[AISWorld] 2nd CFP: AMCIS 2011 Minitrack on SIG Social Inclusion: IT and social entrepreneurship

[Angsana T.]

*CALL FOR PAPER AMCIS 2011
**August 4 - 7, 2011, Detroit Marriott Hotel** *

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*Track: Information Systems for Sustainability and Global Competitiveness*

*Minitrack: SIG Social Inclusion: IT and Social Entrepreneurship*


 *** Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2011 (12:00 am PST) ***

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*DESCRIPTION*

Social entrepreneurship has received an increasing attention among
academics, practitioners, firms, and policy makers because it offers
innovative and sustainable solutions to difficult social problems. Social
entrepreneurs identify socials problem that causes the exclusion,
marginalization or suffering of a certain segment of society that does not
have the financial resources or power to transform their own circumstances.
The Grameen Bank founded by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Laureate, is a
well-known example of social entrepreneurship that uses the power of
microfinance to transform the lives of poor village people, especially
women, in Bangladesh and several other countries around the world.



In recent years, information technology (IT) has become an integral part of
many social entrepreneurship projects in education, health care, and poverty
reduction areas. For example, FrontlineSMS (http://www.frontlinesms.com), a
free open source software that enables users to send and receive text
messages with groups of people through mobile phones. This tool has been
used in various domains including peacekeeping during elections,
environmental awareness programs, and agricultural information exchange,
among others.



This mini track provides a platform for IS researchers to discuss conceptual
and empirical papers on this topic.



*SUGGESTED TOPICS*

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:

-       Roles of IT in social entrepreneurship

-       Integration of IT in social entrepreneurship

-       Success and failures of social entrepreneurship

-       Performance of IT-enabled social entrepreneurship projects

-       Measurements of social value creation

-       Measurements of social impact

-       Actors in social entrepreneurship

-       Governance structure



*IMPORTANT DATES*
* Feb 28, 2011 (12:00 am PST): Full paper submission deadline
* Apr 4, 2011: Authors notified of paper acceptance decision
* April 25, 2011: Camera-ready papers due

*PAPER SUBMISSION*

Paper can be submitted using the online submission system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.
Additional information regarding the submission process will be made
available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website: http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/

*MINITRACK CHAIR'S CONTACT INFORMATION*
Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn

Assistant Professor

College of Information Sciences and Technology

Pennsylvania State University

angsanat at ist.psu.edu
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