AMCIS 2010 - Call for Papers
16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS
2010), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010
Track: ICTs in Global Development (sponsored by SIGlobDev)
Track Co-Chairs:
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz
(
roztockn@newpaltz.edu)
H. Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University
(
hrweistr@vcu.edu)
NOTE: Authors of best papers in the ICTs in Global
Development track will be invited to submit revised
versions for fast-track review and possible publication in
the journal Information Technology for Development (ITD)
(http://www.itd.ist.unomaha.edu).
Although the majority of the world population lives and
works in developing, emerging, or transitional economies
and information and communication technologies (ICTs) are
important drivers for economic development, the main
stream information systems research remains focused on the
issues related to ICTs in developed, mature economies
(Roztocki and Weistroffer 2008). In contrast, published
research on ICTs in developing, emerging, and transitional
economies is rather sparse and fragmented.
Thus, the objective of the ICTs in Global Development
track, sponsored by the Special Interest Group on ICT and
Global Development (SIGGlobDev), is to encourage more
research and publication on this topic. Consequently, this
track serves as a forum for research on the appropriate
use and diffusion of ICTs and associated management
practices in the economically developing world by offering
nine minitracks:
ICTs for Developing Countries
Chair:
Biswadip Ghosh, Metropolitan State College of Denver
(
bghosh@mscd.edu)
ICT Issues in Emerging and Developing Economies
Co-chairs:
F. Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas, Pan American
(
andohbaidoof@utpa.edu)
K. Niki Kunene, University of Louisville
(
niki.kunene@louisville.edu)
Information Technology in Emerging and Transition
Economies
Co-chairs:
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics
(
eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl)
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, University of Coimbra
(
rupino@dei.uc.pt)
ICTs in Africa and Other Economically Developing
Co-chairs:
Godwin Udo, University of Texas at El Paso (
gudo@utep.edu)
Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State University
(
snegash@kennesaw.edu)
ICTs in the Greater China Region
Co-chairs:
Xin (Robert) Luo , The University of New Mexico
(
luo@mgt.unm.edu),
Yunjie (Calvin) Xu, National University of Singapore
(
xuyj@comp.nus.edu.sg)
Wei Zhang, The University of Massachusetts Boston
(
wei.zhang@umb.edu)
ICTs in the Pan-Pacific Region
Co-chairs:
J. P. Shim, Mississippi State University
(
jshim@cobilan.msstate.edu)
Xin (Robert) Luo, The University of New Mexico
(
luo@mgt.unm.edu)
Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration
Co-chairs:
Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. Oklahoma State University
(
nicholas.romano@okstate.edu)
James B. Pick, University of Redlands
(
james_pick@redlands.edu)
ICTs in Micro & Small Enterprises of Developing Regions
Co-chairs:
Mehruz Kamal, State University of New York
(
mkamal@brockport.edu),
Sajda Quresh, University of Nebraska Omaha
(
squreshi@ist.unomaha.edu)
James Pick, University of Redlands
(
james_pick@redlands.edu)
Politics of ICT for Development
Co-chairs:
Antonio Diaz Andrade, AUT University
(
antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz)
Cathy Urquhart, The University of Auckland
(
c.urquhart@auckland.ac.nz)
Important dates:
February 26, 2010 Deadline for paper, panel, workshop, and
tutorial submissions
April 12, 2010 Notification of acceptance of papers,
panels, workshops, and tutorials
April 26, 2010 Final copy due
Instructions for authors:
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words,
including all materials and sections such as figures,
tables, and references. All conference submissions will be
double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using
the online submission system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010. For complete
instructions for authors and information about the
conference, visit the AMCIS 2010 website at
http://www.amcis2010.org.
Reference:
N. Roztocki and H.R. Weistroffer, Information Technology
Investments in Emerging Economies, Information Technology
for Development, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2008.