ISBN: 978-0-9826068-1-0
Workshop Proceedings
2nd Annual SIG GlobDev Workshop
JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa
Phoenix AZ – Monday, December 14, 2009
8:30 – 8:45
Session I - PLENARY
Introduction to the Workshop
Room: Grand Canyon
Session Chair
Ted Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Ojelanki Ngenyama, Ryerson University, USA
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
8:45 – 9:45
Session II - PLENARY
Keynote Address
Session Chair
Christine Bullen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Atefeh Riazi, CEO, CIOs without Borders
9:45 -10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30
Paper Sessions - Two Parallel Sessions
10:00 – 11:30
Session III - Development Perspectives
Room
Session Chair
Aditya Saharia, Fordham University, USA
Intermediaries in ICT4D: The other "I"
Bjørn Furuholt and Maung Sein, University of Agder
Does Distance Matter? The Influence of ICT on Bilateral Trade Flows
Haluk Demirkan, Michael Goul, Robert J. Kauffman and David M. Weber, Arizona State University, USA
The ICT-Enabled Global Economic Crisis
Kurt deMaagd, Michigan State University, USA
10:00 – 11:30
SESSION IV - Government, Policy and Development
Room
Session Chair
Xiaoran Wu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Government Policies and ICT Growth in Developing Countries: An Extended Design-Actuality Framework
M. Naveed Baqir1, Prashant Palvia2 and Hamid Nemati2
1 University of Delaware 2 University of North Carolina
An Evaluation of Fiji’s E-Government Status: Assessed According to UN Report on Benchmarking E-Government Progress
Sam Goundar, The University of FijiNeels Kruger and Roy Johnson, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kenneth Kriz and Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska, USA
11:30-12:00
Session V – PLENARY DISCUSSION
Room
Session Chair
Muhammadou Kah, University of the Gambia
The Global Text Project: An Update and Discussion of Current Issues
Kevin Desouza, University of Washington, Donald J. McCubbrey, University of Denver Richard T. Watson, University of Georgia. USA
12:0-13:30
Lunch
Paper Sessions - Two Parallel Sessions
13:30 - 15:00
SESSION VI - Adoption Cases and Applications
Room
Session Chair
Paul Golding, University of Technology, Jamaica
Contributing Factors in the adoption of RFID in Emergency Management: A Multiple Case study
Ashir Ahmed and Lyfie Sugianto, Monash University, Australia
Open Content Use in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – Context Flexibility as an Enabler for Reuse
Mathias Hatakka, Anders Avdic, and Åke Grönlund,
Swedish Business School at Örebro University, Sweden
Sustaining the Growth of Micro-enterprises that Adopt Information and Communication Technologies
Mehruz Kamal1 and Sajda Qureshi2
1 State University of New York, 2 University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
13:30 - 15:00
SESSION VII - Social and Cultural Considerations
Room
Session Chair
Gladys Simpson, Florida International University, U.S.A.
Gurpreet Singh Suri and Pamela Abbott, Brunel University. UK
Kirstin Krauss, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Exporting e-Customs to Developing Countries: a Semiotic Perspective
Stefan Henningsson and Niels Bjorn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School Denmark
15:00 -15:15
Coffee Break
Paper Sessions - Two Parallel Sessions
15:15 – 16:45
SESSION VIII - Access to ICT for Development
Room
Session Chair
Alina Chircu, Bentley University, USA
Who uses ICT at Public Access Centers?
Ricardo Gomez1 and Kemly Camacho2,
1University of Washington, USA 2Sula Batsú Research Cooperative, Costa Rica
Investigating the Effects of Micro-enterprise Access and Use of ICTs through a Capability Lens
Travis Good and Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Risk Management Decision Making in ICT for Development
Paul Rohmeyer and Tal Ben-Zvi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
15:15 – 16:45
Session IX - Research in Progress
Room
Session Chair
James Pick, University of Redlands, USA
Determining the Value of Knowledge Management: A South African Perspective
Neels Kruger and Roy Johnson, University of Pretoria, South Africa
ICTD in Corporate Social Responsibility: Changing priorities in international development funding?
Amrita Lahiri and Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington, USA
Venkata Durbhakula and Dr.Dan.J.Kim, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
16:45 -17:45 pm
Session X - Plenary
Panel: Organizations in ICT4D
Room
Session Chair
H.G. (Henk) Sol, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Panelists
Annika Andersson and Mathias Hatakka, Swedish Business School at Örebro University, Sweden
IPID: The International Network for PG Students in ICT4D (http://www.humanit.org/PID/)
Guy Bentham, Publications Manager, The Commonwealth Secretariat, U.K. (http://www.thecommonwealth.org/)
Maung K. Sein, Agder University, Norway
IFIP Working Group 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (http://is2.lse.ac.uk/ifipwg94/)