Digital Innovation for the Common Good - A Compassionate Approach

When: 9:00am -10:30:am Thursday 23 November 2023

Where: RHMZ01  or   https://vuw.zoom.us/my/simsim

This talk is for IS scholars eager to contribute meaningfully to our digital future. I aim to kickstart a conversation on the interplay between digital innovation and its societal implications. As digital technologies continue to transform our world, it becomes critical to acknowledge their dual nature, capable of both strengthening our social fabric and ripping it apart. This talk will delve into how compassionate information systems (IS) scholarship can serve as an approach for fostering digital innovation for the common good of all stakeholders. I will explore the ethical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions of digital innovation, emphasising the integration of reason and emotion in creating systems that not only perform efficiently but also promote user welfare and societal good. The session will address the paradox of economic impacts, advocate for inclusive social progress, and emphasise the necessity of upholding ethical standards in the digital realm. Furthermore, we'll discuss environmental stewardship's vital role in ensuring digital innovation aligns with sustainable practices. My goal is to let you leave with a heightened understanding and actionable insights on steering future IS research toward creating a just, sustainable, and equitable digital society.

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Dr Raffaele F Ciriello serves as a Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School. His research focuses on digital innovation for the common good, using dialectical inquiry, practice theory, and qualitative methods. His work appears regularly in renowned journals and conferences - and it gets rejected from there even more regularly. Raf engages with software firms, startups, NGOs, banks, and IT consulting houses for research and teaching. Before joining Sydney, Raf served as Assistant Professor at IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), earned a PhD and M.Sc. from University of Zurich (Switzerland), and a B.Sc. from University of Stuttgart (Germany). He was recognised as a Distinguished Member of the Association of Information Systems in 2021, which does not impress his two sassy preschoolers at all.

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