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TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics and AIS
T2 - Where do we draw the line?
AU - Fedorowicz, J.
AU - Bjørn-Andersen, N.
AU - Olbrich, S.
AU - Tarafdar, M.
AU - Te’eni, D.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is the preeminent global professional association for academics in the Information Systems (IS) discipline. Throughout its more than 20-year history, AIS governance documents have included no guidance on matters related to national or international politics. However, recent events have challenged AIS to reconsider its responsibility as a political or moral advocate for its members and the discipline it serves. A panel at ECIS 2017 explored the ways in which AIS has inadvertently or intentionally entered the political fray and debated the benefits and drawbacks of taking on a more formal political position. This paper presents the positions that each panelist raised and summarizes the active discussion that followed. It concludes with a set of questions that constitute a “call to action” to the AIS council to enact a politically acceptable set of core values to benefit its members.
AB - The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is the preeminent global professional association for academics in the Information Systems (IS) discipline. Throughout its more than 20-year history, AIS governance documents have included no guidance on matters related to national or international politics. However, recent events have challenged AIS to reconsider its responsibility as a political or moral advocate for its members and the discipline it serves. A panel at ECIS 2017 explored the ways in which AIS has inadvertently or intentionally entered the political fray and debated the benefits and drawbacks of taking on a more formal political position. This paper presents the positions that each panelist raised and summarizes the active discussion that followed. It concludes with a set of questions that constitute a “call to action” to the AIS council to enact a politically acceptable set of core values to benefit its members.
KW - AIS
KW - Association for Information Systems
KW - Core Values
KW - Politics
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - Information systems
KW - Core values
KW - International politics
KW - Professional associations
KW - Set of questions
KW - Information use
U2 - 10.17705/1CAIS.04416
DO - 10.17705/1CAIS.04416
M3 - Journal article
VL - 44
SP - 247
EP - 261
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
SN - 1529-3181
IS - 1
M1 - 16
ER -