[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2018 Mini-Track: Information Communication Technologies in Asia

[Siyuan Li]

*** Call For Papers ***

AMCIS 2018 DIGITAL DISRUPTION
New Orleans, LA
August 16-18, 2018

** Track: ICTs in Global Development (sponsored by SIGGlobDev)

** Mini-track: Information Communication Technologies in Asia

- MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION -
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have long been associated with a country's innovativeness and development. Asia, as one of the fastest growing regions in the world, benefits a lot from its fast development in country-level ICT infrastructures. With the recent initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (the Belt and Road initiative for short, from Asia to Europe and Africa), Asian countries, especially China, will tighten the economical relationships among the countries on the paths of Belt and Road. In this process, ICT will play an important and critical role in the international trade, collaborations and communications. This mini-track targets on the ICT impacts on country-level/organizational level/user level collaboration and developments as well as how ICT affects economic and market performance in the countries/regions in Asia.

- SUGGESTED TOPICS -
Topics of interest in this mini-track include but are not limited to:

- ICT in mobile commercialization

- ICT's impact on developing countries' economy

- ICT and sharing economy in in the developing regions in Asia

- The international communications and collaborations among the countries on the paths of the Belt and Road

- How ICT enables and facilitates corporate-level business activities across countries

- Government policies and ICT development

- Cybersecurity in developing countries

- Trust, privacy, and social issues in ICT for development

- ICT's impact on human welfares in the developing countries in Asia



- IMPORTANT DATES -

- January 2018: System opens for general paper submissions

- February 28, 2018: Deadline for paper submissions

- April 17, 2018: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers



- INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS -
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words and no more than 10 pages, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system. For complete instructions for authors, information about the conference, and for instructions on submitting), please visit the AMCIS 2018 website at http://amcis2018.aisnet.org


You can find the paper submission guidelines and template here:

https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/





- MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS -

Xusen Chen, University of International Business and Economics, China

Siyuan Li, Clemson University, USA





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Siyuan Li, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
College of Business, Clemson University
siyuan at clemson.edu<mailto:siyuan at clemson.edu>