-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS2019 CfP: Mini-track: Information Communication Technologies in Asia Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:21:04 +0000 From: Li, Seth seth.li@mason.wm.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

2019 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Cancún, México

** Track: Global Development (SIGGlobDev)

** Mini-track: Information Communication Technologies in Asia

MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have long been associated with a country’s innovativeness and development. Asia, as one of the fastest growing regions in the world, benefits a lot from its fast development in country-level ICT infrastructures. With the recent initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (the Belt and Road initiative for short, from Asia to Europe and Africa), Asian countries, especially China, will tighten the economic relationships among the countries on the paths of Belt and Road. In this process, ICT will play an important and critical role in the international trade, collaborations and communications. This mini-track targets on the ICT impacts on country-level/organizational level/user level collaboration and developments as well as how ICT affects economic and market performance in the countries/regions in Asia.

Topics of interest in this mini-track include but are not limited to:

* ICT in mobile commercialization * ICT’s impact on developing countries’ economy * ICT and sharing economy in in the developing regions in Asia, Europe and Africa * The international communications and collaborations among the countries on the paths of the Belt and Road * How ICT enables and facilitates corporate-level business activities across countries * Government policies and ICT development * Cybersecurity in developing countries * Trust, privacy, and social issues in ICT for development * ICT’s impact on human welfares in the developing countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa

IMPORTANT DATES

* January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin * March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions (completed research and Emergent Research Forum (ERF)) closes for authors at 10:00am PST * April 22, 2019 - Notification of Initial Decision

INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS

* Submissions may be of two types: * Completed Research papers (limit of 10 pages including tables, figures, references, appendices) * Emergent Research Forum papers (research-in-progress) (limit of 5 pages including tables, figures, references, appendices)

* All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer-reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2019 website: https://amcis2019.aisconferences.orghttps://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/

MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS Xusen Cheng, University of International Business and Economics, China Siyuan Li, William & Mary, USA

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