The International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management (IJBSAM) Public Interest Technology (PIT) Collection contains multiple resources emerging from the Public Interest Technology for Innovation in Global Development Workshop (PIT Workshop), which was held on 12 September 2023. Co-located with The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2023 (ISTAS23), the event advanced the field of public interest technology as it pertains to digital innovation and broad conceptions of global development. The workshop featured two sub-tracks comprising interdisciplinary presentations on topics such as responsible innovation, socio-technical systems, social innovation, cybersecurity, socio-ethics, standards and co-design, among others. Outcomes include an IJBSAM peer reviewed paper, in addition to visual proceedings and other resources linked below.
Download the PIT Workshop Schedule
The featured IJBSAM article by Per Ole Uphaus and Harald Rau is titled “Participation in Location-Based News-Apps: Deriving Motivational Factors from Volunteer Work”. The paper explores the impact of digitalisation on journalism, focusing on the factors that influence participation in location-based news applications in hyper local contexts. The article also reinforces the importance of local community and participatory models in a public interest technology setting.
PIT Workshop Overview (IEEE Xplore)
PIT Workshop Papers in the IEEE ISTAS23 Conference Proceedings