The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in IS development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners interested in the socio-technical approach.

Following the purpose, only part of the workshop is devoted to presentations, the rest is designated for collaborative work. This year we will be working on a real case from the industry to be prepared by our local chairs.

Topics:
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Case studies using socio-technical approach
2. Information system design using socio-technical approach
3. Socio-technical comparative studies of technology/IS adoption
4. Socio-technical analysis, design, development and integration of
   – health care systems
   – crisis management systems
   – information security management systems
   – learning systems
   – privacy enhanced technology
5. Societal Security from a socio-technical perspective
6. Ethnographic and Anthropological aspects of IS design and adoption
7. IT business alignment from a socio-technical perspective
8. Using Viable System Model (VSM) for analysis and design of socio-technical systems