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Kweku Osei - Bryson – Virginia Commonwealth, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jaime Miranda – FEN, U. of Chile, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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During the last decade we have witnessed an explosive increase in the data available online as well as in the disconnected repositories of individuals, firms and government departments. Furthermore, the advent of Web 2.0 services has made the data creation as well as storage quite easy. The data come from social media like Facebook and Twitter, Internet of things, research work being conducted on cloud, cloud based storages such as Google Drive, Skydrive and Dropbox, emails, and so on. Most of the research is now conducted on cloud platforms and thus give rise to huge amounts of data. Moreover, the data is not only in the form of text, but audio and video and images as well. The biggest challenge in front of us now is to manage and analyze this data. The combined analysis of the various forms of data reveals significant insights for businesses. This issue known as Big Data has emerged as a hot topic in the field of Information Resource Management.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Application of big data analytics
- Big data analytics for business
- Cases of big data analytics and management
- Data mining and text mining
- Management of heterogeneous data
- HCI challenges for heterogeneous data security
- Heterogeneous data analytics in enterprises
- Value creation through heterogeneous data
- Network analysis in heterogeneous data
- Predictive and business analytics
- Heterogeneous data as a service
- Industry standards for managing heterogeneous data

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Patricio Ramirez – Catholic University of the North, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Carlo Bellini – University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pramila Gupta - Kent Institute of Australia (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
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Enterprise Systems and Knowledge Management solutions when introduced into an organization require organizational and often cultural change. To be effective these solutions must be managed, tailored, deployed and used in ways that enhance business processes and practices and lead to improvements in innovation, and organizational performance. Building on existing work in knowledge management (KM) and enterprise systems (ES) this track promotes an interdisciplinary approach that examines the technical, managerial, behavioral, and social issues that arise in organizations in relation to the design, deployment, use and impact of ES and KM systems.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Knowledge creation and sharing in organizations
- KM and organizational learning
- ES in tertiary education
- KM and ES for organizational transformation
- Managerial, social and behavioral issues in KM and ES
- KM and ES governance, strategy and performance
- Development, use, diffusion and impact of KM and ES
- Managing the full ES lifecycle
- Inter-organizational impacts of ES
- Emerging and future trends in KM and ES
- KM and ES with social media
- Integrating KM and ES
- ES and business process management
- ES and mobile enterprise applications
- New ES architectures
- Knowledge creation and sharing in organizations

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Edward Bernroider – WU Vienna, Austria This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hernan Astudillo - University Federico Santa Maria, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alexandre Reis Graeml - Federal University of Technology, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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This track is a broad-based call for research aimed at designing and developing ICTs with a special emphasis on Service Management. In this track we seek to explore the status of international research about the ways in which new ICT designs allow organizations to store and process information and develop contemporary avenues for ICT development. By this we mean, how organizations extract value from ICTs through effective strategy, design and development processes. This includes the general application and understanding of Service Management as well as how the ideas relate to IT services.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Requirements engineering
- Service strategy
- ICT evaluation and decision making
- Service design
- Make or buy decisions
- Service transition
- ICT development methodologies
- Service continuity management
- Software processes and process improvement
- Continual service improvement
- Metrics and maturity models
- Service offerings and agreements
- Service innovation and management
- ICT projects and program management

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Antonio Diaz - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Christian Cancino - University of Chile, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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This track welcomes papers addressing research in the area of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). The ICT4D field examines how access to relevant information and the provision of critical services using ICT influence people’s living conditions. Bringing about development and including the traditionally excluded while respecting their distinctive lifestyles remains a challenging endeavor. Understanding the mechanisms that ICT engenders in different cultural settings and different social groups represents a contribution to address this challenge in its own right.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Conceptual frameworks and discourses on ICT4D
- Disabilities and accessibility to ICT
- Ethical aspects of ICT4D
- ICT and micro-entrepreneurship
- ICT and post-development
- ICT and social inclusion
- ICT and the preservation of local identities
- ICT4D applications
- Methodological approaches to ICT4D
- Public policies relating to ICT4D
- Social innovations and ICT4D
- Technological innovation and ICT4D
- Stakeholder engagement in ICT4D
- Sustainability in ICT4D initiatives

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Lech Janczewski - The University of Auckland, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jeimy J. Cano - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Adrian Kemmer Cernev - Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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It is impossible to understate the importance of information security, privacy and risk management as held by individuals, organizations, and governments.  However, it is clear that many challenges – spanning these areas – remain unaddressed.  This is particularly so in terms of emergent technologies (such as cloud computing and big data), but is also present in more established ones (for example, social media and mobile computing).

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The adoption and use of information security technologies and policies
- The development of an information security culture and awareness
- Privacy, security, trust, and risk in cloud as well as mobile computing environments
- Secure software engineering practices
- Privacy issues concerning big data
- Individual motivators and inhibitors of employee computer crime
- Investigations of computer crime and security violations
- Legal, societal, cross-cultural and ethical issues in information systems security
- Human aspects of information security

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Ernani Marques - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Emma Chavez - U. Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The adoption by national administrations of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver public services has long been recognized as central to supporting higher quality provision of services, expanded engagement with citizens, and better policy outcomes. The thrust of e-government is the re-invention of government services through ICTs. The new organizational model whose foundations lie in ICTs can support new ways of thinking and working in public administration. Equally important is the use of ICTs for the provision of healthcare and education services. The provision of healthcare services in a networked society means that healthcare professionals interact with each other and their patients facilitated by ICT. Yet, the question of how these networks are formed needs to be understood. Similarly, technology presents many opportunities for teaching and learning, but these must be critically understood within complex political, cultural and social systems.
ICT supported services to the public, including government, healthcare and education cover diverse situations ranging from very sophisticated (for example, in hospitals) to basic services (usually in resource-restricted in communities); complex systems to mobile applications; highly collaborative to individual use; and the like. Furthermore, citizens are becoming increasingly more empowered with becoming custodians of the own personal data and personalized services. This has resulted in more challenges regarding access to personal data; the issue of privacy; access to un-moderated information, etc.

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Topics of interest may include any ICT-related topic in the domain of government, healthcare and education.

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Martin Jayo - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cristian Salazar - Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The widespread diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has helped to make technology a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. This track seeks conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers that demonstrate the strengths and contributions of research that focuses on individual, organization and society as they relate to the use and impact of ICT. Submissions that demonstrate the contributions of ICT to the on-going development of the fields of individual, group and organizational theories are welcome.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- ICT and the emergence and evolution of new organizational forms
- Diffusion of ICT and issues in global digital divide
- ICT-enabled process innovation and collaboration
- Impact of ICT on social communities and social networks
- Impact of ICT in the workplace
- Uses and impacts of the Deep Web
- Pre- and post-adoption of ICTs and their impact on IT-enabled outcomes
- IT-based social innovations
- Ethical, privacy and security considerations in ICT use and impact
- Impact of ICT on individuals’ emotions and decision-making processes
- Political implications of ICT in broader society
- Technological and non-technological aspects of the social impacts of ICT

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Vik Pant - University of Toronto, Canada This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elaine Tavares - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil elaine.tavares@coppead
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Digital transformation refers to the nexus of forces that are available to both entrepreneurs and organizations for developing innovations and creating new business models. It is enabled by new and emerging technologies including, but not limited to, big data, cognitive computing, internet of things, cloud, mobility, social media, enterprise 2.0, and ecosystems. Adaptive organizations can leverage this confluence of phenomena to innovate and reshape industries in line with their strategic interests. Similarly digital entrepreneurs are also reshaping the socio-economic landscape in both advanced and emerging economies. This track promotes an integrative and holistic approach for analyzing and reasoning about the impact of these technologies on organizations and on entrepreneurship. Of particular interest are sessions that trace the realization of enduring differential benefits by organizations via the coaction of these technologies, and the manner in which digital technologies are at the forefront of entrepreneurial activities. It also welcomes theoretical as well as application-oriented sessions on the implications of Digital Transformation on private and public sector enterprises.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
− Patterns and models of digital transformation
− Implications of digital transformation on planning
− Business model innovation via emerging technologies
− Digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies
− Performance measurement and management of digital transformation
− Small and medium-sized enterprises and digital transformation
− Firm valuation of business impacts of emerging technologies

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Roberto Gejman - Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Edimara Luciano - Pontífícia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pietro Dolci - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The strategic management and governance of Information Technology (IT) remains one of the foremost challenges for IT-dependent organizations. The Management and Governance of IT Track invites papers on theoretical and practical approaches to: (1) strategic IT management — the processes by which organizations invest on IT and manage IT strategies and their implementations through planning, execution, and performance management; and (2) IT governance — the mechanisms through which organizations manage the mission, roles, and responsibilities of the IT function; (3) The IT decision rights specification and the definition of roles and responsibilities; (4) Intervenient factors when adoption IT Governance.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Comprehensive reviews of previous studies on strategic IT management and IT governance
- Methodologies/standards/frameworks for strategic IT management/governance
- Best and next practices in strategic global IT management and global competition
- Design, implementation, and assessment of strategic IT management and governance solutions
- Information resource management and IT governance
- IT investment management and IT portfolio (project) management
- Cultural considerations in establishing IT governance
- Studies focused on either normative or behavioral approach of IT governance
- Theories to understand the IT governance phenomenon in organizations
- Interorganizational IT governance adoption;
- The role of stakeholders, shareholders and CIOs in the process of IT governance practices adoption and architecture.

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Silke Schönert - University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Andreia Mallucelli - Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marco Toranzo - Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The Track on IT Project management and requirements engineering will facilitate the exchange of new ideas of research and practice of both areas.

Requirements Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, constraints on software systems; precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development of quality in complex software. Also, the arising of many complex software applications in many multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the systems development process should be conducted.

IT project management is a sub-discipline of project management in which information and communication technology projects are planned, monitored and controlled. It  includes projects for IT architecture and software development , hardware and network installations, implementing IT services and projects on every IT related topic like cloud computing or business analytics. IT Project planning mostly begins with requirements that define the IT system to be developed.

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- Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and verification
- Requirements management, viewpoints, prioritization and negotiation
- Modeling of requirements, goals and domains
- Relating requirements to business goals, architecture and testing
- Requirements traceability
- Tool support for requirements engineering
- Requirements in agile, product line and model-driven development
- Requirements in service-oriented, virtualization, embedded, cloud and mobile environments
- Requirement and business process modeling
- IT Project Management Methods
- Agile Project Management
- Hybrid Project Management
- Program and Portfolio Management
- Organisational and Social Factors of Project Management
- Alignment of Strategy and IT Projects
- Project Management Tools
- Industrial Approaches for IT Project Management

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Jairo Gutierrez, AUT University, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marie Anne Macadar – Pontífícia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The goal of this Conf-IRM track is to encourage ICT scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean to conduct research relevant to their contexts. The track promotes design, use, management and impact of sustainable ICTs for economic and social development. We are especially interested in data-driven ICT applications involving organizational and inter-organizational contexts, local, regional, national and transnational organizations, government, healthcare, education initiatives, and ICT innovations for sustainability and in papers that study these and other topics in countries in these regions and explain their findings based on the peculiarities of their contexts or comparing results with other contexts or countries.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- ICT for sustainable development
- Information security and privacy issues
- ICT for regional and global integration
- Data-driven decision making
- Public policies for ICT development
- Data in the cloud and big data applications
- ICT in micro-enterprises, SMEs and MSMEs
- Agile technologies for building digital enterprises
- Strategic IT management and governance
- Analytics and digital enterprises
- Impacts of ICT on people, organizations and society
- ICT in an inter-organizational context
- ICT in government, healthcare, education, agriculture, and tourism

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Eusebio Scornavacca - University of Baltimore, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Narciso Cerpa - Universidad de Talca, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Amarolinda Klein - Universidade do Vale dos Sinos, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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This track aims to explore issues related to the development, application, use and outcomes of e-business, mobile business and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Over the last decade, there has been continuing innovation of business models, processes, products, and services, supported by an increasing integration of new information technologies and new organizational practices. In this context, e-business, m-business and IoT applications are increasingly being used by businesses and customers to generate, share, use and re-use information collectively. These digital, dynamic, fluid and ubiquitous ecosystems are powerful enablers of new opportunities for organizations and individuals, which calls for the development of relevant empirical and theoretical research into new business models, methodologies, and applications in e-business, m-business and IoT systems. We welcome both empirical and conceptual papers that employ diverse theoretical, methodological and philosophical perspectives.

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Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Theories, concepts and methodologies on e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Development, implementation, adoption and management of e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Applications of emerging technologies in e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Privacy in e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Development of e-business, m-business and IoT systems for supply chain management
- Collaboration and open innovation in e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Critical and contextual perspectives on e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- System fluidity – seamless access across e-business, m-business and IoT systems
- Usability of e-business, m-business and IoT system
- Other related topics

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Workshops, panels, and tutorial sessions provide the opportunity to present on subjects that are topical and perhaps controversial, and will enable opportunities to enhance the learning experience. The subjects should typically be relatively under-researched or covering concepts that are contested or where differing interpretations are evident. Proposals must therefore be on topics that will engage the audience and will include experts in a discussion or leading a tutorial presentation or workshop that will stimulate interaction, enhance learning, and contribute to the goal of moving the community forward on a topic of your choice. Proposals that address the 2016 conference theme, Digital Emancipation in a Networked Society, are especially invited. Both workshops and tutorials should be for between 2-4 hours (and are usually held on the day before the main conference).
Proposals should include:
- Title of the panel/ workshop/ tutorial
- Description of the panel/ workshop/ tutorial
- Objectives of the panel/ workshop/ tutorial – i.e., issues/topics to be covered, recommended audience
- Details of all presenters and panel members – i.e., full name, position, affiliation, contact email
- Information about the method of presentation
  - Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion
  - Type of venue layout required
- The submitter of panel proposals is responsible for organizing his/her own panel members
- All panelists, workshop or tutorial presenters must be registered for the conference

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“Practice-based perspectives on ICT” sessions are aimed at promoting research collaboration between ICT practitioners and researchers, particularly in ICT4D implementation and industry. We seek to uncover novel research avenues to address current challenges experienced in practice within ICT implementation. It is anticipated that a practice-based perspective on ICT and ICT4D will stimulate interaction, discussion and reflection on the current state of ICT implementation and the way forward in terms of new research perspectives. We thus invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers that address issues around new insights on practice-based strategies, challenges, design approaches and processes, as well as success-stories and other related topics within ICT implementation.

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This track encourages the submission of full research papers, case studies on ICT and ICT4D implementation, research-in-progress in the following areas (but not limited to):
- Practice-based perspectives on ICT implementation to bridge the digital divide
- Practice-based perspectives on ICT4D initiatives
- Practice-based perspectives on the impact of ICT use on education
- Practitioners success stories on ICT and ICT4D implementation
- Practitioners case studies on practice-based ICT strategies
- ICT strategies within organizations
- Evaluations of the impact of ICT on social communities
- Current trends on ICT related design approaches and processes