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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Matt Germonprez, Kevin Crowston*, Michel Avital and I will be participating in a panel at ICIS 2013 entitled "</font>Open IS: The IS Discipline as an Open Community Ecosystem." </div>
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The panel abstract appears below, and full details can be found at <a href="http://opennessandtransparency.net/ICIS2013OpenISPanel" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">http://opennessandtransparency.net/ICIS2013OpenISPanel</a><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">. </font></div>
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Panel Abstract: The collective intelligence and collective action of “open” communities have produced a variety of complex knowledge goods and radical social change. The Information Systems (IS) community has invested significant effort into researching open
communities and the ecosystems in which they operate, seeking to better understand these emerging forms of organization, production, innovation, knowledge, and value creation. Ironically, the IS discipline itself has, on the whole, failed to embrace the principles
that its own research has repeatedly identified as generative and powerful. This panel therefore seeks to stimulate a thoughtful and dynamic discussion around the proposition that "becoming a more open community will enhance the IS discipline’s scholarly inquiry
and global impact."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The comments thread </span> at <a href="http://opennessandtransparency.net/ICIS2013OpenISPanel" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">http://opennessandtransparency.net/ICIS2013OpenISPanel</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> is
open and we invite you all to visit and to share your thoughts about these important and compelling issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We hope to see you at ICIS!</span></div>
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<div>Dr. Joseph Feller</div>
<div>Dept of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems</div>
<div>University College Cork</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">* </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Kevin Crowston is supported by the US National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</font></div>
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