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<p class=MsoNormal>16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010)
August 12 - 15, 2010. We invite you to join us in the most unique location that
AIS has ever held a conference. AMCIS 2010 will be in Lima, Peru.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Track: Emerging Issues in IS Research<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Minitrack: Sustainability, Information Systems and
Technology:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Emerging Opportunities for Information Systems to improve
sustainability within organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Description: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The continuous growth of the World population and the
increasing demand for higher living standards has lead to the exploitation of
natural resources and the pollution of the environment on an unprecedented
scale. Shareholders, regulatory bodies, customers and employees are
increasingly demanding firms to adopt a systematic approach to the sustainable
management of increasingly scarce resources while at the same time reducing
their impact on the environment. Environmental management is more than ever an
imperative in industrial domains such as manufacturing, logistics, agriculture,
forestry and IS & IT, which has become pervasive throughout entire
organizational functions and processes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In the emerging fields of Green IS and Green IT, a figure of
2 percent is often quoted as the percentage of environmentally harmful
emissions attributed to the use of IT and the IT industry. The term
‘Green IT’ is now part of our vocabulary recognizing the problem of
IT as a polluter and the responsibility of IT professionals to do something
about it. On the other hand there is a counter argument that in IT and IS we
have the potential and opportunity to positively influence the global
environmental future – in other words, develop Green IS to reduce the
other 98%. This sentiment is reflected in a chapters developed as part of the
Global Text Project. Here the term ‘Green IT’ is distinguished from
‘Green IS’. ‘Green IT’ is seen to focus mainly on
energy efficiency and equipment utilization. ‘Green IS’, in
contrast, refers to “the design and implementation of information systems
that contribute to sustainability of business processes”. Green IS as so
described should therefore have a greater potential than Green IT because it
tackles a much larger problem.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>IS can play a
key role in making organizations more sustainable while at the same reducing
the negative environmental impact of IS and associated IT infrastructure.
Hence this mini track will focus on the role that IS can play in these two
interrelated issues of Green IT and Green IS. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The purpose of this mini-track is to advance theoretical and
practical knowledge in this emerging domain and to <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>gain a better understanding of current industry initiatives
and academic research being conducted on the role of <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IS in business sustainability. Hence submissions of high
quality papers that report on empirical research and <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>case studies including but not limited to the topics
available at <a href="http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf">http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mini-Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Helen Hasan - University of Wollongong – <a
href="mailto:hasan@uow.edu.au">hasan@uow.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Luta Lobe, University of Göttingen <a
href="mailto:lkolbe@uni-goettingen.de">lkolbe@uni-goettingen.de</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sameer Verma San Francisco State University <a
href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Robert Nickerson San Francisco State University <a
href="mailto:rnick@sfsu.edu">rnick@sfsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Alberto Onetti Università degli Studi dell'Insubria <a
href="mailto:aonetti@eco.uninsubria.it">aonetti@eco.uninsubria.it</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submission Process:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Full paper submissions must be made electronically, through
the AMCIS online submission system <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010</a>
).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind review
system and will be considered for AMCIS Best Paper Awards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Key Dates:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Full Papers Due: February 26, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Camera Ready Copy Due: April 26, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You may seek more information at <a
href="http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf">http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf</a>
or <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.amcis2010.org/">http://www.amcis2010.org/</a>
or through emailing the mini-track chairs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Dr Helen
Hasan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Associate
Professor, Information Systems,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>School
of Economics Faculty of Commerce,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>University
of Wollongong Wollongong 2522, Australia </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Phone:
+61 2 42213757 (office)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Mobile:
0419403699</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Fax: +61
2 42213725</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Email:
<a href="mailto:hasan@uow.edu.au" target="_blank">hasan@uow.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>URL:
<a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/" target="_blank">www.uow.edu.au/~hasan/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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