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).
