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1st IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference – Resilient ICT4D
The COVID-19 emergency has posed a heavy burden on health
infrastructures in the developing world. As an unprecedented
crisis, the pandemic has had severe social, redistributional and
economic impacts on vulnerable groups, affecting the development
processes that the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on Implications of
Information and Digital Technologies for Development has
traditionally dealt with. With the new disease posing a
development challenge for all nations, a global development
paradigm (Oldenkop et al., 2020) emerged in studying responses to
it. In the spirit of “making a better world” with ICTs that
characterises the ethos of ICT4D (Walsham, 2012), engagements with
such responses have interested our research during the pandemic.
At the same time, ICT4D research on topics different from the
ongoing crisis is itself influenced by the pandemic in diverse
ways. Planning and conducting fieldwork in the forms we knew it
became impracticable, with researchers having to resort to
alternative ways to access respondents and field sites.
Conferencing, and with it the interactions that are crucial to our
academic growth have abruptly moved to the digital world, with new
affordances (such as abating barriers of cost and travel) but also
new constraints, connected to the digital recreation of a
traditionally physical world. Resilience, seen with Heeks and
Ospina (2019) as the ability of systems to cope with external
shocks and trends, became crucial to us as ICT4D colleagues, both
in the conduct of research and in the interactional aspects of our
lives as academic community.
Against this backdrop, a Resilient ICT4D is what has emerged from
the COVID-19 crisis, and the theme inspiring our Virtual IFIP 9.4
Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies
for Development to take place on 26-28 May 2021. While pertaining
to themes of ICT4D research in and beyond the pandemic, the tracks
in the conference are underpinned by the need for a resilient
attitude that, in the face of one of the greatest shocks ever
suffered by humanity, keeps alive the spirit of “making a better
world” with ICTs.
:: Papers for IFIP 9.4 2021
Papers for the IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference should be formatted
according to the template for submissions to IFIP 9.4 conferences.
Please note the word limits for full research papers (5000 words
for text excluding abstract, diagrams, tables and references) and
for research in progress/practitioner reports of experience and
reflection (2500 words for text excluding abstract, diagrams,
tables and references).
Submissions should be sent to
ifip94conference@gmail.com by the
deadline of 30 March 2021. Please indicate “IFIP 9.4 Virtual
Conference” in the subject line, and please ensure the email text
specifies names, contact emails and affiliations for all authors,
as well as the track to which the paper is submitted.
:: Tracks for IFIP 9.4 2021:
- ICT and Resilience Building: Climate Change, Pandemic, and Other
Stressors
- Digital Platforms in, from and in-between the Global South and
North
- Data Science in Public Health
- ICT4D and Data Justice
- Our Digital Lives (IFIP 9.5 Track)
- Digital Social Enterprises & COVID-19: Enablers,
Sustainability & Pathways
- Feminist and Queer approaches to Information Systems in
Developing Countries
- Displacements, ICTs, and #NewNormal
- Digital Authoritarianism and Fundamentalism: Problems and
Solutions
- The Role of ICT in Achieving Social Justice (ICT4SJ)
- General Track
:: Conference website:
http://ifiptc9.org/wg94/
:: Conference Chairs:
Silvia Masiero (
silvima@ifi.uio.no)
Petter Nielsen (
pnielsen@ifi.uio.no)
--
Associate Professor
Head of Information Systems Research Group
Department of Informatics
University of Oslo
Ole-Johan Dahls Hus
Gaustadallečn 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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