[AISWorld] LAST CALL - CFP - Special Issue of JGIM - "ICT in Brazil: Global Issues and Challenges"

Mon Apr 23 20:40:32 EDT 2012

Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)

Special Issue on “ICT in Brazil: Global Issues and Challenges”

Submission Deadline:  May 2, 2012

Publication Date: July - September 2013 (tentative)

Special Issue Editors:

Cesar Alexandre de Souza - University of São Paulo, Brazil (calesou at usp.br)

Maria Alexandra Cunha - Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
(alexandra.cunha at pucpr.br)

Nicolau Reinhard - University of São Paulo, Brazil (reinhard at usp.br)

The Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) publishes original
material concerned with all aspects of global information resources
management. The journal emphasizes the managerial and organizational facets
of information technology resources management. Articles published in JGIM
deal with a vast number of issues concerning usage, failure, success,
policies, strategies, and applications of information technology in
organizations in and across developed, emerging and developing nations. JGIM
has an ISI Impact Factor of 1,222 with a 5 year Impact factor of 1.829
(Qualis A1 in CAPES – Brazilian Ministry of Education - Ranking)

Description of the Special Issue

Brazil has been receiving great attention in the global scenario because of
its steady economic growth in the last decade and improvements in its social
indicators, like reduction in poverty and growth of the middle class and its
purchasing power. It is one of the “BRICS” countries and is heading to be
the 5th largest economy in the world in the next years, although it is not
free of challenges like reducing social and economic inequalities, improving
educational quality, increasing transparency in government and balancing
economic development with environmental protection. Brazil is also
well-known for its rich cultural environment with a mix of several different
influences (European, African, Indigenous, Arabic and Asian), for its size
and population (5th largest in the world in both measures), for its well
developed agribusiness and mining sectors and for its rich and diverse
natural resources.

The history of ICT use in Brazil is marked by innovation and creativity,
with highlights to its financial and banking systems, which are among the
most developed in the world, and to its huge country-wide e-government
initiatives, like electronic voting, tax filing over the internet and
integrated electronic invoicing. Both phenomena are derived from historical
and political factors, like the huge inflation period during the 70´s and
80´s and a very strong, large sized, complex and centralized federal
government with needs to integrate distant regions within the country.
Brazil has also a huge internal consumer market for mobile phones, home PCs
and software, although, again, not free of challenges like improving
geographical range and quality of internet access while reducing its cost,
one of the most expensive in the world. Brazil has a well-developed ICT use
in Business in general, with good levels of integration within companies and
in the supply chain, but companies are regularly faced with challenges of
having to adapt imported technologies and governance models, like SOX and
international ICT governance best practices frameworks.

This special number will consider research papers on Global IT focusing on
Brazilian local issues with relevance to the global context. So, we are
seeking papers that study the usage and management of ICT in companies,
government agencies or by the general society in Brazil and explain their
findings based on the peculiarities of the Brazilian context or comparing
results with other contexts or countries. Cross-National Studies comparing
ICT in Brazil with other Nations, in cultural or other aspects are specially
desired, and so are studies of the development, implementation, management
and use of IT in Brazilian or foreign multinational, transnational,
international and global organizations with locations in Brazil.

Suggested Topics include (but are not restricted to):

-           IT Management and Governance in Brazilian Global Companies

-           Outsourcing and Offshoring market and tendencies

-           Compliance with global standards and practices (SOX, Basel,
PMBOK, COBIT, ITIL, etc) 

-           Global Enterprise Systems Implementation and Management

-           Global e-commerce systems implementation and Management

-           e-Government and e-Participation

-           ICT diffusion and ICT infrastructure in Brazil 

-           Digital Inclusion Policies

-           Telecommunications and data security

-           Cloud Computing

-           Social Media and Social Networks

Important Dates 

Call for Papers is issued
January 2, 2012 

Submission Deadline                                                    May
2, 2012

First round of reviews and decisions sent to authors     July 15, 2012

Submission deadline for second round submission        September 15, 2012 

Decisions on second round of review sent to authors    October 30, 2012 

Camera ready papers due                                            January,
1, 2013

Tentative Publishing Date
July-September, 2013

Workshop at University of São Paulo with the authors on the occasion of the
publication (probably July - September, 2013)

All submissions must be sent to special issue guest editors´ e-mail
addresses: (calesou at usp.br; alexandra.cunha at pucpr.br; reinhard at usp.br)

All submissions will be subject to the same peer review process as normally
used by JGIM – The special issue editors will select reviewers and manage
the review process.

All submissions must be written in English and must be in accordance to the
journal´s guidelines
(http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx) 

JGIM is an Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association

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