Showing papers by "Sajda Qureshi published in 2022"
TL;DR: The Global Capability Sourcing (GCS) model as mentioned in this paper explains why wages are declining for some skills while rising for others and asks: what role does a company most effectively play in the global sourcing economy?
Abstract: ABSTRACT As the world opens up from the clutches of the pandemic to heightened demand for goods and services, businesses inextricably interconnected globally are coping to meet this demand due to worker shortages. In honor of Peter Keen, this editorial offers insight into how the quest for global talent can be addressed. Our work on how knowledge networking enables innovation through the creation of talent pools and the Global Capability Sourcing (GCS) model are combined to offer a view into addressing this challenge. The GCS explains why wages are declining for some skills while rising for others and asks: what role does a company most effectively play in the global sourcing economy? When workers are free to choose where and when they offer their services, the development imperative comes into effect. The development imperative is freedom of choice and can occur through innovation in talent pools stimulated through knowledge networking. When people have greater freedom and capabilities to improve their knowledge and skills, their incomes increase along with the range of choices and capabilities enjoyed by their households and governments. The papers in this issue add to what is known about how digital competency can be stimulated through investments in ICT training programs, how innovations take place in the development context and insights into conducting context-sensitive research.
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TL;DR: The authors investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins, and draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins.
Abstract: ABSTRACT As the world watches millions of refugees whose livelihoods ripped apart by deadly missile attacks, this editorial investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins. It draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins. Places that were once economic peripheries are now at the center of the digital transformation of the global economy as it changes how those at the margins can attain their freedoms. Insights from patching development and technologies of the oppressed offer unique insights into ways out of the structural oppression. Insights from these and papers published in this issue offer contributions to what we know about digital transformation in the context of socio-economic and human development and how the battle for the soul of self-sovereignty is won by digital transformation at the margins.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss the impact of ICT on decision support systems (DSS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Commerce including Mcommerce, and highlight that the human element will be peripheral rather than central to the choices about and impacts of IT.
Abstract: When the internet was a figment in most people’s imagination, Peter Keen was paving the way for us to understand the many ways in which our lives would be changed forever. He wrote seminal works and textbooks in the area of Decision Support Systems (DSS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Commerce including Mcommerce. His textbooks on Decision Support Systems gave us an understanding of how organizational decision making needs good information (Keen, 1978; ScottMorton & Keen, 1978). When speaking to my students he would stress that as all commerce is becoming electronic, it is about the relationships that keep businesses alive. The phrase he coined ‘the organization that lives by the online transaction will die by it’ is true today. As his mentee, I knew him to be a prolific writer, speaker who led us in our understanding of the many ways in which ICTs are changing the world we live in. Going through our notes, his words take on a new significance. He told us that just as the strategic global deployment and impacts of ICT have moved to a new phase, so too should ICT research. He noted that research issues center on the extent to which the empirically-observable trends in individual industries and the successes of individual companies represent an evolution in organizational theory that shapes effective practice (Alavi & Keen, 1989; Calloway & Keen, 1996; Earle & Keen, 2000; Keen & El Sawy, 2010). He taught us that as organizations are social systems, the information systems that support them will have to sustain the relationships that enable value to be created (Hackathorn & Keen, 1981; Keen, 1980a, 1980b, 1981b, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2015). He explained that as long as managers remain nonfluent about IT, the human element will be peripheral rather than central to the choices about and impacts of IT. In their application of telecommunications, managerial and organizational choices can be made to permit simultaneous centralization-with-decentralization of Information Systems (Keen, 1981a, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993; Keen & Woodman, 1984). He highlighted that since all commerce is electronic, what is apparent is that digital business is driven by the same forces as business in general but that one single factor stands out: value is a function of the choice space. It is in this space that the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies is determined.
TL;DR: The role of human digital development in global health lies in the ways in which artificial intelligent applications are used to support people, their providers and institutions operating in low-resource environments.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Digital spaces offer expanded economic and social opportunities to exercise human agency. With increasing numbers of people falling into poverty, it is those same people at the margins who hold the key to global recovery. The term human digital development refers to the exercise of human agency using ICTs, in particular human interactions in cyberspace that offer new ways in which people may lead the lives they choose to live. Being healthy is central for an individual’s capabilities and freedoms to bring about improvements in their lives. The role for human digital development in global health lies in the ways in which artificial intelligent applications are used to support people, their providers and institutions operating in low-resource environments. In this way, digital health enables the use of artificially intelligent technologies to achieve improved health outcomes. Investments in human digital development can create positive cycles of prosperity by spurring economic growth.