17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011)
August 4-7, 2011 (Thursday-Sunday)
Detroit Marriott Hotel
(http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dtwdt-detroit-marriott-at-the-renaissance-center/)

Conference Website:*http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/*

Track: *IT Strategy and Management**
*Minitrack:  *Web 2.0 and collaborative value creation  **

 Motivation

Web 2.0 refers to the adoption of open technologies and architectural frameworks to facilitate participative computing. Web 2.0 is about harnessing the potential of the Internet in a more collaborative and peer-to-peer manner with emphasis on social interaction. It has less to do with technology and more to do with a metamorphosis aimed at facilitating collaborative participation and leveraging the collective intelligence of peers.

Customer and partner facing processes using Web 2.0 have the potential to not only radically transform peer-to-peer collaboration, but also inter-entity collaborations and commerce by enabling various types and combinations of business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), Consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-government etc. collaboration and commerce. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to enable collaborative value creation across business partners. These could, for example, include scenarios such as Rich Internet Applications (RIA) based delivery tracking system leveraging Web 2.0 standards for desktop-like rich functionality on client side within a web page. There are opportunities such as providing rich information on all the convergent services subscribed to by a consumer (including third party services) leveraging Web 2.0 standards which could be achieved through the use of Mashups based on content from multiple sources (exposed using APIS, Web Feeds, Web Services etc.) to create new services. These could even be multi-channel mashups or RSS feeds. In particular, the interplay between the emerging Web 2.0 paradigm and the already popular paradigm of SOA seems to be of special interest owing to the complementarities of the two schools of thought. While Web 2.0 can offer an intelligent, rich, customizable, and interactive service consumer base for a service provider, SOA can offer the standardized conduit for the enterprise information and data to be consumed by Web 2.0 applications.

Possible topics include:

·         Innovative collaborative business models based on Web 2.0

·         Flexible peer-to-peer interaction based on Web 2.0

·         Web 2.0 enabled value creation strategies

·         Enterprise 2.0

·         Learning 2.0

·         Web 2.0 based business value Webs

·         Interorganizational business processes using Web services

·         Mashups based interorganisational collaborative services

·         Web 2.0 based business architectures

·         Impact of Web 2.0 on organizational strategies

·         Web 2.0 based intuitive and rich user experiences facilitating enhanced social interactions and knowledge sharing

·         Peer-to peer network facilitating collaboration and sharing

·         Leveraging network effects right at the design stage

·         Folksonomy and its role in enterprise information management

·         Role of Web 2.0 enabling technologies such as AJAX, REST Web services, RSS, Flash etc.

·         Facility for extension mechanisms enabling network participants to contribute

·         Value appropriation of Web 2.0 through micro payments

·         Information Quality issues in Web 2.0

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Dec 30, 2010:   AIS review system will begin accepting submissions
* Feb 17, 2010:   Full paper submission deadline
* Mar 24, 2011:   Authors notified of paper acceptance decision
* April 21, 2011: Camera-ready papers due

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
Paper can be submitted using the online submission system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.
Additional information regarding the submission process will be made
available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website: http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/

CHAIRS' CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr. Jai Ganesh

Principal Research Scientist

Future Web Research Lab

SETLabs

Infosys Technologies Limited

Bangalore, 560 100

India

Telephone: +91-80-51059503 (Ext: 59503)

Cell: +91- 97422-01314

VOIP: 39131624

Email: jai_ganesh01@infosys.com

URL: www.infosys.com

Rahul Singh, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

Bryan School of Business and Economics

Room 481, Bryan Building

The University of North Carolina, Greensboro

P.O. Box 26165, Greensboro, NC 27402-6165

Phone: (336) 256-0260

Fax (336) 334-4083

e-mail: rahul@uncg.edu