IIMB-IIITB-INAIS Paper Development Workshop (30th March 2020)

Date: 30-03-2020

Description: A Paper Development Workshop was conducted jointly by IIM Bangalore, IIIT Bangalore and the AIS India Chapter on 30th March 2020. The workshop was coordinated by Profs. Rahul De’ and Rajendra Bandi of IIM Bangalore and Prof. Amit Prakash of IIIT Bangalore. The workshop sessions saw participation of over 50 Information Systems researchers from various Institutes and Universities across the country. Given the lockdown and travel restrictions in place in India due to COVID-19, all the workshop sessions were conducted online. This workshop provided an opportunity to the IS researchers in India to receive feedback on their paper drafts prepared for submission to the upcoming International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2020, the flagship event of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), scheduled to be held in Hyderabad during 13-16 December 2020.

CITAPP at IIIT Bangalore is an interdisciplinary think-tank set-up to focus on the policy challenges and the organizational demands made by technological innovation. Of particular interest to the Centre is how technological advances, along with institutional changes that harness the legitimacy and the powers of bureaucracies and market, address the needs of underserved communities.