I will be heading to Auckland, New Zealand for the International Conference on Information Systems. First, I will be attending the AIS Council meetings for two days prior to the conference. I serve as the VP of Communication for the Association for Information Systems.
Second, I will participate as a faculty mentor for the Mid-Career Consortium.
Third, during the conference I will participate on the AIS Grand Vision for ICT-enabled Bright Society panel along with my colleagues – Helmut Krcmar – Technische Universität München; Jae Kyu Lee – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Jane Fedorowicz – Bentley University; Ramayya Krishnan – Carnegie Mellon University.
Global societal knowledge infrastructures and communication platforms have made life and business more efficient and effective. However, many serious side effects have emerged alongside these ICT platforms, imperiling the future of this foundation. AIS is developing an initiative to investigate these problems and to envision the future of an ICT-enabled Bright Society. The initiative will encompass the development of relevant technologies, business models, public policies, social norms, international agreements, metrics of measuring national progress, and so forth. This endeavor will create many research opportunities to make AIS research outcomes more available to and significant for society.