2007 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST
The American Society for Information Science &
Technology (ASIS&T),
International Information Issues Special Interest Group
(SIG-III), is
pleased to announce its eighth competition for papers to be
submitted for
the 2007 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
October 18-25, 2007.
The theme of this paper contest is:
"Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and
Information Science"
The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional
level issues.
Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on
specific aspects
of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following:
• Egovernance in developing countries, Factors, issues, case
studies etc
pertaining to rural/urban digital divide and the information
infrastructure
(connectivity, access, hardware, cost implications, emerging
trends etc) in
developing countries.
• Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and digital libraries –
Collecting, preserving
and disseminating IK.
• Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and
cultural issues:
issues related to the role of information in society, such
as information
policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual
property, as well as the
social uses and abuses of information technologies such as
the Internet and
World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse
communities.
• Information organization, management, access, and
retrieval.
• Information seeking and use: the role of information in
professional and
daily lives, use of various types of information technology,
and social
contexts of information seeking.
• Information technology, social equity and development: IT
and governance,
IT and the new economy, including the future of work and
implications of
technological hardware and software developments; the role
of ICTs in
conflict management, etc.
There will be six winners who will be selected by a panel of
judges
including Julian Warner (Chair), Judy Jeng (Co-Chair),
Yunfei Du, Nathalie
Leroy, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Yin Zhang, and Liwen Vaughn.
Selection Criteria
Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The
judging criteria
will be based on:
• Originality of paper in the developing world environment
(originality of
the project described, etc.)
• Relevance to the Paper contest.
• Presentation and organization.
• Style. The international paper contest committee requires
that submissions
follow the International Information and Library Review
instructions to
authors. Detailed information is available under the
heading, Guide for
Authors at:
http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAutho
rs.html?PubID=622845&dc=GF
The prize for each winner is a two-year individual
membership in ASIST. In
the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be
awarded the ASIST
membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising
for this
competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a
minimum of $1,000
toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations
while attending
the ASIST Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October
18-25, 2007.
Publishing opportunities
Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a
special issue of the
International Information and Library Review, subject to the
usual peer
refereeing process, for that journal.
Information for authors
Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and
resides in a
developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, or 2006 contests are not eligible. The papers
should be
original, unpublished, and ONLY in English. We encourage
submissions from
librarians, information and network specialists, and
educators involved in
the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange,
discovery, delivery,
and use of digital information.
ASIST Copyright Policy
ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of
the papers
submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and
all other rights
remaining with the author.
Deadline for submission of full papers
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed
5000 words, by
March 31, 2007, to j.warner qub.ac.uk, preferably as
Microsoft Word
attachments.
Please check the SIG III website (http://www.a
sis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm)
for more information about the SIG III International Paper
Contest,
including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous
winners and
winning papers, and stories from previous winners.
A copy of this call for papers can be found at
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/paper_contest/2007/C
FP2007.htm
Julian Warner
School of Management and Economics
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
email j.warnerqub.ac.uk
home page http://www.qub
-efrg.com/staff/jwarner/
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