Please join us at the CIS 720 seminar from 4:30-5:30pm on Monday, 9/27, as we welcome Prof. Prasanna Karhade (ITM), who will be presenting his research on “Painting Myanmar’s Transition: Digital Technologies and Social Justice”.
Abstract:
Myanmar is located at the new crossroads of Asia – where China meets India. In the last decade, Myanmar has witnessed extensive changes and transformations. This exploratory study aims to understand the interconnections between history, geography, culture, the zeitgeist and behaviors in modern Myanmar. We adopt a creative and critical arts-based research methodology which analyzes eighty artworks across four generations of Myanmar artists. Interviews with these artists also provide unique data which helps us understand the transformation in Myanmar during the past decade. Preliminary findings point to the need for an inside-out model of digitally enabled capacity building approach to transformation.
Very early days in this new research program of mine. Hope that is okay.
Bio:
Prasanna P. Karhade is a Shidler College Faculty Fellow & Associate Professor of IT Management and a Faculty Fellow at the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. In 2019-2020, Prasanna was awarded the Shirley M. Lee award for his exemplary research contributions to the University of Hawai’i. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in studying digital innovation and digital transformation. He is currently studying the decolonization of digital platforms in growing, rural, eastern, aspirational and transitional (GREAT) domains such as India. His research has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Prasanna enjoys hiking. He also loves practicing meditation under the guidance of Ajahn Brahm.