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PACIS2012 Doctoral Consortium, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon),
Vietnam, 11-12 July 2012 <br>
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<b>Important Dates:</b><br>
Nomination Deadline: April 13, 2012<br>
Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2012<br>
Camera Ready Copy Due: May 24, 2012<br>
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<b>Call for Nominations:</b><br>
Universities are invited to nominate candidates for the doctoral
consortium. Eligible candidates are Ph.D. students in Information
Systems (IS), who have developed a plan for pursuing their
dissertation, and would benefit from constructive feedback from
senior faculty in the field. The consortium aims to provide doctoral
students with an opportunity to share their research ideas and
network with peers and experienced scholars serving as faculty
advisors. Participating students will receive high quality feedback
from faculty advisors, who are eminent researchers in the field,
associated with leading institutions around the globe, serving in
senior editorial positions in the field’s top journals. This
consortium will be a significant event for emerging IS researchers
in the Asia Pacific region.<br>
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<b>Nomination Eligibility:</b><br>
- Ph.D. students who are currently working on a doctoral
dissertation in Information Systems, and whose research has
progressed to the point where a clear plan of investigation has been
laid out, but there is sufficient scope for changes to this plan
based on feedback from the consortium.<br>
- The ideal consortium candidate should have chosen a theoretical
approach and initiated planning or implementation of empirical work,
but should have at least six months of work remaining at the time of
the consortium.<br>
- The nominated candidates must be sufficiently proficient in
English to participate in the consortium, since the language of the
consortium will be English.<br>
- Participation is limited to students from institutions in the
Asia-Pacific region (AIS Region 3).<br>
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<b>Nomination Process:</b><br>
- In the interests of diversity and equity, more than one nomination
is allowed from any single institution, but we require that the
nominees be ranked. Note that the first-ranked nominees will have
equal chance against other top ranked or sole nominees. The 2nd
ranked nominees would only be considered after all 1st ranked/sole
nominees.<br>
- Students must be nominated by an IS faculty member. The nomination
should follow the guidelines given on the website: <a
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<b>Consortium Schedule:</b><br>
The Consortium will include a balanced mix of students representing
diverse research topics, methods, schools and cultures. The number
of attendees will be limited to 20, organized into 4 streams of 5
students. Each student will present his or her research in a
designated stream led by 2-3 faculty advisors, who will have
carefully reviewed the student submissions. Participants are
required to have carefully reviewed all proposals in their stream
prior to the Consortium so that they are prepared to contribute to
the discussion on each student’s research.<br>
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<b>Registration and Cost:</b><br>
- Accepted consortium students are required to register for the main
conference by the early-bird date, and will receive further feedback
on their research at a poster session.<br>
- There is no charge for the consortium, but home institutions are
encouraged to provide financial assistance to successful nominees in
the form of travel and accommodation aid. More detailed information
about the consortium will be provided on acceptance.<br>
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<b>Submission Contact Information:</b><br>
- Please contact James Thong (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jthong@ust.hk">jthong@ust.hk</a>)
if you have any question about the consortium.<br>
- You should submit your proposals and nomination sheets by email to
both James Thong (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jthong@ust.hk">jthong@ust.hk</a>)
and Tien B. Dinh (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dbtien@fit.hcmus.edu.vn">dbtien@fit.hcmus.edu.vn</a>).<br>
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<b>Faculty Counselors:</b><br>
- Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland<br>
- Guy Gable, Queensland University of Technology<br>
- Ho Geun Lee, Yonsei University<br>
- Ting-Peng Liang, National Chengchi University<br>
- Shan-Ling Pan, National University of Singapore<br>
- T. Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>
- Peter Seddon, University of Melbourne<br>
- Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong<br>
- Detmar Straub, Georgia State University<br>
- Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas<br>
- Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong<br>
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<b>Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:</b><br>
- James Y.L. Thong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<br>
- Tien B. Dinh, HCMUS, Vietnam
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