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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting a paper to the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), to be held this
year on Oct 13<font size="-1" face="Times New Roman,serif"><sup>th</sup></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> and 14</span></font><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman,serif"><sup>th</sup></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
in Phoenix, Arizona, is Friday June 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012. </span></font>Please see the call for papers below.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Conference on Information Systems and
<a name="_GoBack"></a>Technology, 2012 </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="http://www.cistconf.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cistconf.org</a><span style="COLOR: #0070c0"></span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">October 13-14, 2012
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IMPORTANT DATES
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Submissions website opens: Friday June 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Submission deadline: Friday June 8<sup>th</sup>, 2012
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Notice of acceptance: Monday August 13<sup>th</sup>, 2012
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Consumerization of IT and the rapid proliferation of digital products and services present a great opportunity for IS researchers
to contribute in a significant way towards understanding and shaping the emerging digital society. Accordingly the theme of CIST 2012 is “Digital Society.” The conference will feature panels, keynote speakers and research papers that explore economic, social,
organizational, operational, technological, and policy issues at the consumer, enterprise, group and societal levels. Research following all traditions and methodologies are welcome.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Consumer behavior in mobile and digital environments</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Data mining and knowledge discovery</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Digital intermediaries and sponsored search advertising</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IS in healthcare</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Intellectual property, copyrights, and DRM</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IT in emerging economies and non-governmental organizations</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Social networks and web 2.0</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Social media and enterprise 2.0</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Software engineering</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Personalization technologies</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IT adoption, use and assimilation in various contexts</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The role of IT in shaping societies, cultures and nations</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Outsourcing and application service contracting</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">IT and co-creation of values; value ecosystems</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Software procurement, open source software, and open standards</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Knowledge management, collaboration and boundary spanning</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Online communities, and computer-mediated collaboration<span>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The effects of IT on industrial organization and firm boundaries
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The economics of digital products and information goods
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Electronic commerce and electronic markets
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</span></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">Maximum of 15 pages (excluding tables and figures), printable on 8.5 x 11-</font></span><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">inch paper.</font></span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">12-</font></span><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">point font with one-</font></span><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">inch
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</span></span></span><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Abstract (150 words or less)</font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Indicate on the front cover whether the bulk of the work was done by a student</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="style9"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The paper should not have been accepted for publication at the time of submission.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="style9"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">Submissions will be reviewed by two members of the program committee.
<span class="style19">Awards will be given for "Best Conference Paper", "Best Student-</span></font></span><span class="style19"><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Times New Roman">authored Paper", and "Best Reviewer".</font></span></span><span style="COLOR: black"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: auto 0in" class="style25"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">CIST will accept submission through the Easychair System, beginning June 1, 2012:
</font><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cist10" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cist12</font></a><span><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hemant Bhargava, University of California at Davis<br>
Abhay Mishra, Georgia State University</span></p>
<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Raghu Santanam, Arizona State University<br>
Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University</span></div>
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