Conferences and Organisations

A number of working groups at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) run conferences that are relevant to Global IT, including:

 

• IFIP WG 9.4 - Social Implications of Information Technology in Developing Countries. The University of Malaysia, Sarawak will host the regional Conference on IT in Asia from September 15-16, 1999.
• IFIP WG 8.7 - Informatics in Multinational Enterprises had its first meeting in Washington D.C. in 1997.
• IFIP WG 8.4 - Telecooperation (formerly Office Information Systems)

 

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (January 4-7, 2000) has a track on "Organizational Systems and Technology" with minitracks on "IS in Global Business" and "IT in Developing Countries".

The Information Resources Management Association annual conference, May 21-24, 2000, will have tracks on "Global IT Management" and "IT in Asia-Pacific Countries".

The first Global Information Technology Management (GITM) world conference (June 11-13, 2000) will be devoted to  IT management issues.

 

The 8th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) (July 3-5, 2000) will have tracks on "Globalisation and Culture", and "IS Policy, Strategy, Innovation and the Management of Knowledge"

Other conferences, such as the various Association for Information Systems regional conferences, ICIS, ACIS and PACIS also have tracks on Global IT. For a complete list of IS conferences, see Mike Vanecek's pages.

This page was last updated on Monday September 27, 1999