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Message from the President

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Dear KrAIS (Korean Association for Information Systems) members,

Welcome to KrAIS!
KrAIS is the Korean Chapter of Association for Information Systems (AIS)), which is “the premier professional association for individuals and organizations who lead the research, teaching, practice, and study of information systems worldwide.” KrAIS aims to promote the sharing and exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among the members of Korean IS community. We are particularly interested in the training and development of PhD students and junior faculty members. Our main activities include providing forums for professional mentoring, paper development, sharing teaching practices, and networking, among others.

We would like to highlight two major initiatives of KrAIS during our two-year (2023-2024) term.

The first is the Annual Post-ICIS KrAIS Research Workshops to be held in 2023 (Hydrabad, India) and 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand). Since 2010, the Post-ICIS workshop has been a great venue for members to get early feedback on their research in a safe and friendly environment, network with peers and senior scholars, share excellent IS teaching practices, and receive job-market related tips. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of previous executive team members and program co-chairs, the workshop has always been very well attended and received highly positive feedback from members. The program co-chairs of the 2023 workshop are Daegon Cho (KAIST), Antino Kim (Indiana University), and Hyeokkoo Eric Kwon (National University of Singapore). In the 2024 workshop, Keongtae Kim (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sang-Pil Han (Arizona State University), and Jiye Baek (Korea University) will serve as the workshop program co-chairs. We will work closely with the workshop co-chairs to reflect the members' needs as much as possible in the design of the workshop.

In addition, we are starting a new summer workshop (KrAIS Summer Workshop) based on the recommendations from the KrAIS 2.0 Task Force report and the feedback received at the 2022 Post-ICIS KrAIS Research Workshop. The inaugural summer workshop will be held in Seoul in early July 2023 and the objective of the workshop is two-fold. First, the workshop will provide a venue for networking and collaboration between industry and IS scholars as well as between Korean IS scholars in Korea and those overseas. Second, the workshop will be a forum for presenting and discussing research papers in a substantive manner. To this end, we are planning on having paper sessions that are longer than usual and a discussant for each paper.

Besides these main initiatives, we will continue and strengthen the cooperation with the KMIS(The Korea Society of Management Information Systems). The Annual Post ICIS KrAIS Research Workshop is held in collaboration with KMIS and there is a dedicated track for KrAIS members in the KMIS Spring and Fall Conferences. Further, many KrAIS members are involved in the operation of APJIS (Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems), a flagship journal of KMIS, which has recently been indexed in Scopus and ABDC. Those are examples of how two organizations are creating synergies based on their membership bases and we are planning to develop further opportunities for collaboration in 2023 and 2024.

Lastly, your voice is of utmost importance for the sustainability of KrAIS and we will do our best to listen to your opinions through diverse channels. This website provides a bulletin board system in which members can communicate with the board members of KrAIS. Apart from that, there is a Facebook page of KrAIS, and you can also send emails to our executive team members using the contact information below.



Dongwon Lee, Korea University, Co-President, mislee@korea.ac.kr
Kunsoo Han, McGill University, Co-President, kunsoo.han@mcgill.ca
Elina Hwang, University of Washington, Secretary, elina7@uw.edu
Gunwoong Lee, Korea University, Treasurer, leegw@korea.ac.kr
Dongwon Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Communication, dongwon@ust.hk

Yours sincerely,

Dongwon Lee and Kunsoo Han
Co-Presidents of KrAIS