TRACK: ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

Minitrack: Information Technology for Development Information Technology for Development (ITD) research focuses on the use of information technology infrastructures to bring about economic, social, and human development. In essence, the ITD research provides insight for policy makers to facilitate the achievement of socio-economic development goals by increasing financial investments and stimulating business activities in their regions. Contributions of research in ITD over twenty years have been to the management of economies through the implementation of information technology (IT) infrastructures to stimulate national development. Examples include the use of indicators such as gross domestic product and human development indices to assess the effect of IT technologies and infrastructures on national development. IT access and use issues by individuals and/or businesses in under privileged regions are other research topics under this domain. In addition, ITD research provides guidelines for businesses looking to implement and use IT infrastructures to support their business strategies. This minitrack aims to address these issues and make a contribution to how IT can be used to bring about economic, social, and human development. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Social, political and legal frameworks for fostering ICT diffusion in developing regions 2. Networks and computer applications for eGovernment and eBusiness 3. Community Health Informatics, Infrastructures and Applications for Healthcare in Underserved Communities 4. Using ICT to develop capabilities for increasing opportunities for individuals and communities 5. Innovative applications and uses of ICTs to support underserved communities in all parts of the world. 6. Methods for measuring the benefits and costs of projects involving the adoption of ICT 7. The role of human and social capital in effective access and use of ICTs 8. Critical and theoretical perspectives on the digital divide and social inclusion 9. Scalable and economic ICT infrastructures 10. Educational systems; content provision and delivery; developing ICT skills 11. Policies related to intellectual capital; open access and the intellectual commons 12. ICT to support Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) 13. Technological entrepreneurship as a path to prosperity 14. Economic impact of ICT initiatives in developing, emerging and transition economies 15. ICT initiatives and global competiveness of firms in developing, emerging and transition economies 16. Technology and knowledge transfer in developing, emerging and transition economies Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome. Conceptual papers include theory development, frameworks and models for studying and applying IT. For empirical papers,

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field studies, case studies, action research and innovative online data collection methods are strongly recommended. Papers submitted should explicitly state their research methods. Best papers from this minitrack will be selected for review and possible publication in the Information Technology for Development Journal (ITD). Minitrack Leaders Mehruz Kamal (primary contact) Department of Computer Science The College at Brockport State University of New York 350 New Campus Drive Brockport, NY 14420, USA Tel: +1 (585) 395-2179, Fax: +1 (585) 395-2304 Email: mkamal@brockport.edu Sajda Qureshi University of Nebraska-Omaha Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, College of Information Science & Technology 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116, USA Tel: (402) 554-2837 Fax: (402) 554-3400 Email: squreshi@mail.unomaha.edu Narcyz Roztocki State University of New York at New Paltz School of Business 75 S. Manheim Blvd. New Paltz, NY 12561-2443 Tel: (845) 257-2930 Fax: (845) 257-2947 Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu Mehruz Kamal is assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Brockport. Her research interests include investigating IT adoption issues in small businesses and their impact on socio-economic development. Her research work has been presented at leading Information Systems conferences and journals. Sajda Qureshi is Professor at the Information Systems Department at the Faculty of Information Systems and Information Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Infrastructure and Policy and Communications of the ACM, books published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag, Chapman and Hall and North-Holland. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology for Development. Her research interests include the effects of ICTs on Development. She is also conduct research on the effects of IT adoption by micro-enterprises on Development and is currently running a project using cloud-computing facilities for conducting IT interventions in micro-enterprises.

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Narcyz Roztocki is associate professor of Management Information Systems at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His research interests include IS/IT investment evaluation, IS/IT productivity, IS/IT investments in emerging economies, technology project management, and e-commerce. He has published in numerous journals and conferences including: the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Computer Information Systems, the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, International Journal of Service Technology and Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Information Science & Technology, and proceedings of the AMCIS, DSI, ECIS, ECITE and HICSS.

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