[AISWorld] "Adressing Diversity in Digitalization", submissions open until June 15 (HICSS)

[Rothe, Hannes]

Dear colleagues,

We invite scholars interested in working on this important societal challenge to submit your papers to our mini-track 'Addressing Diversity in Digitalization<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#addressing-diversity-in-digitalization-minitrack>‘ at the upcoming HICSS conference (submission deadline: 15 June 2021).

'International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination' and 'International Women’s Day‘ have just recently raised awareness on remaining inequalities while promoting diversity in our societies. As IS scholars, we believe that digital technology plays an important part in the transition towards a more diverse society. We already see that, for instance, employee selection is being augmented with machine learning, drug discovery utilizes biased human data, and filter bubbles emerging from "social" media.

Despite the importance of the ongoing digitalization in these regards, we only have a limited understanding of the relationship between digitalization and diversity. It is therefore worth asking whether digitalization can be considered a ‘diversity-blind’ process and encouraging the generation of theoretical knowledge that can help to explain how digital technologies influence diversity (digital impact on diversity) and how digital technologies are shaped by diversity or the lack thereof (diversity shaping digital technology). Eventually, this understanding might help academics and practitioners alike in their efforts towards inclusive design and application processes that avoid the pitfalls such as machine learning algorithms in recruiting that discriminated against female applicants and facial recognition software that exhibited racial discrimination.

The mini track is not limited to a certain diversity dimension but we welcome contributions that consider demographic (e.g. age, gender, nationality, ethnicity), functional (e.g. education, work experience, religion, income) or deep-level (e.g. diseases, disabilities, traits, values, beliefs) attributes.

The mini track is chaired by

Janina Sundermeier
Freie Universität Berlin

Hannes Rothe
Freie Universität Berlin

Yolande Chan
Queen's University

For more information visit https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#addressing-diversity-in-digitalization-minitrack

We are looking forward towards your submissions.

All the best,
Janina Sundermeier,
Yolande Chan,
and Hannes Rothe


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Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Digital Entrepreneurship Hub &
Department of Information Systems
Freie Universität Berlin

Web: http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rothe and
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