-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2021 Minitrack: From Regulating Technology to Regulatory Technologies Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 16:07:10 +0000 From: Mazen El - Masri mazen.elmasri@qu.edu.qa To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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/ * Submission site: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login

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.qamailto:mazen.elmasri@qu.edu.qa Jon Truby: jon.truby@qu.edu.qamailto:jon.truby@qu.edu.qa Karim Al-Yafi: karim.alyafi@qu.edu.qamailto:karim.alyafi@qu.edu.qa Rafael Brown: rbrown@qu.edu.qamailto:rbrown@qu.edu.qa Eiman Hussain: eiman.hussain@qu.edu.qamailto: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.comhttp://www.mazenelmasri.com T. +974 4403-5067 [signature_1368384511] MazenMasrihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mazenmasri/