Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the extent to which digital technologies have become deeply embedded in our work and personal lives, enabling businesses and society to adapt quickly to a major disruption in routines and processes. Our reliance on digital technologies to support work and leisure has grown accordingly, thereby reshaping human endeavors as well as work practices and beyond.

For this track, we are interested in research examining how digital technologies can be used to help individuals, organizations, societies, and nations build resilience to enhance agility, continuity, and sustainability. Not only is there a need to increase pandemic readiness and response for the future, but many global issues such as climate change, disinformation, digital divide, food and water insecurity, poverty, and the need for global cooperation also warrant attention. Digital technologies, such as Internet of Things, digital twin, robotics, crowdsourcing, and green computing, can be deployed in various forms to help address these issues.

We are interested in research on the design, development, implementation, deployment, and impact of digital technologies to both help improve human well-being and overcome critical global issues and build digital resilience in many aspects of society. Research that examines critical global issues or emerging trends in IS across any level of analysis is of interest to this track. We are open to all kinds of research approaches and methodologies that address using digital technologies to improve or support human endeavors in the post-pandemic era.

Track Co-Chairs
Jan vom Brocke, Ph.D., University of Liechtenstein
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong
Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Pallab Sanyal, Ph.D., George Mason University