[Air-l] CFP: ECIS'06 track on "Open Source, Open Access and the Open Information Society"

[Anna Maria Szczepanska]

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ECIS'2006
European Conference on Information Systems
Göteborg, Sweden
June 12-14, 2006
Conference website: http://www.ecis2006.se/

Track: "Open Source, Open Access, and the Open Information Society"

Track Chairs: Bo-Christer Björck, Hanken/Knut Rolland, Norwegian University 
of Science and Technology (NTNU)

One of the most interesting effects of the Internet has been that it has 
acted as an enabler for new organizational forms that rely on business 
models that in many ways differ from the ways in which commercial firms 
operate. Open Source Software (OSS) development and open dissemination of 
scholarly publications often referred to as Open Access (OA), are examples 
of recent phenomena that typically rely on voluntarism and open sharing - in 
stark contrast to the prevailing business models of the commercial world.

Understanding these new phenomena; to what extent they are successful, under 
what conditions they are successful, and if so why, has spawned exciting 
areas of research. Although Open Source Software (OSS) has recently gained 
increasing attention in Information Systems Research, there is still a lack 
of empirically sound and analytically novel approaches that show the 
multifaceted nature of these phenomena. This track therefore welcomes 
empirical and theoretical accounts of OSS and OA, and especially 
contributions based on multidisciplinary approaches.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Comparisons between the "quality" of OSS software and traditional commercial 
software
Issues of coordination and control in OSS development
Empirical accounts of the more "mundane tasks" and "daily nurturing" of OSS 
development teams
End users perspectives on OSS code
Author pays business model for OA publishing
The different economic effects and implications of different forms of 
scientific publishing
Search for scholarly resources enabled by OAI compliant web harvesters
Novel forms of peer review enabled by the web
Practices of commons-based peer production (inside and outside OSS and OA)
Innovations based on open innovation processes and non-proprietary knowledge
Open content approaches to creative work as music, art, film etc.
Motivational factors to contribute to Open Source, Open Access and other 
areas of public good and open sharing of knowledge