Journal of Global Information
Management (JGIM) - Special Issue on “ICT in Brazil: Global Issues and
Challenges”
Submission Deadline: May 2,
2012
Publication Date: July - September
2013 (tentative)
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Felix Tan – AUT Auckland
University of Technology, New Zealand
Special Issue Editors:
Cesar Alexandre de Souza - University of São
Paulo, Brazil (calesou@usp.br)
The Journal of Global
Information Management (JGIM) publishes original material concerned with all
aspects of global information resources management. The journal emphasizes the
managerial and organizational facets of information technology resources
management. Articles published in JGIM deal with a vast number of issues
concerning usage, failure, success, policies, strategies, and applications of
information technology in organizations in and across developed, emerging and
developing nations. JGIM has an ISI Impact Factor of 1,222 with a 5 year Impact
factor of 1.829 (Qualis A1 in CAPES – Brazilian Ministry of Education -
Ranking)
Description of the Special
Issue
Brazil has been receiving great
attention in the global scenario because of its steady economic growth in the
last decade and improvements in its social indicators, like reduction in poverty
and growth of the middle class and its purchasing power. It is one of the
“BRICS” countries and is heading to be the 5th largest economy in the world in
the next years, although it is not free of challenges like reducing social and
economic inequalities, improving educational quality, increasing transparency in
government and balancing economic development with environmental protection.
Brazil is also well-known for its rich cultural environment with a mix of
several different influences (European, African, Indigenous, Arabic and Asian),
for its size and population (5th largest in the world in both measures), for its
well developed agribusiness and mining sectors and for its rich and diverse
natural resources.
The history of ICT use in Brazil
is marked by innovation and creativity, with highlights to its financial and
banking systems, which are among the most developed in the world, and to its
huge country-wide e-government initiatives, like electronic voting, tax filing
over the internet and integrated electronic invoicing. Both phenomena are
derived from historical and political factors, like the huge inflation period
during the 70´s and 80´s and a very strong, large sized, complex and centralized
federal government with needs to integrate distant regions within the country.
Brazil has also a huge internal consumer market for mobile phones, home PCs and
software, although, again, not free of challenges like improving geographical
range and quality of internet access while reducing its cost, one of the most
expensive in the world. Brazil has a well-developed ICT use in Business in
general, with good levels of integration within companies and in the supply
chain, but companies are regularly faced with challenges of having to adapt
imported technologies and governance models, like SOX and international ICT
governance best practices frameworks.
This special number will consider
research papers on Global IT focusing on Brazilian local issues with relevance
to the global context. So, we are seeking papers that study the usage and
management of ICT in companies, government agencies or by the general society in
Brazil and explain their findings based on the peculiarities of the Brazilian
context or comparing results with other contexts or countries. Cross-National
Studies comparing ICT in Brazil with other Nations, in cultural or other aspects
are specially desired, and so are studies of the development, implementation,
management and use of IT in Brazilian or foreign multinational, transnational,
international and global organizations with locations in Brazil.
Suggested Topics include (but
are not restricted to):
- IT Management and
Governance in Brazilian Global Companies
- Outsourcing and
Offshoring market and tendencies
- Compliance with global
standards and practices (SOX, Basel, PMBOK, COBIT, ITIL, etc)
- Global Enterprise
Systems Implementation and Management
- Global e-commerce
systems implementation and Management
- e-Government and
e-Participation
- ICT diffusion and ICT
infrastructure in Brazil
- Digital Inclusion
Policies
- Telecommunications and
data security
- Cloud
Computing
-
Social Media and Social Networks
Several surveys by the Pew Research Center’s Internet &
American Life Project reveal interesting variations among communities in the
way their residents read and use reading-related technology and institutions:
