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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CFP Closing Date: 2<sup>nd</sup>
August 2013</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">24th Australasian
Conference on Information Systems</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Principal Sponsor:
National Australia Bank (<a href="http://www.nab.com.au">http://www.nab.com.au</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Australasian
Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is the premier conference in
Australasia for Information Systems academics and professionals, covering
technical, organizational, business, and social issues in the application of
Information Technology. In 2013, the ACIS Conference will be hosted by the
School of Business Information Technology and Logistics at RMIT University. The
event will take place at the City Campus of the University in the new Swanston
Academic Building from 4-6 December, 2013. The Swanston Academic Building is
located right in the middle of Melbourne’s CBD.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conference Theme:
Information Systems: Transforming the Future</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Information systems
is a discipline that is built on the foundations of other disciplines bringing
together information technology, management, business, sociology, cognitive
science and a host of elements from elsewhere. This gives it the breadth of
knowledge and capabilities to place it on the leading edge of the many
transformations of the future that the 21st century has already started to see.
Three areas in which these transformations will be of particular interest and
relevance are:</span><br></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Transforming Business</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Despite change in the
business world being driven by information technology since the 60s, it seems
inevitable that business will be transformed dramatically over the next
generation by the use of information technology. The information systems
discipline is strategically placed to be a leader in that transformation.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Transforming
Education</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Information systems
academics have been leading the way in the use of the Web and social media for
the last 20 years and with the advent of the Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOC), information systems academics can continue to be at the forefront of
using information systems in tertiary education.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Transforming the
Discipline</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Information systems
academics are not immune to the need to transform the future. The discipline
needs to adopt the process and the pace of social media and move to be on the
Internet time as opposed to the traditionally scholarly time and use the
capabilities provided by the Internet to extend and develop the discipline as a
community.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conference Tracks</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">The conference will
be organized into the following tracks and though we encourage submissions that
focus on one of these areas, we are open to submissions in other areas:</span><br></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Healthcare Information Systems </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• The Past, Present and Future of the
Information Systems Discipline</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Innovation in the Digital Economy </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Social Information Systems/Social
Informatics</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Business Analytics </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Social Media and Social Networks in
Organizations</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Information Systems Education </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Digital Business including E-Business,
E-Government and etc. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Green Information Systems and
Sustainability</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Knowledge Management and Information
Systems </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Emerging Technologies: The Cloud, Ubiquity
and Mobility</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Information Logistics and E-Supply Chain
Management </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Enterprise Systems</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Information Systems Development </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Information Systems Theory and Practice</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Discovering the potential of gender
diversity</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Information Security Management </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Types
& Format</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">We seek to engage the
Australasian IS academic community by encouraging the following submissions:</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Research Papers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Research In Progress Papers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Teaching Cases</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Education Papers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Position Papers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• Practitioner Reports</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ACIS 2013 calls for
original, unpublished submissions in English and these must be made via the
ACIS 2013 submission system on the conference website at
<a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013">www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013</a> which also has information on paper submission format
and the review processes. All papers will be initially checked and those that
fail to comply with the submission format will be automatically rejected. All
submissions that are compliant will then undergo a double blind peer review
process.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important Dates</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Paper submission
deadline:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">2nd Augist 2013</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification of paper
acceptance: 20th September 2013</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ACIS Doctoral
Consortium: 2nd & 3rd
December 2013</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ACIS Conference: 4th to 6th December 2013</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organization</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">General Chair:
Professor Caroline Chan</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Program Co-Chairs</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor Hepu Deng
and Professor Craig Standing</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Conference Co-Chairs</span><br></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr Martin Dick and Dr
Vince Bruno</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">D</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">octoral Consortium
Co-Chairs</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor Brian
Corbitt, Professor Frada Burstein and Associate Professor Deborah Bunker</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Conference Organizers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr John
Pastoriza-Pinol, Ms. Lise Lateenmaa and Ms. Catarina Von Hertzen</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conference URL:
<a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013">http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:acis2013@rmit.edu.au">acis2013@rmit.edu.au</a></span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
<div>Dr. Martin Dick<br>Senior Lecturer<br>Major Coordinator - (Information Systems)<br>School of Business Information Technology<br>RMIT University<br>CRICOS Provider No. 00122A</div><div><br></div><div>24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems</div>
<div>ACIS2013 - <a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013" target="_blank">http://www.rmit.edu.au/acis2013</a></div></div>
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