[AISWorld] Conf-IRM 2017 May 17-19 Santiago de Chile - Call for Participation

[Felix Tan]

2017 International Conference on Information Resources Management; 
Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference and hosted by the 
Faculty of Economics & Business (Facultad de Economía y Negocios); 
University of Chile in Santiago http://confirm2017.fen.uchile.cl/ 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Theme: Democratization and Participation: People's Roles in the Digital World; 
May 17-19, 2017 at the Universidad de Chile Santiago de Chile

TO REGISTER, visit:
http://confirm2017.fen.uchile.cl/index.php/registration

IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration: April 15, 2017
Regular registration: from April 16 to May 10, 2017
Late registration: from May 11, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Gabriel Purón Cid, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.
Title: From Leaderless Revolution to Citizen-Centric ICT-enabled tools for Democratization and Participation in Latin America

JOURNAL EDITORS PANEL (open to all registered delegates)
Scholars with editorial responsibilities in some of the supporting information systems journals will participate in an Editors Panel on Wednesday 17th of May at 1pm:
Anol Bhattacherjee, Journal of the Association of Information Systems 
Fred Niederman, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
Patrick Chau, Information & Management 
Alexandre Graeml, Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação

PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (by invition only)
A Paper Development Workshop (PDW) is planned for the morning of Wednesday 17th May. This will be in a round-table format. Authors of selected papers from the conference have been invited to participate in the PDW. The following senior scholars have agreed to be mentors, including:
   Professor Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida, USA
   Professor Fred Niederman, Saint Louis University, USA
   Professor Luiz Joia, Fundacao Getulio Vargas , Brazil
   Professor Alexandre Reis Graeml, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Conference Co-Chairs
Ariel La Paz, University of Chile, Chile lapaz at fen.uchile.cl; 
Felix B Tan, Excelsia College - Sydney, Australia felix.tan at excelsia.edu.au

Program Co-Chairs
Aurora Sánchez, Catholic University of the North, Chile asanchez at ucn.cl; 
Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil alexandra.cunha at fgv.br
Alfonso Rodriguez, University of Bio Bio, Chile alfonso at ubiobio.cl; 

Publications and Proceedings Co-Chair
Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand lech at auckland.ac.nz

Conf-IRM Executive Committee
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada (co-chair); 
Jairo Gutierrez, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand: 
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; 
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand; 
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; 
Felix B. Tan, Excelsia College - Sydney, Australia (co-chair)