Gender-Based Perspectives of eLearning Systems: An Empirical Study of Social Sustainability Ahmed D. Alharthi, RMIT University |
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Green Support and the Use of Information Technology Products Pakvalit Kurkoon, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi |
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Health Data Access Barriers in a Finnish Insurance Company: A Case Study Casandra Grundstrom, University of Oulu |
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Information Sharing and Coordination in Collaborative Flood Warning and Response Systems Vittorio Nespeca |
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Privacy Awareness in the GDPR Implementation Circumstances Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice |
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Mehdi Ben Lazreg, University of Agder |
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Strategy Dynamics in Markets of Software Components Di Shang, Long Island University Brooklyn |
Information Systems (IS) are contributing to transformative changes in business and everyday life of people. This is an era of digital Darwinism whereby digital technologies enable new types of innovation processes, and offer unprecedented opportunities for adding, recombining and integrating resources in services and products. Taken together, the exponential increases in technological capacity has been argued to distribute control and locus of innovation. These developments in Information Systems Development (ISD) can potentially increase citizen participation in democratic processes, standards of living, and transparency. Simultaneously, digitalization, poses new challenges. For example, social-media might lead to “filter bubbles” reinforcing our established beliefs, fusion of everyday practices with IS create privacy concerns, the “internet-of-things” escalates security related risks and artificial intelligence poses salient ethical considerations.
While new technological capabilities in IS are an important enabler of societal progress, technology alone does not create economic growth and social progress. Relationships are critical to beneficial interactions between technology, its users and the wider society. Without people, none of the progress and social gains IS enables would be possible. Issues like the impact of IS on quality of people's lives, employment, education, networking, communications, business and public organizations are main areas of contribution of this track, as well as the risks and ethical considerations it creates.