas
A&M University,
jgeorge@mays.tamu.edu<mailto:jgeorge@mays.tamu.edu>
* Amber G. Young, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of
Arkansas,
ayoung@walton.uark.edu<mailto:ayoung@walton.uark.edu>
* Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University
of Texas at Austin,
Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu<mailto:Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu>
Jordana J. George is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Information Systems in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M
University. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems at Baylor
University. She holds an MBA from Penn State University and an MFA
from the University of California at Davis. A former manager with
two decades in technology management roles, she researches the
social impact of information systems. Her work has been published
in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of
Operations Management, Information and Organization,
Communications of the AIS, and Information Systems Management,
among others. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of
the AIS and is a frequent contributor on Data Philanthropy topics
at The Conference Board.
Amber G. Young is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in
the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of
Arkansas. Her current research focuses on how information systems
can be designed and used for social good. Dr. Young is on the
editorial board of Information & Organization and is Guest
Associate Editor of Information Systems Journal. Her research has
been published in MIS Quarterly (x2), Journal of Management
Information Systems, Journal of the AIS, Information Systems
Journal, Information & Organization, International Journal of
Information Management, and Communications of the AIS.
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa is the James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Regents
Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of
Business, University of Texas at Austin, where she is the director
of the Center for Business, Technology, and Law. During 2008-2012,
she held the Finnish Distinguished Professorship at Aalto
University School of Science and Technology. She has held visiting
professorships in leading business schools in the U.S. and Asia.
She is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Strategic
Information Systems. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the Association for Information Systems and as the
senior editor of Organization Science, Information Systems
Research, and MIS Quarterly. She is a recipient of three honorary
doctoral degrees. In 2017, she was awarded the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) LEO Award for Exceptional Lifetime
Achievement in the field of information systems.