Building a Better World through IS
ICIS 2014 Theme: Building a Better World through Information Systems
As information systems become ubiquitous and have widespread impact on people from all strata of society, they can be leveraged to address critical problems facing our world. Alleviating hunger, providing affordable access to healthcare and education, addressing environmental sustainability, and addressing human rights violations are examples of critical global challenges. Emerging technologies have allowed information systems to contribute to the resolution of these challenges more than ever before. Given the increasing penetration and lowering costs of networked and mobile technologies, information systems can have a broad impact across all strata of society, privileged and less privileged alike (e.g., in the form of frugal systems). Information systems can contribute to building a better world through humanitarian efforts, sustained food production and distribution, better and affordable access to healthcare and to education, more efficient energy usage, citizen participation through democracy, and connecting diaspora, among others. The 2014 theme track welcomes all types of research papers that offer novel ideas about how information systems can contribute to a better world.
