<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>AMCIS 2025, Montreal, Canada, August 14-16, 2025<br><div><br></div><div>** Digital Innovations and Development minitrack **</div><div><br>under the ICTs and Global Development (SIGGlobDev) track</div></div><div><br></div><div>Digital innovations employ various cutting-edge ICT-based solutions and platforms, such as cloud computing, big data, blockchain, metaverse, that are applied in numerous spheres of professional and everyday life. Some take the form of digital services that make use of design thinking techniques to provide the users with valuable experiences. Digital innovations have great potential to support socioeconomic development through digital inclusion, poverty alleviation, empowerment, fostering entrepreneurship, to name a few.</div><div><br>The objective of this mini-track is to encourage more research on digital innovations driving socioeconomic development by providing a forum for interested authors to disseminate their research, compare results, and exchange ideas. We are seeking papers dealing with digital innovations and development in various contexts, including developed, emerging and transition economies, in their various facets, such as business, technical, social, political, cultural, economic, legal, and educational.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Possible topics of interest for this minitrack include but are not limited to the following subjects, investigated from the perspective of socioeconomic development:</div></div><div>- Innovative ICT-supported services and business models<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital innovations in e-government, e-democracy, and citizen participation<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital innovations in healthcare<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Governance and management of digital innovations<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Design and deployment of digital innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Success factors, barriers and risks of digital innovations adoption<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Return on investment from digital innovations (financial and other)<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital innovations in global supply chains<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital innovations in off-shoring and outsourcing of systems and services<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Applications of digital innovations in education<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Design of innovative, affordable, and sustainable artifacts related to ICT<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital workplaces, innovative work practices, and their impact on socioeconomic development<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Digital innovations in support of migrants and refugees<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Leveraging the potential of blockchain technology to support development<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>The role of cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) in socioeconomic development<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Opportunities of the Metaverse in socioeconomic development<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span>Design of innovative digital services</div><div><br></div><div>More details at <a href="https://amcis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/">https://amcis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div><br></div><div>January 05, 2025<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Manuscript submissions begin</div><div>February 28, 2025<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submissions are due at 5:00pm ET (New York)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:</div><div><br></div><div>Piotr Soja <br>Krakow University of Economics, Poland</div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl">eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz<br>Krakow University of Economics, Poland</span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:paliwodg@uek.krakow.pl">paliwodg@uek.krakow.pl</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Paulo Rupino da Cunha <br>University of Coimbra, Portugal</span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:rupino@dei.uc.pt">rupino@dei.uc.pt</a></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Marinos Themistocleous<br>University of Nicosia, Cyprus</span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:themistocleous.m@unic.ac.cy">themistocleous.m@unic.ac.cy</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><br></div></body></html>