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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">ICT and Societal Challenges</font></font></span></b></p>
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Special Issue Guest Editors</font></font></span></b></p>
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">Ann Majchrzak</span></b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">,
University of Southern California (</span></font></font><a href="mailto:majchrza@usc.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">majchrza@usc.edu</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">)</font></font></span></p>
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">M. Lynne Markus</span></b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">,
Bentley University (</span></font></font><a href="mailto:mlmarkus@bentley.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">mlmarkus@bentley.edu</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">)</font></font></span></p>
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ESADE – Ramon Lull University (<u><a href="mailto:jonathan.wareham@esade.edu">jonathan.wareham@esade.edu</a></u>)</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Pre-ICIS
Workshop To Discuss Paper Ideas (non-mandatory): December 14, 2013</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">Submission
Deadline:<span> </span>March</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">
31</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">, 2014</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><a href="https://amsprd0410.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=L9aqcmwl90-hCalrbjmo5DbclZVgidAIZJtsB7Z6d6DMrsxIICi_cVq4jJy0I2jDppdnZekftk4.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.misq.org%2fskin%2ffrontend%2fdefault%2fmisq%2fpdf%2fCurrentCalls%2fICTChallenges.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.misq.org/skin/frontend/default/misq/pdf/CurrentCalls/ICTChallenges.pdf</font></a></span></div>
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Summary</font></font></span></b></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) has been recognized as an important catalyst for national
progress and social transformation, an insight that motivated early 20</font><font><sup>th</sup></font><font size="3">
century telecom regulations ensuring universal access for all citizens. More
recently, we have witnessed how governments, nongovernmental organizations, and
organic social movements can use ICT to create increased participation, transparency,
and accountability for previously voiceless people in the developing nations of
the Middle East, Africa and Asia. But, as Rob Kling </font></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><span><font size="3">(</font></span></span></font><a title="Kling, 1996 #30" href="file:///J:/MISQ%20Special%20Issue/MISQ-SI-Societal-Problems_V2%20September_12%202013.docx#_ENREF_1"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";text-decoration:none"><font size="3">Kling, 1996</font></span></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">)</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">
reminded us, ICT’s consequences are not universally positive: ICT can
contribute to unemployment and increased economic disparity, as well as labor
and financial market instability and a host of other social problems. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The time has come to assess the evidence
about ICT’s social consequences and to develop better theories about the precise
nature of the role of ICT in complex social problems and the ecosystems that
perpetuate the problems.<span> </span>Towards this
aim, we invite papers that examine the role of ICT in complex social problems. This
role may be:</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Enabling -<span> </span>augmenting, catalyzing, or supporting
solutions for complex social problems, or </font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Constraining – worsening existing
social problems, creating new problems, or diverting attention and resources from
needed social change. </font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">By complex social problems, we mean social
challenges that are shaped by dynamic and interdependent factors; that cannot
be “solved” by simple interventions; about which little evidence or agreement
about effective solutions exists; and that change unpredictably in response to policy
interventions, often beyond the political lifespans of policy makers (Gardner
2011).<span> </span>Solving these problems typically
requires the support of coalitions of political and financial advocates,
execution by skilled and pragmatic actors, and an enabling ICT infrastructure
(Shen et al. 2007). Examples include unemployment, financial exploitation, pollution
and climate change, poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, crime, corruption, and
addiction (Wareham and Sonne, 2008). </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000">For this special issue, authors should
examine the role of ICT in enabling or inhibiting complex social problems and
their solutions. This examination should have particular characteristics.<span> </span>First, we are particularly interested in
novel affordances and constraints of ICT</font><span style="color:red"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><span><font color="#000000">(Gibson 1977; </font></span></span></font><a title="Leonardi, 2011 #33" href="file:///J:/MISQ%20Special%20Issue/MISQ-SI-Societal-Problems_V2%20September_12%202013.docx#_ENREF_2"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";text-decoration:none"><font size="3">Leonardi, 2011</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">; </font></span><a title="Majchrzak, Forthcoming #32" href="file:///J:/MISQ%20Special%20Issue/MISQ-SI-Societal-Problems_V2%20September_12%202013.docx#_ENREF_3"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";text-decoration:none"><font size="3">Majchrzak & Markus, forthcoming</font></span></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">; Zammuto et al 2007 )</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">. Thus, the
focus should not primarily be on the features of ICT but rather on the uses of
ICT that are <i>afforded </i>or <i>constrained</i> by those features. Second,
the social context of use within the social problem, including the range of
users and other stakeholders, should be considered </span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><span>(</span></span></font></font><a title="Markus, 2002 #31" href="file:///J:/MISQ%20Special%20Issue/MISQ-SI-Societal-Problems_V2%20September_12%202013.docx#_ENREF_4"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";text-decoration:none"><font size="3">Markus et al. 2002</font></span></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">)</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">.
<span> </span>Third, </span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">we particularly encourage research with a focus expanded
beyond</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""> a simple 2-party system of service deliverer and recipient
to include aspects of the social and institutional environments that affect the
social problem. The role of ICT in promoting participation, enabling new discourse
and discussion, and increasing transparency are all of interest in this special
issue, along with ICT’s role in problem creation or maintenance. While no paper
needs to take all these issues into account, too much abstraction risks
oversimplifying the affording and constraining roles of ICT. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Theories and methodologies outside the
traditional mainstream IS literature are welcomed (as are insightful
established theories). For example, approaches not commonly seen include: systems
dynamics modeling, simulation studies, action research, chaos modeling
techniques, meta-analysis, event-based retrospectives, interpretive methods,
and combinations of qualitative and quantitative analysis at various levels of
analysis. Journalistic descriptions of ICT use in complex social problems, as
well as papers that present simple surveys of social service recipients, are
unlikely to provide convincing empirical evidence or sufficient insight into the
phenomenon’s complexity.<span> </span>Quantitative
work that delves deeply into societal reactions to ICT is, however, very much
encouraged. The gap in the research on societal issues is not a methodological
gap as we see it.<span> </span>It is essentially a
theoretical gap. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">Papers will be evaluated using rigorous
criteria associated with high quality academic research, recognizing that we
are encouraging scholars to take risks in both the content and methods they use
</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">(Burrell and
Toyama 2009)</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">. <span> </span>Papers in this special issue will form a body
of literature concerning the role of ICT in complex social problems, consisting
of both theory and data.<span> </span>Ideally, the
papers will also describe how the consideration of such complexity informs the
broader domain of IS research. Pure theory papers will be considered, provided
that they demonstrate the novelty of the theory in real-world applications.<span> </span></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Possible topics for the special issue
include, but are not limited to:</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Affordances and constraints of ICT that
create or worsen complex social problems</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Ethical dilemmas in the development and
deployment of ICT</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Applications of ICT for managing or
disrupting the tensions, contradictions and paradox in complex social problems</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Applications of ICT to promote citizen
participation or democratization</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">ICT’s role in social or economic exploitation
and marginalization </font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">ICT-enabled business models for social
entrepreneurship and social problems </font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Societal, behavioral, and economic
consequences of ICT use</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">How ICT-enabled platforms help NGOs
complete social missions</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">Responsible innovation with ICT and
implications for IS design science</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3">National ICT policies and how they
shape the societal environment for ICT acceptance and diffusion and
international levels. </font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">A pre-ICIS 2013 (Milan) workshop on ICT
and Societal Challenges will be held on </span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">December
14, 2013 12-5 pm at Bocconi University. This will be<b> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">an opportunity for all interested
colleagues—regardless of their intentions to submit to the MISQ Special
Issue—to discuss ideas for social, behavioral, and economic research on ICT’s
role in societal challenges and the implications for IS design science. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">People interested in participating in
the pre-ICIS 2013 workshop should submit a short (2 page maximum) position
statement or an abstract describing your research interests to M. Lynne Markus
(<a href="mailto:mlmarkus@bentley.edu">mlmarkus@bentley.edu</a>) by 25 November, 2013. </font></font></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><a href="https://amsprd0410.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=L9aqcmwl90-hCalrbjmo5DbclZVgidAIZJtsB7Z6d6DMrsxIICi_cVq4jJy0I2jDppdnZekftk4.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.misq.org%2fskin%2ffrontend%2fdefault%2fmisq%2fpdf%2fCurrentCalls%2fICTChallengesWorkshop.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.misq.org/skin/frontend/default/misq/pdf/CurrentCalls/ICTChallengesWorkshop.pdf</font></a></font></span></div>
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Special Issue Editorial Board </font></font></span></b></p>
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Llull University</font></font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Chrisanthi Avgerou, London
School of Economics</font></span></span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Bhappu, University of Arizona</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Michael Barrett, Cambridge University</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Institution</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Wayan Vota, Gateway</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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