[liberationtech] Double Special Issue on Digital Platforms for Development

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From: Gianluca Miscione <gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie>

Double Special issue in the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) & Electronic
Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) on DIGITAL
PLATFORMS FOR DEVELOPMENT

* Introduction and Background
Portrayed as a key component in the new digital economy, platforms have
received significant attention. Digital platforms are restructuring how
companies and industries operate, and failure to adopt platforms impacts
competitiveness and future growth. A common perspective on platforms is to
understand them as multi-sided markets based on enabling value-creating
interactions between external producers and consumers. Recent information
systems literature has improved our understanding of key drivers, business
models and impacts of digital platforms (e.g. Constantinides, Henfridsson
and Parker 2018; Parker, Van Alstyne and Choudary 2016).

The aim of this special issue is to identify and foster a relatively
unexplored research area of the significance and impact of digital
platforms in developing countries in relation to socio-economic
development. Increasingly, discourses around digitalization have become
central to research and practice concerning ICT for development (ICT4D),
with an emergent research agenda that centres on exploring the significance
of software platforms and digital innovation in relation to socio-economic
development (see Nielsen 2017 and Koskinen et al 2018). We are seeking
contributions on digital platforms from developmental, social, economic,
technical, organizational, personal and environmental perspectives. While
platforms can facilitate transactions, their significance correspondingly
relates to facilitating innovation and providing organizational
flexibility. Moreover, while existing research on digital platforms
primarily focuses on the private sector, platforms may be equally
significant in public and not-for-profit sectors.

* Based on empirical research and rooted in a concrete developing country
context, we expect contributions to offer new empirical insights, develop
new concepts and theories, and offer directions for practice and policy.
Exemplar topics and types of contributions include:

- Examples and implications of how developing countries participate in and
take relevant roles in digital platform innovation. This can include
examples of digital innovation by developing countries; theorizing digital
innovation within developing country contexts, and how digital innovation
relates to development.
- Explorations of digital platforms in private, public and informal sectors.
- Theoretical and conceptual developments related to what digital platforms
are in the context of developing countries and related key concepts such as
digital innovation, platform architecture, and software and innovation
ecosystems.
- Explorations of the potential gap and tensions between digital platforms
developed in, for and by the global North and the global South.
- Examples and implications of Southern countries emerging as important
innovators in digital platforms.
- Critical implications of digital platforms related to ethics, privacy,
and security in the context of developing countries.
- Case studies of digital platforms and business models emerging in the
development context and how they as alternative models can foster
development and sustainable livelihoods.

* Paper Development Workshop
A paper development workshop will be organized at the 15th International
Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
(IFIP 9.4) conference in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, May 1-3, 2019. We will
organise this workshop around papers submitted to the conference track on
Digital Platforms and Development, but it will also be open for all to
participate.

* Submission procedure
This is a double Special Issue for the Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
and the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
(EJISDC). Authors can submit their paper to the special issue in either ISJ
or EJISDC.

ISJ is a premier international journal promoting the study of, and interest
in, information systems. It welcomes articles on research, practice,
experience, current issues and debates. The ISJ encourages submissions that
reflect the wide and interdisciplinary nature of the subject and articles
that integrate technological disciplines with social, contextual and
management issues, based on research using appropriate research methods.
The ISJ has particularly built its reputation by publishing qualitative
research and it continues to welcome such papers.

EJISDC is one of the foremost international forums for practitioners,
teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and
experience in design, development, implementation, management and
evaluation of information systems in developing countries. EJISDC focuses
on the digital divide. Its aim is to situation contemporary trends in ICTs
within a fully global context. Outside of North America, Western Europe,
Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are making sense of technological
advances in ways unique to their cultures and histories.

When deciding whether to submit to ISJ and EJISDC, please consider the
following. We expect submissions to the special issue in ISJ to offer a
substantial theoretical contribution to the Information Systems research
field (we expect authors to make this explicit in their cover letter).
Submissions to EJISDC must have a broader audience than the information
systems field, including practitioners and policy makers (we expect the
authors to make this explicit in their cover letter).

Submissions rejected by the ISJ may be considered for the special issue in
EJISDC, and vice versa, but this is at the discretion of the editors.

:: Coordinating editor
Professor Robert Davison

:: Special Issue editors
Brian Nicholson,
University of Oslo Norway & Alliance Manchester Business School, UK

Petter Nielsen
University of Oslo (Also ISJ and EJISDC Senior Editor)

Johan Ivar Sæbø
University of Oslo (Also EJISDC Senior Editor)

:: Associate Editors
Margunn Aanestad University of Agder, Norway Chrisanthi Avgerou, LSE, UK
Carla Bonina, University of Surrey, UK Richard Heeks, University of
Manchester, UK Ravishankar M.N., Loughborough University, UK Eric Monteiro
Norwegian, University of Science and Technology, Norway Sundeep Sahay,
University of Oslo, Norway Mark Thompson, University of Exeter, UK Yingquin
Zheng, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

:: Important Dates
Full paper submission deadline:
September 30th 2019 (11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time)

First editorial review sent to authors:
November 2019.

Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline:
March 2020

Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors:
July 2020

Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline:
November 2020

Third editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors:
March 2021

Final submission of accepted papers deadline:
Tentatively June 2021

ISJ/EJISDC publication:
Tentatively Late 2021

:: References and Bibliography
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Web‐enabled entrepreneurial networks: case studies of netrepreneurs in
China, Information Systems Journal, 23(4), 329-350.

Constantinides, P., Henfridsson, O. and Parker, G. G. (2018).
Introduction—Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age, Information
Systems Research, 29(2), 381-400.

de Reuver, M., Sørensen, C. & Basole, R.C. J Inf Technol (2017).
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Gawer, A. (2009). Platforms, Markets and Innovation. Edward Elgar
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Gawer, A. and Cusumano, M.A. (2014). Industry platforms and ecosystem
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Jin, D (2015) Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture.
Routledge.

Koskinen, K, Bonina, C, and Eaton, B (2018). Digital Platforms in the
Global South: Foundations and Research Agenda. DIODE Working Paper No. 8,
Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute,
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Malik, F, Nicholson, B and Heeks, R (2017) Understanding the development
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Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries.
Springer, Cham.

Nielsen, P. (2017). Digital Innovation: A Research Agenda for Information
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Communication Technology; Volume 504. p. 269-279

Parker, G.G., Van Alstyne, M.W. and Choudary, S.P. (2016). Platform
revolution : how networked markets are transforming the economy and how to
make them work for you. W. W. Norton, Incorporated.

Srnicek, N (2017) Platform Capitalism. Polity.

Taplin, J (2017) Move Fast and Break Things, Macmillan.

UNCTAD (2017) Information Economy Report available at
http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1872,
last accessed 16th November  2017.
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