[AISWorld] SIGGreen at AMCIS 2013: Requests for minitrack proposals (due Oct. 18th)

[Cathy Dwyer]

Dear Colleagues,

SIGGreen first full track at AMCIS 2012 was a great success. SIGGreen will
again run a track for AMCIS 2013, entitled “Green IS and Sustainability.”
We ask all members and supporters to consider submitting a SIGGreen
mini-track proposal for AMCIS 2013, to be held in Chicago, IL. You can
submit proposals to this site —
http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/ — beginning Oct. 1. The
deadline for minitrack proposals is October 18th, 2012.

SIGGreen Track Description:

Environmental sustainability and climate change is a global issue, with
many cultural, organizational, technical, social, regulatory, and
individual factors. Just as computer-based information systems have been
the driving force for productivity improvements, Green IS can be a driving
force for sustainability improvements. “Our quest for environmental
sustainability needs an information strategy to parallel and complement
engineering solutions.” (Watson, Corbett, Boudreau, Webster, CACM, July
2012).

Green IS applies the transformative power of information systems to support
environmental sustainability.  It addresses the world’s greatest challenge:
shrinking access to non-renewable resources, increased energy and food
costs, and environmental degradation due to climate change.  This track is
open to any type of research related to defining the scope of Green IS
research, as well as adapting research into teaching cases, modules, and
courses in order to prepare Green IS professionals.

IS research has historically taken a cross functional view of
organizational information, a perspective that greatly increased the
efficiency of the modern enterprise.  IS research can re-apply this
perspective to model global consumption patterns, and with the use of
energy informatics, increase the efficiency of global consumption and
support environmental sustainability.

Suggested topics for Mini-tracks include:

Green Business Process Management

Information Systems and the Smart Grid

Information Systems that Promote Sustainable Business Practices

Energy Informatics

Green HCI: Interface design for display and simulation of consumption
patterns

IS to support carbon management, accounting and reporting

IS in support of social sustainability

IS to support global competitiveness

IS to promote sustainability and competitiveness

The emergence of regional and global sustainability IS standards

Sustainable development in transitional and developing countries


For other ideas please consult Helen Hasan’s work on a Green IS Taxonomy
hosted at the SIGGreen Wiki Site
http://siggreen.wikispaces.com/Green+IS+Taxonomy

Minitrack proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages long. Proposals should
provide a brief one or two paragraph description of the main theme, its
importance and relevance to information systems research and practice. You
should also list some potential topics for your mini-track. Each proposal
must list names and contact information of mini-track chair(s).

Each proposal requires:

a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);

b) minitrack title;

c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2013 website (up to 150
words);

d) description of main theme and potential topics for your minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:

http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/

Deadlines:

October 1, 2012: Begin submitting minitrack proposals to Bepress (new
submission

system for AMCIS)

October 18, 2012: Minitrack proposals due

November 19, 2012: Revised Minitrack proposal due

January 4, 2013: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2013 begin


For up-to-date information about AMCIS 2013, please visit:

http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to

generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2013;  b) soliciting and assigning

reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making

recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the

minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on

the AMCIS 2013 website.

To view the full schedule of activities for minitrack chairs, visit:

http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57



For more information on upcoming events related to SIGGreen, please

visit http://SIGGreen.wikispaces.com


Thanks for your continuing support of the SIGGreen. Please let us

know if you have any suggestions.  We look forward to your minitrack

proposals.

If you have any questions, please email one of the track co-chairs.


AMCIS 2013 SIGGreen Track Co-Chairs

Cathy Dwyer cdwyer[AT]pace.edu

Shu Schiller shu.schiller[AT]wright.edu
-- 
Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
http://twitter.com/ProfCDwyer
Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems
163 William Street #225
New York, NY 10038
212-346-1728
Chair of SIGGreen http://siggreen.wikispaces.com
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