[AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2019 Mini-Track: Social Inclusion for IT Workers

[Peng, Gang]

AMCIS 2019, August 15-17, Cancún, México

Track: Social inclusion and socio-technical issues
Mini track: Social inclusion for IT workers

One of the main objectives of the track is to investigate the under-represented producers or consumers of information systems and technology within the IT field and stimulate greater diversity of thought and personnel in AIS and the IS field overall. In this proposed mini-track, we focus on various groups of under-represented IT workers and investigate the underlying factors for their under-representation, describe the current status of representation, assess their impact on the IT workforce in general, and explore how to encourage and promote their representation in the IT workforce.

We invite research at both micro and macro levels, and of various research methodologies, including empirical, modelling, case study, conceptual, intervention, or simulation. Issues of interest include but are not limited to the following: 
1) female and minority IT workers, such as their access to training and education, job opportunities, work compensation, career trajectory, and how to overcome barriers to encourage female and minority to choose IT career. 
2) foreign IT workers, what role they play for local and global economy, and their impact on natives in terms of compensation, employment, and career development, etc. 
3) other social-economically disadvantaged IT workers, such as those with disability or limited resources or in developing areas or counties, and how to bring them on board to collaborate with other, etc.
4) wat are the policy implications for inclusion or exclusion of under-represented IT workers.

Submission deadline: March 1, 2019