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Time and place: , Nemko + Zoom (links will be distributed via email)

 

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 In this seminar, Bruno Oliveira Martins analyses recent trends in the growing digitalization of EU borders, from the militarization of systems of surveillance to the use of digital systems facilitating the externalization of borderwork to areas beyond the territorial borders of Europe. He will also ask more critical questions about the role and place of academic research in some of the processes analyzed above. 

Time and place: , Nemko + Zoom (links will be distributed via email)

 

We welcome PhD-candidates and faculty to participate in the PhD-days.

Time and place: , Styrerommet NEMKO/GA30

Action Design Research is recognized as a way of doing constructive research in close co-operation between practitioners and researchers. The method is based on the recognition that IS research always has a dual mission, namely to (a) add to existing theory, and (b) to produce knowledge to support IS practitioners in solving current and anticipated problems. We can achieve this by promoting research, which is based on existing problems in practical settings, aimed at improving the practice and solving problems through designing and implementing IT (or organizational) artefacts. Furthermore, the method supports continues engagement and mutual commitment between practitioners and researchers, which leads into better insights about the effects of the artefacts and their design decisions in organizations, thus allowing for different types of research and practitioner contributions. In this talk I will demonstrate this through examples of real-world digital transformation ADR projects. I claim that this is particularly useful technique for studying digital transformation, as this is a highly interwoven process of technological and organizational change and most of the changes occurring are hard to understand without engaging with actual practise and looking at the technology and the organization simultaneously.

Time and place: , Styrerommet (213) and Zoom

We live in a world that sees information as empowering and democratising. But how does information work in practice and who does it work for? This talk - and the book it is based on (available to read Open Access here) - examines the history of the idea of “information," its evolution and political implications for poverty alleviation. It examines three cases in India—the circulation of price information on mobile phones in a fish market in Kerala, government information in computer kiosks operated by a non-profit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore their divergent uses of information to support goals of social change.

Time and place: , Nemko + Zoom (links will be distributed via email)

 

We welcome PhD-candidates and faculty to participate in the PhD-days.

Time and place: , NEMKO, Styrerommet (213)

In this seminar, Robert Davison will explore how researchers motivate their research and in particular focus on the concept of problematisation. He argues that a careful problematisation will lead to a better motivated research design that has more significant contributions to both research and practice. The seminar will contrast problematisation with the often-practiced "gap spotting" approach, and outline some of the deficiencies of the latter. It will provide examples of problematisation and ideas about how the technique can be applied in practice. The seminar should provoke debate about how and why we do research. The speaker will also provide reflections from the perspective of an editor on the nature of contribution in Information Systems and will be very open to a conversation with the audience about any aspect of IS publishing.

Time and place: , GA Styrerommet 213

Digital identity systems convert individuals into digital data, which are machine-readable and amenable to administration. Associated to access to public services, social protection and humanitarian schemes, digital identity systems are increasingly linked to the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 16:9: “provide legal identity for all including free birth registrations by 2030”. Such a link is based on the view of digital identity as a force for good, capable to include all those entitled to a given service, programme or humanitarian scheme, and at the same time exclude all the non-entitled.

In spite of this orthodoxy, digital identity systems have caused severe harm on users. A recent report by the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University has found such systems associated to large-scale human right violations, resulting in an open letter demanding the World Bank and its donors to cease activities that promote harmful models of digital ID. 

Time and place: , NEMKO building kitchen area

This talk examines the sociotechnical and organizational dynamics of 'interoperability infrastructures' in the domain of AIDS research. Interoperability infrastructures are built 'on top' of other data gathering activities: they do not generate data of their own, instead they bring together disparate data and integrate these for the use of others. Interoperability infrastructures offer the advantage of facilitating wide vistas across heterogenous data, supporting research otherwise impossible. But they also present challenges for ownership and control of data, and they have the tendency to abstract away many of the details, value and labor of the originating sources of data. Interoperability infrastructures are wholly dependent on all the activities that happen 'below', but they often also minimize, even threaten, those activities.

Time and place: , NEMKO kitchen area UE

In this seminar, Endrit Kromidha will focus on entrepreneurship and business information systems in times of change. In times of change, many tend to lose trust in established institutions and organisations that are unable to adapt. In response, individuals or organisations turn to entrepreneurship and innovation while assessing new opportunities, even though starting a new venture involves risk. New technologies, networks and platforms have contributed to such opportunities as real world supply chains, demand and logistics are disrupted, but we often fail to consider them beyond a business-as-usual context. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it is important to reflect more on the relationship between entrepreneurship and business information systems for change management, the evolution of the business workspace, and new opportunities.

Time and place: , Domus Medica

Seminaret belyser noen spørsmål rundt nåværende og fremtidig arbeid rundt smittevernberedskap spesielt og helsekriser generelt: Hvilke tiltak har fungert? Hva kan vi gjenbruke og hva bør vi endre eller forkaste, slik at vi er bedre forberedt på en ny helsekrise? Hvilken rolle bør digital teknologi spille i dette arbeidet, og hvordan?

Time and place: , Nemko + Zoom (links will be distributed via email)

 

We welcome PhD-candidates and faculty to participate in the PhD-days.

Time and place: , IFI

Trial lecture: 13:15 - 14:00 (Kristen Nygaards sal IFI and Zoom)

Disputation: 15:15 - 17:00 (Kristen Nygaards sal IFI and Zoom)

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Research Seminar Series features, Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK

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Research Seminar Series features, Alexander Moltubakk Kempton, Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Informatics and the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo. 

Time and place: , Ole-Johan Dahls hus: Seminar room Python, Room 2269

The Information Systems Research Group & HISP Centre,  proposes to host Diversity, Gender Equality and Inclusion Workshop: An Intersectional Approach

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Research Seminar Series features, Susan Scott, Professor of Information Systems, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK

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Research Seminar Series features, Wanda Orlikowski, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management, US.

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Research Seminar Series presents Ranjit Singh, Researcher at Data & Society Research Institute.

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Research Seminar Series features, Maja van der Velden, Professor & leader of Regenerative Technologies research group at IFI, UiO