Today’s ICT solutions are becoming increasingly complex, inter-dependent and large-scale. ICTs are no longer developed and managed as stand-alone and monolithic systems, but are built and implemented as parts of something larger. Today’s challenges are not about decomposing complicated requirements and deriving optimal technical designs, but grappling with the technological and organisational complexity that emerges from the heterogeneity of systems, actors involved, and the lack of control over other systems and components. These changes and the associated technological, social and organizational challenges continue to urge the need to deepen our understanding, and thus study, conceptualize and further theorise ICTs as Information Infrastructures (II) rather than as small-scale and stand-alone Information Systems.
We bring together cognate disciplines - including science and technology studies and information systems and cognate work in organisation studies - but also other related traditions (e.g. ICT4D, CSCW, gender studies ...).
Previous III Workshops:
- 2026: CBS, Copenhagen, DK
- 2024: ESADE, Barcelona
- 2019: Surrey Business School, UK
- 2017: LUISS, Rome
- 2015: Warwick Business School
- 2014: University of Oslo
- 2012: University of Edinburgh
- 2012: US (?)
- 2006: Edinburgh (?)
- 2006: US (?)
Future III Workshops:
- 2028: UK?
Publications:
- Call for Papers to JAIS Special Issue on Contemporary Innovation in Information Infrastructures
- Special issue of the JAIS on Innovation in Information Infrastructures from 2012
- Special Issue of the JAIS on e-infrastructure (2009)