[Asis-l] [Fwd: Fwd: [isworld] IJKL - CFP for a special issue on Knowledge, Technology and the Digital Divide: global per]
Michel J. Menou
Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr
Mon Jan 23 05:23:21 EST 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS - International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
Special Issue on Knowledge, Technology and the Digital Divide: global
perspectives
Special Issue Editors:
Bill Martin, Research Director, School of Business IT, RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia bill.martin at rmit.edu.au
Mohini Singh, School of Business IT, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia mohini.singh at rmit.edu.au
Alemayehu Molla, School of Business IT, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia alemayehu.molla at rmit.edu.au
There is a global consensus on the perceived connection between the
uptake of information and communication technologies (ICTs), economic
growth and new knowledge. Development today is virtually synonymous with
the presence of industries at whose core reside knowledge and related
intangibles. This includes computer hardware and software, multimedia,
communications and biotechnology, the informatisation and digitisation
of traditional commodity and manufacturing production and exchange, and
a range of government and business services available on a 24 X 7 basis.
Nonetheless, the benefits of the so-called digital revolution and the
knowledge economy it enables have been accompanied by a further widening
of the gap between those that access knowledge and information readily
and those that lack such access completely or those whose access is
constrained significantly.
This digital divide exists both within the developed countries of the
North and between them and those nations in the South that are striving
to escape the burdens of under-development. Clearly the acquisition of
technological capacity is a necessary but not sufficient response to
such challenges. People must also have access to the information and
knowledge to become both users and producers of these technologies. Even
more basic people must be capable of responding to the opportunities
presented by this combination of technology and knowledge. Various
national and international institutions are undertaking policies,
programs and projects to include those that remain on the negative side
of the divide. This carries implications for issues of access and
equity, be this in terms of the basic literacy necessary to participate
in the digital economy or the freedom from poverty and disease that
would enable participation in the workforce. There is a range of
infrastructure issues to do with legal and regulatory frameworks for
telecommunications, intellectual property, e-business and e-government.
There is also a range of relationship issues not only at governmental
level and involving donors, investors and local partners, but also at a
local level to do with balancing external and indigenous knowledge and
resources in ways that are most likely to empower local communities.
Finally there are issues of lessons, outcomes and sustainability of
impacts.
This special issue will address this range of relationships and
resource issues taking a global perspective. It will also look for
insights into actual and potential responses involving this softer
knowledge-based dimension of the response to some of the major problems
of development and the digital divide. Submissions are invited that fall
into (but are not limited to) one of the following topic areas:
Theories of knowledge and digital divide
Knowledge and development, millennium development goals, modernisation,
dependency, resource-based theory, knowledge-based theory of the firm,
intangibles, knowledge creation, and management theories, including
complex adaptive systems, knowledge and learning, theories of
information and knowledge societies Information and knowledge in a
North-South connection, issues of relevance and validity Information
and knowledge flows, potential obstacles and stimulators Strategies for
creating and sharing knowledge
Communities and content
Communities and knowledge sharing donor-recipient, local and
international Content mix for North-South, South-South and South-North
knowledge exchanges Content gaps in the digital divide Issues of
equity and access Issues of culture, norms and customs E-spaces versus
social spaces
Infrastructure issues
Technologies for sustainable development Regulation and deregulation
of basic infrastructures, IP regimes and legal frameworks Global
ebusiness structures: supply chains and value networks North-South
business clusters
Policies and models for addressing the digital divide
Evaluation of policies Comparative studies of policies Evaluation of
models Issues and challenges Impact assessment
Case studies, successful and otherwise of knowledge transfer, sharing
or technology projects involving a North-South dimension
Important dates:
31st May 2006 Submission of abstracts
30th November 2006 Submission of manuscripts
15th March 2007 Notification to authors
15th July 2007 Final versions due
Late 2007 Publication
Style and authorship guidelines:
Author guidelines are available at:
http://www.inderscience.com/papers/about.php
Dr Mohini Singh
Associate Professor of Information Technology and E-Business
School of BIT, RMIT Business
GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001
Victoria Australia
Email: mohini.singh at rmit.edu.au
Phone: 61 3 9925 1355 Fax: 61 3 9925 5850
http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/mohini_singh
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