MIS Quarterly – Call for Papers
MISQ Special Issue on ICT and Societal Challenges
Possible topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to:
_ Affordances and constraints of ICT that create or worsen complex social problems
_ Ethical dilemmas in the development and deployment of ICT
_ Applications of ICT for managing or disrupting the tensions, contradictions and paradox in complex social problems
_ Applications of ICT to promote citizen participation or democratization
_ ICT’s role in social or economic exploitation and marginalization
_ ICT-enabled business models for social entrepreneurship and social problems
_ Societal, behavioral, and economic consequences of ICT use
_ How ICT-enabled platforms help NGOs complete social missions
_ Responsible innovation with ICT and implications for IS design science
_ National ICT policies and how they shape the societal environment for ICT acceptance and diffusion and international levels.
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2014
http://www.misq.org/skin/frontend/default/misq/pdf/CurrentCalls/ICTChallenges.pdf