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

Summary, in English

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?”.

• Author: Emma Coleman; Michelle Carter; Robert Davison; Wallace Chigona; Cathy Urquhart
• Publishing year: 2018
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: Association for Information Systems
• Topic: Information Systems, Social aspects
• Keywords: AIS community; Barriers; ICIS conference; Social inclusion; Strategies
• Conference name: 38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017
• Conference date: 2017-12-10 - 2017-12-13
• Conference place: Seoul, Korea, Republic of
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9780996683159