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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for Panels, Tutorials, Research-in-Progress Papers, and Teaching Cases</span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Theme: Big<i>
</i>Data - Revolutionizing How We Live, Work, and Think</span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">An AIS Affiliated Conference</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Important Dates
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Submission deadline: <b><span style="color:red">February 15, 2014</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:red"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Notification of Acceptance/Rejection<b>:
<span style="color:red"> March 10, 2014</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Final Submission due date: March 24, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Early Registration due date: March 31, 2014</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Submission website:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://exchange.canterbury.ac.nz/owa/redir.aspx?C=7ecb15afdb94478194321b4bbd6bcf0a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fconf-irm2014.tdt.edu.vn%2fsubmission.htm" target="_blank"><span style="">http://conf-irm2014.tdt.edu.vn/submission.htm</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The organizing committee invites you to submit your
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">proposals for panels and tutorials,
</span>research-in-progress, and teaching cases to Conf-IRM 2014. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submission Types and Guidelines
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Panel and Tutorial Submissions
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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. Research-in-progress
 papers will be presented in a roundtable forum.  In this way, authors will get in-depth feedback on their papers from mentors and round-table participants.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Teaching Cases
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Important Announcements
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm"><span style="">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register AND attend the conference.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadline.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">All submissions must be written in English</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm"><span style="">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Tracks</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Management of Web and Heterogeneous Data (Theme Track)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">IT Design, Development and Services Management</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ICT for Development and Economic Prosperity  
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society 
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Management and Governance of IT</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">E-Business, Web 2.0 and Social Networks</span></p>
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<font size="2"><span style="">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;">   
</span></span>ICT in ASEAN, Latin America and the Caribbean</font></p>
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<font size="2"><span style="">12.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;">  
</span></span>General Topics and Teaching Cases</font></p>
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<font size="2">13.   Panels and Tutorials </font></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Organizing Committee</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><i>Conference Co-Chairs</i><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Le Vinh Danh, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:levinhdanh@tdt.edu.vn" target="_blank">levinhdanh@tdt.edu.vn</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:lech@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">lech@auckland.ac.nz</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Program Co-Chairs<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Dong Thi Bich Thuy, University of Science - Vietnam National University, Vietnam,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:thuy@hcmus.edu.vn" target="_blank">thuy@hcmus.edu.vn</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Annette Mills, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz" target="_blank">annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Hien T. Nguyen, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:hien@tdt.edu.vn" target="_blank">hien@tdt.edu.vn</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Publications and Proceedings Co-Chairs</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:lech@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">lech@auckland.ac.nz</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Hien T. Nguyen, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:hien@tdt.edu.vn" target="_blank">hien@tdt.edu.vn</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Conf-IRM Executive Committee</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada (co-chair)<br>
Jairo Gutierrez, AUT University, New Zealand<br>
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK<br>
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand<br>
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt<br>
Felix B. Tan, AUT University, New Zealand (co-chair)</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Local Organizing Co-Chairs</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Trinh Minh Huyen, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:trinhminhhuyen@tdt.edu.vn" target="_blank">trinhminhhuyen@tdt.edu.vn</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black"><br>
Bay Vo, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:blue"><a href="mailto:vdbay@it.tdt.edu.vn" target="_blank">vdbay@it.tdt.edu.vn</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We look forward to seeing you in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in May 2014 !!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
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