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<div>**** Please note that the UCC email servers are experiencing difficulty with incoming external mail, so please register by sending your name, affiliation and contact details to josephfeller@gmail.com. If you have already emailed to register and did NOT
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<div>This is just a reminder that on June 6, 2013, the TOTO project (<a href="http://www.ucc.ie/en/toto/">http://www.ucc.ie/en/toto/</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/toto_research">http://twitter.com/toto_research</a>) will host a 90-minute seminar at ECIS
2013 to stimulate discussion among researchers who are actively researching (or even just interested) in the emerging space of crowdfunding (the IT-enabled peer-to-peer financing of business, creative and other endeavours through lending, investment and patronage). </div>
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<div>The seminar will focus on making sense of the significant literature already published in this space (<a href="http://opennessandtransparency.net/biblio?f[keyword]=276">http://opennessandtransparency.net/biblio?f[keyword]=276</a>) and will work towards
an agenda for future research.</div>
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<div>STRUCTURE</div>
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<div> 15 minute presentation based on From the Wisdom to the Wealth of Crowds: A Metatriangulation of Crowdfunding Research by Joseph Feller, Rob Gleasure and Stephen Treacy (<a href="http://opennessandtransparency.net/sites/default/files/TOTO-Working-Paper-2013.01-v1.pdf">http://opennessandtransparency.net/sites/default/files/TOTO-Working-Paper-2013.01-v1.pdf</a>)</div>
<div> 30 minutes of small group discussion</div>
<div> 45 minutes of full group discussion</div>
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<div>CONTENT</div>
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<div>The seminar will focus on the following key issues:</div>
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<div> Defining, conceptualising and bounding crowdfunding phenomena</div>
<div> Identifying key phenomenological, methodological and theoretical gaps in the crowdfunding literature</div>
<div> Articulating an agenda for future crowdfunding research (What kinds of crowdfunding should the IS community be researching? What kinds of questions should we be asking? What theoretical lenses should we be using? What methods? Etc.)</div>
<div> Sharing experiences of doing crowdfunding research, funding/publication strategies, etc. We can't wait to see you all there it will be a great discussion about a very exciting new IT-enabled phenomenon.</div>
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<div>POSITION STATEMENTS</div>
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<div>Although it is not required, participants are strongly encouraged to submit a position statement of up to 500 words on one or more of the issues listed above. Use the ECIS 2013 template (<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlY2lzMjAxM25sfGd4OjdhNjRiOWYwYjI5MTEyZTU">https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlY2lzMjAxM25sfGd4OjdhNjRiOWYwYjI5MTEyZTU</a>)
and send (as .doc) to <a href="mailto:totoproject@ucc.ie">totoproject@ucc.ie</a> by May 30, 2013 to have the statement added to <a href="http://opennessandtransparency.net/CrowdfundingSeminar">http://opennessandtransparency.net/CrowdfundingSeminar</a> for
pre-seminar distribution. </div>
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<div>The statements, along with a summary document emerging from the seminar, will remain online as a record of the event and future resource for researchers.</div>
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<div>LOGISTICS</div>
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<div> The event will take place on June 6 from 18.30 - 20.00 in Ruppert Room 116, Ruppert building, Leuvenlaan 21, 3584 CE Utrecht (this is the same building being used for the ECIS paper sessions earlier in the day)</div>
<div> The event will be catered with tea/coffee/water, biscuits and sandwiches.</div>
<div> Participation is limited to 25. Registration is free for ECIS 2013 delegates, but is required for planning purposes. Register by sending your name, affiliation and contact details to josephfeller@gmail.com.</div>
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<div> Again, we strongly encourage all seminar participants to submit a position statement of up to 500 words.</div>
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<div>We can't wait to see you all there it will be a great discussion about a very exciting new IT-enabled phenomenon.</div>
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<div>ABOUT TOTO</div>
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<div>Technology-Enabled Organizational Transparency and Openness (TOTO) is a research project hosted by BIS at University College Cork and funded by a grant from The Lewis Charitable Foundation (California, USA). The objective of the TOTO project is to provide
scholarly resources and thought-leadership to the global multi-disciplinary research community investigating technology-enabled organisational transparency and openness, and to engage in research work in this space.</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
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<div>Joe</div>
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<div>Dr. Joseph Feller</div>
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<div><a href="mailto:totoproject@ucc.ie">totoproject@ucc.ie</a></div>
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