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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">CfP
ISD2012 Track: The changing landscape of Information Systems.
Properties of a new IS ecology.</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Track
Theme<br>
</b>The
changing landscape of Information Systems. Properties of a new
IS
ecology.<br>
Is this
a new kind of IS? Or just more of the same thing?</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Conference
Theme<br>
</b>Building
Sustainable Information Systems</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Dates<br>
</b>Conference
dates: 29-31August 2012<br>
Paper
submission deadline: 20 April 2012</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Venue<br>
</b>Prato,
Italy</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Conference
Website<br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://infotech.monash.edu/research/ISD2012/">http://infotech.monash.edu/research/ISD2012/</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Some
keywords<br>
</b>Information
Systems, social media, mobile technologies, HCI, ecological
systems,
social sustainability, <span lang="en-AU"><span
style="font-style: normal">developing
world, micro businesses.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>CfP<br>
</b>We
invite you to submit an abstract for a proposed paper in the
area of
Information Systems for ISD2012 (21st International Systems
Development Conference) to be held on 29-31August 2012 in Prato,
Italy.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" lang="en-AU">Sustainability
has
several meanings, with the dominant meaning referring to the
natural ecological and environmental domains. Green IT relatively
recently became a popular topic at conferences and in
publications.
While this is an important issue, sustainability may also refer to
the maintenance of the complex weave of social systems. Again
there
is a very wide range of meanings of what "social systems"
means, but for the purpose of this track, social ecology would be
the
focus. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" lang="en-AU">Information
Systems
(IS) theory traditionally focuses on IS for organizations,
typically business organizations, assuming all other kinds of
social
organizations (such as government organizations and non-government
organizations) to be variants of business systems. The PC itself
was
developed as a business tool, and only over the past two decades
with
its ability to handle multimedia also became a tool for
entertainment. Over the past decade the networked PC became a
powerful tool also in personal communication and private
socialization in the form of the so-called social media. The rise
into prominence of the PC as a tool of entertainment,
communication
and social media put information systems in the hands of
individuals
for the use of non-business purposes - i.e. for non-structured or
semi-structured social organizations and personal use. The recent
mobilization of non-structured socio-political gatherings on the
Mediterranean and in the Middle East were made possible by social
media technology; while citizen pressure groups use social media
to
get their voices heard, demonstrated by the several million
objections early in 2012 against the proposed Antipiracy Bills in
the
USA. What is the impact of such non-formal social groups and
individual use on the design and construction of information
systems?
Should design be about Human-Computer-Interface (HCI), or about
Human-Human Communication (HHC), facilitated by technology?
Similar
questions were recently posed at other conferences, eg. the
Interaction conference -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25639-in-interaction-design/">http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25639-in-interaction-design/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" lang="en-AU">The
PC
is no longer the dominant device for entertainment, personal
communication and private socialization purposes. Mobile phone
distribution has surpassed the PC in 2010 in market-share. The
prominent past view of the client-server model, where client meant
PC, has changed to a model where client now means mobile device -
either mobile phone or tablet. Do the same principles of IS
developed
for the PC still apply?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" lang="en-AU">Ecologically,
sustainability
has global implications. If social sustainability also
implies global social sustainability, all societies and the
complex
web of international networks (technological as well as social)
need
to be considered. IS systems in the developing world, which makes
up
the majority of people on this planet, thus also need to be
considered. However, distribution of network infrastructure in the
developing world is poor, while most commerce takes place in the
informal business sector and on the level of micro businesses. In
addition, the mobile market dominates the PC market by far in the
developing world. With its emphasis on formal organizational IS,
which meant business and mostly big business, and at best
medium-sized businesses, there is not much research in IS circles
on
information systems for micro-organizations and micro-businesses.
IS
research also typically assumes 24/7 broadband connectivity, which
is
hard to come by in the developing world. So how does cloud
computing
apply in this environment? And how should IS be designed for this
environment?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span lang="en-AU"><span
style="font-style: normal">Since
the discipline of IS was introduced some time ago, the world
has
changed in the ways described above. What are the implications
of
this trend for future IS research and for principles to build
sustainable IS? Do we need different theories and models for
mobile
systems, micro-organizations, individuals, social groups, and
the
developing world? Does </span></span><span lang="en-AU"><i>status
quo</i></span><span lang="en-AU"><span style="font-style:
normal">
IS hold? These are the questions to be addressed in this
track.
Briefly then, what are the design implications for IS in the
long-term outcome of these trends and events? Should
information
systems consider expanding the scope of the field, or can the
existing IS conceptual tools deal with this?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-AU"><u>Suggested topics:</u></p>
<p style="margin-left: 1cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm"
lang="en-AU">
<i>A short list to indicate the type of issues of interest to the
track</i></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; line-height:
0.35cm" lang="en-AU"> Non-formal organizational IS</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; line-height:
0.35cm" lang="en-AU"> IS for micro businesses</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; line-height:
0.35cm" lang="en-AU"> Social ecology of IS</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">Social media
and IS</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">Mobile phones
and IS</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">IS in the
developing world</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">IS for
private use</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">Social
activism and information systems</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">The impact of
ICT rights on IS</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">Alternative
metaphors for interface design</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.35cm">The future of
IS</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Publication<br>
</b>Selected papers will be published in a
book.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; line-height: 100%"
lang="en-US"><b>Track Chairs<br>
</b>Jacques Steyn<br>
Head of School of Information Technology<br>
Monash University, South African campus</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; line-height: 100%"
lang="en-US">
Alexandra Cristea<br>
Dept of Computer Science<br>
Warwick University</p>
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