International Conference on Information Systems 
ICIS 2006 - December 10 to 13
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - USA

Program Co-Chairs

Conference Theme - IT for Under-Served Communities

The program theme for ICIS 2006 is "IT for Under-Served Communities". Many communities globally are under-served by IT because they either lag in their embrace of IT or lack the economies of scale or infrastructures needed for commercial application development.  We hope to attract papers that address IT needs for a broad range of "communities" and a variety of systems:

• systems in a regional context, e.g. rural areas,
• systems for those who cannot afford them,
• systems for developing countries,
• systems for specific types of organizations, e.g. small- and medium-sized organizations, non-profit organizations and
• systems for groups or individuals with specific needs, for example senior citizens and individuals with disabilities.

Potential topics include:

• Alternative, community driven software development approaches
• Participation and requirements engineering
• Comparison of policies to facilitate under-served communities

Active research already exists in many of these areas and this conference theme could inspire more work in other areas.

Submission Types

We will be looking for submissions of the following types:

(1) IT for Under-Served Communities - This papers will be devoted to the conference theme.  The final number of sessions will depend on total submissions and acceptances.

(2) Completed Research Paper - The program is structured such that the usual wide range of ICIS papers will also find a home. Regular full-length papers will be welcome in technical and behavioral IS research using paradigms of design science, quantitative and qualitative methods. We will be open to papers on the economics of information systems as well as papers on strategic uses of IT at the organizational level. Topics like supply chain management are acceptable as are topics like decision support systems. In brief, the program committee will be asked to choose among such non-theme papers strictly on the basis of quality.

(3) Research-in-Progress (RIP) - RIP papers typically represent work that is incomplete, but promising. These papers are similar to the regular papers in that it will be organized around paradigm and topic, depending on the number of submissions and acceptances.

(4) Panels and Debates - Panels and debates are typically very popular events at ICIS, and some effort will be placed into soliciting a set of spirited panels/debates on controversial issues.

(5) Teaching Cases - Teaching cases are immensely useful to the field as the source of pedagogical materials that students find exciting and thoughtful.

(6) Research Methods - This area is an innovation because we will not be interested in tutorials, per se, but papers that tackle some interesting methodological research question. It is a way of encouraging IS researchers to think in terms of the need for this kind of work in our top journals and, in this case, our top conferences. An example of such a paper would be the article on interaction tests using PLS recently published in ISR by Chin, Marcolin, and Newsted.

Tracks

This year’s program team reflects the international nature of these new frontiers with co-track and co-program chairs representing scholars from around the globe. We invite scholars throughout the world to attend a world class conference in a global destination location – Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
 

Program Co-Chairs		Detmar Straub Georgia State University, USA
		Stefan Klein University College Dublin, Ireland
Review Coordinator		Likoebe Maruping University of Arkansas, USA
Track		Track Chairs / Senior Editors
Completed Research and Work In Progress Papers
Alternative Approaches to Information Systems Development		Brian Fitzgerald University of Limerick, Ireland
		Julie Kendall Rutgers University, Camden, USA
Breakthrough Ideas in Information Technology		Zahir Irani Brunel University, UK
		Ray Hackney Brunel University, UK
Design Science		Alan Hevner University of South Florida, USA
Economics and Information Systems		Chris Kemerer University of Pittsburgh, USA
Global Information Technology Management		Roberto Evaristo University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
		Bernard Tan National University, Singapore
Human-Computer Interaction		Kar Yan Tam HKUST, China
		Ping Zhang Syracuse University, USA
Knowledge Management		Genevieve Bassellier McGill University, Canada
		Sandy Staples Queens University, Canada
Epistemological and Philosophical Issues in Information Systems		Emmanuel Monod Universite Paris Dauphine, France
		Rudy Hirschheim LSU, USA
Security and Assurance		Richard Baskerville Georgia State University, USA
		Mikko Siponen University of Oulu, Finland
Social, Behavioral and Organizational Aspects of Information Systems		Nathalie Mitev LSE, UK
		Mihir Parikh University of Central Florida, USA
Valuing IT Opportunities		Rajiv Kohli College of William and Mary, USA
		M. Adam Mahmood University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Web-based Information Systems and Applications		James Y.L. Thong Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, China
		Mariam Zahedi U of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Conference Theme
IT For Underserved Communities		Robert Davison City University of Hong Kong, China
		Lynette Kvasny Penn State, USA
Quantitative Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods		Wynne Chin University of Houston, USA
		David Gefen Drexel University, USA
Other Submissions
General Topics (Topics not covered by the tracks listed above)		Trevor T. Moores UNLV, USA
		Uday Kulkarni Arizona State University, USA
Panels
Panels		Jeanne Ross MIT, USA
		Soon Ang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Teaching Cases
Teaching Cases		Sid Huff Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
		Carol Brown Indiana University, USA