STREAM 3: CATALYSTS AND CONNECTIONS - USING DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR CHANGE

Description
With the Covid Pandemic still upon us, there is an increasing need for Digital Social Innovations (DSIs) to offer new approaches to existing wicked problems, such as supporting better health and wellbeing, developing the post-Covid economy, and reducing inequalities.  Furthermore, COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021 highlighted the potential for digital social innovations to address climate change and climate injustices.   
Digital Social Innovations have always engaged stakeholders and empowered people to act, and during the crisis of 2020 they further demonstrated their powers in maintaining societal function and capabilities, not least in the world of work and human interaction. Yet studies of DSIs remain underrepresented in academic literature, and theories explaining their emergence are largely absent. Greater academic insight and understanding is needed to explain the current and future potential of digital and other technologies to generate and sustain social change.  
To this end, we invite papers on the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:  
DSIs and the pandemic; 
DSIs and Climate Justice; 
DSIs and the digital divide; 
DSIs, ethics and neutrality in social innovation;  
DSIs in the public sector and civil society organisations;  
Citizen engagement through DSIs;  
Theories of DSIs;  
The role of DSIs in disrupting the status quo;  
Organisational dynamics and business models sustaining DSIs;  
Managerial and entrepreneurial challenges in DSIs;  
DSIs ecosystems, networks and network effects;  
DSIs case studies