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<p>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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<p>Hope you are well. Please find below an AMCIS minitrack on ICT4D and Data Justice that might be of interest.<br>
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<p>All the best,<br>
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<p>Silvia<br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>AMCIS 2021 Minitrack: </strong></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>ICT4D
and Data Justice</strong></em></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Minitrack chairs: </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Silvia
Masiero, University of Oslo; </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Soumyo Das, Emlyon Business School</em></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Research on data justice, meant with Taylor (2017) as “fairness in the way people are made visible, represented and treated as a result of their production of data”, stems from the increasing availability of digital data for populations
worldwide. While used for purposes ascribable to “development” goals, such as provision of better public services, inclusion of vulnerable populations and humanitarian management, such availability of data can result in injustices that are widely documented
in literatures across media and communications, human geography and critical data studies. Against this backdrop, it is surprising to see limited explicit engagement of ICT4D with issues of data justice, which – with notable exceptions – is underrepresented
in the literature of our field. Such underrepresentation emerges in the limited engagement with data justice in ICT4D journals, conference tracks and symposia, leaving an important gap to fill in this respect.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Against this backdrop, this minitrack invites papers that explicitly engage the theme of data justice, dealing with topics that include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Theorisations of data justice in ICT4D,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Studies of just or unjust data practices in developing countries, e.g. use of data in public services or social protection for the poor,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Studies of data use in the management of refugee or internally displaced people,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Studies of data use towards inclusion or reduction of vulnerabilities,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Intersections of digital identity with data justice or injustices,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">– Data justice implications of COVID-19 tracking practices in developing nations.</span></p>
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Submission deadline: 1 March 2021<br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Submission website: <a href="https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/" target="_blank">https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/</a> </span></p>
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