Mobile Informatics Innovation of IT Use in mobile settings: IRIS'21 Workshop Report Steinar Kristoffersen, Fredrik Ljungberg Introduction important target group for the conference. The IRIS conference altemates between the Scandinavian countries. This year's conference was the 21 st since the start in 1978. The Information Systems group at the Computer Science department of Aalborg University organized it. The conference hosted 120 people mainly from Scandinavia, but also from the UK, US, Germany, etc. There were three keynote speakers at this year's conference: Peter Checkland, Lancaster University, UK; Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; and, Ali Farhoomand, University of Hong Kong, China. The talk by Checkland concerned two fundamental items: "information systems" and "information systems research." The topic of Ngwenyama was "the political economy of the new global information society," while Farhoomand was concerned with "teaching cases." The working groups of IRIS are very important. The working groups comprise approximately ten people each, offering. They offer a discussion forum for the papers, with the objective of improving argumentation and ideas. The conference also involves some formal presentations and workshops. The four workshops o f the conference were: ¢ InfraGlobe: The Dynamics of Com- ¢ Why use the case method
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