[AISWorld] Program for 8th Annual SIG GlobDev Pre-ICIS Workshop

[Sajda Qureshi]

The full program and papers may be accessed through: http://www.globdev.org/?q=node/126

Program for 8th Annual SIG GlobDev Pre-ICIS Workshop

ICT IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
202 C Convention Center



Theme:
Information and Communications Technology Innovations for Sustainable Global Development

ISBN Number: 978-0-982-6068-9-6


Sponsor
[Routledge_RGB]

Preface

The concept of Development has eluded IS researchers who continue to grapple with increasing ICT innovations by people living in countries with scarce resources. In particular, innovations in mobile payments continue to drive entrepreneurship in the remotest parts of the world; for example, the country with the largest number of users of mobile payments, Kenya, hardly features in mainstream IS research. Recent special issues in mainstream IS Journals have awoken to these innovative uses of ICTs realizing that there are societal consequences as innovations in social networking, crowdsourcing and mobile banking bring novel research questions to the field. Yet, imminent scholars continue to grapple with a well-known phenomenon; Development. Historically, development has been studied in the fields of Economics, Government and International Relations as the economic growth of countries, regions with social, political and human consequences. In the past ten years, the access, use and innovations in ICTs to bring people in the remotest and poorest parts of the world as active participants in the global economy, has made the study of ICTs for Development an important means of understanding how improvements in people's live may or may not take place though IS implementations. Because the phenomenon of ICTs and Development is moving previously poor, developing countries into the mainstream of economic life, leaving developed countries to catch up with their innovations, IS research is scrambling to catch up.

The Global Development workshop addresses questions that provide new and meaningful definitions of Development, such as does development have to be a zero-sum game with winners and losers and what are the socio-cultural dynamics of international collaboration? In a world that is increasingly characterized by climate disturbance, natural disasters, economic crises, challenges to peaceful relationships within and between states, diminishing natural resources, exploitation and manipulation of natural resources with grave costs to the environment, demands for participation in governance, what lenses are there to understand these changes?  Can ICTs support the development, promotion and realization of a model of 'development' that is holistic, inclusive, just and sustainable, and that will lead to an appropriate quality of life for each individual on the planet?

The papers in this workshop further 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.




GENERAL CHAIR
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA

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

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pamela Abbott, Brunel University, UK.
Annika Andersson, Swedish Business School. Örebro University, Sweden
Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, The University of Texas-Pan American, USA
Corlane Barclay, University of Technology, Jamaica
Irwin Brown, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jyoti Choudrie, Hertfordshire University, UK
Paul Golding, University of Technology, Jamaica
Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Mathias Hatakka, Swedish Business School. Örebro University, Sweden
Marlene Holmner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kirstin Krauss, Rhodes University, South Africa
Gunjan Mansingh, The University of the West Indies Mona campus, Jamaica
Shana Ponelis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Sergey Samoilenko, Averett University, USA
Gamel Wiredu, Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration, Ghana
Yingqin Zheng, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

WEBMASTER
Salam Abdallah, Abu Dhabi University, UAE





Workshop-at-a-Glance
Eighth Annual SIG Global Development Workshop. Fort Worth Texas.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Program Overview
Place: 202 C Convention Center
Time

                                              Event

8:30 -9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15

Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00

Session I:Keynote Address
Ojelanki Ngwenyama,
""The Challenges of Educating Young Scientists for Development"

10:00- 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15- 12:00

Session II: Innovations for Economic and Social Development

12:00 -1:00

Break/Lunch
Panel
"Mentoring Emerging Scholars in Development"

1:00 - 2:30

SESSION III - Education and Human Development

2:30 - 2:45

Coffee Break

2:45 - 4:30

SESSION IV - Innovations in an Interconnected World

4:30 - 4:45

Social/Coffee Break

4:45 - 6:00

SESSION V - Presentation only



End of Workshop

December 14th 4:00-5:00

SIG GLOBDEV BOARD MEETING
103 B Convention Center





Eighth Annual SIG Global Development Workshop
Room 202 C Convention Center
Full Program

8:30-9:00
Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15
Plenary
Introduction to the Workshop
Program Co-Chairs
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Virginia Commonwealth University. USA
Arlene Bailey, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Ted Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

9:15-10:00 am

SESSION I - Keynote Address
Session Chair: Ted Stohr
Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Professor of Global Management, Ryerson University
The Challenges of Educating Young Scientists for Development

10:15 - 10:30 am
Coffee Break


PAPER SESSIONS
10:30 -12:00 pm
SESSION II - Innovations in Economic and Social Development
Session Chair: Arlene Bailey
3. Martha Uwamariya, Stefan Cremer and Claudia Loebbecke "ICT for Economic Development in Rwanda: Fostering E-Commerce Adoption in Tourism SMEs"
13 Felix Olu Bankole "The Effects of Cultural Dimension on ICT Innovation: Empirical Analysis of Mobile Banking in South Africa"
22. Jie Xiong and Sajda Qureshi  "Information Technology for Development in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises"

12:00 -1:00 pm
Lunch
Plenary Panel
Mentoring Emerging Scholars in Global Development
Monica Garfield, Henk Sol, Claudia Loebbecke, Kweku Osei Bryson and Edward Stohr


PAPER SESSIONS

1:00 - 2:30 pm
SESSION III - Education and Human Development
Session Chair: Ted Stohr
11. Kirstin Krauss, Clement Simuja and Sue Conger           'ICT education practices in marginalized rural schools in South Africa: considerations for adequate sense-making and immersion"
7. Wen Yong Chua, Rax Chun Lung Suen and Klarissa T.T. Chang "Exploration of Chats Apps to Develop Human Capital through Group Communications in Rural India"
21. Moonjung Yim "Towards A Comprehensive Framework for ICT for Education Evaluation"

2:30 - 2:45 pm
Coffee Break


2:45 - 4:30 pm
SESSION IV - Innovations in an Interconnected World
Session Chair: Ted Stohr
20. Nadine Barrett-Maitland, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson and Gunjan Mansingh "A Conceptual Model of an Information Security Domain Knowledge Base"
19. David Nemer "Wired Smartphones: Rethinking the role of community technology centers in the mobile Internet era"
15. Daisy Odunze and Tawanda Mtintwa Hove "An Analysis of the Impact of the Use of Mobile Communication Technologies by Farmers in Zimbabwe. A Case Study of Esoko and EcoFarmer Platforms."
12. Yichuan Wang and Nick Hajli "The Use of Business Analytics Systems in Decision Making: An Empirical Investigation in Taiwan's Hospitals"

4:30-4:45
Social Break

4:45 - 6:00 pm
SESSION V - Presentation Only
Session Chair: Kirstin Krauss
18           Philip Musa and Risper Mwangi "Calling for Health Information System to Manage Chronic Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa"
14           Nazif Isa and Salihu Dasuki "he Impact of Nepotism on ICT projects in Developing Countries: A Case Study from the Financial Management System in Nigeria"
17.   Yousif Alhashemi and Heinz Roland Weistroffer "Cultural Impact on Information Technology Use and Implementation in the Arab World"

SIG GLOBDEV BOARD MEETING
December 14th 4:00 - 5:00 pm
103 B Convention Center





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