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

Track Co-Chairs

Robert Davison (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Lynette Kvasny (Penn State, USA)

Description

The purpose of this track is to address specifically the theme of ICIS2006: IT for Underserved Communities.

Many communities globally are underserved by IT because they either lag in their embrace of IT or lack the economies of scale or infrastructures needed for commercial application development. In this theme-oriented track, we hope to attract submissions that address IT needs for a broad range of communities and a variety of systems. In order to facilitate the organisation of the track, we conceive of communities in two broad categories (though submissions that do not precisely fit either category will also be considered): geographically underserved communities and historically underserved groups. Examples of these communities follow.

• Geographically Underserved Communities:
  • Regional contexts (especially rural and remote areas)
  • Developing Country contexts (including developing or underserved communities such as indigenous people in otherwise developed nations)
• Historically Underserved Groups
  • IT for –organizations and individuals in low-income communities in developed nations
  • IT for groups of individuals with underserved needs, e.g. senior citizens, people with disabilities (whether mentally or physically), racial and ethnic minorities, women
  • IT policy and public access initiatives (e.g. telecentres, community technology centers, public libraries, schools, faith-based organizations) to redress digital divides

Systems could include:

• Electronic commerce for micro-enterprises and entrepreneurs
• Citizen journalism and activism using radio, blogs, wikis, podcasts
• IT literacy and education
• Community databases and geographic information systems
• eGovernment services
• eHealth applications
• Mobile computing services

Associate Editors (A-Z)

• Erran Carmel (American University, USA)

• Pam Carter (Florida State University, USA)

• Neil Doherty (Loughborough University of Technology, USA)

• Harvey Enns (University of Dayton, USA)

• JJ Hseih (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)

• Huigang Liang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

• Paul Licker (Oakland University, USA )

• Shirin Madon (London School of Economics, UK )

• Victor Mbarika (Southern University, USA )

• Scott McCoy (College of William and Mary, USA )

• Peter Meso (Georgia State University, USA )

• Fay Cobb Payton (North Carolina State University, USA)

• Helen Richardson (University of Salford, UK)

• Ann Séror (Universite Laval, Canada )

• JP Shim (Mississippi State University, USA)

• Janice Sipior (Villanova University, USA)

• Eileen Trauth (Pennsylvania State University, USA )

• Sonja Patton Wiley - Louisiana State University, USA)

• Abdelaal, Abdelnasser

• Abraham, Chon

• Alexander, Christine

• Ali, Maged

• Amzica, Florin

• Anderson, Chuck

• Armstrong, Deb

• Brown, Irwin

• Bryant, Antony

• Burke, John

• Castleman, Tanya

• Cenfetelli, Ronald

• Cha, Hoon

• Champion, Donna

• Chan, Yolande

• Checchi, Ricardo

• Chen, Daniel

• Chong, Jing

• Clemmons, Susan

• Conger, Sue

• Coombs, Crispin

• Cushman, Mike

• Mohammad

• Dakshinamoorthy, Vijay

• Davison, Robert

• Dekleva, Sasha

• Doherty, Neil

• DuBois, Frank

• Durfee, Tonia

• Everard, Andrea

• Frederiksen, Linda

• Ganesh, Jai

• Ganley, Dale

• Ghose, Anindya

• Gigler, Soren

• Goh, Tiong

• Gopal, Abhijit

• Gordon, Michael

• Gorla, Narasimhaiah

• Griffiths, Marie

• Gudea, Sorin

• Hardin, Andrew

• Harris, Matthew

• Hassan, Nik

• Hayes, Niall

• Heales, Jon

• Heavin, Ciara

• Heeks, Richard

• Henry, Raymond

• Hess, Traci

• Ho, James

• Hochheiser, Harry

• Holzer, Erika

• Hsieh, JJ Po-AN

• Hsu, Meng-Hsiang

• Jimenez, Angel

• Kannampallil, Thomas

• Karasti, Helena

• Kelley, Helen

• King, Nelson

• Kiura, Salesio-Mbogo

• Klecun, Ela

• Kohli, Rajiv

• Krishnan, Poornima

• Kumar, Sanjeev

• Lam, Jolie

• Licker, Paul

• Liu, Vanessa

• Lockett, Nigel

• Lupton, Mandy

• Malloy, Alisha

• McAulay, Laurie

• McBride, Neil

• McHenry, William

• Meso, Peter

• Mills, Annette

• Moore, Karenza

• Mossberger, Karen

• Muniafu, Simaati

• Musa, Philip

• Nda, Koffi

• Norris, Tony

• O'Flaherty, Brian

• Otondo, Robert

• Papagari Sangareddy, Sridhar

• Park, Sungmin

• Petrova, Krassie

• Raduescu, Corina

• Raman, Krishnamurthy

• Sangareddy, Sridhar Papagari

• Richardson, Helen

• Riemenschneider, Cindy

• Salisbury, William

• Samake, Kibily

• Schwarz, Andrew

• Séror, Ann

• Shen, Chao

• Slay, Jill

• Smith, Matthew

• Soper, Daniel

• Stansbury, Mary

• Tan, Hung-Pheng

• Tapia, Andrea

• Tarafdar, Monideepa

• Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana

• Toland, Janet

• Trauth, Eileen

• Tribunella, Thomas

• Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi

• Vinekar, Vishnu

• Wang, Youwei

• Wang, Yan

• Robert

• Wiley-Patton, Sonja

• Wilson, David

• Wolcott, Peter

• Wong, Anthony

• Xie, Bo

• Xue, Yajiong

• Zhang, Xiaoni