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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AMCIS 2015: 21<sup>st</sup> Americas Conference on Information Systems</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers on in
<b>Spanish, Portuguese, or about Latin America</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions should be made by February 25, 2015 (11:59 PM EST).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AMCIS 2015 Spanish & Portuguese Track<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Carlos Ferran</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Governors State University,
</span><a href="mailto:cferran@govst.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cferran@govst.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Indira Guzman</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Trident University,
</span><a href="mailto:Indira.Guzman@trident.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Indira.Guzman@trident.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maria Alexandra Cunha</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Fundação Getulio Vargas (São Paulo),
</span><a href="mailto:alexandra.cunha@fgv.br"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">alexandra.cunha@fgv.br</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The AMCIS 2015 Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin America track promotes IS/IT/MIS research in and about Latin America.
Latin America makes up a large part of the Americas and its population speaks primarily Spanish or Portuguese. ACMIS is a conference in English for the Americas. To bridge this gap, this track opens a space for rigorous and high-quality research that is written
in Spanish or Portuguese while also accepting papers in English that bring together IS/IT/MIS research and Latin America.<br>
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Any IS/IT/MIS paper that could be accepted in other AMCIS tracks but that it could not be reviewed there because it is written in Spanish or Portuguese is a reasonable submission for this Track. Additionally, papers written in English that specifically study
Latin America are also welcome here.<br>
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Accepted papers will be published in the language they were submitted (papers in Spanish or Portuguese will also include a copy of the title and abstract in English). Presentations can be made in English, Spanish, or Portuguese at the authors’ discretion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track I: Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Indira Guzman</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Trident University International,
</span><a href="mailto:indira.guzman@trident.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">indira.guzman@trident.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Latin America makes up a large part of the Americas and its population speaks primarily Spanish or Portuguese.
AMCIS is a conference in English for the Americas. This mini-track opens a space for all types of high-quality and rigorous IS/IT/MIS written in Spanish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">La Conferencia de Sistemas de Información de las Americas (AMCIS) promueve investigación cientifica
y rigorosa sobre Sistemas de Información (SI), Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y Gestión de los Sistemas de Información (GIS) conducida en y sobre America Latina. America Latina conforma una gran parte del continente cuya población habla
principalmente español o portugues. Siendo AMCIS una conferencia en Inglés para las Américas este track de AMCIS abre un espacio para la diseminación de trabajos científicos en español o portugués, además de aceptar manuscritos en Inglés que combinan investigación
sobre SI, TIC, GIS y América Latina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cualquier manuscrito sobre SI, TIC o GIS que podría ser aceptado en alguno de las tracks de AMCIS
pero que está escrito en Español representa una presentación razonable para este track. Los trabajos aceptados serán publicados en español, pero también se incluirá una copia del título y del resumen en inglés. Las presentaciones en la conferencia pueden realizarse
en inglés o español dependiendo del criterio de los autores. Los mejores trabajos serán invitados para ser ampliados e incluidos de forma acelerada en la Revista Latinoamericana y del Caribe de la Asociación de Sistemas de Información (RELCASI) –a double-blind
peer-reviewed journal of the AIS–.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track II: Portuguese<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maria Alexandra Cunha</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Fundação Getulio Vargas (São Paulo),
</span><a href="mailto:alexandra.cunha@fgv.br"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">alexandra.cunha@fgv.br</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Latin America makes up a large part of the Americas and its population speaks primarily Spanish or Portuguese. AMCIS is a conference in English for the Americas. This mini-track
opens a space for all types of high-quality and rigorous IS/IT/MIS written in Portuguese.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A América Latina corresponde a uma grande parte do continente e a sua população fala, principalmente, espanhol ou português. A AMCIS é uma conferência em inglês para as
Américas. Este mini-track possibilita a submissão de artigos de alta qualidade e rigor científico sobre IS/IT/MIS escritos em português, com o intuito de facilitar o ingresso de pesquisadores brasileiros ou de outros países lusófonos nesta comunidade acadêmica.
Esta trilha aceita trabalhos em IT/IS/MIS, em português, em temas de qualquer uma das trilhas da AMCIS. Os melhores trabalhos serão convidados a ser estendidos e entrarem numa edição da Revista Latinoamericana y del Caribe de la Asociación de Sistemas de Información
(RELCASI), em fast track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track III: MIS/IT/IS in Latin America<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Carlos Ferran</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Governors State University,
</span><a href="mailto:cferran@govst.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cferran@govst.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The AMCIS 2014 Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin America track promotes IS/IT/MIS research in and about Latin America.
Latin America makes up a large part of the Americas and its population speaks primarily Spanish or Portuguese. AMCIS is a conference in English for the Americas. To bridge this gap, this track opens a space for rigorous and high-quality research that is written
in Spanish or Portuguese while also accepting papers in English that bring together IS/IT/MIS research and Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any IS/IT/MIS paper written in English that relates to Latin America is a reasonable submission for this Mini-Track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You will receive notification by April 21, 2013 whether or not your paper is accepted. If your paper is accepted, revisions and the camera-ready copy must be submitted
by April 28, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions begins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> February 25, 2015: Manuscript submissions closes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Authors submit camera-ready revision of their papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions regarding the topic or would like additional guidance, please send an email to the corresponding track or mini-track chair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Carlos Ferran, CMA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">=============================================================================<br>
Associate Professor of Accounting and MIS Editor-in-Chief RELCASI<br>
Governors State University Certified Management Accountant<br>
College of Business and Public Administration Track-Chair for AMCIS 2014<br>
1 University Parkway UPI GSU Chapter Unit A Vice President<br>
University Park, IL 60484 LACAIS President & SIGASYS President<br>
(708) 235-2818 phone & (708) 534-8457 fax </span><a href="http://carlos.ferran.net/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">http://carlos.ferran.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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View my research on my SSRN Author page: </span><a href="http://ssrn.com/author=2003402"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">http://ssrn.com/author=2003402</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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