Submission Tracks

Track Chairs:

1. Vincent Dutot, IPAG Business School
   [email protected]
2. Rana Nripendra, Qatar University
   [email protected]
3. Denis Dennehy, Swansea University
   [email protected]
4. Fatimah Alanazi, Aljouf University
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• IS and sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• Responsible IS design and innovation (incl circular economies, digital platforms).
• Societal impact of IS and emerging technologies (AI, IoT)
• Strategies (e.g., best practices, policies, and governance) for addressing the unintended consequences of IS and emerging technologies
• Emerging technologies and analytics for resilient business and humanitarian aid supply chains
• Digital transformation of public and not-for-profit organisations
• Unintended consequences of IS and emerging technologies (social exclusion, discrimination, bias, etc)
• Barriers and challenges in the adoption of IS and emerging technologies for sustainable development
• Digital platforms and social media for sustainable societies
• Theories and case studies that showcase successful IS-enabled form of sustainable development
• The role of the IS community to empower IS researchers working in developing and emerging countries (Open access, training, etc)
• The role of IS in promoting sustainable tourism and hospitality services

Track Chairs:

1. Ransome Bawack, ICN Business School
   [email protected]
2. Mohamed Amine Marhraoui, Euromed Business School, Euromed university, Fez, Morocco
   [email protected]
3. Sarah Cherki EI Idrissi, University of Toronto
   [email protected]
4. Conn Smyth, NUI Galway
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• IS for social inclusion and circular economies
• IS for social innovation and entrepreneurship
• IS for digital transformation (incl operations and supply chain management)
• Datafication and digitalisation for digital development
• Green IS and sustainability
• Industry 4.0 technologies
• Analytics and ICT4D (Social media analytics/business analytics/big data analytics)
• ICTs for enabling smart cities, urbanisation, living
• Ethics and CSR issues related to IS
• Knowledge management
• Applications of IS and analytics to address grand societal challenges
• Human computer interaction (HCI)
• IS and ICT adoption studies

Track Chairs:

1. Lin Li, KFUPM
   [email protected]
2. Mousa Albashrawi, KFUPM
   [email protected]
3. Denis Dennehy, Swansea University
   [email protected]
4. Bernard Quinio, University Paris Nanterre
   [email protected]

Track Description

The advances of machine learning techniques have led to the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled analytics in various domains for business and society. It is important for IS researchers to study the development, implementation, and management of AI-enabled analytics and understand how AI create value for business and society. The new and exciting research topics would lead to a significant extension of our current theories, methodologies and empirical insights related to the phenomenon. We welcome submissions from a breadth of research paradigms, including behavioral, economics, design science, and data science.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Novel AI, machine learning, and deep learning methods
• Data and text mining
• Natural language processing
• Speech recognition
• AI in robotics
• Human-robot interaction
• Design and implementation of AI analytics for business and society, such as Fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, operations, and cybersecurity
• Development of AI architectures, infrastructures, and capabilities
• Ethics and privacy concerns in AI analytics
• Machine learning fairness and algorithmic bias
• Explainable AI
• AI adoption diffusion
• Social, behavioral, and economic implications of AI-enabled analytics
• Organizational structure and management in the age of AI
• Success factors, best practices, and case studies in AI

Track Chair:

1. Abbas Tarhini Lebanese American University
   [email protected]
2. Antoine Harfouche, University Paris Nanterre, France
   [email protected]
3. Marco De Marco Università Internazionale Telematica, Rome
   [email protected]
4. Albandari Alsharani NUI Galway
   [email protected]

Track Description

Sustainable development is becoming a major concern for most governments especially after a significant increase in natural resources exploitation that causes severe environmental problems. Our economic systems highly depend on the environment; the traditional business activities that respond to the market demands would affect the consumption of natural resources and disrupt environmental systems. Such environmental deterioration leads to higher resource prices and could affect the economic growth (Dabbous & Tarhini, 2021). Such a concern is reflected in the United Nations 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2018). This fact calls for new innovative methods, to change the dominant unsustainable consumption of resources by disassociating the natural resources usage from economic growth. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the breathing space that sustainable development needs to help all industries design a better planet (Harfouche, Saba, Aoun, & Wamba, 2022; Tarhini, Harfouche, & de Marco, 2022).

The goal of this track is to explore how AI help achieve the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

(1) No Poverty

(2) Zero Hunger

(3) Good Health and Well-being

(4) Quality Education

(5) Gender Equality

(6) Clean Water and Sanitation

(7) Affordable and Clean Energy

(8) Decent Work and Economic Growth

(9) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

(10) Reduced Inequality

(11) Sustainable Cities and Communities

(12) Responsible Consumption and Production

(13) Climate Action

(14) Life Below Water

(15) Life On Land

(16) Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

(17) Partnerships for the Goals

Type of contribution:

• Full research papers
• Research in Progress papers
• Both

References:

Dabbous, A., and Tarhini, A. (2021). Does sharing economy promote sustainable economic development and energy efficiency? Evidence from OECD countries, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 6(1), pp. 58-58 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2020.11.001

Harfouche, A., Saba, P., Aoun, G. and Wamba, S.F. (2022), “Guest editorial: Cutting-edge technologies for the development of Asian countries”, Journal of Asia Business Studies, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-04-2022-494

Tarhini, A., Harfouche, A., and De Marco, M. (2022) “Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Transformation for Sustainable Societies: The Prevailing Effect of COVID-19 Crises,” Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 14: Iss. 2, Article 1. DOI: 10.17705/1pais.14201. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/pajais/vol14/iss2/1

United Nations, The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: An opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/G. 2681-P/Rev. 3), Santiago, 2018.

Track Chairs:

1. Antoine Harfouche, University Paris Nanterre
   [email protected]
2. Alaa Nehme, Mississippi State University
   [email protected]
3. Abdullah AlBizri, Montclair State University
   [email protected]
4. Charbel Chedrawi, USJ
   [email protected]

Track Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT/IoE are the most dramatic technological game changers of all time. These cutting-edge technologies are expected to have a disruptive impact on public and private sectors. Defence is not an exception (Sukman, 2015). AI is changing defence and will enable intelligent warfare in the decades to come (Sloan, 2015; Work and Brimley, 2014).

Researchers argue that technologies may have a profound transformational impact on defence both on the strategic and on the operational levels. On the strategic level, defence was about armed force against armed force (A2A). Recently, defence is moving toward one ‘whole-of-government and whole-of-society’ against another (D2G&2S) (De Spiegeleire, Maas, and Sweijs, 2017). On the operational level, AI can create a more intelligent and autonomous force, can enhance platforms, munitions while enabling faster operational decisions and better combat outcomes (Hoadley and Lucas2018).

On another level, cyber war is becoming a major challenge as government agencies, companies and individuals have increasingly become victims of cyber-attacks. With global cyber spending expected to reach $170 billion by 2020, cybersecurity is becoming one of the major security challenges.

This track invites researchers, academics, and specialists to participate in the submission of scientific research in various areas of smart and informational technology in the defence sectors, especially innovative and rigorously developed conceptual, empirical contributions, applications and deployment strategy and requirements. It also encourages multi-disciplinary research, focusing on Intelligence for national security and counter terrorism, cyber and traditional warfare, logistics and support.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Legal framework (local and international) and ethics.
• Big data and AI for defence
• Smart technologies to improve security against terrorism
• Application of Big Data Analytics against risk index in defence
• AI and Big Data’s role in Cyber security, cyber and traditional warfare
• AI and Big Data Applications in counter-terrorism, pre and post attacks
• AI role in counter-espionage
• AI role in mobile phone security and data tracking
• AI and threat modelling in defence
• AI distributed design and implementation for security and defence
• AI human-centred design for defence
• Data Mining in defence
• Artificial Intelligence implementation, adoption, adaptation by armed forces
• Digital transformation and Inter-organisation data sharing in defence
• The role of social media intelligence and analysis in defence
• AI and deep learning to identify terrorist propaganda
• ERP and Innovation in defence (HR, Supply Chain, Logistics and support, …)
• IoT/IoE and their role in the global defence
• IoT/IoE in the public sector
• AI as strategic tool for advanced warfare
• Blockchain and cyber security
• Blockchain and Digital Currencies in defence, security and public sector
• Smart Buildings/Cities in defence, security and public sector
• Digital Forensics

References:

Work, R. and Brimley, S.(2014), 20YY Preparing for War in the Robotic Age,Center for a New American Security, January 2014.

Sukman, D. (2015), Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Future of Warfare, Canadian Military Journal, (16:1), 44-53.

Sloan, E. (2015), Robotics at War, Survival, (57:5), 107-120.

De Spiegeleire, S., Maas, M., Sweijs, T. (2017),Artificial Intelligence and the future of defense, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands.

Hoadley, D., Lucas, N. (2018), Artificial Intelligence and National Security, Congressional Research Service, USA.

Track Chairs:

1. Amal Saleh Alkhlewi, Jubail University College
   [email protected]
2. Mashael Yousef Almoqbel, Jubail University College
   [email protected]
3. Njod Emad Aljabr, Jubail University College
   [email protected]
4. Ibrahim Alhassan, Saudi Electric University
   [email protected]

Track Description

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have potential to enhance accesibility to information, increase organizational performance, improve the quality of life for individuals, and decrease economic divide. However, the omnipresent access to ICT has had unforseen negative impacts on society, including issues associated with information overload, digital surveilance, and blurred work boundaries. The goal of the Social Impact of Information and Communication Technologies track is to further the understanding of both the desirable and undesirable impacts of ICT on society.

The available literature highlights the need for research that builds an understaniding of the multiple facits of ICT sociatal impact. This track welcomes relevant original theoretical, empirical, and/or intervention research, in either completed research or emergent research format, that relates to the sociatal impact of Information and Communication Technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Influence of ICT on individual behaviors, group dynamics, and organizational norms and policies.
• Ethical use of ICT.
• Business, legal, social, and political consequences of ICT.
• The Dark Side of ICT including addiction, bullying, and negative self image etc.
• Cognitive overload and stress caused by ICT.
• Algorithmic biases in ICT.
• Security and Privacy consequences of ICT use.
• Social Inclusion and ICT.
• Human computer interaction and design implications considering ICT.

Track Chairs:

1. Sam Zaza, Middle Tennessee State University
   [email protected]
2. Lin Li, KFUPM
   [email protected]
3. Simon Brooks, Swansea University
   [email protected]
4. Jamil Arida, University Saint Joseph
   [email protected]

This track is in collaboration with AIS SIG Social Inclusion

Track Description

Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of Information Systems (IS) are essential to encourage participation of all AIS members in a socially aware and inclusive discipline. The purpose of this track is to promote research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in IS. Social inclusion research investigates the part IT plays in enabling or inhibiting individuals and social groups’ participation in the social structures in which they exist and the needs of under-represented producers or consumers of information systems and technology within the IT field. We welcome submissions from a breadth of research paradigms, including theoretical, empirical, and intervention research that relate to the theme of social inclusion.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Underrepresentation of gender minorities, race, ethnicities, neurodiversity, and abilities in the IS field
• Intersectionality of identities (such as ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic class)
• Socioeconomic divisions that impact access to or use of technology
• Designing for the differently-abled individuals
• Digital divide (developed vs developing; global south…) and the “haves” and “have nots” in the information society
• Underserved groups in the information society
• Methodological approaches to social inclusion issues (ethnography, case studies, qualitative, …)

Track Chairs:

1. Basmah Almoaber, King Khalid University
   [email protected]
2. Malak Baslyman, KFUPM
   [email protected]
3. Patrick Mikalef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
   [email protected]
4. Charu Naithani, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
   [email protected]

Track Description

Considering the unprecedented and exponential growth of health technology and so the challenges that are resulted from that growth such as security, privacy and the socio-technical aspects of patient safety. IS and health IT inlciding applications that use a variety of advanced information, mobile, social media and wearable technologies to collect, store, manage, process and transmit health information can help overcomimg those raising challenges. Health IT and IS for healthcare research may incorporate various studies in forms of big data analysis, digital health solutions, clinical support systems and implementation of healthcare innovations.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Health informatics and biomedical informatics
• Big data, data analysis, and management
• Data analytics and prediction modeling for healthcare
• Healthcare change management
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence for healthcare
• Health digital transformation strategies, integration, polices, and technology
• Impact of health IT on COVID-19 health outcomes
• Personalized healthcare services
• Patient-centered healthcare
• Advancing IS theories in health informatics and health information systems

Track Chairs:

1. Amine Nehari Talet, KFUPM
   [email protected]
2. Jongtae Yu, KFUPM
   [email protected]
3. Desiree Cranfield, Swansea University
   [email protected]

Track Description

The business world began to view and use knowledge as a weapon for competitive advantage. It was then the concept of knowledge management (KM) gained popularity. However, in the 21st century, Knowledge and by extension, knowledge management has been an electromotive force for social, economic and educational advancement to any nation. Disseminating and sharing of knowledge is the corner stone of knowledge economy. the existence of sufficient amount of knowledge enables organizations to excel, is instrumental in value creation, strategy development and market competitiveness. The barriers identified through the research literature are; codification process, inadequate information technology, lack of initiative and strategy by the workers, and lack of time and resources.Knowledge sharing barriers (include high cost of sharing knowledge, information technology limitations, knowledge-hiding, lack of socialization, lack of trust culture, non-educational mindset, organizational politics, poor leadership and time pressure. Universities face also issues that may incumber active sharing among its faculty members such as the absence of trust among its members or insufficient incentives rewarded to those who deserved. This track try to reinforce the understanding KS collaboration within the context of academic, industrial, economic organizations among all stakeholders. KS should be highly encouraged and consistently practiced in the culture of any type of organization to support the knowledge-based economy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge management systems in modern organization and society
• Information technology and knowledge sharing strategy
• Knowledge sharing barriers in organizations on knowledge management strategy
• Cultural and privacy issues in knowledge sharing
• Knowledge sharing and research collaboration among academics
• Social media and knowledge sharing
• Knowledge sharing and cyber security
• Role of government in knowledge sharing

Track Chairs:

1. Mohamed Amine ISSAMI, (HDR) and Director in charge of Development, International Relations, and Communication, Groupe ISCAE
   [email protected]
2. Amel Dabbous Soubra, University Saint Joseph, Lebanon
   [email protected]
3. Dionysios Karavidas, University College Cork
   [email protected]
4. Mike Buckle, Swansea University
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• • Open banking and financial inclusion
  • Fintech platforms for economic development
  • Mobile payments and digital ecosystems
  • Cryptocurrencies and blockchain

Track Chair:

• 1. Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury, KFUPM
     [email protected]
  2. Pardeep Kumar, Swansea University
     [email protected]

  Track Description

  Technological advances the speed and efficiency of the financial sector, but also has significant undesirable repercussions. It is now a challenge for financial institutions to maintain stability by ensuring proper spending on cyber security. According to the latest research, the world economy should indeed absorb damages in case of a cyber-assault, which has increased dramatically in recent years. In 2020, during the pandemic, the cyber-attacks are increased by 238% and about 75% of financial institutions have faced cyber-attacks (CyberTalk.org, 2021).

  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • • Cyber risk and financial stability
    • Blockchain and business cyber security
    • Cyber risk in cryptocurrency market
    • Cyber insurance
    • Cyber risk management in SMEs
    • Cyber risk and fintech adoption
    • Cyber-attacks and financial market movement
    • Cyber-attack detection model for SMEs
    • Cyber risk and firm goodwill
    • Cyber-attacks during COVID-19
    • Cyber laundering

Track Chairs:

1. Fred Boy, Swansea University
   [email protected]
2. Abdulaziz AlGhazi University Of Wollongong
   [email protected]
3. Samrat Gupta, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Socio-economic inclusion in the digitized society
• Economic and social effects of IS
• Socio-economic transformation in a digitized society

Track Chairs:

1. Galina Kondrateva, EDC Paris Business School
   [email protected]
2. Brendan Keegan, Maynooth University
   [email protected]
3. Leonel Matar, university Saint Joseph, Lebanon
   [email protected]
4. Sian Roderick, Swansea University
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Business model innovation
• AI and the future of work
• AI and marketing (B2B, B2C)

Track Chairs:

1. lias Pappas, University of Adger
   [email protected]
2. John Oredo, University of Nairobi
   [email protected]
3. Nizar Raissi, Umm Al-Qura University, KSA
   [email protected]
4. Tumaini Kabudi, University of Agder
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Learning analytics
• Innovative learning environments (e.g., MOOC, blended learning, microlearning and fragmented courses, smart and personalized education, collaborative Learning, etc.)
• AI enabled learning systems e.g., adaptive learning systems, intelligent tutoring systems, recommender systems
• Conversational agents for teaching and learning
• Implications of current and emerging educational technologies (e-Learning, Mobile technology, VR/AR, Al enabled learning systems, and more)
• Current and future impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning processes
• Ethical implications, unintended consequences, and the dark side of IT in education
• Opportunities and challenges (methodological and practical) of digitizing education and implementing AI in education
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion in technology-enabled education

Track Chairs:

1. Abdallah Nassereddine, Beirut Arab University
   [email protected]
2. Maggie Houshaimi, Beirut Arab University
   [email protected]
3. Antoine Harfouche, University Paris Nanterre
   [email protected]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Economic crisis and companies response
• Financial crisis and recovery
• Business resilience
• Case studies on country facing crises in the Middle East such as Lebanon