Building a Better World through Information Systems

Conference Theme Track: Building a Better World Through IS

Alleviating hunger and poverty, providing affordable access to healthcare and education, addressing environmental sustainability, reducing ethnic tension, and addressing human rights violations are critical global challenges. The IS community is well positioned to assist in addressing these problems because for the last five or so decades IS has been the major contributor to global productivity improvement and individual lifestyle advancement. Information systems can contribute to building a better world through supporting humanitarian efforts, advancing food production and distribution, enabling better and more affordable access to healthcare and education, optimizing energy production and consumption systems, facilitating citizen participation in government, connecting diaspora, among other positive actions to make the world a better place. The 2014 theme track welcomes all types of research papers that offer novel ideas and practical/actionable solutions for how information systems can create a better world for the vast majority of its inhabitants.

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