[AISWorld] AMCIS2015 Minitrack on ICT Innovation and Development (1st CFP)

[A. Chircu]

1st Call for Papers, 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS'15), August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico


** Track: ICTs in Global Development (SIG GlobDev) (
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/44-icts-in-global-development-sigglobdev-track
)

** Minitrack: ICT Innovation and Development

** Minitrack co-chairs:

Alina Chircu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Information & Process Management
Bentley University
AIS SIG GlobDev Membership Vice-Chair
Email: achircu at bentley.edu

Jeffrey G. Proudfoot, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Information and Process Management
Bentley University
Email: jproudfoot at bentley.edu

** Minitrack description:

Information and communication technology (ICT) can act as a catalyst for
innovation, which in turn can impact the development of individuals,
regions, and countries around the world. However, there are many
challenges, as ICT created for or in developed nations is unlikely to fit
the unique developing country challenges, and developing countries often
lack the mechanisms and conditions for successful local innovation.

Since its inception, the SIGGlobDev group has encouraged and promoted
research on ICT and development among the IS community through annual
workshops, conference mini-tracks, conferences, and specialized journals.
The “ICT Innovation and Development” AMCIS 2015 minitrack continues this
SigGlobDev tradition by inviting researchers to take a new look at how ICT
can be used developing, transition and emerging economies to innovate and
meet development goals.

We take a broad view on development as a multifaceted construct that
includes many human, infrastructure, social, economic and political
dimensions (as outlined in the Millennium Development Goals established by
the United Nations) using both qualitative and quantitative data on
education, environment, economic policy and debt, financial sector, health,
infrastructure, social protection & labor, poverty, private sector and
trade, and public sector (as captured by World Bank development indicators
or other sources).

We welcome both full research papers describing completed work and Emergent
Research Forum (ERF) papers describing work in progress. The minitrack
welcomes a variety of research approaches and methodologies. Papers should
conform to the rules of the AMCIS 2015 conference.

Topics of interest include:
• Opportunities and challenges of innovating with ICT for development
• Processes and best practices for innovating with ICT to meet development
goals
• Political, legal and economic frameworks encouraging  ICT innovation for
development
• Innovative ICT transfer to developing countries
• ICT innovation in developed countries and its impact on developing regions
• Consequences (both planned and unexpected, and both positive and
negative) of ICT innovation for development
• Cybersecurity risks and risk mitigation strategies in developing regions
• Human-computer interaction implications for ICT innovation in developing
regions
• Implications of emerging ICT such as big data for developing regions
• Opportunities for increased information sharing and collaboration among
developing and developed regions through novel ICTs

Submission:
See AMCIS 2015 submission requirements at
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-papers.
Submit your paper before February 25, 2015 at 2:00 PM EST via ScholarOne’s
ManuscriptCentral (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015).
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