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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Track: Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion (SIGSI)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">MiniTrack: Social Inclusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We invite submissions to the mini-track, “Social Inclusion” within the Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion Track for AMCIS 2015. This mini-track welcomes relevant theoretical, empirical, and intervention
research, in either full paper or research-in-progress format, that relates to the mission of SIG Social Inclusion (SIGSI). The purpose of SIGSI is to promote research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in the field of Information Systems
(IS). The goal of such efforts is to stimulate greater diversity of thought and personnel in AIS and the IS field overall, and participation of all our members in a more socially-aware and inclusive discipline. Social inclusion research includes topics such
as the gender gap in the IS field, gender minorities (e.g. LGBT community), intersectionality of identities (such as ethnicity, gender and socio-economic class), the digital divide, underserved groups in the information society (such as persons with disability),
and a range of topics related to human diversity, and the “haves” and “have nots” in the information society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gender and IS use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The gender gap in the IS discipline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The influence of the intersection of race, gender and culture on adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Analysis of the digital divide from a multilayered demographic perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Demographic analyses of IT workers and/or the under representation of minority groups in technical work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How human differences improve or affect the use of or participation with information and communication technologies (ICT) among socially
inclusive communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cultural differences in roles, expectations, and stereotypes regarding women’s involvement with information technology in different countries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Theories and research frameworks for investigating gender and diversity issues in information technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Empirical research on gender and diversity in the global information economy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Methodological challenges of examining cultural influences on gender and IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Factors that influences the enrollment and retention of female students in IS/IT majors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Initiatives and programs that aim at recruiting and retaining women in IS/IT educational pipelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to facilitate mentoring of women and other underrepresented groups in information
technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Challenges associated with the retention of women in the information technology workforce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Work-life balance issues for women in the information technology workforce <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Strategies and initiatives to counter the opting-out of women in the information technology fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Initiatives and programs to encourage women to seek training and reenter the information technology workforce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Initiatives to improve women’s participation in information technology that fit with a specific socio-cultural context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong>February 25, 2015:</strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong>May 5, 2015:</strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Contact Information for Mini-track Chair: </div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Michelle Carter</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Information School</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">University of Washington</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Mary Gates Hall 330G</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Seattle WA 98195</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">email: <a href="mailto:mscarter@uw.edu">mscarter@uw.edu</a></font></font></div>
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