[Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG-III 2012 International Paper Contest for Developing Countries

[Shaheen Maqsood]

*Announcement of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest for
Developing Countries*


The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of
the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is
pleased to announce its twelfth competition for papers to be submitted for
the 2012 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Baltimore, Maryland,
October 26-31, 2012. (http://asist.org/asist2012/)


Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this year’s paper
contest is:*"Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past,
Constructing the Present, and Creating the Future"*. Papers could discuss
issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a
global and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not
limited to, the following core areas:



   1. Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the ethical
   challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production, storage,
   and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions of the
   global development and implementation of information systems,
   infrastructures, and policies.



   1. Information Behavior: Information needs, information seeking,
   information gaps and sensemaking in various contexts including work,
   interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups.



   1. Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing
   languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of
   information in any form, tagging (expert, userbased, automatic), filtering,
   metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture.



   1. Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and
   communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of
   interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and
   algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization.



   1. Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge
   creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and
   societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create,
   acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge.
   Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of
   Information Management.



   1. Information Use: How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a
   variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends,
   colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations
   (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries)
   to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and
   learn.



   1. Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues:
   Copyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information
   policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights
   vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of
   information; computerization movements; social informatics.


*Selection Criteria*


There will be up to three winners who will be selected by a panel of judges
including: Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy Islamabad), -Alma Rivera
(Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México), and, Fatih Oguz (University
of North Carolina at Greensboro).


The judging criteria will be based on:



   1. Originality of paper in the developing world and global information
   ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.)



   1. Relevance to the paper contest theme



   1. Quality of argument, presentation and organization


*Eligibility & Information for authors*

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*Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a
developing country are eligible*. Winners in the 2008-2011 contests are not
eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in
English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network
specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation,
maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information.


*Award*


The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In
the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the
ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this
competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000
toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending
the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-31, 2012..


*Style*


The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow
the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors.
Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authorinstructions


*Publishing opportunities*


Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the
*International*

*Information and Library Review*, subject to the usual peer refereeing
process, for that journal.


*ASIS&T Copyright Policy*


ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers
submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights
remaining with the author.


*Deadline for submission of full papers:* Authors are invited to submit
manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2012, to Maqsood Shaheen
at ShaheenMA at gmail.com, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments.