[AISWorld] Eleventh Annual AIS SIG Global Development Pre-ICIS Workshop Wednesday December 12 and Thursday December 13, 2018

[Sajda Qureshi]

Eleventh Annual AIS SIG Global Development Pre-ICIS Workshop
San Francisco, USA
Wednesday December 12 and Thursday December 13, 2018

Venue: San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Wednesday (1:00pm - 5:00pm): Sierra Suite B
Thursday (9:00am - 12:00pm): Sierra Suite C
Further information: https://icis2018.aisconferences.org/ and https://communities.aisnet.org/sigglobdev/home

Theme:
Information and Communication Technology Innovations in Global Development

GENERAL CHAIR
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Arlene Bailey, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Ted Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pamela Abbott, Sheffield University, UK
Annika Andersson, Örebro University, Sweden
David Asamoah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Irwin Brown, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jyoti Choudrie, Hertfordshire University, UK
Sue Conger, University of Dallas, USA
Antonio Diaz Andrade, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Delvin Grant, Depaul University, USA
Mathias Hatakka, Dalarna University, Sweden
Marlene Holmner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Stan Karanasios, RMIT University, Australia
Kirstin Krauss, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
Silvia Masiero, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
David Nemer, University of Kentucky, USA
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Sergey Samoilenko, Averett University, USA
Marita Turpin, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Judy Van Biljon, University of South Africa, South Africa
Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Jason Jie Xiong, Appalachian State University, USA
Yingqin Zheng, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

WEBMASTER
Salam Abdallah, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates

PROCEEDINGS MANAGER
Jason Jie Xiong, Appalachian State University, USA

DESCRIPTION
Scholars in Information Systems are investigating societal impacts of ICTs on people, data and things, research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT4D) is becoming increasingly diverse. Innovations in ICT4D involve investigating innovations in ICTs as well as innovative uses of ICTs.  Current innovative uses of blockchain technologies to track refugees, offer new identification mechanisms, healthcare tracking for epidemics and the use of cryptocurrencies to offer payment systems are offering new ways for people to bring about improvements in their lives. For example, the use of Bitcoin wallets have the potential to empower people through asset ownership and financial inclusion. With the fall of their banking systems and currencies in countries such as Zimbabwe and Argentina, the use of Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies have become prevalent. Innovative applications in open source communities are offering financial inclusion, health and wellbeing to those who were previously left out of opportunities to improve their lives from the global economy.

While drawing upon theories that help understand these emerging phenomena, research in ICT4D and IS also requires attention to the contextual challenges facing practitioners in the field. There have been attempts to develop theories that enable these challenges to be understood. Global pressures, socio-economic pressures, disruptive technology, and the emergence of multi-stakeholder networks are some of the forces being studied (Walsham 2017, Njihia and Merali 2013). An interesting and significant question is whether ICTs can play a sustaining, value-adding role that enables societies to move beyond the conditions that cause mass discontent to beneficial development for all. Such a role may include supporting social groups in: identifying and defining achievable goals, acquirable resources, and constraints to be acknowledged and if possible overcome; supporting sustainable & secure collaboration, offering health and wellbeing; and financial inclusion

The Global Development workshop addresses questions that provide new and meaningful definitions of Development, such as, Can ICTs support the development that will lead to improvements in lives of individuals, communities and regions? And inevitably, one needs to ask questions about how to better understand these problems and challenges. The papers in this workshop will also further the knowledge of what we know about how ICT enables the global economy by enabling local needs to be met in a manner that preserves the ability of the planet to support human life. It should be noted that focus includes not only development issues relevant to 'developing' countries but also those relevant to migrant and other minority communities or enclaves in Europe and North America.

Wednesday December 12, 2018
Time

Activity

1:00 - 1:15

Session I: Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop
Sajda Qureshi, Arlene Bailey, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Ted Stohr

1:15 - 2:15

Session II: Online Communities and Development
Session Chair:

Explaining online communities' contribution to socio-economic development
Joseph Budu

Perspectives Development NGOs Attribute To Organisational Social Media
Anand Sheombar, Cathy Urquhart, Oliver Kayas and Tidings Ndhlovu

Characteristics of "Walled Garden" Crowdsourcing Platforms for Global Development
Tim Olsen

2:15 - 2:30

Coffee Break

2:30 - 3:30

Session III: Digital Government and Development
Session Chair:

Prospects of collaborative consumption in the context of digital government
Seffi Gebeyehu Mengistu and Hossana Twinomurinzi

Reflecting on the role dynamic capabilities in digital government with a focus on developing countries
Debas Senshaw and Hossana Twinomurinzi

The exploitation of South African Social Security Agency grant recipients' data
Tania Prinsloo and Siphokazi Ntondini

3:30 - 5:00

Session IV:
Session Chair:

Human-Computer Interaction for Development: A knowledge mobilisation framework
Judy van Biljon

Drivers of Personal Health Information Privacy Concerns among Individuals in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study   Ernest Kwadwo Adu, Annette Mills and Nelly Todorova

Maximising opportunities using mobile apps: an exploratory factor analysis of service sector micro and small enterprises in Nigeria Adebowale Owoseni and Hossana Twinomurunzi

Influence of Constant Returns to Scale and Variable Returns to Scale Data Envelopment Analysis Models in ICT Infrastructure Efficiency Utilization
Oyeyinka Oyerinde and Felix Bankole







Thursday December 13, 2018
Time

Activity

9:00 - 9:15

Session V: Welcome to Day 2
Sajda Qureshi, Arlene Bailey, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Ted Stohr

9:15 - 9:45

Session VI: Keynote Presentation - Joshua Blumenstock, Berkley I School
"Fighting Poverty with Data: Exploring the Intersection of Machine Learning and Development"

Abstract:
In wealthy nations, improved algorithms and new sources of "big data" are creating exciting opportunities for commercial profit and academic research. In developing economies, however, fewer sources of robust data exist, and it remains unclear if and how the world's poor will benefit from new approaches to data science. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing work that capitalizes on recent advances in machine learning to tackle some of the problems affecting poor and marginalized populations. The talk will focus on recent results that illustrate how large-scale data from mobile phone and satellite networks can be combined with on-the-ground experiments and surveys to better understand the causes and consequences of global poverty.

9:45 - 10:45

Session VII: Panel Discussion - "Fighting Poverty with Data"
Session Chair: Joshua Blumenstock, Berkley I School
Panelists:

·        Martin Hilbert, UC Davis

·        Arlene Bailey, University of the West Indies, Mona

·        Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Virginia Commonwealth University

·

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Session VIII: Financial Inclusion and Development
Session Chair:

Global Financial Inclusion and Human Development: The Bitcoin Effect
Sajda Qureshi and Jason Xiong

The Role of Mobile Banking in Fostering Microfinance Performance - A Case Study of Urwego Opportunity Bank in Rwanda
Marthe Uwamariya

An Investigation of Affordances and Constraints for Continued Usage of Mobile Payment Technology
Abhipsa Pal, Tejaswini Herath, Rahul De' and H Raghav Rao

12:00

Lunch and End of Workshop

Thursday afternoon

Board meetings

-        AIS SIG Global Development Board meeting

-         ITD Editorial Board Meeting



WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS:
These will be published on the SIG GlobDev website and in the AIS E-Library with ISBN: 978-0-9976176-9-6.
FAST-TRACKING TO JOURNAL:
Authors of selected workshop papers will be invited to submit their papers for possible inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology for Development<http://globdev.org/dev/?q=node/8> (ITD).