[AISWorld] AMCIS 2022 CFP - Cloud Computing and Sustainability Minitrack

[Jiyong Park]

*Minitrack: Cloud Computing and Sustainability*

Green IS (SIGGREEN)

AMCIS 2022 (https://amcis2022.aisconferences.org/)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 10-14, 2022



*Call for Papers *

Cloud computing—providing IT services (both infrastructure/hardware and
software) on demand over a network—has been widely adopted by businesses
across industries due to such benefits as flexibility, scalability,
always-on availability, and pay-as-you-go pricing. The widespread adoption
of cloud computing over the past decade has sparked debates on its
environmental impacts among practitioners and academics alike. From the
perspective of sustainability, cloud computing is differentiated from
traditional IT investments and IT outsourcing in that it has transformed
the way IT resources (both infrastructure/hardware and software) are
procured, thereby altering IT’s implications for sustainability and energy
consumption not only for cloud service providers (vendors), but for service
users, which calls for research from novel perspectives.

On one hand, cloud services may come at a significant cost to the
environment, as data centers consume a massive amount of energy for
supporting cloud services. On the other hand, cloud computing can allow
business organizations to optimize IT resource utilization by replacing
internal IT infrastructure with cloud-based IT services accessible on
demand over a network, potentially enhancing energy efficiency. Moreover,
on-demand cloud services can provide low-cost access to scalable,
high-powered software running on the cloud that confers sustainability
benefits, which could not be achieved through in-house development or
traditional software licensing. Cloud-based services (e.g., cloud-based
collaboration tools) also help organizations build climate resilience for
adapting to climate change, in a similar way that it has played a role in
coping with COVID-19.

This mini-track provides a forum for presenting and discussing original
research highlighting the opportunities and challenges toward
sustainability related to designing, deploying, and using cloud computing
from the IS perspective. In particular, we encourage submissions that
address broad topics of Green IT and Green IS from the perspectives of not
only cloud service vendors (e.g., data centers), but also cloud service
users and other stakeholders (across various levels including individuals,
organizations, and nations). This mini-track welcomes empirical
(qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research
and conceptual/theoretical papers that leverage the multiple perspectives
of IS toward sustainability in the era of cloud computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·          Adoption and diffusion of cloud computing by organizations and
individuals to address sustainability concerns

·          Sustainability implications of in-house and outsourced IT

·          Use of cloud computing to support sustainable business processes

·          Performance implications of cloud computing and sustainability

·          Development of cloud-based services and systems for
sustainability

·          Energy-efficient data centers

·          Cloud-based environmental/energy management systems

·          Application of cloud computing to climate change adaptation

·          Application of cloud computing for sustainability in different
sectors, such as smart grids, transportation, agriculture, smart
manufacturing, smart cities, and others

·          Public policy related to cloud computing with implications for
sustainability

·          Global and cross-border issues in cloud computing and
sustainability



*Important Dates:*

·          January 15, 2022: Submission Open at PCS (
https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions)

·          March 1, 2022: Submission Deadline

·          April 15, 2022: Acceptance Notification

·          April 25, 2022: Revised, Camera-Ready Paper Deadline



We look forward to receiving your best work for the minitrack of *Cloud
Computing and Sustainability*. If you have any questions, feel free to
contact the minitrack co-chairs.



*Minitrack Co-Chairs*:

Jiyong Park (jiyong.park at uncg.edu, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro)

Kunsoo Han (kunsoo.han at mcgill.ca, McGill University)

Nigel Melville (npmelv at umich.edu, University of Michigan)

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*Jiyong Park*
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Bryan School of Business and Economics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
jiyong.park at uncg.edu | https://jiyong-park.github.io/
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