Abstract
As the gravity of the impact of climate change on everyday life grows ever more relevant, green technology involving sustainability are also garnering more attention, and, in turn, more sophisticated IT solutions are needed. In this paper we review existing literature on the diffusion and transfer of tech-nology in households in order to strengthen and prepare the future adoption of more IT-oriented sustainability solutions of green IT. We find that a large portion of household studies have taken place in the farming and agricultural sector of developing countries. We find that a large portion of the studies propose implications from a government policy perspective. We also find that a large portion of studies confirm factors influencing the diffusion and adoption coming from diffusion theory. Another significant portion takes a socio-cultural approach perspective. Finally, we find that collaboration, co-creation and participation seem to be effective in furthering the transfer and diffusion of sustainable and green technology in households. We discuss the implications of these different approaches when tackling the diffusion of green IT and propose taking a pluralist and design-oriented perspective since no single perspective or approach so far has resulted in large-scale technolo-gy transfer or diffusion to households
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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| Titel | Co-creating for Context in the Transfer and Diffusion of IT : IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2022, Maynooth, Ireland, June 15–16, 2022, Proceedings |
| Redaktører | Amany Elbanna, Shane Mcloughlin, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Brian Donnellan, David Wastell |
| Antal sider | 14 |
| Forlag | Springer |
| Publikationsdato | 2022 |
| Sider | 163-176 |
| ISBN (Trykt) | 978-3-031-17967-9 |
| ISBN (Elektronisk) | 978-3-031-17968-6 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
| Begivenhed | IFIP 8.6 - Technology Adoption Group: Co-creating for Context in Prospective Transfer & Diffusion of IT - Kildare, Irland Varighed: 15 jun. 2022 → 16 jun. 2022 Konferencens nummer: 8.6 https://tag.ivi.ie/ifip8-6-2022/ |
Konference
| Konference | IFIP 8.6 - Technology Adoption Group |
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| Nummer | 8.6 |
| Land/Område | Irland |
| By | Kildare |
| Periode | 15/06/2022 → 16/06/2022 |
| Andet | Since our last call for papers, international events have brought particular emphasis on the inherent and increasing diversity, complexity and uncertainty of context(s) influencing the diffusion of emerging IT.<br/><br/>This challenges our academic community to acknowledge and better address such context in our methods, theories and practices of research. Not only are IT artefacts becoming more complex, so too are the environments in which they inhabit (Smart homes, Smart City, Industry 4.0, Agriculture 4.0 etc.) and context’s influencing their use.<br/><br/>Some of the key interrelated challenges requiring understanding and solutions include:<br/><br/>Technological advances (e.g. IoT, AI and Blockchain) enabling increasing diversity, volume and fluidity of data flowing amongst actors (both technical and non-technical actors) to create value; public sentiment and political policies (e.g. Health Pandemics, the environment, supply chain, privacy/security) shifting priorities of research; IT enabled servitization delivering new value, markets and market influences; deepening IT penetration into various life domains (from governing cities, to transport, housing and farming); and innovation ecosystems that enrich, enlarge and intersect with each other (platform based ecosystems, new transport modalities such as driverless cars).<br/><br/>The interdisciplinary nature of IS/IT research acknowledges the richness of context, by drawing on diverse research fields (e.g. the humanities, social sciences, engineering and business). The transfer & diffusion of IT innovations depends on numerous actors, factors and contingencies right from conception & development up to scaling and sustaining over space and time. Today, more than ever, diverse sources of data, information and knowledge must converge to create new value in practice and new theoretical insight. We view this as co-creation in the broadest sense, whereby diverse and relevant actors are identified and contribute to designing new IT artefacts, realising new ‘value-in-use’ and advancing knowledge in academic research.<br/><br/>The Conference thus addresses what we may call co-creating for context. Recognising the diversity, complexity and uncertainty of context in IT transfer and diffusion, we are interested in contributions that appreciate and showcase how the diversity of actors (including non-human actants), their perspectives and related methods, together help unpack context(s) and thus the conditions for effective IT transfer and diffusion.<br/><br/>The Conference welcomes any contribution within the general fit of the IFIP 8.6 Working Group, as well as contributions that tackle this year’s theme. For example, co-creating with practice in capturing what is happening on the ground and at the precipice of digital transformation; harnessing the collective intelligence of citizens in devising and/or offering solutions, or converging interdisciplinary expertise to gain new or greater insight.<br/>The Conference is intended to be a forum for both scholars, practitioners and doctoral students who are interested in exchanging ideas and collaborating with members of the IFIP community around the topic of transfer & diffusion of IT.<br/><br/>Research is invited, but not limited to some of the below possible topics:<br/><br/>1) How drawing on diverse & relevant stakeholders (e.g. citizens, businesses, public sector), can advance understanding of context leading to new knowledge.<br/>2) Converging interdisciplinary expertise/knowledge/theory to gain new insight into the context and conditions of IT transfer and diffusion.<br/>3) Converging diverse datasets to gain new insight into the context and conditions of IT transfer and diffusion.<br/>4) Showcasing how methods/theory can represent diverse actors for uncovering new contextual insight (e.g. assemblage theory, complexity theory, actor network theory, System Dynamics theory, socio-materiality etc.).<br/>5) Accounting for the level of influence of values and power permeating actors in context.<br/>6) Presenting (multi-level) case studies contextualising the relation between the IT artefact and other actors in the environment that inform conditions of scaling.<br/>7) Ethnographic and longitudinal approaches in accounting for richness and temporality of context.<br/><br/>We also encourage and welcome papers addressing other topics in the wide remit of IFIP 8.6 on the transfer and diffusion of IT. |
| Internetadresse |
| Navn | IFIP AICT - Advances in Information and Communication technology |
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| Vol/bind | 660 |
| ISSN | 1868-4238 |