<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yiv6701804703"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421739091191_32782" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="yiv6701804703yui_3_16_0_1_1421739091191_29378"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421739091191_32838" dir="ltr">Call for Papers - Submission deadline: February 1, 2015<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Track of the 2015 International Conference on Information Resources Management<br style="" class="">Theme: Realizing the Digital Enterprise<br style="" class="">May 18-20, 2015 - Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel<br style="" class="">Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Track Chairs <br style="" class="">Gunjan Mansingh, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica, gunjan.mansingh@uwimona.edu.jm<br style="" class="">Pietro Cunha Dolci, University of Santa Cruz do Sul and FSPOA, Brazil, pcdolci@unisc.br<br style="" class="">Jairo Gutierrez, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, jairo.gutierrez@aut.ac.nz<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">TRACK COVERAGE<br style="" class="">Conf-IRM2015 encourages ICT scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean to conduct research relevant to their contexts. The track promotes design, use, management and impact of sustainable ICTs for economic and social development. We are especially interested in data-driven ICT applications involving organizational and inter-organizational contexts, local, regional, national and transnational organizations, government, healthcare, education initiatives, and ICT innovations for sustainability and in papers that study these and other topics in countries in these regions and explain their findings based on the peculiarities of their contexts or comparing results with other contexts or countries. <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">RECOMMENDED TOPICS<br style="" class="">The ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean encourages the submission of quality papers and case studies, dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:<br style="" class=""> <br style="" class="">• ICT for Sustainable Development<br style="" class="">• ICT in Government, Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, and Tourism <br style="" class="">• ICT for Regional and Global Integration<br style="" class="">• Public policies for ICT development<br style="" class="">• ICT in micro-enterprises, SMEs and MSMEs<br style="" class="">• Strategic IT Management and Governance <br style="" class="">• Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations and Society<br style="" class="">• Information Security and Privacy Issues <br style="" class="">• Data Driven Decision Making<br style="" class="">• Data in the Cloud and Big Data Applications<br style="" class="">• Agile technologies for building digital enterprises<br style="" class="">• Analytics and digital enterprises <br style="" class="">• ICT in an Inter-organizational Contexts<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Submission Types and Guidelines<br style="" class=""> <br style="" class="">Full Length Submissions <br style="" class="">Submissions must be no more than 12 pages, including references, appendices and title page. All submissions must follow the submission template specifications. <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscripts. Papers that are highly rated by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected journals. The paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suitability, the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper Award" during the conference.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Research-in-Progress Submissions <br style="" class="">Submissions of no more than 7 pages. All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Teaching Cases <br style="" class="">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 12 pages and must be accompanied by instructor teaching notes (not included in the 12 pages). The teaching notes will not be published.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Panel and Tutorial Submissions <br style="" class="">Submissions of not more than 3 pages: Proposals should include objectives, topics 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.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Important Announcements <br style="" class="">• The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two.<br style="" class="">• Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members and tutorial presenters MUST register AND attend the conference.<br style="" class="">• Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadlines.<br style="" class="">• While the primary language of the conferences is English, papers in French will also be accepted. The ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean track will accept papers in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as English.<br style="" class="">• 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.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Conference Website: http://www.conf-irm.org/joomla/index.php/main-page<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Call for Papers: http://www.conf-irm.org/joomla/index.php/call-for-papers<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Tracks and Track Co-Chairs: http://www.conf-irm.org/joomla/index.php/tracks-track-co-chairs<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Submission website: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18573<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Important Dates<br style="" class="">Submission deadline: February 1, 2015<br style="" class="">Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March, 12, 2015<br style="" class="">Final Submission due date for accepted papers: March 25, 2015<br style="" class="">Early Registration deadline: April 5, 2015<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Ottawa, Canada in May 2015!!<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">--<br style="" class="">Jairo Gutierrez <br style="" class="">Associate Professor and Head of Computer Sciences<br style="" class="">School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences<br style="" class="">Auckland University of Technology<br style="" class="">Auckland, New Zealand<br style="" class="">Email:jairo.gutierrez@aut.ac.nz <br style="" class="">www.aut.ac.nz/cms<br style="" class=""><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421739091191_32967" style="" class="" dir="ltr"><br style="" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>