[AISWorld] Workshop on PASS -- Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems -- September 24

[Jan DeGross]

*Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) -- Next Generation 
Research Challenges for Computational IS Research*

During past decade IS/IT research has moved beyond its earlier primary 
concern regarding the */centrality/*of IS/IT construct to include the 
*/vitality/*of IS/IT constructs for a vast array of problem domains. MIS 
researchers led the business research in the use of computer networks of 
business processes whether it was the use of novel mercantile mechanisms 
or the host of behavioral issues associated with anonymized behavior to 
nature of virtual office.Information technology fundamentally changed 
the problem characteristics, application environment and domain, 
incentives of participants, and above all technology provides new ways 
to measure and manipulate participants’ incentive. One of the roles of 
IS research is to*/pose new questions about old beliefs/*due to 
technological advances in IS/IT. We do that because MIS researchers are 
the first one to embrace technology as vital component in interaction 
with our surrounding environment.

The workshop on Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) is 
an initiative of Workshop for Information Technology and Systems to 
encourage forward looking research in terms of problem domains, 
technological and methodological scope and its potential 
impact.Information is key to organizing a sustainable environment for 
the planet whether it is in terms of creating and managing food supply, 
energy, water or embedded devices that will provide new perceptory 
abilities to humans in the form of augmented reality and interactive 
decision environments.Building, testing, managing and controlling these 
new generation of technology would require an understanding that current 
data and approaches may not adequately be able to deal with.Yet 
appropriate guidelines and policies must be developed to avoid 
exploitation of new technology for potentially destructive purposes. The 
purpose of the PASS workshop is to invite researchers and scholars to 
discuss their forward looking research related to Information Systems 
and Technology and provide a forum for substantive discussion around a 
broad set of forward looking topics, not limited to the issues discussed 
above.Consistent with WITS theme, the methodological focus we encourage 
is that of computational, simulation and algorithmic strain.

While a broad set of questions at different level of granularity are of 
interest, the following questions provide broad strokes of kinds of 
areas that may be of interest.

·Given the triple-bottom-line concept of sustainability that requires 
long-term simultaneous optimization of economical, ecological and social 
objectives, what are the implications on the traditional resource-based 
view? How could we model/analyze these seemingly unrelated objectives in 
a collective manner?

·What are the policy implications of the scenario wherein the cost of 
information is decreasing, but environmental resources (and resources 
derived from environmental resources) are becoming increasingly constrained?

·Traditional IT has focused on indicators based on built capital, for 
example, physical capacity, financial resources, human resources, 
etc.What are the methodological implications of relying on indicators – 
for example, those related to well-being and natural capital – do they 
provide a reflection of the reality?

·How do we design and develop systems that capture information that is 
attached to anything that is exchanged?

The workshop will take place on Saturday September 24,^, 2016 at Carlson 
School of Management, the University of Minnesota.The participants will 
be provided accommodations for one night (Friday).There is no 
registration fee, however, the space is limited and will be provided on 
first come first serve basis.Interested presenters should send an 
abstract (One page) to Alok Gupta (alok at umn.edu <mailto:alok at umn.edu>) 
by September 2, 2016.