Digital Technologies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Special Track at the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT)
Organizers
Axel Hund
Axel Hund is a Ph.D. candidate at the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences and University of Bamberg, Germany. His research on digital innovation, transformation, and entrepreneurship has been published in leading IS journals such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) and MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe), and the proceedings of all major IS conferences like ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, PACIS, and AMCIS.
Prof. Dr. Heiko Gewald
Dr. Heiko Gewald is research professor of Information Management at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Director of the Center for Research on Service Sciences (CROSS). His research focuses on the use of digital resources by the aging generation, HealthIT, and IT Management. He is a frequent speaker on conferences contributing to these matters and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.
Special Track description / Call for Papers Draft
The technological advances over the last decades provide opportunities mankind has never had before. Blockchain use to increase food security, telemedicine to provide health services to remote places or learning independent of time and location via MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are only few examples. The rise of Artificial Intelligence solutions over the last years affected literally all areas of human life and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
For this special track, we invite papers that discuss the use of innovative technologies for the greater good. Since managing all these technological advances in a sustainable manner represents a very important area of research, we specifically like to highlight the special role of digital technology in making progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), outlined in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (https://sdgs.un.org/goals (öffnet neues Fenster)). However, we also invite contributions that go beyond the framework outlined in the SDGs. For example, by addressing the often paradoxical tensions that arise when a new approach solves some aspects of the sustainability crisis while adversely affecting others.
The special track welcomes empirical, conceptual and constructive papers that address the use of digital technologies to achieve the sustainable development goals.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
This workshop is open to all types of research, conceptual or empirical in the field of design and use of digital healthcare services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- The role of digital technology in transforming organizations and society to achieve the SDGs
- Barriers that hinder the adoption of digital technology in developing countries
- Digital technology to support innovative endeavors in developing countries
- Blockchain to enhance food security
- Artificial intelligence to forecast food consumption
- Innovative technologies in agriculture in developing countries
- Robust telemedicine for far remote places
- Training methods for IT curricula to non-technical entrepreneurs
- Simple yet robust eLearning devices
Fast Track Journal Opportunity
Important Dates
- Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 6 June, 2022
- Notification of acceptance for contributions: 20 June, 2022
- Camera-ready submission: 11 July, 2022
- Conference: September 07-09 September, 2022 in Limassol (Cyprus)
Information about the submission requirements
Program Comittee List
The tentative Porgram Committee comprises:
Jason Cohen, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Heiko Gewald, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Baby Gobin, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Nui Vatanasakdakul, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar
