[AISWorld] CFP AMCIS2010 Green IS Minitrack

[Helen Hasan]

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) August 12 - 15, 2010. We invite you to join us in
the most unique location that AIS has ever held a conference. AMCIS 2010 will be in Lima, Peru.

Track: Emerging Issues in IS Research
Minitrack: Sustainability, Information Systems and Technology:
Emerging Opportunities for Information Systems to improve sustainability within organizations

Description:
The continuous growth of the World population and the increasing demand for higher living standards has lead to the exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of the environment on an unprecedented scale. Shareholders, regulatory bodies, customers and employees are increasingly demanding firms to adopt a systematic approach to the sustainable management of increasingly scarce resources while at the same time reducing their impact on the environment. Environmental management is more than ever an imperative in industrial domains such as manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, forestry and IS & IT, which has become pervasive throughout entire organizational functions and processes.
In the emerging fields of Green IS and Green IT, a figure of 2 percent is often quoted as the percentage of environmentally harmful emissions attributed to the use of IT and the IT industry. The term 'Green IT' is now part of our vocabulary recognizing the problem of IT as a polluter and the responsibility of IT professionals to do something about it. On the other hand there is a counter argument that in IT and IS we have the potential and opportunity to positively influence the global environmental future - in other words, develop Green IS to reduce the other 98%. This sentiment is reflected in a chapters developed as part of the Global Text Project. Here the term 'Green IT' is distinguished from 'Green IS'. 'Green IT' is seen to focus mainly on energy efficiency and equipment utilization. 'Green IS', in contrast, refers to "the design and implementation of information systems that contribute to sustainability of business processes". Green IS as so described should therefore have a greater potential than Green IT because it tackles a much larger problem. IS can play a key role in making organizations more sustainable while at the same reducing the negative environmental impact of IS and associated IT infrastructure.  Hence this mini track will focus on the role that IS can play in these two interrelated issues of Green IT and Green IS.
The purpose of this mini-track is to advance theoretical and practical knowledge in this emerging domain and to
gain a better understanding of current industry initiatives and academic research being conducted on the role of
IS in business sustainability. Hence submissions of high quality papers that report on empirical research and
case studies including but not limited to the topics available at http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf

Mini-Track Chairs:
Helen Hasan - University of Wollongong - hasan at uow.edu.au<mailto:hasan at uow.edu.au>
Luta Lobe, University of Göttingen lkolbe at uni-göttingen.de<mailto:lkolbe at uni-göttingen.de>
Sameer Verma San Francisco State University sverma at sfsu.edu<mailto:sverma at sfsu.edu>
Robert Nickerson San Francisco State University rnick at sfsu.edu<mailto:rnick at sfsu.edu>
Alberto Onetti Università degli Studi dell'Insubria aonetti at eco.uninsubria.it<mailto:aonetti at eco.uninsubria.it>

Submission Process:
Full paper submissions must be made electronically, through the AMCIS online submission system
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010 ).
Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind review system and will be considered for AMCIS Best Paper Awards.

Key Dates:
- Full Papers Due: February 26, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2010
- Camera Ready Copy Due: April 26, 2010

You may seek more information at http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf  or
http://www.amcis2010.org/  or through emailing the mini-track chairs.

Dr Helen Hasan
Associate Professor, Information Systems,
School of Economics Faculty of Commerce,
University of Wollongong Wollongong 2522, Australia
Phone:  +61 2 42213757 (office)
Mobile:  0419403699
Fax: +61 2 42213725
Email:  hasan at uow.edu.au<mailto:hasan at uow.edu.au>
URL:  www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/<http://www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/>

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