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SUBMISSION DUE DATE: April 2, 2010
SPECIAL ISSUE ON E-Business and the
Politics of Poverty Alleviation
International Journal of E-Politics
(IJEP)
Guest Editors:
Lakshmi Iyer, University of North
Carolina
at Greensboro
Babita Gupta, California State
University
Monterey Bay
INTRODUCTION:
Information and Communication
Technologies
(ICTs), specifically emerging Internet-based technologies, increase the
potential for e-Business to help alleviate poverty. First and
foremost,
it can get
much needed information to the people
in the form of market information, health information, and government
service
information. This information can help people improve their economic
status.
For
example, farmers using an SMS service
can get real-time market prices for their goods and with that
information,
they can negotiate better price through their intermediaries. Second,
e-Business can open up markets by increasing access. Farmers can
be linked to world commodity markets and artisans to international
buyers
through e-commerce sites. While traditional methods of poverty
alleviation
rely on job creation through temporary employment, job creation through
internet-based initiatives could be strengthened. In addition, market
expansion through the Internet can help create more jobs.
Government initiatives that embrace
use of the Internet can also help alleviate poverty. Online access
to government provides a singlesource for services. Thus, people
seeking
these services do not have to travel from one government department to
another to get help. These government initiatives can also increase
government
transparency, which can fight corruption and break down barriers to job
creation. In both developed and developing nations, alleviation of
poverty
involves redistribution of wealth to improve conditions of underserved
populations. While the intrinsic objectives of this notion are
altruistic
in nature, the politics surrounding redistribution of wealth is an
important
political issue. While there is much potential for e-Business to
alleviate
poverty, research linking the two is scarce.
OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: The
objective of the special issue is to seek research papers that focus on
the topic of E-Business and the Politics of Poverty Alleviation. Topics
to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to)
the following:
• Applications
and technologies (mobile telephony, PCs, the Internet)
that are effective in reducing poverty
• Behavioral issues
(of different stakeholder groups) regarding
e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Case studies
on e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Critical success
factors for e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Education or
awareness-increasing mechanisms
• Evaluation or
metrics to measure e-Business and poverty alleviation programs
• Governance and
regulation surrounding e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Impact of national
cultures on e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Impact of politics
on strategies for e-Business and poverty alleviation
• Political dynamics
of stakeholders involved in e-Business poverty alleviation
• Process-centric
vs. customer-centric approaches to poverty
alleviation using e-Business
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are
invited
to submit papers for this
special theme issue on e-Business and
Poverty Alleviation on or before
April 2, 2010. All submissions must
be original and may not be under
review by another publication.
INTERESTED
AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE
JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT
SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines
submission.pdf. All submitted
papers will be reviewed on a
double-blind, peer review basis.
Papers
must follow APA style for
reference citations.
ABOUT International Journal of
E-Politics
(IJEP):
The primary objective of the
International
Journal of E-Politics
(IJEP) is to lay the foundations of
E-Politics as an emerging
interdisciplinary area of research and
practice, as well as, to offer
a venue for publications that focus
on theories and empirical research
on the manifestations of E-Politics
in various contexts and
environments. E-Politics is defined
as influence attempts facilitated
by or related to electronic media or
to the information technology
field. As such, it is seen as
interdisciplinary,
encompassing areas
such as information systems, political
science, social science
(psychology, sociology, and cultural
studies), security, ethics, law,
management and others.
This journal is an official
publication
of the Information Resources
Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJEP
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Celia Livermore
Published: Quarterly (both in Print
and Electronic form)
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of
E-Politics
(IJEP) is published by IGI
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher
of the “Information
Science Reference” (formerly Idea
Group
Reference), “Medical
Information Science Reference”,
“Business
Science Reference”, and
“Engineering Science Reference”
imprints.
For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com.
All submissions should be directed to
the attention of:
Lakshmi Iyer (Lsiyer@uncg.edu)
Babita Gupta (bgupta@csumb.edu)
Guest Editors
International Journal of E-Politics
(IJEP)
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Lakshmi S. Iyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and ISOM Graduate
Programs Director
Information Systems & Operations
Management (ISOM)
Bryan School of Business and Economics
(BAE)
435 Bryan Building
The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
Email: Lsiyer@uncg.edu
Phone: 336/334-4984
Fax: 336/334-5580
URL:
http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/lsiyer
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