3rd Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop

Posted on November 5, 2014 by DigiSTIS

Robin Williams gave the opening keynote at the 3rd Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop (13th – 16th October 2014) hosted by the  University of Oslo, Department of Informatics.

http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/iiios2014/

The  previous III workshop at the University of Edinburgh (9-11 October 2012)

http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/issti/events/events/innovation_in_information_infrastructures

had provided the basis for a recently published special edition of the Journal for the Association of Information Systems  edited by Eric Monteiro, Neil Pollock and Robin Williams.

http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol15/iss4/4/

With this collection of papers, infrastructure studies had  “come of age”, Robin suggested. However more systematic and comparative studies are needed to explicate the Uneven Contours of Information Infrastructure Innovation. We need to understand better the opportunities for, and barriers to generativity and generification – whereby local innovations may be encouraged and come to be widely adopted, incorporated in generic solutions.

 

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