Competition Details

The Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (CITNE) and the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) student run Business Technology Club (BTC) at the Indian School of Business invite you to submit your current unpublished original research, in the area of how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) impacts business and society, for a paper writing competition. This competition is being held in conjunction with the second International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS) on December 21-23, 2007.

ISIS brings together leading academic researchers and industry thought leaders to confer and debate current unpublished work on how ICT impacts business and society. Building on the spectacular success of ISIS 2006, this year ISIS 2007 will open with a high powered industry day comprising a series of panel discussions. Each panel, made up of 3-4 CXO level industry captains and moderated by a leading academic will focus on issues of emerging importance. The subsequent two days will focus on current academic research. The programme format consists of a series of paper presentations followed by discussant comments. Extended breaks and compelling social activities between and after sessions add to the significant networking opportunities in a collegial setting.

This paper writing competition is directed at encouraging original research in how ICT impacts business and society. Authors of selected entries from the Indian student community will have the opportunity to present their work in front of leading Information Systems faculty from around the world as well as Indian industry leaders.

This competition will also provide an opportunity for students with a desire to pursue graduate research (PhD) degrees in the top global business schools to meet and interact with leading IS faculty.

Relevant Topics

1. Management & Information Systems

• Advances in management of information systems
• Business value measurement and strategic impacts of IT
• Contracting and agency theoretic issues in IT management
• IT and industrial organisations 
• Impact of IT on organisations and markets

2. Outsourcing in IT

• Multi-sourcing and related contractual issues

3. Digital Infrastructure in IT companies

• Data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence
• Database modeling, technology and systems
• Systems analysis and design  
• Supply and demand of IT  
• Productivity and quality in information systems development and maintenance 
• Software engineering 

4. IT Knowledge Management

• Knowledge management technologies
• nformation and data security 
• Intellectual property, privacy, and assurance 
• E-learning and knowledge worker training and retention
• Technology adoption and diffusion 
• IT adoption in emerging markets and for small and medium sized enterprises

5. New Developments in IT

• Application of data-mining to benefit business and/or society
• Distributed computing 
• Market design for Grid computing
• Intelligent/expert systems 
• Mobile commerce, digital convergence, 3G and Wimax  
• Public policy issues in IT
•  Consumer Internet, Web 2.0 e-commerce, auctions and pricing 

Preliminary Selection

Each institute can submit a maximum of two papers only. The papers submitted for this competition will go through a two layer screening process. Papers that pass the first layer will be judged by the programme committee of ISIS 2007. The ISIS 2007 programme committee comprises leading global faculty in the IS area (www.isb.edu/citne/isis2007). Based on the layer two screening, authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work at the second International Symposium on Information Systems at ISB on December 21-23, 2007. The top two papers will be awarded at the conference.

Submission Details

1. Last date for submission of papers is October 22, 2007.
2. Upload your papers with the subject line as ‘ISIS Paper Writing Competition.’
3. The papers must be submitted as Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), 11 point font size, Arial font, single line spacing and formatted for A4 size paper.
4. Please name your file as follows “Name of Institute_name of first participant_ISIS2007”.
5. The paper to be submitted should follow a formal paper submission format. (for instance it should include the title, table of contents, abstract, conclusion, etc.)
6. The total document length should not be more than 10 pages (including title page and annexure).
7. The first page of the paper should include the topic, participant name(s), phone number(s), name of the institute and email id(s) of all the authors. The name(s) of the author(s) or their institute should not appear anywhere else in the body of the paper.

Rules

1. Maximum team size allowed is two. No person can be a part of more than one team.
2. A maximum of two entries per institute are allowed.
3. Decision of the organizers of the contest and the panel of judges will be final and binding on all contestants.

Sojourn 

• Free accommodation would be provided to the invited candidates
• To-and-fro train fare (AC 3 tier class) shall be provided
• Bookings will have to be done by the candidates themselves. The candidates will have to present the orginal tickets/boarding pass for reimbursement. Irrespective of the mode of travel (train,plane) only AC 3 tier fare will be reimbursed

Prizes
1st prize - Rs 30,000
2nd prize - Rs  20,000

Important Dates

• Last date for submission: October 22, 2007
• Announcement of selected papers: November 25, 2007
• ISIS Conference: December 21-23, 2007

For further queries, please contact:
Avinash Tiwari
Email id: Avinash_Tiwari@pgp2008.isb.edu
Phone: 93472 11661

About CITNE
CITNE’s mission is to encourage innovative thinking in maximising the benefit of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to business and society. It fosters ICT centric inter-disciplinary research, education and outreach that:

• shows firms how to get business value and competitive advantage out of IT investments
• develops global best practices and enhances the competitiveness of the Indian IT/ITeS industry
• focuses on how ICT can help towards economic development 

CITNE promotes analytical, empirical, and field experiment oriented partnerships between researchers and industry. We provide a platform for meaningful collaboration between the global Information Systems (IS) research community and the burgeoning, global-scoped Indian IT/ITeS industry.

For more information on CITNE, please go to www.isb.edu/CITNE

About BTC
The mission of the Business Technology Club is to promote awareness and education about technology amongst the student community at ISB. The club serves as a platform to facilitate the development of required skills and analytical tools needed to pursue successful careers in the technology industry.

For more information on BTC, please go to http://www.isb.edu/pgp/life/BusinessTechnology_club/