[AISWorld] Second International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)

[Jonas Hedman]

Second International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)

A roundtable meeting in Dublin, Ireland, April 17 & 18, 2013
Abstract submission deadline: March 22, 2013

Sponsored by the Copenhagen Finance IT Region, the Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School, and Financial Services Innovation Centre, University College Cork

CASHLESS SOCIETY

For centuries, coins and bills were the only options to make purchases and to transfer money between people and organisations. The second half of the last century witnessed the introduction of lucrative proprietary payment networks (credit cards), Electronic Fund Transfer, Internet banking, and pre-paid payment cards all aimed at making payment more efficient. With the democratization of the internet and mobile telecommunications, a number of innovative payment solutions have emerged, including premium SMS payments, M-PESA, Pay Pal, Google Wallet, and Bit Coin, Flatter, and Square-Up. Many of these innovations offer advantages in terms of costs, security, andconvenience, but they also pose a number of challenges and risks related to technical standards, data security, legal issues and consumer behavior. Overall, these innovations are changing people’s perception and experience of money and paying.
The tight grip of the incumbent players in the payments industry is therefore being challenged by disrupters who are at home in a digital society, and who don’t differentiate the management of payments from the management of any other online resource. The financial crisis has eroded trust in traditional banking, and new network partnerships are evolving between merchants, Mobile Network Operators, innovators in the technology area and traditional payments processors. Not only do new payment solutions attract a lot of attention in the media because of their convenience and perceived efficiency, but they also trigger a wider debate regarding the nature of payments, and, by corollary, our evolution towards a cashless society. The shift from physical cash towards digital currency means a re-evaluation of the nature of money and monetary services.
Monetary value as proxy for cash has been the basis of our system of financial services, but organisations are beginning to look at other forms of value, and other ways to transact that value. Whether in loyalty programmes, charity donations, or digital vouchers, the payments industry is  effervescent with new ideas and new ways of integrating digital cash into products and services.
Changing perceptions regarding the nature of payments will impact the actors in the payment eco-system, leading to a number of both anticipated and unanticipated consequences on the individual, the organization and society itself. We therefore stress the importance of investigating the consequences of a cashless society from multiple perspectives, including economic, technical,infrastructure, sociological, anthropological, design, and information systems, to mention a few.
The Second International Cashless Society Roundtable will examine the consequences and impact of a cashless society from multiple perspectives at different levels of analysis. Specifically, topics of interest may include (but are not limited to) the following:


¨     Emerging payment business models

¨     Pricing models for mobile payments

¨     Cash in the future

¨     New payment solutions as disruptive technologies

¨     Social consequences of a cashless society

¨     Digitalisation of money

¨     Changes in the payment eco-system

¨     Role of money and payments insociety

¨     Economics of payments

¨     Emerging payment technologies, e.g. mobile payments, Bit Coin, Flatter etc.

¨     Designing new payments and payments techniques, e.g. NFC, Bio metric payments

¨     Integrity and privacy issues

¨     …

SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts for presentations are invited and should be not more than 2000 words. Please also provide a short (100 word) bio, with full contact information including email addresses.
Abstracts are due by March 22, 2013. Please email your abstract to cashlessroundtable at gmail.com. If you have questions,please contact the Roundtable Chair Fergal Carton (F.Carton at ucc.ie).
The roundtable committee consists of Jonas Hedman (Copenhagen Business School), Jan Ondrus (ESSEC Business School), Fergal Carton (University College of Cork), and Virpi Kirstiina Tuunainen (Aalto University).
ROUNDTABLE LOCATION
The roundtable will be held at the Irish Management Institute in Dublin, Ireland, see http://www.imi.ie/ for more details. A number of on-site accommodation rooms are avaialable to attendees at the special roundtable price of €50 per person including continental breakfast.
Jonas Hedman
Associate Professor
Department of IT Management

Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60, DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: (+45) 3815 4455 | Mob.: (+45) 2479 4310 | jh.itm at cbs.dk<applewebdata://6BC22F08-46B3-4803-9383-196C1FAEB236/jh.caict@cbs.dk>

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