OISI Workshop – ancillary event of ITAIS 2025 on October 17th at Castellanza
“Organizational Intervention in Social Informatics: Neo-Socio-Technical Inter-Organizational Systems”
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME Friday, October 17, 2025
Session A (Room: tbd) – 9:00-10.30 Chair: Gianni Jacucci
- Brief presentations by co-chairs and ample discussion
Session B (Room: tbd) – 11:00-12.30 Chair: Gianni Jacucci
- Brief presentations of two submitted Papers and ample discussion
The co-chairs (Vincenzo D’Andrea Trento, Peter Bednar, Portsmouth, Gianni Jacucci Trento, Mike Martin Northumbria) have three brief contributions on phenomenological theory and practice in the New S-T IS domain:
– The essential triadic nature of the S-T ontology (role, function, resources), that keeps the “role” from floating away; as it does, on the contrary, in binary ontology approaches (function, resources); neglecting the essential triadic nature of the S-T ontology has most probably kept the LAP approach (Language Action Approach) from achieving its expected goal of enabling a new foundation for design. (by Gianni Jacucci)
– As an example of the successful application of the triadic S-T ontology, the Trustworthy Governable Platform (TGP) is presented, as a way to construct the politically and ethically neutral technological infrastructure for creating islands and archipelagos of contextual integrity and accountability, for emancipated conversing communities; the first applications of TGP will be illustrated, within testbeds in the UK and in the USA. (by Mike Martin)
– An introduction to the use of analytical tools for exploring the catalog of potential visuals showing the basic explorative statistics extracted by the TGP base in the testbeds; in practice a report presenting a comprehensive analysis of the publication system database, examining how content and structures have evolved over time. The analysis covers four main areas: Data Privacy Protection, Content Categorization, System Evolution, Publication Patterns. (by Giampaolo Montaletti)
Aim of the Workshop: Calling for early produce contributions of current research, and motivating to discuss with workshop participants, on organizational intervention approaches of critical socio-technical character, focusing on the area of inter-organizational, multi-agency federation systems.
One of the main contexts of multi-organisational systems’ construction and deployment, which has provided the context for the development of concepts of the neo-socio- technical perspective (1) , has been the planning, coordination and delivery of health and social care in communities..
The complexities of these contexts and the failure of conventional Data Processing and Distribution (DPD) paradigm approaches, such as the development of shared electronic records at the national or regional level and attempts to develop joint assessments of need across different organizational and care settings, have resulted in critiques of this approach. Mike Martin and Rob Wilson have recently outlined an alternative approach based on the Information Communications (IC) paradigm, also introducing the fruitful notion of ‘epistemic registers’. (1)
Papers
Papers received by the OISI submission EasyChair website will be single blind reviewed by Workshop co-chairs. The submission Web page for OISI 2025 is https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=oisiworkshop2025 . Accepted papers will be published immediately online on the OISI 2025 Workshop Proceedings website: https://aisel.aisnet.org/oisiworkshop2025/, eventually replaced by a revised version.
The two most interesting papers will be discussed orally in one of the Workshop sessions.
Registration
Participation in the OISI workshop is open and free of charge to all registered participants to ITAIS2025.
Reference
- Martin M. and Wilson R.: “Inter-organisational systems: a neo-socio-technical perspective” (2020). https://aisel.aisnet.org/ukais2020/22