Social Inclusion in the AIS Community: What, Why and How?

Emma Coleman, Michelle Carter, Robert Davison, Wallace Chigona, Cathy Urquhart

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Abstract

Social inclusion and the importance of work in developing countries has been an increasing topic of conversation during recent AIS conferences, and there are calls for research into ‘making a better world with ICT’. Trauth (2017) in her ‘Research Agenda for Social Inclusion in Information Systems’ states that “social inclusion in the information systems field is a research topic whose time has come”. Perhaps now is the time to debate where we see the future of our community, and how we can get to where we (arguably?) want to be, supporting all academics to have the freedom to participate fully in the activities of the community. As such, this panel asks: what are the barriers to inclusion of IS academics globally in the AIS community? Why is it important to have a socially inclusive AIS community? What strategies can we put in place to overcome these barriers to inclusion?”.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIS 2017 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationTransforming Society with Digital Innovation
PublisherAssociation for Information Systems
ISBN (Print)9780996683159
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2017 Dec 102017 Dec 13

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
PublisherAssociation for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

Conference

Conference38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period2017/12/102017/12/13

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Free keywords

  • AIS community
  • Barriers
  • ICIS conference
  • Social inclusion
  • Strategies

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