[AISWorld] Call for AMCIS 2019 SIGGreen Mini-Track Proposals

[Pratyush Bharati]

Call for AMCIS 2019 SIGGreen Mini-Track Proposals

Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen)

AMCIS 2019, the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15 – 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico

Track Co-Chairs:

  1.  Pratyush Bharati, University of Massachusetts, Boston, pratyush.bharati at umb.edu<mailto:pratyush.bharati at umb.edu>
  2.  Chadi Aoun, Carnegie Mellon University, chadi at cmu.edu<mailto:chadi at cmu.edu>
  3.  Savanid (Nui) Vatanasakdakul, Macquarie University, savanid.vatanasakdakul at mq.edu.au<mailto:savanid.vatanasakdakul at mq.edu.au>
Sustainability and climate change are global issues, with many cultural, organizational, technical, social, regulatory, economic, and individual dimensions. Just as computer-based information systems have been a driving force for societal progress, Green IS can be a driving force for strategic sustainable solutions in organizations and communities.

Green IS enables the transformative power of information systems to support the multiple dimensions of sustainability. It addresses the world’s greatest challenges including shrinking access to non-renewable resources, decreased energy and food security, and environmental degradation due to climate change. IS can play a pivotal role in enabling sustainable solutions, which greatly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of modern communities and enterprises. Consequently, IS research can contribute in such transformation towards a multidimensional perspective to sustainability.

This track is open to any type of research within scope of Green IS and Sustainability as well as those that adapt research and industry experience into teaching cases and modules.

Potential track topics include:

  *   Managing Green IT/IS systems
  *   Green IS as a digital disruptor
  *   Governance and strategy in Green IS and Sustainability
  *   Green Business Process Management
  *   Decision support for logistics and supply chain processes
  *   IS-enabled collaborative processes for mobilization towards sustainability
  *   IS-enabled multidisciplinary collaborations for sustainability
  *   IS-enabled smart cities and sustainable communities
  *   Designing and implementing systems for the Smart Grid
  *   End user acceptance and adoption of smart grid technologies
  *   Green HCI – Changing human attitudes and behaviors through information
  *   Energy informatics – analyzing, designing, and implementing processes to increase the efficiency of energy demand and supply systems
  *   Resource informatics – designing and implementing systems to manage metals, minerals, water, forests, etc.
  *   Designing and implementing systems that measure and validate the impact of sustainable business practices and policies
  *   Critical competencies and curricula for Green IS graduates and professionals
  *   IS-enabled sustainability of educational campuses and institutions
  *   IS to support carbon management, accounting and reporting
  *   Sustainable development in transitional and developing countries
  *   Global and cultural issues in Green IS and Sustainability
  *   Data Science and Sustainability

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019;
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit:
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
b) minitrack title;
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/ais

Please inform the SIGGreen track chairs soon and that you intend to submit a mini-track proposal. The track chairs will subsequently share the mini-track submission guidelines.

Important Dates:
September 20, 2018: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions
October 19, 2018: Minitrack submissions are due
October 30, 2018: Minitrack decisions are complete
November 5, 2018: Minitrack revisions are due
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST
March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers
April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
May 1, 2019: Track session plans are due

Best,

Chadi, Nui and Pratyush

Best,

Pratyush Bharati
Professor of Management Information Systems<https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/pratyush_bharati>
College of Management
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Senior Editor, The Data Base<http://sigmis.org/the-data-base/>
President, SIGGreen<http://siggreen.wikispaces.com/Welcome+to+the+SIGGreen+Wiki+Homepage>, Association for Information Systems<http://aisnet.org>

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