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<div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 16px;">Dear IS community, </font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">this year, the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) will take place in Muenster,</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><font face="Arial">Germany from 26-29 May (<a href="http://www.ecis2015.eu/">http://www.ecis2015.eu</a>). The theme of the conference will be</font></span></p>
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<div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 16px;">'The Networked Society'.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">With this email, we like to invite you to submit a proposal for a panel discussion at ECIS2015.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">We decided to postpone the initial deadline for panel proposals by one week, so the new submission</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">deadline is now Friday, 6 March.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">Please find the detailed call for panels here: <a href="http://www.ecis2015.eu/participation/call-for-panels">http://www.ecis2015.eu/participation/call-for-panels</a></span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">We are looking forward to welcoming you in Muenster in 2015!</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">Dimitris Karagiannis, Michael Rosemann and Reima Suomi</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: black; ">ECIS 2015 Panel Chairs</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">THE NETWORKED SOCIETY</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">Modern society is a networked society permeated by information technology (IT), defining ECIS 2015’s Conference Theme.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">Networks, perceived as a group of organisations and people connected on several aspects who exchange information,</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">contacts, and experience for professional or social purposes, leave their mark on almost every area of our society and</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">promise diverse advantages to those involved.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">From a technical perspective, enormous amounts of information can be communicated to a larger number of recipients</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">faster than ever before. The evolution of networks is heavily influenced by the extensive use of Information Systems,</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">which has enabled co-evolving advanced quantitative and qualitative forms of networking.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">ECIS 2015 should be a meeting place for European and also non-European researchers in the field of Information</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">Systems from various cultures and countries and should reflect the specific and innovative research in Information</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">Systems dealing with the overarching networked society.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">Professor Michael Rosemann</span></b><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62); "> | Head of the Information Systems School </span></p>
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