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The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) is the main international Information Systems (IS) conference and the only AIS sponsored conference in the Pacific Asia Region. Association for Information Systems (AIS), the main international association of Information Systems researchers, organizes its activities around three world regions: (1) the Americas, (2) Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and (3) Pacific Asia. In 2011, PACIS will run for the 15th time. The inaugural PACIS was in Taipei in 1993, then Singapore 1995, Brisbane 1997, Hong Kong 2000 and annually since (e.g. Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Hyderabad). Full proceedings of all past conferences can be downloaded from PACIS.
PACIS attracts 200-300 delegates from 20-30 countries and 200-350 paper submissions; and involves 400-800 paper reviews, several workshops, a Doctoral Consortium and a main conference that extends over 3 days with typically 100-150 presentations, and a budget of several hundred thousand dollars, though largely driven by volunteer researchers. With minor variation, the conference has enjoyed continual growth over time, with a solid paper acceptance rate fluctuating around 50 percent and more recently trending downward (increasing selectivity and paper quality). PACIS attracts the top IS researchers from around the region, as well as amongst the very best from around the world.
Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Information Systems Discipline, in cooperation with University of Queensland (UQ) Business School, are in July 2011 hosting the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). QUT, the location of the main conference, is located in the Central Business District of Brisbane, with UQ 8 kilometres upriver by ferry (location of the Doctoral Consortium). Brisbane is the fastest growing city in Australia and one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the western world. With 1.7 million people, Brisbane offers the infrastructure and facilities of a global metropolitan hub. One hour from the Gold Coast and just south of the Barrier Reef, Brisbane is within easy reach of rain forest, pristine beaches and much more.
At PACIS 2011, in addition to mixing with top IS researchers, there will be opportunity to meet the Editors-in-Chief of the top IS journals (e.g. MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS) and current and past Presidents of AIS (e.g. Bernard Tan, Joey George, KK Wei, Michael Myers). Keynote speakers are yet being confirmed, but will include Detmar Straub, Regent's Professor of the University System of Georgia and the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, and Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly (the #1 A* Journal in IS).
The project would entail an Action Research or Design Science approach to instantiating a PACIS Organisational Memory or Knowledge-base. Such a K-base is intended to both improve PACIS in 2011, and learnings from past and the current PACIS in a structured form usable by future PACIS. Like many such conferences, each year the event is highly unique to the local context. Nonetheless, the current team laments the lack of a more detailed, structured formal conference memory, from past offerings. It would be good to have someone functioning as the PACIS 2011 'organisational memory'; documenting roles and responsibilities both to insure we don't overlook important activities and for posterity - future PACIS. Conference organisation is a complex undertaking. While such a project could have some basis in theory/literature, it would be mostly interacting with organising committee members, exploring what other conferences do, documenting things in a useful, pragmatic way, and so on. Data collection will involve review of past conference documentation, PACIS Exec meeting minutes, the PACIS Charter, current conference minutes and interim working documents, attendance at PACIS 2011 meetings, and extensive interviewing of team members.
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- Honours
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- QUT
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Science and Engineering Faculty
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Professor Guy Gable
