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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The 2011 GITMA conference is fast approaching. Early registration ends April 15<sup>th </sup>, so make plans to attend soon.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><sup><o:p> </o:p></sup></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Online registration is available at <a href="http://udel.edu/~mnbaqir/gitma2011/r.html">http://udel.edu/~mnbaqir/gitma2011/r.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alex<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alexander McLeod, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Accounting & Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Nevada, Reno<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association GITMA WORLD CONFERENCE 2011 Las Vegas, USA (<a href="http://www.gitma.org">http://www.gitma.org</a>) Conference Date: June 5 - 7, 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The GITMA conference started with a strong focus that continues today. It brings researchers, educators and practitioners together from around the world and fosters an atmosphere conducive to the supportive presentation of emerging and mature research ideas. (Barry Shore, previous program chair)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This conference provides a unique opportunity to all IT educators, researchers, and practitioners from all countries to get together to network, develop lasting relationships, and exchange ideas. The clear strength is the international participation and the following people should attend:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Educators, researchers, and practitioners from North America (including US, Mexico, and Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Educators, researchers, and practitioners from all other parts of the world, including developed, developing, and under-developed nations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Educators, researchers, and practitioners doing work in all areas of Global IT Management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>REPRESENTATIVE TRACKS - DESCRIPTION - TRACK CHAIR - EMAIL<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Doctoral Consortium - Research papers by doctoral students under the heading of "Global IT" - Mahesh Raisinghani <a href="mailto:MRaisinghani@mail.twu.edu">MRaisinghani@mail.twu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Cross-cultural Issues in IT - The role of culture in development, adoption, diffusion, deployment and use of international IT - Kevin Lowe <a href="mailto:kblowe@uncg.edu">kblowe@uncg.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* DSS and KM - Decision support systems and knowledge management - Luca Landoli <a href="mailto:iandoli@unina.it">iandoli@unina.it</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* E-Learning - The use of the internet and similar networks to support learning and education - Anil Kumar <a href="mailto:kumar1a@cmich.edu">kumar1a@cmich.edu</a>, Poonam Kumar <a href="mailto:pkumar@svsu.edu">pkumar@svsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Electronic Medical and Health Records - Development, adoption, diffusion, deployment and use of electronic medical and health records - Lakshmi Iyer <a href="mailto:lsiyer@uncg.edu">lsiyer@uncg.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Enterprise 2.0 - Advanced inter- and intra-net applications to support the extended and enhanced organization - Karen Patten <a href="mailto:pattenk@sc.edu">pattenk@sc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* ePolitics - The utilization of electronic systems to support politicking (influence attempts). -Celia Romm-Livermore <a href="mailto:celia_romm@hotmail.com">celia_romm@hotmail.com</a>, Pierluigi Rippa <a href="mailto:pierluigi.rippa@unina.it">pierluigi.rippa@unina.it</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Gender Issues in IT - How gender interacts with IT development, deployment and use. - Virginia Kleist <a href="mailto:virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu">virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Global Electronic Commerce - The use of the Internet and similar networks to support global business - Praveen Pinjani <a href="mailto:ppinjani@desu.edu">ppinjani@desu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Global IT and Complex Networks - Exploring emerging properties of complex distributed systems through agents interacting at different levels - Cristina Ponsiglioni <a href="mailto:ponsigli@unina.it">ponsigli@unina.it</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Global IT Index - Developing measures for the diffusion and penetration of information systems globally - Ling Zhu <a href="mailto:ling.zhu@liu.edu">ling.zhu@liu.edu</a>, Paul Licker <a href="mailto:licker@oakland.edu">licker@oakland.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* ICT in Emerging Economies - The development, deployment and use of ICTs in third-world, developing economies - Ling Zhu <a href="mailto:ling.zhu@liu.edu">ling.zhu@liu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Information Security Assurance Management - Developing and using measures to improve information security. - Virginia Kleist <a href="mailto:virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu">virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT adoption, diffusion and implementation - The adoption, diffusion and implementation of information systems/technology applications - Ainin Sulaiman <a href="mailto:ainins@um.edu.my">ainins@um.edu.my</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT and Change Management - Issues around how IT changes organizational activities and how to manage that change - Guido Capaldo <a href="mailto:gcapaldo@unina.it">gcapaldo@unina.it</a>, Pierluigi Rippa <a href="mailto:pierluigi.rippa@unina.it">pierluigi.rippa@unina.it</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT and Democracy - The effects of ICT on democratic institutions and values globally and nationally - Naveed Baqir <a href="mailto:mnbaqir@udel.edu">mnbaqir@udel.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT for Social Causes - The development and deployment of IT to advance social causes - Choton Basu <a href="mailto:basuc@uww.edu">basuc@uww.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT for sustainability - How IT can be developed and deployed to achieve sustainable ends and how IT itself can be sustained - Naveed Baqir <a href="mailto:mnbaqir@udel.edu">mnbaqir@udel.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in Africa - The development, adoption, diffusion, and use of IT in Africa - Getachew Berhan <a href="mailto:getachewb1@yahoo.com">getachewb1@yahoo.com</a>, Nassar Dino <a href="mailto:ndinob@yahoo.com">ndinob@yahoo.com</a>, Dawn Medlin <a href="mailto:medlinbd@appstate.edu">medlinbd@appstate.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in Asia - The development, adoption, diffusion and use of IT in Asia, particularly Southeast and southern Asia - Haja Afzall Seyal <a href="mailto:afzaal.seyal@itb.edu.bn">afzaal.seyal@itb.edu.bn</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in China - The development, adoption, diffusion and use of IT in China - Xia Zhao <a href="mailto:X_zhao3@uncg.edu">X_zhao3@uncg.edu</a>, Ling Xue <a href="mailto:xuel2@scranton.edu">xuel2@scranton.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in Health Care - The development, adoption, diffusion, deployment and use of IT to support health care initiatives and businesses - Elaine Winston <a href="mailto:elaine.r.winston@hofstra.edu">elaine.r.winston@hofstra.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in South America - The development, adoption, diffusion and use of IT in South America - Haja Afzall Seyal <a href="mailto:afzaal.seyal@itb.edu.bn">afzaal.seyal@itb.edu.bn</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* IT in the Hospitality Industry - The development, adoption, diffusion, deployment and use of IT to support the hospitality industry - Naveed Baqir <a href="mailto:mnbaqir@udel.edu">mnbaqir@udel.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Knowledge Ecology - Issues and theory around knowledge deployment in business, education and healthcare - Virginia Maracine <a href="mailto:virginia.maracine@csie.ase.ro">virginia.maracine@csie.ase.ro</a>, Emil Scarlat <a href="mailto:emil.scarlat@csie.ase.ro">emil.scarlat@csie.ase.ro</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Leadership in IT - Challenges of leading IT efforts globally including leadership development, executive activities and meeting management challenges - Kevin Lowe <a href="mailto:kblowe@uncg.edu">kblowe@uncg.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Outsourcing - Issues around outsourcing and more particularly offshoring of IT activities - Jaideep Ghosh <a href="mailto:jghosh@gmu.edu">jghosh@gmu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Post Implementation Issues - Issues around the post-implementation deployment and use of IT among users - Aileen Cater-Steel <a href="mailto:caterst@usq.edu.au">caterst@usq.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Social Networking - Examination of effects and causes of social networks built on Web 2.0 and other technologies - Karen Patten <a href="mailto:pattenk@sc.edu">pattenk@sc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Strategic Apps of Global IT - Developing and deploying strategic applications of IT globally - Mahesh Raisinghani <a href="mailto:MRaisinghani@mail.twu.edu">MRaisinghani@mail.twu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>* Global Information Technology Management - Any paper not fitting easily into one of the listed tracks will be considered in this category - Paul Licker <a href="mailto:licker@oakland.edu">licker@oakland.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Papers judged as high quality by the reviewers will be further considered for publication on an expedited basis in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM), Journal of Information Technology Cases & Applications Research (JITCAR), and Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Program Chair: Dr. Paul Licker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:licker@oakland.edu">licker@oakland.edu</a> Oakland University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Conference Chair: Dr. Prashant Palvia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:pcpalvia@uncg.edu">pcpalvia@uncg.edu</a> The University of North Carolina at Greensboro<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Local Chair: Dr. Mehmet Erdem<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:mehmet.erdem@unlv.edu">mehmet.erdem@unlv.edu</a> University of Nevada, Las Vegas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Publicity Chair: Dr. Alexander McLeod<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:amcleod@unr.edu">amcleod@unr.edu</a> University of Nevada, Reno<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Details at: <a href="http://www.gitma.org">http://www.gitma.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>