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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following a very successful conference in Vienna, we invite you to submit and attend Conf-IRM 2013 in sunny Natal, Brazil!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>International Conference on Information Resources Management 2013 (Conf-IRM)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference Theme: Managing IT in a Consumerized IT world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Conference website: <u><a href="http://www.conf-irm2013.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.conf-irm2013.org</span></a></u><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>- Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/conf-irm2013"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.facebook.com/conf-irm2013</span></a> - Conf-IRM website<span style='color:#1F497D'>: </span><a href="http://www.conf-irm.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.conf-irm.org</span></a>) </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Imirá Hotel, Natal, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>May 22-24, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submission deadline: <b>December 10, 2012</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: <b>February 4, 2013<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Final Submission and Early Registration due date: <b>March 4, 2013</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many industry and academic reports are describing the combination of the availability of ready-to-use and easy-to-implement information technology (IT) solutions, many times in the form of cloud-computing services and applications, and the presence of a tech-savvy new workforce who is able and willing to acquire and use these services as a new trend called “consumerization of IT”. In this perspective, business executives will seek the IT solutions they need in the marketplace and rapidly put them to work, with or without the assistance and accordance of IT departments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is this a revival of the decentralization of IT decisions that happened when mini and microcomputers were first introduced in organizations, or is it something entirely new? Is this new workforce, full of Millennials and their gadgets, entirely different from the previous ones? These are examples of questions that are surfacing, as this concept is fast developing and widening in scope. For instance, consumerization of IT could also be used to represent the fact that today in most organizations, it is consumers who represent the larger part of IT services´ users. Related to this, new questions may arise, like what are the challenges, risks and opportunities posed by this trend to IT strategy and IT management? How might These trends affect the competitive use of IT in companies?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The organizing committee invites you to submit to <b>Conf-IRM 2013</b> your research work, teaching cases, and proposals for panels and tutorials, dealing with the main topic of the conference or related to one of the several topics covered by the <b>15 tracks</b>, listed below. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submission Types and Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Full Length Submissions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscripts for review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety upon payment of registration fees. Papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be included in the AIS e-Library. Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suit ability, the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper Award" during the conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Research-in-Progress Submissions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submissions of no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables: All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Teaching Cases <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives. Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be accompanied by instructor teaching notes (not included in the 5000 words). The teaching notes will not be published.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Panel and Tutorial Submissions <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submissions of not more than 1000 words: Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial presenters must register for the conference). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Announcements:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:14.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:14.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register AND attend the conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:14.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:14.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>All submissions must be written in English (except for the ICT and Latin American Track, which accepts also papers in Spanish and Portuguese)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:14.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tracks and Chairs <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1 <u>IT Control, Evaluation, and Decision Making</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Edward Bernroider, WU Wien, Austria: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Konradin Maier, WU Wien, Austria: <a href="mailto:konradin.maier@wu.ac.at">konradin.maier@wu.ac.at</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2 <u>IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yong Jin Kim, Sogang University, South Korea: <a href="mailto:yongjkim@sogang.ac.kr">yongjkim@sogang.ac.kr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rob Benyon, Rhodes Univ., South Africa: <a href="mailto:r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za">r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3 <u>Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria: <a href="mailto:roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at">roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alemayehu Molla, RMIT Univ<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span>, Australia: </span><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:alemayehu.molla@rmit.edu.au"><span lang=EN-US>alemayehu.molla@rmit.edu.au</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK: <a href="mailto:r.gholami@aston.ac.uk">r.gholami@aston.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4 <u>Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Annette Mills, UC, New Zealand: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz"><span lang=EN-US>annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pramila Gupta, CQU, Australia: <a href="mailto:p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au">p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlos Quandt, PUCPR, Brazil: <a href="mailto:carlos.quandt@pucpr.br">carlos.quandt@pucpr.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>5 <u>ICT for Development <o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Antonio Díaz Andrade, AUT University, New Zealand: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz"><span lang=EN-US>antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Leiser Silva, University of Houston: <a href="mailto:lsilva@uh.edu">lsilva@uh.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marlei Pozzebon, HEC, Canada: <a href="mailto:marlei.pozzebon@hec.ca">marlei.pozzebon@hec.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>6 <u>ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>(<i>including submissions in Spanish and Portuguese</i>)<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Renata Araújo, UNIRIO, Brazil: <a href="mailto:renata.araujo@uniriotec.br">renata.araujo@uniriotec.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlo Bellini, UFPB, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:bellini@ccsa.ufpb.br"><span lang=FR>bellini@ccsa.ufpb.br</span></a> </span><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ariel La Paz, Universidad de Chile: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:lapaz@fen.uchile.cl"><span lang=FR>lapaz@fen.uchile.cl</span></a> </span><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alexander García Dávalos, Univ. Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia: <a href="mailto:agdavalos@uao.edu.co">agdavalos@uao.edu.co</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7 <u>Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gurpreet Dhillon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA: <a href="mailto:gdhillon@vcu.edu">gdhillon@vcu.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada: <a href="mailto:shaobo_ji@carleton.ca">shaobo_ji@carleton.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Matthew N. Kreeger, Univ of London & Thales IT Security: <a href="mailto:matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com">matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brian Cusack, AUT University, New Zealand: <a href="mailto:brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz">brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>8 <u>ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andy Igonor, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada: <a href="mailto:andyi@nait.ca">andyi@nait.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marie Anne Macadar, PUCRS, Brazil: <a href="mailto:marie.macadar@pucrs.br">marie.macadar@pucrs.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>9 <u>Electronic Business and Corporate Strategy<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China: <a href="mailto:zhangche@fudan.edu.cn">zhangche@fudan.edu.cn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maria Madlberger, Webster Univ<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span>, Austria: <a href="mailto:madlberger@webster.ac.at">madlberger@webster.ac.at</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eusebio Scornavacca, Victoria Univ<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span> of Wellington, New Zealand: <a href="mailto:eusebio.scornavacca@vuw.ac.nz">eusebio.scornavacca@vuw.ac.nz</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>10 <u>Cloud Computing and Virtualization<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany: <a href="mailto:daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de">daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rui Manuel Dinis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal: <a href="mailto:rds@dsi.uminho.pt">rds@dsi.uminho.pt</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jairo Simião Dornelas, UFPE, Brazil: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:jairo@ufpe.br"><span lang=PT-BR>jairo@ufpe.br</span></a> </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>11 <u>Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jyoti Choudrie, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK<span style='color:#1F497D'>, <a href="mailto:jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com">jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Peijian Song, Nanjing University, China: <a href="mailto:songpeijian@nju.edu.cn">songpeijian@nju.edu.cn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eduardo Henrique Diniz, EAESP/FGV, Brazil: <a href="mailto:eduardo.diniz@fgv.br">eduardo.diniz@fgv.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>12 <u>Strategic IT Management, Governance and Consumerization of IT<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tim McLaren, Ryerson University, Canada: <a href="mailto:tmclaren@ryerson.ca">tmclaren@ryerson.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Antonio Carlos G. Maçada, UFRGS, Brazil: <a href="mailto:acgmacada@ea.ufrgs.br">acgmacada@ea.ufrgs.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Guillermo Rodríguez Abitia, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico: <a href="mailto:grdrz@unam.mx">grdrz@unam.mx</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>13 <u>Design Thinking in Information Systems Development<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marko Forsell<span style='color:black'>, Centria University of Applied Sciences, Finland</span>: <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:marko.forsell@centria.fi">marko.forsell@centria.fi</a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Geoffery Seaver, NDU, USA: <a href="mailto:seaverg@ndu.edu">seaverg@ndu.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>14 <u>Web 2.0 and Social Networks<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Amarolinda Zanella Saccol, UNISINOS, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:azsaccol@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-US>azsaccol@gmail.com</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia: <a href="mailto:mohini.singh@rmit.edu.au">mohini.singh@rmit.edu.au</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>15 <u>IS Research Methods<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Frantisek Sudzina, Aarhus University, Denmark: <a href="mailto:fransu@asb.dk">fransu@asb.dk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PT <u>Panels and Tutorials<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anatália Saraiva Ramos, UFRN, Brazil, <a href="mailto:anataliaramos@gmail.com">anataliaramos@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand: <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:lech@auckland.ac.nz">lech@auckland.ac.nz</a> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Manoel Veras, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:manoel.veras@uol.com.br"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>manoel.veras@uol.com.br</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cesar Alexandre de Souza, University of São Paulo, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:calesou@usp.br"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>calesou@usp.br</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:gerald_grant@carleton.ca"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>gerald_grant@carleton.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maria Alexandra Cunha, Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:alexandra.cunha@pucpr.br"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>alexandra.cunha@pucpr.br</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jairo Gutierrez, AUT University, New Zealand: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:jairo.gutierrez@aut.ac.nz"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>jairo.gutierrez@aut.ac.nz</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Local Organizing Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Luiz Mendes Filho, UNI-RN, Brazil: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:luiz.mendesfilho@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>luiz.mendesfilho@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Claudio Mendonça, Potiguar University, Brazil: <a href="mailto:cmarcio@gmail.com"><span style='color:windowtext'>cmarcio@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Publications and Proceedings</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <u>Chair </u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lech Janczewski , University of Auckland, New Zealand: <a href="mailto:lech@auckland.ac.nz"><span style='color:windowtext'>lech@auckland.ac.nz</span></a><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>International Co-Chairs <o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Felix B Tan, AUT University, New Zealand: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:felix.tan@aut.ac.nz"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>felix.tan@aut.ac.nz</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:skamel@aucegypt.edu"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>skamel@aucegypt.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway University of London, UK: </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:G.Harindranath@rhul.ac.uk"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>G.Harindranath@rhul.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We look forward to seeing you in sunny Natal, Brazil, in May 2013!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Harlow Solid Italic"'>Gerald Grant, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor and Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sprott School of Business<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carleton University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1125 Colonel By Drive<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.sprott.carleton.ca/">www.sprott.carleton.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>