Themes

• Professionalizing the Information Systems profession;

• The design and use of information systems;

• The generation and dissemination of descriptive and normative knowledge about the development and use of information technologies in organizations;

• Improving ways of synthesizing and applying relevant work from resource disciplines to practical implementations of systems that enhance decision support capability;

• E-Business and E-Government Information Systems: Multi-disciplinary research and practice;

• Engaging semantic technologies to facilitate citizen engagement in democratic deliberation;

• Visualization of complex argument and knowledge structures in citizen online discussions;

• Improving the quality of information systems in public administration at international, national, regional and local levels;

• The transfer and diffusion of information technology;

• Information technologies such as smart cards, and their interaction with society, economics, public services and organisations;

• Concepts, methods and techniques related to enterprise information systems.

Proposals for panel discussions and papers that do not necessarily address any of the above specific areas, but do focus on the broad topic of information systems, are also welcome.