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Guest Editors' Introduction
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Roba Abbas received the Ph.D. degree in
location-based services regulation.
She was a Product Manager with Internetrix,
Wollongong, NSW, Australia. She is a Lecturer and
Academic Program Director with the Faculty of
Business and Law at the University of Wollongong,
Wollongong. She has received competitive grants for
research addressing global challenges in areas related
to co-design and socio-technical systems, operations
management, robotics, social media, and other
emerging technologies. Her current research interest
includes methodological approaches to complex sociotechnical
systems design.
Dr. Abbas is a Co-Editor of the IEEE TransacTions
on Technology and socieTy.
Salah Hamdoun is a doctoral student in the
Innovation in Global Development (IGD) Program
at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society,
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College of Global Futures, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, USA.
His research interests lie in the area of financial
inclusion, technology and human development.
Specifically, his work focuses on the power
dynamics and relationships within societies, the
role of grassroots finance and the impact of hyperfinancialization
on the social structures in the
Global South. He has over ten years of professional
experience in money markets, financial derivatives,
and in alternative investments.
Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the Founder and
President of Pivot for Humanity, the organization
working to professionalize the social tech
industry, creating a more responsible, ethical, and
accountable Internet. She has spent over 20 years
in marketing and brand communications, developing
and implementing strategies for corporations such
as American Express, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, Bank of
America, Ally Bank, and Hilton Hotels. She is perhaps
most well-known for creating Capital One's " What's in
your wallet? " campaign. In 2014, she founded and
launched betwixt.us, a digital conversation engine
that harnesses technology to create a more authentic
connection and communication between individuals
on a team.
Netra Chhetri is a Professor at the School for
the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, USA. His professional work
focuses on a single vision to advance innovations,
both social and technological, to help communities
at the margins of society build on their expertise
and serve their interests. He contributes to the
scholarship on grassroots innovation by blending
knowledge and practice that
integrate
research,
education, institution-building, and engagement. His
experience and interest on global food security has
evolved into his focus on sensitivity analysis of global
food systems to climate change, leading him to be
one of the contributing authors of the AR4 and AR5
to the WG II of the IPCC.
Nalini Chhetri is a Clinical Associate Professor
with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society
and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, USA. As a social scientist,
her academic interest centers around impacts of
innovations and policies on global development
and sustainability. Her research interests include
policy impacts, alternate knowledge systems, urban
sustainability, and sustainable development in the
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