UKAIS 2022 Annual Conference

Submission Deadline: 25th of February 2022

Event Date:

  • Doctoral Consortium: 11 April 2022
  • Annual Conference: 12/13 April 2022

Venue: Online

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Information systems for a sustainable future

Information systems research and technological innovation offer many opportunities to create a sustainable society. Creating sustainable societies requires a consideration of the “hard” aspects, such as developing more sustainable products or services that reduce carbon emissions, but also the “soft” aspects, such as driving cultural and behavioural change (Baek and Lee, 2021). Understanding both is critical when it comes to achieving our long-term goals.

The climate change crisis is more pressing than ever, with global efforts involving countries looking for solutions as to how to address the challenges faced. Stakeholders at all levels are putting forward strategic plans and objectives to address environmental challenges and meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally (Newell et al., 2015). Such plans incorporate digital technologies and advanced information systems to enable changes in how we live, work and commute. Green information systems are becoming more prevalent than ever for achieving the sustainability goal (vom Brocke et al., 2013). One facet of this is adopting big data analytics to realise the SDGs (El-Haddadeh et al., 2021). Sustainability is often considered in relation to how people and organisations need to adopt more environmentally-friendly habits and routines and business practices, which span the entire supply chain and all aspects of value creation and exploitation. Technological advances can support such changes in practice and the adoption of sustainable solutions. For instance, information systems can enable the monitoring of operations through gathering and analysing the energy consumption data, with a view to developing smoother and streamlined environmentally friendly processes. Equally, technology can be used to support behavioural changes. For example, smart homes can influence the way the consumer behaves within a residential setting (Marikyan et al, 2018) with gamified information systems encouraging them to reduce their environmental footprint.

To this end the UKAIS 2022 international conference welcomes submissions that explore how IS/IT may be used to create a sustainable future. For example, submissions may consider (but need not be limited to) the following areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence systems
  • Behavioural changes in reducing carbon emissions through IS
  • Bridging the Digital Divide: emancipatory IS
  • Business Intelligence and Decision Support
  • Business Process Management
  • Digital technologies to promote a sustainable society
  • eBusiness and Competitive Strategy
  • Economics and the Value of IS
  • eGovernment Solutions for the Citizen
  • Enterprise Systems
  • European and Cultural Issues in IS
  • Future of work
  • Healthcare Information Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Inter-Organizational Systems
  • Innovative Applications of IS in Teaching
  • IS Diversity and Diversity in IS
  • IS Artefacts and IS Artefact Design
  • IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
  • IS Governance and Sourcing
  • Research Methods and Philosophy
  • Project Management and IS Development
  • Social Media
  • Smart homes and smart cities
  • Service Engineering and Service Management
  • Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

References:

BAEK, H. & LEE, H. 2021. Framework of Socio-Technology Analysis and Prescriptions for a sustainable society: Focusing on the mobile technology case. Technology in Society, 65, 101523.

EL-HADDADEH, R., OSMANI, M., HINDI, N. & FADLALLA, A. 2021. Value creation for realising the sustainable development goals: Fostering organisational adoption of big data analytics. Journal of Business Research, 131, 402-410.

NEWELL, A., NUTTALL, P. & HOLLAND, E. A. 2015. United nations global sustainable development report 2015.

MARIKYAN D., PAPAGIANNIDIS S., & ALAMANOS E. 2018. A Systematic Review of the Smart Home Literature: A user perspective. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol. 138, pp. 139-154.

VOM BROCKE, J., WATSON, R. T., DWYER, C., ELLIOT, S. & MELVILLE, N. 2013. Green information systems: Directives for the IS discipline. Communications of the association for information systems, 33, 30.