IS Disciplinary Forum
The Australasian IS Community convenes every year at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems to discuss cutting edge research in Information Systems and related areas.
For the first time this year, the AAIS is developing an opportunity at ACIS to discuss issues of importance to us as a discipline and profession, especially those issues that have a policy dimension, while attempting to involve as many voices in the IS academics and IS professional as possible.
This activity is undertaken in three parts:
- Part A: Crowdsourcing Questions (Prior to the Conference): A virtual meeting will be conducted in late August/early Sept with the purpose of crowdsourcing questions considered by academic participants to be critical to the sector and discipline. The purpose of this meeting is to identify keys issues of interest to the IS Community and to rank them in terms of importance. An invitation will be sent out on the Community Lists (IS-AUS and IS-HODS) announcing the event as a whole.
- Part B: IS Disciplinary Forum (At the Conference): Conducted at the ACIS Conference, the crowdsourced questions will be fleshed out arguments and positions will be explored. The forum will have elements of a large-scale focus group. Issues and Arguments will be identified. Courses of action will be discussed.
- Part C: Policy Formation (After the Conference): Post-conference and after further consultation from colleagues, one or more policy documents will be drafted and made available digitally. In this way, the discipline can form up policy that effects positive change for the Australasian IS Community.
