▶Subject: Call for Papers PACIS2011 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems◀

This is the first call for papers for PACIS2011, the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems – the AIS Affiliated Region 3 Conference. It will be held in Brisbane, Australia, 9-11 July See http://mlaa.com.au/pacis2011/index.htm

▣ KEY DATES ▣
• 7 Mar 2011 - Paper Submission Deadline ... M A R K Y O U R D I A R Y !
• 4 Apr 2011 - Consortium Nomination Deadline
• 29 Apr 2011 - Paper/Nomination Decision
• 9-11 July 2011 - PACIS Main Conference
• 7-8 July 2011 - Doctoral Consortium & Workshops

▣ KEYNOTES (thus far) ▣

DETMAR STRAUB - Editor-in-Chief MIS Quarterly; Regents Professor of the University System of Georgia; and the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University

NATALIE MACDONALD ... responsible for leading the whole of Queensland Government ICT agenda and for driving efficiencies in ICT investment. Previously Director-General of Queensland Dept. of Housing where she managed 1,300 staff, an asset base of $13.5billion and an annual budget of $1.1 billion

ACTIVITIES: ... July weather is magic in Brisbane and Gold Coast ...

• COCKTAILS - Old Government House
... http://www.ogh.qut.edu.au/
• CONFERENCE DINNER - The Strand (panoramic views of the Brisbane River and Story Bridge)
... http://www.strandrugbyquay.com.au/
• ROCK CLIMBING Kangaroo Point (across the river from QUT)
... http://urbancrag.com/rock-climbing-at-kangaroo-point-cliffs/
• BRIDGE CLIMB (viewable from The Strand ... but well be dining)
... http://www.adrenalin.com.au/story-bridge-adventure/qld-brisbane/land/12256?gclid=CMfmjOD_3aYCFQPgbgodYWbX0w

The official language of the conference is English. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers.

All papers must be submitted electronically using the conferences online submission system which will be available soon at http://www.pacis2011.org. Submitted papers should not have been submitted for review, accepted for publication, or already published elsewhere.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings provided that at least one author registers for and presents in the conference. High quality papers will be nominated for the best paper award and fast-tracked to participating journals (e.g. JAIS, JSIS ...).

The conference will be organized into the following tracks but are not limited to these topics:

1. Theory and Research Methods in IS
2. IS Implementation, Adoption and Diffusion
3. IS for Corporate Responsibility
4. IS/IT in Healthcare
5. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
6. Green IS and IT
7. Empirical Research in e-Learning: Past, Present, and Future
8. Culture and Global IT/IS Management
9. Information System Control and IT Governance
10. Service Science and Information Systems
11. Online Social Networking - Acting In A Virtually Connected World
12. Business Process Management
13. Enterprise Systems
14. IT/IS Leadership and Strategy
15. IS/IT Project Management
16. Economics of IS
17. Human Computer Interaction
18. Web 2.0 and Data Mining
19. Human Behavior and IS
20. Future Directions/Breakthrough Ideas
21. General Track
22: IT Global Sourcing and Cloud Computing
23. Electronic and Mobile Commerce

For any inquiries related to paper submission, please contact the program chairs listed on the website..
I look forward to welcoming you all to PACIS2011 in Brisbane in July.
Regards

Guy Gable, Conference Chair.