Pre-ICIS2011+Program

** Program Chairs:**
Helen Hasan, Wollongong University, Cathy Dwyer, Pace University

**Virtual Workshop Date - November 4, 2011** (here is the draft Virtual Workshop Schedule)

**Overview:**
SIGGreen aims to foster research, education and practice on ways to design, build and use information systems so that we can reduce the harmful environmental impact of all human endeavors. This year we are focusing on improving the environmental impact of the activities of professional associations, such as SIGGreen itself. We are asking you to take an information systems approach to explore existing online applications that can be used to lower the environmental footprint of academic activities such as holding meetings, workshops, and conferences, publishing outcomes of our research, collaborating on projects, teaching and administering classes. These systems could already existing or be in development; open source or proprietary; hosted or in the cloud. We ask you to take an IS perspective on how a particular system, or suite of applications, can support what we do, taking account of their features, functionality, technical requirements, cost, complexity and usability, as well as what are their limitation and potential impacts. The centerpiece of the program will be a virtual workshop on **November 4, 2011** when different systems for collaboration will be set up and scheduled for a hands-on comparative assessment of their capabilities. To make this happen we are inviting SIGGreen members and followers to engage in the following phases:

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 * 1) **Requirements gathering: **Due October 7, 2011. Go to the Requirements and Use Cases page of this Wiki and either add to the page or start a discussion on the requirements for a system that would support the Virtual Workshop on November 4 2011 along the same lines as the one held last year. If you are not already a member of the Wiki please apply to join. Please be responsible and respectful of the entries of others. The basic requirements for a system or suite of tools to support the Virtual Workshop on a suitable topic for discussion will be facilities for:
 * 2) displaying a description of, or information about, the topic;
 * 3) inviting people to participate
 * 4) real-time discussion on the topic by participants
 * 5) recording the discussion.
 * 6) **Specifications and examples of candidate systems: **Due October 7, 2011 Examples of some suitable systems and tools with comments are set out on the Virtual Collaboration Tools page of this Wiki Please add to the page, create a new page or add to the discussion if you have something to contribute, particularly on how these tools may be used to meet the Requirements of Phase 1.
 * 7) **Identification of candidate systems: **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Due October 14, 2011 are submissions from SIGGreen members offering to choose a topic for discussion and set up and host one of the systems to be evaluated. The chairs will also invite submissions and select a range of these to trial and explore.
 * 8) **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Hands on trials: **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">A schedule of the systems to be trialed at the Virtual Workshop will be made available by October 24 and participants invited to sign up for as many of them as they are able.
 * 9) **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Reflection and assessment: **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Participants will be directed to an online place where they can record their assessment of the systems in which they were involved. Follow up discussions will be made at the ACIS and ICIS conferences in December.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Timetable:**

__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">October 7 __<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Deadline for updates to the Requirements and Tools pages on the Wiki

__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">October 14 __<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Deadline for submissions for potential systems hosting

__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">October 24 __<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Schedule for the Workshops available for sign-ins

__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">November 4 __<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Virtual Workshops

__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">December 4: __<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13px;">F2F workshop at the pre-ICIS SIGGreen <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Planning Meeting to share experiences and plan to implement some of the systems for 2012

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A printable version of this CFP is available here