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Dear IS colleagues
Please consider our MINITRACK for HICSS.
Diffusion (adoption, implementation, and utilization) of
collaboration
technologies have been investigated in many countries and regions
around the
globe. While the majority of research initiatives have been
undertaken in
Western Europe and North America, they have been scarce in
developing
regions like East Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The
diffusion of
collaboration technologies in these regions is on the rise as
globalization
drives inter and intra-country collaboration intensity within and
across
organizations. Technology enhanced collaboration such as
synchronous and
asynchronous computer support for team members (co-located or
virtual) is
being enhanced by hand held mobile devices in communities of
practice and
social media environments in many developing countries.
We would like to invite the authors to submit their research from
theoretical, technological, social, psychological, behavioral, and
design
science perspectives. Research deploying different theoretical
lenses could
focus on process and system design, methods, modeling, and
techniques in
addressing various aspects of IT enabled collaboration for
development.
The minitrack will focus on a wide range of topics including but
not limited
to:
!$ Case studies in education, business, government, and healthcare
organizations in developing regions
!$ IT enabled cross-cultural and intra and/or inter-organizational
collaboration in developing regions
!$ Global, virtual, distributed, blended, and face-to-face IT
enabled collaboration for development at the team and
organizational level
!$ Emerging issues in collaboration technology diffusion for
development
!$ Deployment of mobile technologies for collaboration in
developing
regions
!$ Group decision making, negotiation, facilitation, and
communication technologies for development
!$ Trust, privacy, security issues in IT enabled collaboration for
development
!$ Social, behavioral, psychological, and technical factors
influencing IT enabled collaboration for development
!$ Information systems, technologies, theories, processes,
methods,
or models that could be transferred and applied from developed
regions to
developing regions
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Xusen Cheng (Primary Contact)
University of International Business and Economics
xusen.cheng@uibe.edu.cn
Xiangbin Yan
University of Science and Technology Beijing
xbyan@ustb.edu.cn
Deepinder Bajwa
Western Washington University
Deepinder.bajwa@wwu.edu
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