Martin Dias has been accepted to participate in the Doctoral Consortium at the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Lima, Peru.
The focus of the AMCIS Doctoral Consortium is to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students making progress on their dissertation research to share and discuss their research with peers and experienced faculty mentors. The program includes time for students to present their dissertations both formally and informally and obtain valuable feedback regarding prior research, methods, and possible contributions. The consortium will be held on August 12, 2010, and 28 students were accepted for participation.

Sonia Gantman has been accepted to participate in the Doctoral And Junior Faculty Professional Development Consortium at the 2010 Mediterranean Conference of Information Systems in Tel Aviv, Israel, in September, 2010.

The MCIS Doctoral and Junior Faculty Professional Development Consortium aims to provide an informal, supportive, and developmental forum in which doctoral students and junior researchers can discuss their research effort and receive high quality constructive feedback. The consortium offers an excellent opportunity for doctoral students and academics in their early career to present their work and to raise questions regarding theoretical, methodological or practical issues. This is a lively and highly participative event where an international group of students, junior and senior researchers will be engaged in substantial discussions that addresses not only different aspects of research but also discuss career and professional development issues.

Sonia Gantman has been accepted to participate in the Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) Doctoral Consortium at the 2010 Academy of Management Meeting in Montreal, Canada, in August, 2010.
The consortium provides an excellent opportunity for advanced doctoral students – those who are ABD and have proposed their dissertation research – to meet and connect with other similar‐stage PhD students as well as a select group of well‐known faculty in the field. The 1+ day program includes time for doctoral students to share and get feedback on their dissertation research, as well as engage in discussions on topics including planning your research stream and the job market.

Bentley University faculty members Jane Fedorowicz, Rae Anderson Professor of Accountancy and Informations Systems, and Professor of Government Christine Williams, and Bentley PhD student Arthur Tomasino recieved a Best Research Paper award from the Digital Government Society of North America. the award, which included a cash prize sponsored by IOS Press, was presented to Williams at the 11th annual international conference on Digital Government Research held May 17 to 20, 2010, in Puebla, Mexico. The paper is an initial effort to explain differences such as the size and maturity of extant state-level PSNs. Click here for press release.

Representing the PSN project, Steve Sawyer joined with a group of leading social and information scientists and government practitioners met February 23-24, 2010 at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lay out a research agenda to address grand challenges in information, technology, and governance. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) co-sponsored the workshop with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new multi-sector conversation about the way technology and social forces shape the workings of government.

We encourage you to submit to the Intergovernmental Collaboration Minitrack, International Conference on e-Government.
The International Conference on e-Government (ICEG 2009) invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress and conceptual advances in any branch of e-Government. The conference provides an opportunity for people with like-minded and different perspectives to come together to gain an understanding of real-world e-government issues and to discuss ways to put research into practice.  To achieve this goal, we are inviting researchers and practitioners from around the world to submit their research findings and new ideas, and for practitioners to demonstrate actual products and applications.

Description
Minitracks in the past have focused on the citizen to government linkage - how electronic government can be used to provide better services or create more opportunities for citizen input into policy decisions.  This track would look at how e-government can change the relationships among agencies, crossing boundaries to collaborate by sharing resources and information.  The boundaries could be levels of government (federal, state, local), jurisdictional (legislative, executive, judicial), or functional (public safety, transportation, health, human services, etc.), or even sectors (public, private).  What are the costs, savings, incentives and barriers to interagency collaboration?  What are some of the success stories identified in case studies of interagency collaboration?  How are such networks governed and administered?

Submission Details

All submission types require an abstract in the first instance.  Abstracts should be a minimum of 300 and no more than 500 words including up to five keywords and keyphrases to be received by March 26, 2009.  Please read the online guidelines about submitting.

Submissions should be made via the online form.   Please ensure that all required fields are completed.  Abstracts must include the proposed title for the paper, the full names (first name and surname, not initials); postal addresses and e-mail addresses of all authors and a telephone number for at least one contact author.  Please indicate clearly if the contact author is not the lead author and select the appropriate submission track.

Full paper:

Only required for academic submissions to main conference streams once the abstract has been selected and not to be more than 5,000 words including abstract, keywords, and references (the Harvard referencing rules need to be followed).  Submission date will be no later than May 14, 2009.  Papers should be submitted in DOC or PDF format as e-mail attachments to the Conference Manager Elaine Hayne along with a copyright form.

Questions about the mini-track?  Please contact Christine Williams.

Dax Jacobson has had his paper “Revisiting IT Governance in the Light of Institutional Theory” accepted to the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Michael Tyworth presented two papers at the 4th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science Technology.  The first paper, written with Steve Sawyer, examined how social informatics research accounts for materiality of the ICT artifact within the broader domain of socio-technical theory.  The second paper presented early findings from Michaels dissertation research on the shaping influence of organizational identity on the design and use of organizational information systems.  More information can be found about the papers presented here.

Dax Jacobson has been accepted to participate in the Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) Doctoral Consortium at the 2008 Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim, California.

The consortium provides an excellent opportunity for advanced doctoral students – those who are ABD and have proposed their dissertation research – to meet and connect with other similar‐stage PhD students as well as a select group of well‐known faculty in the field. The 1+ day program includes time for doctoral students to share and get feedback on their dissertation research, as well as engage in discussions on topics including planning your research stream and the job market.

PSN Study investigator Christine Williams will be the the recipient of this year’s Excellence in Scholarship award at Bentley College. Christine will receive the award as part of the 2008 commencement ceremony. Award winners are chosen for the originality and contribution of their work, distinguished record of achievement in their discipline, and significant current scholarly output. Congratulations Christine!