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.
The aim of this special issue was 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. 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.
Agenda for the webinar:
- Introduction by special issue editors Brian Nicholson, Petter Nielsen and Johan Sæbø
- Carla Bonina, Kari Koskinen, Ben Eaton and Annabelle Gawer will present: "Digital platforms for development: Foundations and research agenda"
- Silvia Masiero and Viktor Arvidsson will present: "Degenerative outcomes of digital identity platforms for development"
- Shirin Madon and Emrys Schoemaker will present "Digital identity as a platform for improving refugee management"
- Q&A session
Date: November 9. 2021
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (UTC/GMT + 1 hour)
Link to the webinar: https://uio.zoom.us/j/68974834575
Passcode to the webinar: 773766