Lessons Learned from Indigenous Australians and Digital Transformation
Keynote address at the ICT4AD IN NOVEMBER 2024
Bio
Lemuria Carter is the Deputy Dean of the Business School at the University of Sydney. She is also a Professor in the Discipline of Business Information Systems. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and Decision Sciences from Virginia State University (USA). She has a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Accounting and Information Systems from Virginia Tech (USA). Before moving to Australia, Dr. Carter served as the Department Chair for Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has industry experience with several Fortune 500 companies, including IBM and Pfizer. Her research interests include technology adoption, digital government and information privacy. During her academic career, Professor Carter has received awards for excellence in teaching, research and service.
She has been recognized as one of the top 30 most prolific contributors to e-government research. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Homeland Security Solutions and the Southeastern Transportation Institute in the United States. In 2019, she was recognised for co-authoring the most highly cited paper in the prestigious Information Systems Journal. In 2021, she co-authored a paper titled « Privacy Concerns and Digital Government: Exploring Citizen Willingness to Adopt the COVIDSafe App » which was published in the European Journal of Information Systems and later included in the World Health Organisation (WHO) library of global literature on COVID. In 2023, her co-authored Editorial exploring multidisciplinary perspectives opportunities and challenges of generative AI was cited in a 2023 European Parliament Report.
Dr. Carter has been an active member of the community. She has served as a member of the Concord Rotary club, a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters and a board member for Habitat for Humanity.
WHEN IT'S THE SLAVES THAT PAY: IN SEARCH OF A FAIR DUE DILIGENCE COST DISTRIBUTION IN MINERAL SUPPLY CHAINS
ABSTRACT
Modern slavery and conflict minerals are often treated as two separate grand challenges governed by different legislation, yet conflict mineral settings commonly involve and inflict slavery in supply chains. This paper focuses on due diligence in the context of conflict mineral supply chains, and in doing so provides important insights for modern slavery in general. Using more than 38 h of recordings from exploratory interviews with 46 experts from 43 organizations, our study investigates: a) how due diligence costs and benefits are actually distributed in supply chains in practice; and b) the means through which due diligence costs and benefits can be (more appropriately) shared.
BIO
Constantin Blome is Academic Dean of Lancaster University Leipzig since September 2022. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Constantin’s research interests include supply chain management, procurement and
operations management with strong focus on sustainability, innovation and risk issues. In 2020 and 2021, he received the highly cited research award from Clarivate in the category « cross field », highlighting the top 0,1% cited scholars. Constantin is regular keynote speaker at academic and practitioner conferences. His research won several prestigious awards. Constantin is also co-owner and board member of two companies (n-side, Belgium, and Procurence, Poland). Overall, Constantin raised more than 5 million Euro research funding with a strong focus on industry funding
Désiré AVOM est Professeur de Sciences Economiques à la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (FSEG) de l’Université de Yaoundé II-Soa, où, il exerce depuis avril 2020 les fonctions de Doyen, après l’avoir été pendant 5 ans à l’Université de Dschang (Ouest Cameroun). Il est Directeur de publication institutionnelle des deux revues de la FSEG à savoir la Revue Camerounaise d’Economie (RCE) et de la Revue Camerounaise de Gestion (RCG). Il est par ailleurs membre du comité scientifique de la Revue d’Economie de Développement (RED), et récemment désigné membre du Comité de Politique Monétaire (CPM) de la BEAC.
Ses avis sont régulièrement sollicités et appréciés par des institutions sous-régionales (CEMAC, BEAC, CEEAC, UEMOA, CEDEAO) et internationales (BM, FMI, PNUD, UA, BAD, CEA).
Il a intensivement publié des articles dans plusieurs revues internationales référencées comme Ecological Economics, Applied Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Revue d’Économie Politique, Revue Française d’Économie, etc. En 2023, il a co-dirigé et publié aux éditions Cambridge Scholars Publishing un ouvrage collectif intitulé « Tropical Issues in International Development and Economics ». Ancien directeur du Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Economie et Gestion (CEREG) dont il est membre, il assure également la direction du Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Prospectives Economiques (LAPE).
The Responsiveness View, Adjustment Cycles, and Generative AI: New Opportunities in Supply Chain Management
Short bio
Glenn Richey is an accomplished academic and renowned expert in the field of supply chain management and logistics. He currently holds the prestigious position of the Harbert Eminent Scholar in Supply Chain Management at Auburn University’s Harbert College of Business. With a strong academic and business background, Richey has made significant contributions to the field through his research, teaching, service, and outreach.
Richey’s current research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in logistics and supply chain management and the Responsiveness View approach to strategically managing supply chains. He has published 100+ articles in leading academic journals, and his work has been cited extensively by researchers and practitioners alike.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Richey is actively engaged in the professional community, collaborating with colleagues from various institutions and organizations across the globe. He strongly advocates for integrating technology in supply chain management and is committed to advancing the field through innovative research and teaching. Before entering academia, Dr. Richey worked for 10 years in marketing, distribution, and logistics.
The Impact of Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Development for Africa
Meet the Speaker
Dr. Frederick J. Riggins is an Emeritus Professor of Management Information Systems at the College of Business at North Dakota State University. Prior to his recent Emeritus appointment, Dr. Riggins served as the Director of the Center for Enterprise Business Analytics and Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at NDSU. He earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University where he was awarded the William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management. Prior to serving as a faculty member at NDSU, he was on the faculty at Arizona State University, the University of Minnesota, Georgia Tech, and the University of Alberta. In a ranking of IS researcher productivity, Dr. Riggins was ranked #9 on the list of top IS researchers for the period 2003-2007. He has 21 A or A* publications based on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal rankings list and over 6,100 citations according to Google Scholar. His research interests include interorganizational systems, RFID, the digital divide and microfinance, and blockchain and the crypto economy.
Presentation Description
The Impact of Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Development for Africa In recent years, digital technologies utilizing the internet have become increasingly centralized, controlled by a relatively small number of large technology companies—mostly centered in the United States. This tends to stifle innovation and blocks new start-ups that might threaten this centralized internet. While users are generally content with many free services provided by these few companies, they often must give up much privacy to enhance the business model of these Big Tech companies. Now, these same companies are seeking to control the emerging use of artificial intelligence and hope to capture a large portion of the benefits of AI. While government regulations might help reduce this concentration of digital power, what is needed is a technology solution.
Blockchain technology provides the foundation for a new digital ecosystem where separate entities can exchange financial assets and non-financial digital information without the need of a third-party intermediary such as a bank, a government, or a centralized social media platform. In the financial world, the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) shifts power towards users who are better able to control their digital assets. Furthermore, the decentralized nature of the blockchain-based crypto economy provides an opportunity to push power out to users who can maintain ownership of their non-financial digital assets and information. In addition, the use of smart contracts on blockchains allows for the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)—a new organizational form that resides entirely on a blockchain. In a DAO, organizational governance rules are hardcoded in a transparent, immutable smart contract, where, theoretically, decentralized decision making is made by a group of token holders who make, and vote on, proposals that constitute management of the DAO. Research is being conducted to examine the extent to which DAOs are decentralized in practice. Decentralization of financial services (through DeFi) and organizational structure (through DAOs) has the potential to enhance development efforts in Africa. How governments react to these developments by introducing new central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and enacting restrictions and regulations on DAOs will determine the future of the decentralized internet.