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FEATURED SIG:
SIGED IAIM
The AIS Special Interest Group for Education: International Academy for Information Management (SIGED: IAIM) is dedicated to promoting excellence in Information Systems education, practice and research. The objective of SIGED: IAIM is to provide a forum in which interdisciplinary researchers and educators in information systems can exchange ideas, techniques and applications. SIGED: IAIM sponsors an International Conference in December as a pre-ICIS event at which competitively selected peer-reviewed papers, tutorials and panel discussions are presented.
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FEATURED Chapter:
TWAIS
Finally after two years of planning, Taiwan Association for Information Systems is formally established and listed on the AIS Website. The first general meeting of TWAIS was convened and attended by 25 IS scholars to read and pass the Bylaws on May 23 (Saturday) at 1:15 pm. Ten minutes after the Bylaws was passed, the first slate of officers and the At-Large Directors was nominated and elected at 2:50pm and the meeting was adjourned at 3:00pm.Conference in December as a pre-ICIS event at which competitively selected peer-reviewed papers, tutorials and panel discussions are presented.
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AIS Information World
Take a break from your hectic day and interact with others within the IS community using the association's 'in-world' headquarters site in Second Life (SL), a popular 3D virtual world created by Linden Labs, administered by Geoffrey Hubona.
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Want to be a featured SIG or Chapter? Do you have a great article or profile idea?
Send an inquiry to Tmitri Owens at office@aisnet.org today!
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 AMCIS 2009 Wrap-Up
Congratulations to the Conference Co-Chairs Paul Gray, Robert Nickerson, and Ramesh Sharda and the entire AMCIS 09 Conference Committee for an outstanding event: 1069+ attendees
Take a moment to complete the AMCIS Satisfaction Survey which will enable us to make future conferences even better. Congratulations also go out to the AMCIS 2009 Best Paper Award Winners: Volker Hoyer (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) for "Generic Business Model Types for Enterprise Mashup Intermediaries"
and to AMCIS 2009 Best Practitioner-Oriented Paper
Award Winners: Karen P. Patten (University of South Carolina), Jerry Fjermestad (New Jersey Institute of Technology), and Brian Whitworth (Massey University) for "How CIOS Use Flexibility to Manage Uncertainty in Dynamic Business Environments"
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 President's Message
AMCIS 2009
by Bernard Tan,
2009-2010 AIS President
The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) was held in San Francisco, USA from August 6 to 9, 2009. More than 1,200 participants attended this conference (the largest attendance for AMCIS to-date). Many Council members were present at AMCIS 2009, including Immediate Past President David Avison, President-Elect Joey George, and myself. The quality of papers presented at AMCIS continues to improve from year to year. I talked to many colleagues at the conference and their comments about the conference were very positive. I congratulate conference co-chairs Robert Nickerson and Ramesh Sharda, and honorary conference chair Paul Gray, for organizing this excellent conference. AMCIS 2010 will be held in Lima, Peru (the first time AMCIS will be held in South America). Having such an event in South America can raise the level of awareness for information systems research and education in the entire continent. Therefore, I encourage colleagues to attend AMCIS 2010 to show our support to the conference committee.
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 The AIS eLibrary
Guy Fitzgerald, VP Publications
As I hope you have been aware one of the major platforms of AIS strategy over the last two years has been the replacement of the old eLibrary with a much more stable and secure platform to enable AIS to move forward and provide a much improved service to members. I am pleased to say that the new eLibrary became operational earlier in the year and has now overcome some initial teething problems to become a service of which we are very proud. As will be familiar to the information systems community the move to the new eLibrary revealed some significant data problems which had been hidden in the old system, and that took some time to identify and resolve. Further there has been a recent minor facelift, so if you haven't already done so please check out the new AIS eLibrary at http://aisel.aisnet.org/.
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 Executive Director's Message
When it rains...
by Pete Tinsley,CAE
AIS Executive Director
I'm sure you know the old saying, 'when it rains...it pours'. Nothing could be truer than in this issue of InSider. Just look at the abundance of content available to you:
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Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
"Bold scholarship serving the information systems community"
Kalle Lyytinen
Editor-in-Chief
The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. It is inclusive in topics, level and unit of analysis, theory, method and philosophical and research approach reflecting all aspects of Information Systems and Technology. The journal has a strong reputation for promoting rigorously developed and forward looking conceptual and empirical contributions. In particular, it encourages theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research about information technology in human enterprise.
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 Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)
Ilze Zigurs, Editor-in-Chief
Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) is one of two founding journals of the Association for Information Systems. We began publishing in 1999 and publish two volumes per year. Papers are published continuously, online only, as they are accepted, at http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/.
CAIS fulfills the role usually associated with the term "communications" - to foster the free flow of ideas within the global information systems community by being a high-quality, broad, responsive, creative, and visible outlet. We publish articles, panel reports, teaching cases, tutorials on the state of the art in leading-edge areas, columns, opinions - in short, a wide variety of materials of interest to the entire IS community.
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Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS)
Ting-Peng Liang
Editor-in-Chief
AIS has published a new regional quarterly journal of AIS that focuses on information systems research and applications in the Asia Pacific area. The first issue includes four articles and has been released in March 2009. The journal has a strong editorial team, with Ting-Peng Liang serving as the Chief Editor and Patrick Chau, Phillip Ein-Dor, Guy Gable, Shirley Gregor, Robert Kauffman, Kalle Lyytinen, Bernard Tan, and Kwok-Kee Wei as senior editors. All members are invited to submit their original research or review papers. All papers will be blindly reviewed. Published papers will be included in the AIS e-Library. More information can be found at http://journal.ecrc.nsysu.edu.tw/pajais/.
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AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI)
Dennis Galletta & Ping Zhang,
Editors-in-Chief
 THCI is a high-quality, peer-reviewed, international scholarly journal on Human-Computer Interaction. As an AIS journal, THCI is oriented to the Information Systems community, emphasizing applications in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. However, it is open to all related communities that share intellectual interests in HCI phenomena and issues. The  editorial objective is to enhance and communicate knowledge about the interplay among humans, information, technologies, and tasks in order to guide the development and use of human-centered Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and services for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. The audience includes international scholars and practitioners who conduct research on issues related to the objectives of the journal. THCI has been published quarterly online since March 2009.
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Jitta
Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application
Marcus A. Rothenberger, Mark Strite, & Tuure Tuunanen
Editors-in-Chief
The Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) is published by the Association for Information Systems. It is a peer-reviewed research journal that aims to publish articles with short publication cycle times, attract a portfolio of very exciting and high quality research contributions, and maintain highest quality standards.
The journal welcomes articles from a broad spectrum of research approaches. Suitable submissions include research papers (research agenda papers, interpretive or exploratory papers, speculative research, state-of-research reviews, or full research papers), research essays, and application papers (normative papers or case studies). For a detailed description of all encouraged submission types and additional information, please go to the journal web site at jitta.aisnet.org.
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 AIS Student Chapter Initiative, A Student's Perspective
Chris Sanders, Tom Steigerwald, & Wes Turner
AIS Student Chapter Representatives
Demand for career-driven Information Systems professionals is growing faster than supply. According to the May 25, 2009 Time Magazine article, "Over the next seven years, the number of jobs in the information technology sector is expected to swell 24% -- a figure more than twice the overall job-growth rate." For those in information technology, this is great news. However, student enrollment in IT programs is falling as demand for IT continues to climb. President of AIS, Dr. Bernard Tan has made student and professional outreach a major goal this year to address this growing problem.
Pete Tinsley, Executive Director of AIS, and Tmitri Owens, Project Manager, along with a team from Temple University led by Munir Mandviwalla, Department Chair, have been working with different universities to reach out to students and encourage student enrollment growth. One of the best ways to reach out to students is through local MIS chapters. Last April, Temple University hosted a Student and Faculty AIS conference in Philadelphia to explore the potential in uniting local MIS chapters and create new student chapters at other universities.
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