{"id":5335,"date":"2026-04-01T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aisnet.org\/?page_id=5335"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:07:23","slug":"bright-ict-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aisnet.org\/communities\/bright-ict-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright ICT Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5335\" class=\"elementor elementor-5335\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77a64100 top-shape e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-invisible e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"77a64100\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;shape_divider_bottom&quot;:&quot;tilt&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shape elementor-shape-bottom\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-negative=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 100\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\">\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" d=\"M0,6V0h1000v100L0,6z\"\/>\n<\/svg>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55c573df e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"55c573df\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55c47fb5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"55c47fb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:200}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bright ICT Initiative<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34c3e36a elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"34c3e36a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-752589bf elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"752589bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:400}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>AIS Grand Vision Project for the ICT-enabled Bright Society<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-637eb712 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"637eb712\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46bbc42e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"46bbc42e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e3eb9a0 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e3eb9a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Home<\/span><\/p><\/nav><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27fbeb53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27fbeb53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Global societal knowledge infrastructures and communication platforms have made life and business more efficient and effective. However, many serious side effects have emerged alongside these information and communications technology (ICT) platforms, imperiling the foundation of future not only in a particular country, but also across borders.<\/p><p>So far, there has been no dedicated academic discipline or society that aims to solve these problems through systematic research on a global scale. Therefore AIS Council agreed to adopt the vision of ICT-enabled Bright Society as an AIS Grand Vision Project (in short Bright ICT Initiative) in Dec. 2014, and established a task force.<\/p><p>The initiative will encompass the development of relevant technologies, business models, public policies, social norms, international agreements, metrics of measuring national progress and more. This endeavor is expected to create many research opportunities to make AIS research outcomes more available and significant for society.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-657edbf9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"657edbf9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bright ICT Memorandum of Understanding Signing with ITU<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d8db70f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d8db70f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In December 2015, AIS signed an agreement with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to formally collaborate on research and implementation on the Bright Internet for Trust Infrastructure. The Bright Internet is the first core research topic of Bright ICT (Jae Kyu Lee, MIS Quarterly, June 2015), and aims to drastically reduce cybercrimes by achieving the Principles of Origin Responsibility, Deliverer Responsibility, Rule-based Digital Search Warrant, and Traceable Anonymity.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/169839763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video of the Signing of the MOU for Bright ICT<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1bf88d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b1bf88d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Task Force<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46e2a85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46e2a85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The task force consists of Jane Fedorowicz (Immediate Past-President), Helmut Krcmar (President), Jae Kyu Lee (President-Elect), Past Presidents of AIS, Joey George and Nils Bjorn-Anderson, Ramayya Krishnan (Dean, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University), Allen Lee (AMCIS Representative), and Cynthia Beath (VP of Conferences). For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:jklee@business.kaist.ac.kr\">jklee@business.kaist.ac.kr<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>Panels on the Bright ICT Initiative in AIS Conferences<\/strong><\/p><p>To encourage the exchange of ideas about the Bright ICT Initiative, panels were organized during various AIS Conferences.<\/p><ol><li><strong>ICIS 2014<\/strong> Held in Dec. 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand, the inaugural panel was hosted by Jane Fedorowicz (Immediate Past-President of AIS), Helmut Krcmar (President of AIS), Jae Kyu Lee (President-Elect of AIS), Ramayya Krishnan (Dean of Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University), and Kevin Desauza (AIS VP of Communications, Arizona State University).<\/li><li><strong>ECIS 2015<\/strong> Held in May in Munster, Germany, the panel \u201cEuropean Perspectives of the Bright ICT Initiative with Global Reach\u201d was organized by Ferdinando Pennarola (AIS ICIS Representative, Italy) with the panelists Helmut Krcmar (Germany), Henk G. Sol (Netherlands), Niels Bj\u00f8rn-Andersen (Denmark), and Jae Kyu Lee (Korea).<\/li><li><strong>PACIS 2015<\/strong> The July meeting in Singapore featured a panel with the Asia Pacific perspective. Jungpil Han (National University of Singapore) moderated the panel with panelists from Japan (Masaki Hirano, Waseda University), Singapore (Steven Miller, Singapore Management University), New Zealand (Michael Myer, Auckland University), and Korea (Jae Kyu Lee, KAIST).<\/li><li><strong>AMCIS 2015<\/strong> The August meeting in Perto Rico featured a panel focused on \u201cThe AIS Grand Vision Project: What, Why, and How\u201d. Jane Fedorowicz (Bentley University) moderated the panel with panelists Ritu Agarwal (University of Maryland), Gwanhoo Lee (American University), Richard Watson (University of Georgia), Ping Zhang (Syracuse University), and Jae Kyu Lee (KAIST).<\/li><li><strong>ICIS 2015<\/strong> The December meeting in Fort Worth, Texas featured a panel on \u201cThe Bright Internet as the Future Trust Infrastructure\u201d. Victoria Yoon moderated the panel with panellists Andrew Whinston (University of Texas), Chae Sub Lee (Director of ITU), Jae Kyu Lee (KAIST), and a forthcoming expert in security trend.<\/li><\/ol><p><strong>Special Issues of Journals on the Bright ICT Initiative<\/strong><\/p><p>A special issue of the Journal of AIS will be guest-edited by Wonseok Oh (KAIST), Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University), and Choon Ling Sia (City University of Hong Kong). A call for papers is current with the following illustrative topics for the issues, but is not limited to:<\/p><ul><li>Responsibilities of cyber security and obligations of Internet platform providers<\/li><li>Design of traceable anonymity that secures both privacy and security<\/li><li>Economics of computer security and privacy<\/li><li>Legal aspects of Internet crimes and privacy violation<\/li><li>Effects of privacy concerns on online consumer behaviors<\/li><li>Big data analytics and privacy concerns<\/li><li>Exploration of cyber bullying and online harassment in social networking sites<\/li><li>Social and political conflicts in online communities and social networks<\/li><li>Assessments of digital addictions to games and social networking sites<\/li><li>Potential risks of the Internet of Things society.<\/li><\/ul><p>Contact Wonseok Oh: <a href=\"mailto:ohws@business.kaist.ac.kr\">ohws@business.kaist.ac.kr<\/a><\/p><p><strong><em>MIS Quarterly<\/em><\/strong> published the editorial article on the \u201cResearch Framework of the Bright ICT Initiative (Jae Kyu Lee, June 2015), and welcomes submissions on Bright ICT related papers. Editor-in-Chief, Paulo B. Goes, recommended several Senior Editors who are well qualified and committed to handle the submissions, including Youngjin Yoo, H.R. Rao, Sulin Ba, Paul Pavlou and Arvind Malhotra.<\/p><p>The Editor-in-chief, Ritu Agarwal, of <em><strong>Information System Research<\/strong><\/em> plans to have a special section focused on Bright ICT issues as well.<\/p><p><strong>Global Research Network and Global Summit<\/strong><\/p><p>As the national research projects are granted from many countries, the research teams from many universities and\/or countries can establish the AIS Global Research Network of Bright ICT. As the technical standards and global governance structure for the Bright Internet become developed, the Global Bright Internet Summit can be established with the relevant government representatives and global governance leaderships. We hope to host the Global Summit in ICIS 2017 in Seoul.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright ICT Initiative AIS Grand Vision Project for the ICT-enabled Bright Society Global societal knowledge infrastructures and communication platforms have made life and business more efficient and effective. 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