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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Resilience and Information Systems Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>ECIS 2015 - <a href="http://ecis2015.eu/">http://ecis2015.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><br></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The workshop will focus research in designing resilience into regions and organizations so they display a sustained capacity for change, therefore increasing their ability to survive a crisis and thrive in contexts of high uncertainty. Relevant research must address the role Information Systems and Technologies can play in managing the collective and distributed capacities to (1) anticipate potentially disrupting events; (2) avoid or prevent their occurrence; (3) plan and prepare for disruption required to protect the organization / community /region; (4) recover to a new fully functional state and assure continued operations.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The workshop addresses, more specifically, the following aspects of resilience and information systems and technologies:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>How people, resources, information systems and infrastructures be designed and managed so that the organization/community/region displays a high level of resilience to <b>economic crisis (</b>Economic crisis can be triggered by many factors, including severe environmental hazards, war, depletion of traditional energy resources, major demographic changes, generalized social uprisings, cyber-attacks, pandemics, major market changes - demand, supply, technology - and questionable business and financial practices);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The connection between resilience and the creation of smarter cities. (Planning for resilience to the impacts of stressors within cities requires an evaluation of the vulnerable components of cities, an understanding of the key processes, procedures, and interactions that organize these components and develop the capacity to address various structuring of components and their interactions with the ultimate goal of achieving resilience);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The need for IS solutions that leverage indigenous knowledge and are built with frugal engineering practices. (A focus on indigenous knowledge is important for creating solutions that make sense within emerging economies. Frugal engineering is a new method of development that assesses the needs of the market as well as what the market can spend to respond to growing demands and tighter budgets);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The need for appreciation of how crowdsourcing solutions can drive entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of economic resilience by supporting new models for growth of enterprises;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The role that Information Systems/Technologies can play during and after a disaster to enable local disaster management and resilience (e.g. crowd and mobile apps). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The purpose of the workshop is to bring together IS scholars who are conducting research into Information Systems to support/enable resilient organizations, communities and/or regions to economic crises, which is a topic within the field of IS that is gaining relevance given the many sources of uncertainty lying ahead. The workshop will provide a forum within which participating scholars can collaborate to determine the scope and thematic content of the area of IS for Resilience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecis2015ris">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecis2015ris</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Submissions will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Accepted papers will be published in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>JISTEM - journal of information systems and technology management - </span><a href="http://www.jistem.fea.usp.br/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>http://www.jistem.fea.usp.br/</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>IJTHI – international journal of technology and human interaction - </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-technology-human-interaction/1084" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-technology-human-interaction/1084</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Important deadlines</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>March 6th, 2015 - submission deadline<br>April 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2015 - notifications due<br>April 24<sup>th</sup> 2015 - revised submissions due<br>May 8<sup>th</sup> 2015 : final notifications due<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:PT'><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:PT'>· URL to the workshop <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://ris2015.apsi.pt/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>http://ris2015.apsi.pt</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>