Grand Societal Challenges in Information Systems Research and Education

How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?.- ICT-Applications to align global resources with a growing population.- How can Information systems help to make policymaking be more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?.- Making the global convergence of ICT available for everyone.- How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?.- The role of information technologies in changing the status of women to improve human conditions.- How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?.- How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?.- How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?.- Global Challenges for humanity: How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?.

Professor Dr. Jan vom Brocke is the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management, Director of the Institute of Information Systems, and Vice-President Research and Innovation of the University of Liechtenstein. He also serves as Vice-President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), Vice President of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), and Director of the European Research Center (ERCIS) in Liechtenstein. Jan has published 23 books and over 300 academic articles, among others in Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), and in Information & Management (I&M). He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and is an associate editor of Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA). He has taught at a number of universities, including the University of Muenster (Germany), the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the LUISS University in Rome (Italy), the University of Turku (Finland), the University College Dublin (Ireland), and he is an active supporter of the AAU IS PhD program at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

Dr. Armin Stein is Managing Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) of the University of Münster. Together with his team, he shapes and puts into actions the ideas of the ERCIS networking. During his PhD studies at the Department for Information Systems, Armin's work was and still is related to Business Process Management with a focus on the conceptual modelling and workflow management, addressing the technical aspects of BPM. Other research interests are related to the areas of Supply Chain Management, and Gender and Diversity in IS.

Sara Hofmann is Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Münster.